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Pressure
thermodynamicsstatistical mechanicslecture notesES 241Spring 2007Advanced ElasticitySpring 2009Spring 2011These notes and slides are part of a course on thermodynamics.AttachmentSize1873 gibbs A Method...
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Chemical potential
thermodynamicsstatistical mechanicslecture notesES 241Spring 2007Advanced ElasticitySpring 2009Spring 2011Attached are the slides and notes for a course on engineering thermodynamics....
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Electric potential
thermodynamicsstatistical mechanicslecture notesES 241Spring 2007Advanced ElasticitySpring 2009Notes prepared for Statistical Mechanics and Advanced Elasticity.AttachmentSizeelectric potential 2017 11...
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dielectric elastomer
lecture notesES 241Spring 2007Advanced ElasticitySpring 2009These notes are part of a graduate course on advanced elasticity.AttachmentSizeelastic dielectrics 2009 05.pdf86.63 KB243 theory of...
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Poroelasticity, or migration of matter in elastic solids
educationlecture notesES 241Spring 2007Advanced ElasticitySpring 2009Spring 2011 A sponge is an elastic solid with connected pores. When immersed in water, the sponge absorbs water. When a saturated...
View Articlethermodynamics of nanoscale small systems
researchnanomechanicsthermodynamicsstatistical mechanicsnanomaterialsAdvanced ElasticityTan's hot topic seriesHow to measure the temperature of a nanotube?
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homeworkES 241Spring 2007Advanced ElasticityTo the students of ES 241: Although finite deformation was introduced in ES 240 (Solid Mechanics), finite deformation is a building block of ES 241. To...
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researchelasticitynumerical methodsnonlinearAdvanced Elasticityviscositystress analysisTan's hot topic seriesThis blog focuses on viscoelasticity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscoelasticity)
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researchmicromechanicsAdvanced Elasticitycomposite materialsTan's hot topic seriesThis blog focuses on the micromechanics modeling of composite materials.
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Complex variable methods
lecture notesES 241Spring 2007Advanced ElasticityWhat types of PDEs can be solved using complex variable methodsAnti-plane shearElements of a function of a complex variable (contour integral, analytic...
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Instabilities
lecture notesES 241Spring 2007Advanced ElasticityFree energy and generalized coordinate. Equilibrium and stabilityControl parameterConfigurational transitions of two typesCritical point of...
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Instabilities in Material Behaviors
researchmaterials modelingnonlinearAdvanced ElasticitycatastrophicThe linked two of my studies can be used as references for Zhigang’s lecture on Instabilities.(1) Catastrophic fractureFracto-emissions...
View ArticleES 241 Advanced Elasticity Final Examination
final examES 241Spring 2007Advanced ElasticitySpring 2009Update on 23 May 2009: I'm adding links to the slides as they are uploaded. The final exam will take the form of a pedagogical workshop. We...
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Advanced Elasticity Hi, I am an engineer woking in structures at Whirlpool. I am looking for a book Theory of Elasticity by Timoshenko and Goodier (Third Edition). If anybody has a soft copy of it or a...
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Free Energy
educationthermodynamicsstatistical mechanicslecture notesES 241Advanced ElasticitySpring 2009Spring 2011 For a system in thermal contact with the rest of the world, we have described three quantities:...
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Heat Conduction
ES 241Advanced ElasticitySpring 2009Spring 2011 So far we have used the fundamental postulate to study experimental phenomena by following an algorithm. For a given phenomenon, we construct an isolated...
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Finite Deformation: Special Cases
educationES 240solid mechanicsES 241Advanced ElasticitySpring 2009Spring 2011Spring 2013 The notes on finite deformation have been divided into two parts: special cases and general theory (node/538)....
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ES241Presentation: General theory of finite deformation
ES 241Advanced Elasticityfinite deformationslidesSpring 2009Please see attachment for ES241 final presentation--general theory of finite deformationAttachmentSizeFinal presentation.ppt850.5 KB
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ES 241 Presentation: Heat Conduction and the Boltzmann Distribution
ES 241Advanced ElasticityslidesSpring 2009Please see attachment for ES 241 final presentation on heat conduction and the Boltzmann distribution.AttachmentSizeES241 for post.ppt636 KB
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ES 241 Presentation: Electric Potential / Deformation and Polarization
ES 241Advanced ElasticityslidesSpring 2009Please see the attached slides on electric potential, deformation and polarization. AttachmentSizeElectric Potential, Deformation and Polarization.ppt2.86 MB
View ArticleA course on Advanced Elasticity, with emphasis on thermodynamics and soft...
educationES 241Advanced ElasticitySpring 2009 In the field of Solid Mechanics, Harvard has a sequence of 5 graduate courses: ES 240 Solid MechanicsES 241 Advanced ElasticityES 242r Solid Mechanics:...
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Slides on Pressure and Chemical Potential
ES 241Advanced ElasticityslidesSpring 2009Here are some slides I made on the subject of "Pressure and Chemical Potential" for the final meeting of Prof. Zhigang Suo's ES 241 class in the Spring of...
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Final presentation slides
ES 241Advanced ElasticityslidesSpring 2009Here are the slides for my final presentation for ES 241. During the presentation, a few suggestions were made, which I plan to follow up on. Please check...
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Final presentation
ES 241Advanced ElasticityslidesSpring 2009Attached is my final presentation.AttachmentSizeSummary-Zhiyan.ppt1.06 MB
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advanced elasticity 2009 slides (polyelectrolyte gels)
educationES 241Advanced ElasticityslidesSpring 2009These slides are based on an on-going paper written by Wei Hong, Xuanhe Zhao and Zhigang Suo and Suo's talk in ucsb.AttachmentSizepolyelectrolyte...
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Poroelasticity and diffusion in elastic solids
educationES 241Advanced ElasticityslidesSpring 2009 These are slides of poroelasticity and diffusion in elastic solids for final presentation based on ES241 notes. AttachmentSizeporoelasticity and...
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Addendum To Pressure and Chemical Potential - a question on hydrostatics
ES 241Advanced ElasticityslidesSpring 2009The question was raised in class as to what the appropriate equilibrium condition for a column of fluid at rest should be. Specifically, given we expect a...
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Theory of dielectric elastomers
researchsuo group researchES 241Advanced Elasticitydielectric elastomerSpring 2011In response to a stimulus, a soft material deforms, and the deformation provides a function. We call such a material a...
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Polymer gels
educationlecture notesES 241Advanced ElasticitySpring 2011These notes are part of a graduate course on advanced elasticity.AttachmentSizeElastomer in equilibrium with forces and solvent 2011 04...
View Articlecomputational nonlinear elasticity references
I will be developing constitutive material models into commercial FE codes for nonlinear elasticity and searching for good books to get started for computational aspects. There are many good books for...
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