Course Catalog 2008-2009 Basic Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Course´s person responsible

Simo Virtanen

Implementations

No implementations

Requirements

Exercises and a written examination.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Objectives

Student knows the basics of the mechanical behaviour of laminated plates and shells. More over student is able to analyse composite structures.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Analysis and optimization of laminated fiber-reinforced composites. The basic constitutive equations of ortotropic material. Fundamentals of macro and micromechanical theory of ply. Tension, compression and bending problems of laminated structures.

Evaluation criteria for the course

Passed written examination or written intermediate examinations and accepted exercises.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Book	Mechanics and Analysis of Composite Materials	V., V., Vasiliev and E., Morozov			Elsevier, 2001.		English
Book	Stress Analysis of Fiber-Reinforced Composite Materials	M., W., Hyer			McGraw-Hill, 1998.		English

Prerequisites

Correspondence of content

Last modified	01.07.2008
Modifier	Simo Virtanen