ENME E4113: Advanced Mechanics of Solids
Advance your knowledge in mechanics of solids in preparation for the professional engineering registration exams.
Course Overview
This advanced course in mechanics of solids will equip you with both theoretical knowledge and practical problem-solving skills essential to complex engineering applications. You will learn about the physical and mathematical concepts of stress and strain, and master the constitutive laws and failure criteria for a variety of engineering materials, including elastic, viscoelastic, and plastic materials. The course emphasizes the use of tensorial and indicial notation for formulating and analyzing mechanical problems, and includes the solution of boundary value problems relevant to solid mechanics. You will also have the opportunity to conduct your own original research projects in solid mechanics. This course is designed to prepare you for professional engineering registration exams such as the FE/EIT and PE.
Course Instructor
Huiming Yin
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Huiming Yin received his BS in Engineering Mechanics from the Hohai University, China (1995), his MS in Solid Mechanics from the Peking University, China (1998), and his PhD degree in Structures, Mechanics and Materials from The University of lowa (2004).
Yin joined Columbia University as an assistant professor in 2008, before being promoted to associate professor in 2013. His pioneering research, which focuses on energy harvesting in civil infrastructure, has positioned him as a leader in the field of mechanics of modern structures and materials. In 2010, he received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Yin has also established the Sustainable Engineering and Materials Laboratory and the Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems (CEHMS), which is supported by NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC).
Before joining Columbia, Yin worked for California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) as a Civil Engineer and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist. He has been a registered professional engineer (PE) of Civil Engineering in the states of California and New York. His research team has developed new methods and theories to characterize, simulate and characterize multi-physical behavior of advanced infrastructural materials.