Ae/AM/CE/ME 102a - Fall 2009

Instructor
Prof. Chiara Daraio
109 Firestone Building
(626) 395-4479
daraio@caltech.edu
 

Text Book
Listed in course overview. 

TAs
Christopher Kovalchick
5 Firestone, x6459
ckovalchick@caltech.edu

Ivan Szelengowicz
308 Guggenheim, x4769
ivanz@caltech.edu

Sitanun Sakulkaew
Office TBD, xTBD
sitanun@caltech.edu

Schedule

Tues

9:00-10:25AM

Thur

9:00-10:25AM



Office Hours / Handouts / Homework / Notes / Master Schedule

  

Office Hours

Name

Office Hours 

 Location

Christopher Kovalchick Tuesday 2:30-4:00 PM (Recitation) Kaplun Library (Firestone 304)

Ivan Szelengowicz

Wednesday 5:00-6:30 PM

Northrop Reading Room (Firestone 204)

Sitanun Sikulkaew

Wednesday 3:30-5:00 PM

Northrop Reading Room (Firestone 204)

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Announcements
 (9/29) Welcome to the Ae/AM/CE/ME 102a 2009 website.
 (9/29) A web-based system has been arranged so that you can provide feedback to your instructor. Please use the live feedback entry-line at the bottom of the website.
 (10/1) There will be no regular TA office hours for the week of 10/5-10/9. Office hours for this week will be by appointment only. Regular office hours will begin the following week.
 (10/8) HW 1 is now posted.
 (10/15) HW 2 is now posted.
 (10/22) HW 3 is now posted.
 (10/22) Please note the change in office hours for the week of 10/26-10/30, as listed on the front page of HW3. The Tuesday office hour will now be a 'recitation' section given by one of the TA's. Similar problems to the topics covered in the week's HW will be worked through.
 (10/28) Solutions to HW 1 & 2 are now posted, along with the problems worked out in the recitation on 10/27.
 (10/29) The Tuesday Office Hour will now be from 2:30-4:00PM
 (10/29) There is a seminar that may be of interest on Friday, 10/30, 4 PM, in the Treasure Room, Dabney Hall. 'The Origin of Vector Calculus in Geometry and Mechanics,' presented by Sandro Caparrini, University of Toronto.
 (11/2) HW 3 Solutions are now posted.
 (11/3) The Midterm Exam is now posted. It is due Thursday, 11/5, by 5:00 PM in Guggenheim 225.
 (11/5) HW 4 is now posted.
 (11/11) The due date for HW 4 has been extended to Friday, 11/13, 5:00 PM. The solutions to the midterm are now posted.
 (11/12) HW 5 is now posted.
 (11/19) The finite element project is now posted. For questions on Part A, see Chris or Nun. For questions on Part B, see Ivan.
 (11/20) Supplemental material for the FEA project is now posted.


Handouts

Date

Description 

 pdf

  Overview - Fall 2009 Overview

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Homework, Exam and Term Project

HW

Assigned

Due

Homework (pdf)

Solutions (pdf)

HW 1

Oct 8

Oct 15

HW 1

Solution 1

HW 2

Oct 15

Oct 22

HW 2

Solution 2

HW 3

Oct 22

Oct 29

HW 3

Solution 3

Midterm

Nov 3

Nov 5

Mid-term

Midterm Solutions

HW 4

Nov 5

Nov 12

HW 4

Solution 4

HW 5

Nov 12

Nov 19

HW 5

Solution 5

FEA Project

Nov 19 Dec 3

FEA Project

FEA Project Solutions

Final

Dec 3

Dec 10

Final Exam

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Notes

Supplemental Reading to Lecture 1 (9/29)

Supplement

Supplemental Reading to Lecture 2 (10/1)

Supplement

Lecture Notes from 10/6

Supplement

Lecture Notes from 10/8

Supplement

Lecture Notes from 10/15

Supplement

Reading from Lecture 6 (10/15)

Supplement

Reading from Lecture 9 (10/27)

Supplement

Lecture Notes from 10/27

Supplement

Recitation Notes from 10/27 (S. Sikulkaew)

Supplement

Notes on Residual Stresses and Strains

Supplement

Notes on Voigt Notation (from Lai, Rubin, & Krempl)

Supplement

Midterm Review (C. Kovalchick)

Supplement

Airy Stress Function, Hole in Plate, Lame Problem Notes (C. Kovalchick)

Supplement

St. Venant's Principle, Reciprocal Theorem, Minimum Potential Energy Notes (C. Kovalchick)

Supplement

FEA Supplemental Project Materials

Supplement

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Master Schedule

Date

Description

Instructor

Tuesday, Sept. 29

Mathematical Foundations

Daraio

Thursday, Oct. 1

Mathematical Foundations

Daraio

Tuesday, Oct. 6

Kinematics: Strain

Yang

Thursday, Oct. 8

Kinematics: Strain

Yang

Tuesday, Oct. 13

Forces and Equilibrium

Daraio

Thursday, Oct. 15

Constitutive Relations

Bhat

Tuesday, Oct. 20

Boundary Value Problems/Compatibility

Daraio

Thursday, Oct. 22

Plane Strain/Plane stress

Daraio

Tuesday, Oct. 27

Sample BVPs

Daraio

Thursday, Oct. 29

Saint Venants Principle

Daraio

Tuesday, Nov. 3

Midterm Review

Kovalchick

Thursday, Nov. 5

Midterm Due Date - - No Class

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Tuesday, Nov. 10

Airy Stress Potential/Plate Problems

Daraio

Thursday, Nov. 12

St Venants Principle/Energy Methods

Daraio

Tuesday, Nov. 17

Energy Methods/FEM

Daraio

Thursday, Nov. 19

Finite Elements

Daraio/Spadoni

Tuesday, Nov. 24

Finite Elements

Daraio

Thursday, Nov. 26

Thanksgiving - - Happy Holidays!

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Tuesday, Dec. 1

Problems/Examples on Energy Methods

Daraio

Thursday, Dec. 3

Final Review OR Hertz Contact Problem

Kovalchick/Daraio

Tuesday, Dec. 9

FINAL DUE DATE

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