Course Details
Theory of elasticity, plasticity and failure
Academic Year 2024/25
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
8 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Type of materials with respect to softening, introduction into material constitutive laws.
2. Linear elastic fracture mechanics LEFM, fracture process zone, applicability of LEFM.
3. Nonlinear fracture mechanics, fracture-mechanical parameters of material.
4. Strain localization, spurious mesh sensitivity, localization limiters.
5. Crack band model, nonlocal continuum mechanics.
6. Constitutive laws for concrete and other quasibrittle materials.
7. Fracture-plastic model, microplane model.
8. Size effect, deterministic-energetic and statistical explanation.
9. Size effect of modulus of rupture.
10. Fundamentals of damage mechanics.
11. Modelling using nonlinear fracture mechanics software ATENA.
12. Stochastic fracture mechanics.
13. Modelling using software system SARA.