Computational and Experimental Mechanics of Advanced Materials
Invited Lecturers
- Helmut J. Boehm (Technische Univ. Wien, Wien, Austria)
- 6 lectures on: Analytical and numerical methods for the modelling of the thermomechanical and thermo-physical behaviour of microstructured materials are presented with special emphasis on thermal conduction, cellular materials, on the use of unit cell and related methods, and on numerical models based on tomographic data on the phase arrangements.
- Esteban Busso (Ecole des Mines de Paris, Evry Cedex, France)
- 6 lectures on: Multi-scale modelling of advanced materials at nano and micro scales. These lectures will introduce the physics basis of plasticity, constitutive modelling and numerical approaches for crystal and polycrystal plasticity. They would also cover the description of large strain kinematics frameworks, the finite element implementation of hyperelastic and hypoelastic formulations for single and polycrystalline materials, and multi-scale constitutive models.
- Alexander B. Movchan (University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Great Britain)
- 6 lectures on: The lectures are focused on waves in composites. The ways to design a photonic band gap structure and to control its filtering properties will be discussed. Problems of elasticity will be considered using full vector formulations in plain-strain as well as problems for plates.
- Miles B. Rubin (Technion-Israel I. of Technol., Technion City, Haifa, Israel)
- 6 lectures on: The objective of this lecture series is to present an introduction to the theory of a Cosserat Point Element (CPE) - a truly user friendly element that can be used for challenging probl-ems in nonlinear elasticity, including thin shell and rod structures.
- Vadim V. Silberschmidt (Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, Great Britain)
- 6 lectures on: This series will focus on specific features of advanced materials and necessity to use special techniques to characterise and model them. Case studies will be discussed with the main emphasis on introduction of microscopic features into (multi-scale) finite-element simulations of various advanced materials.
- Werner Wagner (Universitaet Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany)
- 5 lectures on: An overview will be given on techniques for various length scales used to gain quantitative microstructure information needed for material modelling and/or to validate model predictions. State-of-the-art methods will be presented for acquiring local crystallographic texture and chemistry as well as techniques available to characterize residual (eigen) stress states in modern materials.