C&EE M230B

Nonlinear Elasticity

Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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(Same as Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering M256B.) Kinematics of deformation, material and spatial coordinates, deformation gradient tensor, nonlinear and linear strain tensors, strain displacement relations; balance laws, Cauchy and Piola stresses, Cauchy equations of motion, balance of energy, stored energy; constitutive relations, elasticity, hyperelasticity, thermoelasticity; linearization of field equations; solution of selected problems.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Spring 2026
Winter 2027
Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course M230A.

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C&EE M230A

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

C&EE M230B

C&EE M230ALinear Elasticity
- MECH&AE 156AAdvanced Strength of Materials
  - MECH&AE 82Mathematics of Engineering2 more beneath
  - MECH&AE 101Statics and Strength of Materials3 more beneath
- MECH&AE 166AAnalysis of Aerospace Structures
  - MECH&AE 82Mathematics of Engineeringanother path to it

1 direct requisite. Showing 7 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.

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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

C&EE M230B

C&EE M230CPlasticity
C&EE 233Mechanics of Composite Material Structures

2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.