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EducationEducation ProgramSolid Mechanics

  This specialty began to recruit graduate students in 1963 and doctors in 1982. It is one of the earliest specialties in the country that had the right to award master and doctorate. In 1995 it set up the mobile station for the post-doctors. Its teaching and scientific research makes a remarkable achievement, and it is among the most famous teaching and research units in the country. Now there are eleven professors and six associate professors.
   The specialty pays attention to the theoretical foundation, engineering application and the development of cross specialties of solid mechanics. It closely correlates the frontiers of the specialty with relevant engineering projects in domestic economy. Based on such courses as continuum mechanics, computational mechanics, engineering control and material mechanics, etc., the specialty makes a deep theoretical and practical research on such respects as mechanics of composite materials, electromagnetic solid mechanics, computational analysis of fracture, fatigue and structure, constitutive and macro-micro mechanics, boundary mechanics, computational materials, carbon nanotube mechanics, engineering structure control and trouble diagnosis.
The specialty has a solid mechanics laboratory with such advanced equipment as loading MTS of both single and dual axles, holographic laser, function testing of electromechanical coupling ,etc. as well as large-scale engineering FEM analyzing software such as MSC (Patran, Nastran, unless Dytran, Marc,Fatigue), Dets and Adams, etc. It provides graduate students with a fine experimental and computing condition.
  
  I. Training Objectives
  To cultivate senior talents with solid basic theory and systematical specialized knowledge of solid mechanics. These talents are supposed to grasp one or two foreign language, and have a strong ability in application of modern computer technology and experimental techniques. They can take on or organize scientific research and specialized technological jobs independently, and make innovative results.

  II. Main Research Directions
  1. Evaluation for structure fracture, damage, fatigue and safety.
  2. Computational materials and structure optimize design
  3. Mechanics of composite materials and boundary mechanics
  4. Mechanics of nanometer materials and intelligent materials
  5. Constitutive theory and macro-micro mechanics
  6. Stability and ramification of nonlinear system, and vibration, control and trouble diagnosis of structure
  7. Modern experimental mechanics
  8. Biological and medical mechanics

  III. Length of Schooling and Credits
  The full-time Master degree candidates’ length of schooling is 2. 5 years. The total credits must get requested 32 credits at least; among them the credits of degree lessons must get requested 19. Semi-sabbatical master degree candidates’ period of schooling can be prolonged for another half a year or one year as approved.

  IV. Courses Offered

Classification No. Name of Courses Credit Time Remarks
Degree G09001 Introduction to Natural Dialectics 2.0 autumn Compulsory courses
Degree G09003 Theory and Practice of Scientific Socialism 1.0 spring Compulsory courses
Degree G14001 Basic English 3.0 autumn, spring Compulsory courses
Degree G14006 Professional English 1.0 autumn Compulsory courses
Degree X10021 Theory of plasticity 2.0 autumn  
Degree X10025 Fracture mechanics 2.0 spring Teaching in English
Degree X10002 Introduction of continuum mechanics 2.0 autumn  
Degree X10006 Introduction of engineering control 2.5 spring  
Degree X10009 Mechanical properties of materials 2.5 spring  
Degree X10010 Modern experiment technology 2.0 autumn  
Degree X10015 Computational solid mechanics 2.5 spring  
Degree F10017 Engineering analysis software 3.0 autumn  
Non-degree F10016 Theory of shell and structure stability 3.0 spring  
Non-degree F10017 Boundary element method 2.0 autumn  
Non-degree F10020 Mechanics of composite materials I 3.0 autumn  
Non-degree F10026 Fundamental theory of biology mechanics 2.0 autumn  
Non-degree F10028 Computational dynamics of structures 2.5 autumn  
Non-degree F10030 Computer graphics 3.0 autumn  
Non-degree F Theory of random vibration and its application 3.0 spring (new)
Non-degree ? Viscous elasticity mechanics 2.0 autumn (new)
Non-degree S10001 Academic Papers Reading 2.0 spring, autumn Compulsory courses


  V. Middle Examinations
  Master degree candidates are supposed to have an all-round exam once a month in the fourth term to check whether their credits and grades in course study meet demands, by which to determine whether they can enter the stage of the academic dissertation. Its details refer to the relevant regulations of the graduate institution.
After entering this stage, master degree candidates should submit a brief summary of their half-a year work to their guide teacher by the end of each term, reporting the progress of the thesis within the range of the specialty.

  VI. Opening Report
  The opening report of master degree candidates should be finished before the end of the third term (at the latest the fourth term after in months). The reading amount of documents is no less than fifty.
At the last period of their opening report, they must have their oral defense at a public lecture participated by experts of the specialty or the relevant specialties.

  VII. Academic Dissertation
  The details of academic dissertation refer to the relevant regulations of the university.

  VIII. Thesis Publishing
  Refers to “Requirement for graduate students of publishing scientific paper during learning at Shanghai Jiaotong University ".