Advanced course on Modeling of Localized Inelastic Deformation taught by Milan Jirásek in Prague, Czech Republic, on 14-18 September 2009

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Main topics

• Introduction: notation, fundamentals of tensor algebra, basic types of inelastic material behavior, 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, tangent stiffness.
• Fracture mechanics: stress concentration around defects, asymptotic fields in the vicinity of a crack tip, local and global criteria for crack propagation, fracture toughness and fracture energy, nonlinear process zone, cohesive crack models. 
  
• 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, incipient weak discontinuity, localization analysis based on acoustic tensor, loss of ellipticity and its mathematical and numerical consequences, classification of models for localized inelastic behavior.
• Regularized continuum models: classification of enriched continuum theories, nonlocal formulations of the integral type, strain-gradient models, explicit and implicit models with gradients of internal variables, localization analysis, implementation aspects, application examples.
• Strong discontinuity models: cohesive crack and cohesive zone models, finite elements with incorporated discontinuities (embedded crack models, extended finite elements), direction of crack propagation.