Professor Guruswami Ravichandran

John E. Goode, Jr. Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering

 

Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories
California Institute of Technology

 

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2006-08 and 2002-04

Ae/AM/CE/ME 102A - Mechanics of Structures and Solids
9 units (3-0-6); first, second, third terms. Prerequisite: ME 35 abc or equivalent. Static and dynamic stress analysis. Two- and three-dimensional theory of stressed elastic solids. Analysis of structural elements with applications in a variety of fields. Variational theorems and approximate solutions, finite elements. A variety of special topics will be discussed in the third term such as, but not limited to, elastic stability, wave propagation, and introductory fracture mechanics.

2004-06

Ae/APh 104ABC - Experimental Methods
9 units (3-0-6) first term: (1-3-5) second, third terms. Prerequisites: ACM 95/100 abc or equivalent (may be taken concurrently), Ae/APh/CE/ME 101 abc or equivalent (may be taken concurrently(. Lectures on experiment design and implementation. Measurement methods, transducer fundamentals, instrumentation, optical systems, signal processing, noise theory, analog and digital electronic fundamentals, with data acquisition and processing systmes. Experiments (second and third terms) in solid and fluid mechanics with emphasis on current research methods.

2002-03

Ae/AM/ME 209ABC - Seminar in Solid Mechanics


   
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