MECH&AE M256A · MAE M256ALinear Elasticity
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
(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.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 156A or 166A.
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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
- MECH&AE 101Statics and Strength of Materials
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
- MECH&AE 166AAnalysis of Aerospace Structures
2 direct requisites. Showing 11 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.
MECH&AE M256A
- MECH&AE 256FAnalytical Fracture Mechanics
- MECH&AE M256BNonlinear Elasticity
- EPS SCI M224AElastodynamics
- MECH&AE M256CPlasticity
- MECH&AE M257AElastodynamics
- MECH&AE 258ANanomechanics and Micromechanics
- MECH&AE 261BFinite Element Analysis for Solids and Structures
7 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 10 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.