Advanced Solid Mechanics
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The official GTU curriculum for Advanced Solid Mechanics (subject code ME01000061) as prescribed for C(E · Semester 1 divides the course into 6 units, covering 32 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (ME01000061)Unit 1 Introduction
- Strain and Stress Fields
- Constitutive Relations
- Cartesian Tensors and Equations of Elasticity
Unit 2 Stress Analysis
- Body Force
- Surface Force and Stress Vector
- Stress at a Point
- Normal and Shear Stress Components
- Rectangular Stress Components
- Stress Components on an Arbitrary Plane
- Differential Equations of Equilibrium
- Equilibrium Equations for Plane Stress State
- Boundary Conditions
- Application example based on the these theories
Unit 3 Strain Analysis
- Change in Length of a Linear Element & Components
- Rectangular Strain Components
- Strain at a Point
- Principal Axes of Strain and Principal Strains
- Plane State of Strain
- Compatibility Conditions
- Application example based on the these theories
Unit 4 Equations of Elasticity
- Equations of Equilibrium
- Stress- Strain relations
- Strain Displacement and Compatibility Relations
- Boundary Value Problems
- Application example based on the these theories
Unit 5 Two-Dimensional Problems of Elasticity
- Plane Stress and Plane Strain Problems
- Airy’s stress Function
- Two-Dimensional Problems in Polar Coordinates
- Application example based on the these theories
Unit 6 Torsion of Prismatic Bars
- Saint Venant’s Method
- Prandtl’s Membrane Analogy
- Torsion of Rectangular Bar, Torsion of Thin Walled Tubes