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me309 - finite element analysis in mechanical designl
[finite elements in mechanical design] ekuhl.at.stanford.edu winter 2008 |
goals
grading
- 30 % homework - 3 homework assignments, 10% each
- 30 % midterm - open notes, with calculators, no books
- 40 % project - oral presentations graded by the class, written part graded by us
syllabus
copyright ron kwon, ellen kuhl, chris jacobs, stanford, fall 2007
day | date | topic | notes | ||
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tue | sep | 25 | introduction I - cell biology | s01 | jacobs |
thu | sep | 27 | introduction II - cytoskeletal biology | s02 | kwon |
tue | oct | 02 | introduction III - mechanics | s03 | kuhl |
thu | oct | 04 | biopolymers I - bending & buckling | s04 | kuhl |
tue | oct | 09 | first homework - biopolymers | h01 | solution |
tue | oct | 09 | biopolymers II - statistical mechanics | s05 | kwon |
thu | oct | 11 | biopolymers III - gaussian chain | s06 | kwon |
tue | oct | 16 | biopolymers IV - freely jointed chain & wormlike chain | s07 | kwon |
thu | oct | 18 | second homework - biopolymers | h02 | solution |
thu | oct | 18 | cytoskeletal mechanics I - filopodia - fiber bundle model | s08 | kwon |
tue | oct | 23 | cytoskeletal mechanics II - red blood cells - six and four fold network model | s09 | kwon |
thu | oct | 25 | biomembranes I - pipette aspiration | s10 | kwon |
tue | oct | 30 | cytoskeletal mechanics III - muscle cells - tensegrity model | kuhl | |
thu | oct | 01 | third homework - cytoskeleton | h03 | |
thu | nov | 01 | biomembranes II - soap bubbles & cell membranes | s12 | kuhl |
tue | nov | 06 | biomembranes III - tension, shear & bending | s13 | kuhl |
thu | nov | 08 | mechanotransduction I | s14 | jacobs |
tue | nov | 13 | mechanotransduction II | s15 | jacobs |
thu | nov | 15 | midterm | m01 | |
tue | nov | 27 | mechanotransduction III | s16 | jacobs |
thu | nov | 29 | class projects - preparation, no class | ||
tue | dec | 04 | class projects - oral presentations I | ||
thu | dec | 06 | class projects - oral presentations II | ||
fri | dec | 14 | class projects - written projects due |
additional reading
(1) boal d: mechanics of the cell, cambridge university press, cambridge, 2002
(2) howard j: mechanics of motor proteins and the cytoskeleton, sinauer associates, sunderland, 2001