Analysis and Design of Composite Structures ... - UC Davis

Students are encouraged to discuss with each other about the homework, but the final product needs to be
only the work of the person who has the name on it. Copy-and-paste and plagiarism will not be
tolerated.
Late homework will not be accepted, unless there is a documented emergency, discussed with the
instructor before the deadline.
Homework in electronic form will only be accepted if sent from virus-free UC Davis or LLNL/Sandia
accounts. The size of the overall attachments must be less than 5 MB. At (electronic) submission, you
need to carbon-copy yourself.
Homework codes
Homework needs to be submitted as one single document, in Word or .pdf format. The only exception
to the one-file policy is for Excel spreadsheets, which must be e-mailed separately. Source codes must be
included in the document itself, with the exception of Excel spreadsheets, as discussed above.
Acceptable ‘languages’ are MATLAB, FORTRAN and R. Source codes must be commented and include
units for input and output.
Academic holidays
Monday May 31 st , Memorial Day
Grading, exams
The final grade for the course will be based on the following:
Homework 20%
Midterm exam on (tentative) Wednesday May 12 th , 2:10-4 pm 40%
Final exam on Monday June 7 th , 3:30-5:30 pm 40%
Total 100%
The exams will be open notes/open books. Make-up exams will only be given for documented
emergencies.
Course topics
1.Advanced Composite Materials and their Applications
Introduction
Fibers
Matrix materials
Material forms and fabrication methods
Current applications
2.Concepts of solid mechanics
Tensors
Stress and strain
Plane stress and plane strain
Strain energy density
Generalized Hooke's Law
Material symmetry
Engineering constants
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