SHORT COURSE No1

Elasto-Plastic Material Behaviour: Continuum  Mechanical Modelling and Finite Element Implementation

Lecturers:
Professor H. Altenbach
Professor  A. Öchsner

Part A: 

Continuum Mechanical Modelling
Introduction of  tensor notation
Material independent laws (balances)
Constitutive behaviour
          Top-down modelling
          Bottom-up modelling
          Rheological modelling

Examples
          Elastic behaviour
          Plastic behaviour
          Elastic-plastic behaviour

Part B:

Finite Element Implementation
Introduction of  Voigt (matrix) notation
Summary of  Hooke’s law and plastic law
Summary of a linear elastic finite element simulation
Elastic-plastic finite element simulation
          Three- and one-dimensional Deshpande-Fleck  yield           condition
          Integration of the constitutive equations (1D)
          Mathematical derivation of the fully implicit backward           Euler algorithm (1D)
          Example Problem: Return mapping for ideal plasticity           and linear hardening (1D)
          Procedure in the general three-dimensional case

SHORT COURSE No2

Predicting the durability of adhesive bonded joints

Lecturer:
Dr. Ian A. Ashcroft
Reader in Structural Analysis
Wolfson School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
Loughborough University,
UK

Scope.:
The two major concerns regarding the in-service deterioration of
 the mechanical integrity of structural adhesive joints are the effects
of the environment and cyclic loading. 

This course will discuss the nature of these effects and present the main
methods with which they can be accommodated in a predictive methodology.