Computational mechanics education in civil engineering
Mechanics is indispensable theoretical basis of civil engineering.For civil engineering undergraduate teaching,the obligatory basic courses of mechanics are Theoretical Mechanics,Strength of Materials,and Structural Mechanics,whose main contents include classical analytical solution about mechanics.The development of modern mechanics shows that theory,experiment and computation have been developed to be three pillars for mechanics.Computational mechanics has been firmly integrated with civil engineering and plays an important role in the development and application of civil engineering.Therefore,it is necessary for undergraduate teaching of civil engineering to offer the education of computational mechanics.