This course intends to provide students the essential and comprehensive knowledge on elasticity and plasticity. The course focuses on the following topics: continuous medium and deformation, displacement and strain tensors, compatibility conditions, external and internal forces, stress tensors, invariants and stress deviators, equilibrium, constitutive law, plasticity theory, yield and failure criteria, plane stress and plane strain problems, energy techniques and variational principles, theories of plane stress and plane strain for elastic-plastic materials.

CILO-1: Mathematically express stresses, strains and stress-strain relationships, as well as the essential theories of elasticity, plasticity and failure criteria. CILO-2: Establish the mathematical relationships among stresses and strains within engineering components as well as the loads and displacements imposed at their boundaries. CILO-3: Apply the principles and methods of engineering mechanics to analyze the stresses and strains within engineering components. CILO-4: Develop problem formulations and solutions in elasticity and plasticity for advanced engineering mechanics.