Continuum mechanics (NMMO 401)

Webpages of the lecture "Continuum mechanics" (NMMO 401), winter semester 2018/2019.

Introduction

Contact

If you need something, please let me know. You can talk to me before/after the lecture, or we can fix an appointment via email (prusv@karlin.mff.cuni.cz).

Schedule

See the study information system SIS.

Consultations

I am ready to talk to you each Thursday after the lecture/tutorial. If you are not fine with that, please write me an email (prusv@karlin.mff.cuni.cz), and we meet at a time suitable for you. Whenever you think that you do not understand something, please speak up. I really mean it. The main objective of the lectures and tutorials is to explain things that can be hardly read from books, and to help you to understand the subject. Consultations are a natural part of the process of learning!

Do not forget to talk to your peers! If you think that the homework problems are too difficult, you can try to ask your friends for an advice. (Note that advice is something else that "copy and paste".)

Tutorials

If you want to get the credits for the tutorial you must:

If you are not happy with the rules, we can talk about alternatives. (For example, if you find the tutorial extremely boring, then we can make an agreement that you do not need to attend the tutorials provided that you will solve some extra problems.) I am ready to talk about such things only at the beginning of the semester. There is no chance to discuss these rules at the end of the semester. (Except, of course, of emergency situations such as a long illness.)

Homeworks

Please submit the homeworks on time. You can even scan your solution and send it to me via email (prusv@karlin.mff.cuni.cz).

Problems

You can find some problems in the traditional set of problems. (In Czech.) If you are not fluent in Czech, do not worry, you still have a chance to practice. Many problems can be found for example in the textbook by Gurtin, M. E.; Fried, E.; Anand, L.: The mechanics and thermodynamics of continua, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010.

Literature

The first part of the lecture in mostly covered in the book by Gurtin, M. E.; Fried, E.; Anand, L.: The mechanics and thermodynamics of continua, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010. (I try to follow their notation.) Another reasonable book is the book by Ogden, R.: Nonlinear elastic deformations, Dover, 1997. If you want a Czech textbook, you can try the book by Maršík, F.: Termodynamika kontinua, Academia, Praha, 1999.

Exam

Organisation of the exam

The exam is an oral exam, and it consists of three parts.

Once you sign up for the exam in the Study Information System, please let me know the title of the chosen scientific paper we shall discuss during the exam.

Scientific paper

You must be able, using your own notes, describe the problem that is being solved and its solution. You must show that you

I do not want you to reproduce, unless stated otherwise, the numerical computations used in the papers. In this respect you can trust the authors.

List of problems/papers/sources

If you want to present a different paper (something you are interested in) it is not a problem. If it is the case, please ask me in advance to approve your choice.

All the papers/sources can be downloaded here.

Syllabus

Detailed syllabus that exactly matches the lecture is available here.