{"id":11700,"date":"2020-08-30T13:29:27","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T17:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/?p=11700"},"modified":"2020-09-03T22:42:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T02:42:03","slug":"interactive-apps-for-solid-mechanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2020\/08\/30\/interactive-apps-for-solid-mechanics\/","title":{"rendered":"Interactive apps for solid mechanics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/profile\/authors\/869871\">Jiro<\/a>'s Pick this week is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/79673\">Apps For Solid Mechanics<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/profile\/authors\/14049778\">Ephraim Bryski<\/a>.<\/p><p>My day job is supporting educators and researchers (mostly university) make the best use out of MATLAB in their teaching and research. The pandemic has introduced a big challenge for educators as they need to adjust to a new way of teaching, often involving running classes online or remotely. One of the ways to improve the learning experience for students is to provide material that they can interact with themselves to increase their understanding of concepts. Such materials can also help keep students' motivation.<\/p><p>Ephraim has created a series of apps for exploring solid mechanics concepts. In this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/79673\">entry<\/a>, he has an app launcher that opens up different apps covering seven concepts: pure bending, torsion, stresses in beam, stress transformations, anticlastic bending, stress and strain relations, and superposition.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/pick\/jiro\/potw_solidmech_apps\/solid_mech_demo.gif\" alt=\"\"> <\/p><p>I really like how the graphics update in real-time as you change the parameters. He also displays the equations, with actual numerical values, so you can see how the parameters you change affect the equation. I think all of this together give a good experience for students to build the intuition on these concepts.<\/p><p>If you are an educator, I highly encourage you to visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/topics\/distance-learning.html\">Distance Learning Community<\/a> and the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/academia\/online-teaching.html\">Online Teaching with MATLAB and Simulink<\/a> page.<\/p><p><b>Comments<\/b><\/p><p>Give Ephraim's apps a try and let us know what you think <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/?p=11700#respond\">here<\/a> or leave a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/79673#comment\">comment<\/a> for Ephraim.<\/p><script language=\"JavaScript\"> <!-- \r\n    function grabCode_97ff35f54f1143d9a7f153b74ea63e77() {\r\n        \/\/ Remember the title so we can use it in the new page\r\n        title = document.title;\r\n\r\n        \/\/ Break up these strings so that their presence\r\n        \/\/ in the Javascript doesn't mess up the search for\r\n        \/\/ the MATLAB code.\r\n        t1='97ff35f54f1143d9a7f153b74ea63e77 ' + '##### ' + 'SOURCE BEGIN' + ' #####';\r\n        t2='##### ' + 'SOURCE END' + ' #####' + ' 97ff35f54f1143d9a7f153b74ea63e77';\r\n    \r\n        b=document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];\r\n        i1=b.innerHTML.indexOf(t1)+t1.length;\r\n        i2=b.innerHTML.indexOf(t2);\r\n \r\n        code_string = b.innerHTML.substring(i1, i2);\r\n        code_string = code_string.replace(\/REPLACE_WITH_DASH_DASH\/g,'--');\r\n\r\n        \/\/ Use \/x3C\/g instead of the less-than character to avoid errors \r\n        \/\/ in the XML parser.\r\n        \/\/ Use '\\x26#60;' instead of '<' so that the XML parser\r\n        \/\/ doesn't go ahead and substitute the less-than character. \r\n        code_string = code_string.replace(\/\\x3C\/g, '\\x26#60;');\r\n\r\n        copyright = 'Copyright 2020 The MathWorks, Inc.';\r\n\r\n        w = window.open();\r\n        d = w.document;\r\n        d.write('<pre>\\n');\r\n        d.write(code_string);\r\n\r\n        \/\/ Add copyright line at the bottom if specified.\r\n        if (copyright.length > 0) {\r\n            d.writeln('');\r\n            d.writeln('%%');\r\n            if (copyright.length > 0) {\r\n                d.writeln('% _' + copyright + '_');\r\n            }\r\n        }\r\n\r\n        d.write('<\/pre>\\n');\r\n\r\n        d.title = title + ' (MATLAB code)';\r\n        d.close();\r\n    }   \r\n     --> <\/script><p style=\"text-align: right; font-size: xx-small; font-weight:lighter;   font-style: italic; color: gray\"><br><br><br>\r\n      Published with MATLAB&reg; R2020a<br><\/p><p class=\"footer\"><\/p><\/div><!--\r\n97ff35f54f1143d9a7f153b74ea63e77 ##### SOURCE BEGIN #####\r\n%%\r\n% <http:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/profile\/authors\/869871 Jiro>'s\r\n% Pick this week is\r\n% <https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/79673 Apps For\r\n% Solid Mechanics> by\r\n% <https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/profile\/authors\/14049778 Ephraim\r\n% Bryski>.\r\n%\r\n% My day job is supporting educators and researchers (mostly university)\r\n% make the best use out of MATLAB in their teaching and research. 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