0 | Page Project Description: Perform a literature review on the origins and derivation of the principle of virtual power and its advantages and disadvantages as a means to find solutions to boundary value problems. Explain the meaning of the virtual motion used to obtain the virtual work and how it can lead to a framework to solve continuum mechanics problems with known boundary and initial conditions. Show examples of its use for either fluids or solids. Principle of Virtual Power MAE 529 – Continuum Mechanics Ryian Hunter, Sangeet Ulhas, Sruthi Chengalrayan