Engineering Mechanics
Programs in engineering mechanics offer comprehensive training in the principles of applied mathematics and continuum mechanics and in the application of these principles to the solution of engineering problems. The emphasis is on basic principles, enabling students to choose from among a wide range of technical areas. Students may work on problems in such disciplines as systems analysis, acoustics, and stress analysis, and in fields as diverse as transportation, environmental, structural, nuclear, and aerospace engineering. Program areas include:
- Continuum mechanics: solid and fluid mechanics, theories of elastic and inelastic behavior, and damage mechanics
- Vibrations:
nonlinear and random vibrations; dynamics of continuous media, of
structures and rigid bodies, and of combined systems, such as
fluid-structure interaction; active, passive, and hybrid control
systems for structures under seismic loading; dynamic soil-structure
interaction effects on the seismic response of structures
- Random processes and reliability:
problems in design against failure under earthquake, wind, and wave
loadings; noise, and turbulent flows; analysis of structures with
random properties
- Fluid mechanics:
turbulent flows, two-phase flows, fluid-structure interaction,
fluid-soil interaction, flow in porous media, computational methods for
flow and transport processes, and flow and transport in fractured rock
under mechanical loading
- Computational mechanics: finite element and boundary element techniques, symbolic computation, and bioengineering applications