Course Details
Theory of elasticity, plasticity and failure
Academic Year 2025/26
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.