in Prague, Czech Republic, on 18-22
September 2006
Theme
This course provides an overview of modeling approaches used in the
mechanics of inelastic materials and structures, with special attention
to the objective description of highly localized deformation modes such
as cracks or shear bands. In 2006 it attracted 31
participants from the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel,
the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United
Kingdom and the United States.
Main topics
Introduction: classification of models
for inelastic material behavior, notation, fundamentals of tensor
algebra, principles of incremental-iterative nonlinear analysis.
Elastoplasticity:
physical motivation, basic equations in one dimension, extension to
multiaxial stress, postulate of maximum plastic dissipation, associated
and nonassociated plastic flow, hardening and softening, stress-return
algorithms, algorithmic stiffness, multi-surface plasticity.
Damage
mechanics: physical motivation, basic equations in one
dimension, isotropic damage models, smeared crack models, anisotropic
damage models based on principles of strain equivalence and of
energy equivalence, damage
deactivation due to crack closure, combination of damage and plasticity.
Strain
localization: physical aspects, structural size effect,
conditions of stability and uniqueness, discontinuous bifurcation,
localization analysis based on acoustic tensor, loss of ellipticity and
its mathematical and numerical consequences.
Regularized
continuum models: classification of enriched continuum
theories, nonlocal formulations of the integral type, explicit and
implicit gradient formulations, continua with
microstructure, localization analysis, implementation aspects,
application examples.
Strong
discontinuity models: fundamentals of fracture mechanics,
cohesive crack and cohesive zone models, finite elements with
incorporated
discontinuities (embedded crack models, extended finite elements),
implementation aspects and examples. The slides used in the
presentation of this topic can be downloaded in PDF format.
Level
The course is designed for graduate students
on the doctoral level, but it can be equally useful to motivated
master
students, post-doctoral researchers, or senior researchers who are not
specialists in this field. Similar courses were given by the lecturer
at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (1998), Czech
Technical University in Prague (1998, 2004, 2005), Universität
Stuttgart
(1998), Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule in Aachen
(1999), Universität der Bundeswehr in Munich (2000), and
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona (2002).
Prerequisites: fundamentals of elasticity, plasticity and finite
element
methods.
A sample chapter of the lecture
notes is available for
free downloading. Note that this excerpt is taken from an older version
of the lecture notes. The complete set of lecture notes has more than
200 pages.
Schedule
Registration on Monday, September 18, from 8:15-9:00.
Morning sessions 9:00-10:15 and 10:45-12:00.
Afternoon sessions 14:00-15:15 and 15:45-17:00.
Venue
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