ME 260: Continuum Mechanics

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Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 4 hours

Catalog page 468

Prerequisites: graduate standing; or consent of instructor

Description: Covers vector and tensor notation and analysis. Introduces the concept of deformation, strain, and stress tensors. Elaborates fundamental balance and conservation laws of mass, momentum, and energy. Describes constitutive equations for elastic, viscoelastic, and plastic solids; and ideal, compressible, and viscous fluids.

Credit: May be taken Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) with consent of instructor and graduate advisor.

Enrollment History (from UCR Banner, not catalog)
Year F W S Su Total
2020-21 3/20 3/20
2019-20 8/20 8/20