Mechanics of slender structures
ME-411
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- Announcements (Forum)
- Zoom Link for ME-411 Lectures (Thursdays, 09h15-12h00) (URL)
- Video archive of Lectures and Pre-Studios (MediaSpate) (URL)
- ME-411 Mechanics of Slender Structures: Full (preliminary) set of lecture notes (File)
- ME-411 Sample Exam 2019 (File)
- ME-411 Sample Exam 2020 (File)
- ME-411 Sample Exam 2021 (File)
- ME-411 Sample Exam 2023 (File)
- Solutions of past exam 2019 (File)
- Solutions of past exam 2020 (File)
- Solutions of past exam 2021 (File)
- Solutions of past exam 2023 (File)
- Lecture Notes: Up to Week 1 (File)
- Lecture 01(a): Introduction slides (File)
- Lecture 01(b): A very brief review of linear, isotropic 3D elasticity (File)
- Lecture 01(c): Handwritten notes (before lecture) - Beams Review (File)
- Book: Engineering Mechanics 1 (Dietmar GrossWerner HaugerJörg SchröderWolfgang A. WallJavier Bonet) (URL)
- Book: Engineering Mechanics 2 (Dietmar GrossWerner HaugerJörg SchröderWolfgang A. WallJavier Bonet) (URL)
- Video of Lecture 01: Introduction & Review: 3D Linear Elasticity & Beams (URL)
- Studio 01: Truss structures and beams (File)
- Video pre-Studio 01: Truss structures and beams (URL)
- Studio 01 with solutions (File)
- Lecture Notes: Up to Week 2 (File)
- Video of Lecture 02: Dimensional Analysis & Scaling Laws (URL)
- Handwritten notes for Lecture 02: Dimensional Analysis (File)
- The Wheatfield Problem: Yet another example of a Scalings problem (and its applications) (File)
- Studio 02: Dimensional Analysis and Scaling Laws (File)
- Video pre-Studio 02: Dimensional Analysis and Scaling Laws (URL)
- Studio 02 with solutions (File)
- Lecture Notes: Up to Week 3 (File)
- Handwritten notes for Lecture 03 (After lecture): Calculus of Variation and Euler's Elastica (File)
- Video of Lecture 03: Calculus of Variation and Euler's Elastica (URL)
- Pre_Studio_03: Elasto-gravity bending (URL)
- Studio 03: Elasto-gravity Bending (File)
- Slide Studio 03: Shooting Method (File)
- Studio 03 with solutions (File)
- MATLAB Code Studio 03: Shooting Method (File)
- Lecture Notes: Up to Week 4 (File)
- Handwritten notes for Lecture 04 (After lecture): Nonlinear Beam Theory (File)
- Video of Lecture 04: Nonlinear beam theory (URL)
- Video Pre Studio 04: Matched Approximations (URL)
- Studio 04 - Matched Approximations (File)
- Studio 04 with Solution (File)
- Lecture Notes: Up to Week 5 (File)
- Handwritten notes for Lecture 05 (After Lecture): Rods I (File)
- Slides shown during Lecture 05 (File)
- Video of Lecture 05: Mechanics of Kirhhoff Rods I (URL)
- Studio 05: Naturally Curved Hair in 2D (File)
- Video pre-Studio 05: Naturally Curved Hair in 2D (URL)
- Studio 05 with solutions (File)
- Lecture Notes: Up to Week 6 (File)
- Video of Lecture 06: Rods II (URL)
- Handwritten notes for Lecture 06 (After lecture): Rods II (File)
- Slides: Overview of research at the fleXLab on elastic rods (File)
- Studio 06: Mechanics of helix under gravity (File)
- Studio 06 with solutions (File)
- Video pre-Studio 06: Mechanics of helix under gravity (URL)
21 October - 25 October: EPFL Break - NO CLASSES
- Lecture Notes: Up to Week 7 (File)
- Handwritten notes for Lecture 07 (After lecture): Plates I (File)
- Video of Lecture 07: Plates I (URL)
- Academic papers mentioned/discussed during Lectore 07 (File)
- Studio 07: Tearing of an adhesive film (File)
- Video pre-Studio 07: Tearing of an adhesive film (URL)
- Studio 07 Solutions: Tearing of an adhesive plate (File)
- Lecture Notes: Up to Week 8 (File)
- Handwritten notes for Lecture 08 (After lecture): Plates II (File)
- Video of Lecture 08: Plates II (URL)
- Extra content: GeoAlgebra - Visualization of Principal curvatures (mean and Gaussian curvatures) (URL)
- Three papers: Sophie Germain and Tearing of thin sheets (File)
- Studio 08: Circular plate under distributed load (File)
- Pre Studio 08 Video (URL)
- Pre Studio 08 Video - Extra (URL)
- Extra notes on the derivation of Boundary Conditions (File)
- Studio 08 Solutions: Circular plate under distributed load (File)
- Lecture Notes: Up to Week 9 (File)
- Handwritten notes for Lecture 09 (After lecture): Plates III (File)
- Video of Lecture 09: Plates III (URL)
- Wrinkling as a buckling problem and an application of the FvK Equations. (File)
- Studio 9: Buckling of plates (File)
- Studio 09: Solutions (File)
- Pre Studio 09 Video (URL)
- Origami Engineering and Applications (File)
- Lecture Notes: Up to Week 10 (File)
- Handwritten notes Lecture 10 (After lecture): Shells I (File)
- Background notes: Curvilinear Analysis in an Euclidean Space (URL)
- Video of Lecture 10: Shells I (URL)
- Video pre-Studio 10: Cylinders - Pressure and Geometry (URL)
- Studio 10: Cylinders - Pressure and Geometry (File)
- Studio 10: Solutions (File)
- Lecture Notes: Up to Week 11 and 12 (File)
- Handwritten notes for Lecture 11 (After Lecture): Shells II (File)
- Useful video about Covariant and Countervariant bases (URL)
- Video of Lecture 11: Shells II (URL)
- Video pre-Studio 11: Membrane Theory of Shells (URL)
- Studio 11: Membrane theory of shells (File)
- Studio11: Solutions (File)
- Video of Lecture 12: Shells III (extra material) (URL)
- Bonus Video John Hutchinson (Harvard University) "Shell Buckling is Serious but Fun" (URL)
- Studio 12: Linear Shell Theory (File)
- Video pre-Studio 12: Linear Shell Theory (URL)
- Studio 12 with Solutions (File)
- Lecture 13 Slides: Final Review and Overview of the Course (File)
- Video of Lecture 13: Final Review and Overview of the Course (URL)