Programme Overview

Day 1, Sunday, September 3rd, 2023

• 13:30 - 14:15 Registration
• 14:15 - 14:30 Introduction, M. Chiumenti and D. Peric
• 14:30 - 16:30 Computational plasticity - Basic principles and theory, D. Peric
  • • Introduction to elasto-plasticity and viscoplasticity
  • • The basic approach to incremental solution - consistent linearisation
  • • Finite element modelling
• 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee
• 17.00 - 18.45 Elasto-plasticity/viscoplasticity with finite strains, D. Peric and E.A. de Souza Neto
  • • Fundamentals
  • • Constitutive modelling - Hyperelastic & plasticity relations
  • • Operator split methodology for numerical integration of the constitutive model

Day 2, Monday, September 4th, 2023

• 08:30 - 10:30 Further issues in plasticity modelling, E.A. de Souza Neto
  • • Treatment of singular and other yield surfaces
  • • Mesh adaptivity procedures
  • • Introduction to multi-scale models
• 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
• 11.00 - 12.00 Finite Element Technology for isochoric problems, M. Chiumenti and H. Venghaus
  • • Introduction and general concepts
  • • B-bar and Q1P0 FE formulations
  • • Mixed P1P1 formulations
  • • Applications to incompressible elasticity and isochoric plastic flow
• 12:00 - 13:00 Mixed FE formulations and strain localization, M. Cervera and G. Barbat
  • • Mixed Displacement/Pressure and Displacement/Stress
  • • Strain localization and mesh objectivity
  • • Size effect
  • • Numerical examples
• 13.00 - 14:30 Lunch
• 14:30 - 15:30 Coupled thermomechanical problems, M. Chiumenti and C. Agelet de Saracibar
  • • Fundamentals formulation
  • • Finite element formulation
  • • Applications to metal forming problems
• 15:30 - 16:30 Rigid visco-plastic plasticity: applications to FSW problems, N. Dialami and M. Chiumenti
  • • Rigid-viscoplastic constitutive modeling
  • • Eulerian and ALE kinematic frameworks
  • • Formulation of thermo-mechanical frictional contact
  • • Application to the numerical simulation of FSW processes
• 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee
• 17:00 - 18:45 Transient problems, E.Oñate
  • • Explicit finite element analysis for solids and shells
  • • Coupled particle-based and finite element methods
  • • Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) analysis
  • • Applications: industrial forming problems, impact problems, blast analysis, excavation and drilling problems, FSI problems, etc.
• 18:45 – 19:00 Course closure
• 19.00 Course Reception