Explores fracture mechanics, crack growth, and the weakest link theory, emphasizing the statistical distribution of crack sizes and the significance of the largest crack in material failure.
Covers anisotropic elastic materials, examples, and Voigt notation for stress and strain components, emphasizing the compliance matrix for isotropic materials.
Covers continuum mechanics, forces transmission, energy conservation, solid deformation, and tensor calculus, emphasizing the symmetry of principle strains and the geometric interpretation of eigen vectors.
