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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • 16.2 (Fall 2002) 
  • Course Title:
  • Structural Mechanics 
  • Course Level:
  • Undergraduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Aeronautics and Astronautics 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. Paul Lagace 
  • Course Introduction:
  •  


  • 16.20 Structural Mechanics



    Fall 2002




    Course Highlights


    This course includes homework assignments, an extensive list of readings and a full set of lecture notes.


    Course Description


    Applies solid mechanics to analysis of high-technology structures. Structural design considerations. Review of three-dimensional elasticity theory; stress, strain, anisotropic materials, and heating effects. Two-dimensional plane stress and plane strain problems. Torsion theory for arbitrary sections. Bending of unsymmetrical section and mixed material beams. Bending, shear, and torsion of thin-wall shell beams. Buckling of columns and stability phenomena. Introduction to structural dynamics. Exercises in the design of general and aerospace structures.
     

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