Symbolic Computations: Changing the teaching paradigm for continuous mechanics

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The backbone of engineering education is based on the presentation of the fundamental principles, mathematical and physical models embedded in a series of challenging and inspiring examples of applications. In the last decades, traditional educational paradigms have been challenged an easy access to numerical solutions eroding the fundamental knowledge in mathematics, the access to libraries and knowledge, communication technologies, etc. As a consequence, we witness an important evolution of the way students learn and of the student-teacher interaction. The paper presents a novel way of understanding continuum mechanics theory using symbolic computations and discusses the combination of symbolic and numeric method for solving the indentation problem of a mulilayer structure.

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