Applied Elasticity (ME40605/ME60401), Autumn 2019

Mechanical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur


Instructor:

Dr Jeevanjyoti Chakraborty (JC)

Email: jeevan@mech.iitkgp.ac.in; jeevanjyoti4@gmail.com

Phone: +91-(0)3222-282972 (Office)

Teaching Assistants:

Gaurang Ruhela

Amit Bhowmick


Policies and Guidelines:

All policies and guidelines regarding attendance, grades, assignment submission, absence from exams are laid out in detail in the Policies and Guidelines tab.


Tentative Schedule:

The following is the tentative schedule for the pre-Mid-Semester exam part:

Week 1: Introduction; Discussion of syllabus and policies; Mathematical Preliminaries
Week 2: Kinematics
Week 3: Stress
Week 4: Stress … contd.
Week 5: Material Behaviour
Week 6: 2D Elasticity - formulation
Week 7, 8, 9: 2D Elasticity - problems


Textbook

The textbook for this course is Elasticity by Martin H. Saad. (Preferably, the third edition but other editions are fine.)