MECH&AE M256A

Linear Elasticity

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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(Same as Civil Engineering M230A.) Linear elastostatics. Cartesian tensors; infinitesimal strain tensor; Cauchy stress tensor; strain energy; equilibrium equations; linear constitutive relations; plane elastostatic problems, holes, corners, inclusions, cracks; three-dimensional problems of Kelvin, Boussinesq, and Cerruti. Introduction to boundary integral equation method.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Fall 2025
Fall 2026

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 156A or 166A.

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Requires

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

MECH&AE M256A

MECH&AE 156AAdvanced Strength of Materials
- MECH&AE 82Mathematics of Engineering
  - MECH&AE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
  - MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications2 more beneath
- MECH&AE 101Statics and Strength of Materials
  - MATH 31A

Unlocks

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

MECH&AE M256A

MECH&AE 256FAnalytical Fracture Mechanics
MECH&AE M256BNonlinear Elasticity
- MECH&AE M256CPlasticityanother path to it
- MECH&AE M257AElastodynamicsanother path to it
- EPS SCI M224AElastodynamicsanother path to it