Engineering of Historic Structures
Paris, France, June 19th - July 17th, 2010,

ENG104 Mechanics of Materials (4 units)
ECI198 Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Directed Group Study (4 units)
La Tour Eiffel

Instructor: Boris Jeremić, Professor,
Class meeting: classroom and on sites, all in Paris, France, June 19th - July 17th, 2010,
Office hours: daily, on site
Clasroom lectures will be delivered at LMT ENS Cachan (located HERE ) and at Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris (CIUP) (located HERE ), while a number of field trips will be organized and used to illustrate lectures (field trips to historic, some older, some newer, structures in and around Paris, France).
The objectives of the course are that students understand and learn about the behavior of engineering materials, solids and structures. Students will also acquire knowledge that will enable them to analyze stresses and deformations in structural and solid elements and complete structural systems. The following topics will be covered (lecturing locations, in addition to LMT and CIUP classrooms are noted below as well):
Field Assignments:
Mechanics of Materials topics will be illustrated on a number of objects (structures and solids) in and around Paris. Students will get homework assignments related to mechanics of materials of the Eiffel Tower, several bridges on the river Seine, Metro (subway) stations and tunnels, TGV fast train (substructures and tracks), several skyscrapers (Tour Montparnasse, La Defense...). Field trips will be organized to those and other objects as well.
Course link at the Summer Abroad web site.
Textbook: Mechanics of Materials, by Beer, Johnston, DeWolf and Mazurek, McGraw Hill, 2009
Suggested reading: History of Strength of Materials, Stephen S. Timoshenko, McGraw--Hill, 1953.
Grading: Homework assignments/field reports 40%, mid--term exam 30%, final exam 30%.

Boris Jeremić