Laboratory demonstrations of buckling of columns and deflection of beams, plane stress analysis. Fundamental concepts of materials science including the structure and properties of materials and their relationship to material selection and system design. The internal structures of metals, ceramics, and polymers are examined to develop an understanding of their mechanical, electrical, physical, and chemical properties. Equilibrium, thermodynamic variables, equations of state, first and second laws of thermodynamics, single and multiphase systems. Conservation of momentum, energy and mass, transport coefficients, balances in differential form.
Computer use is required.
Professional conduct, registration and licensing, contracts, regulations, and responsibilities to society. Specific attention will be devoted to governing equations, energetics, propagation, and production of three-dimensional acoustic waves. Survey of fundamental topics in computer science including machine, assembler and high-level languages, design of assemblers, loaders, macro processors and compilers, operating system concepts, and other material essential for graduate work in computer science. This course is intended to establish a systematic treatment of problems in the vibration of linear systems. Topics covered include systems with multiple degrees of freedom, properties of vibrating systems, vibration of continuous systems, and approximate numerical methods for finding natural frequencies.