Advanced Structural
Mechanics
Dr Saad Javaid
Aerospace Engineering Department
College of Aeronautical Engineering, NUST
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Recap and Current Lecture
Week 6
Motion of a Continuous Body (Kinematics)
(1) Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions
(2) Introduction to the strain tensor
(3) The small-strain tensor
(4) Physical meaning of the strain tensor
(5) Change of coordinate system
(6) Principal strains and principal directions
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Normal Strain
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Shear Strain
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General 3D Strain Equation
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Change of Coordinate System
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Change of Coordinate System
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Change of Coordinate System
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Contracted Notation
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Next Lecture
Week 6
Stress Tensors
(1) Introduction to the stress tensors
(2) Change of coordinate system
(3) Principal stresses and principal directions
(4) Equations of motion – Principle of virtual work
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