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MECH&AE M256B · MAE M256BNonlinear Elasticity

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

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(Same as Civil Engineering M230B.) 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.

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Requisite: course M256A.

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MECH&AE M256A

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MECH&AE M256B

  • MECH&AE M256ALinear 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
      • MECH&AE 101Statics and Strength of Materialsanother 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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MECH&AE M256B

  • MECH&AE M256CPlasticity
  • MECH&AE M257AElastodynamics
  • EPS SCI M224AElastodynamics
  • MECH&AE 261BFinite Element Analysis for Solids and Structures

4 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 4 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.

  • 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.