Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
This online course consisted of five-weeks with fifteen steps in each week that included an 'at-home' practical in three weeks and a five-question quiz in two weeks. The themes in the five weeks were: form and function; freedom & energy; keeping it all together; material details; and risk and resilience. The content of the course followed the curriculum of a typical undergraduate introductory course in mechanics of solids.
5 weeks, 3 hours per week
Eann A. Patterson
AA Griffith Chair of Structural Materials and Mechanics
University of Liverpool
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Demonstrate rudimentary knowledge, understanding and skills of stress analysis
- Summarise basic knowledge and understanding of the mechanics of structures.
- Discuss design issues associated with structures
Syllabus
- Form & function: purpose, material & form; how forces flow; form-finding structures; free-body diagrams; tensegrity structures.
- Freedom & energy: degrees of freedom; definitions of deformation, strain and stress; membrane stresses; strain energy; torsion and shear stress.
- Keeping it all together: shear forces and bending moments; flexural stress; compatibility of displacement; statically indeterminate structures.
- Material details, an introductions to: Mohr’s circle; material response; structural materials; biological materials; stress concentrations; fracture & fatigue.
- Risk & resilience: dynamic loading; finite element analysis; limit states; damage tolerance; residual stresses; complex systems.
Issued on 25th June 2017
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