Course Details

Theory of elasticity, plasticity and failure

Academic Year 2025/26

DDB034 course is part of 4 study plans

DKA-K Summer Semester 1st year

DKC-K Summer Semester 1st year

DPA-K Summer Semester 1st year

DPC-K Summer Semester 1st year

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.