TP Mechanics

4 x 4-hour practical sessions

The aim is to give students a basic understanding of the mechanical behavior of solid media, in terms of deformation and critical behavior (strength of materials, fracture). Practical work is designed both to illustrate the course and to show how a material can be stressed and what the consequences are.

The Continuum Mechanics courses are given during the same semester. They will enable you to understand the phenomena involved in practical work.

Each student will have 4 practical exercises to carry out (4 sessions):

Photoelasticimetry (study of stresses and deformation of beams with variable geometry)
Deformation of a tank subjected to internal pressure,
Tension (study of the deformation of a specimen by tension and study of fracture),
Flexion of an embedded beam (study of the deformation of a material by flexion).

Physics

J.Botsis, M.Deville, Mécanique des milieux continus, une introduction, PPUR, 2006 G.Duvaut, Mécanique des milieux continus, Dunod, 1990 (débutant de l'élasticité pour terminer avec la MF, 1 livre de cours + 1 cours d'exos) A.Curnier, Mécanique des solides déformables , PPUR, 2004 P.Germain, Introduction à la mécanique des milieux continus, Dunod, 1997 avec les exercices correspondants J.Obala, Exercices et problèmes de mécanique des milieux continus, Masson, 1997