[NotiAMCA] NONLINEAR F.E. ANALYSIS Paris-France Dec. 8-12.2008, by T.J.R.Hughes & T.Belytschko

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NONLINEAR FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS
Paris-France Dec. 8-12.2008, 
by T.J.R.Hughes & T.Belytschko

COURSE OBJECTIVES
The purpose of this course is to provide engineers, scientists, and
researchers with a critical survey of the state-of-the-art of finite element
methods in solids, structures, and fluids, with an emphasis on methodologies
and applications for nonlinear problems
WHO ATTENDS 
This seminar is designed for engineers in industry, government, and academia
who wish to obtain an overview and understanding of nonlinear finite element
methods. ! 
COURSE OUTLINE: 
NONLINEAR FORMULATIONS AND SOLUTION STRATEGIES 
Nonlinear FEM Analysis 
SEMIDISCRETIZATION AND SOLUTION METHODS 
FE Methods of Nonlinear Mechanics 
Solution Algorithms for Nonlinear Problems 
Time Integration Procedures 
Explicit Dynamic Integration 
Direct and Iterative Equation Solvers 
CAD and Finite Elements: Isogeometric Analysis 
ELEMENT TECHNOLOGY 
Incompressible and Slightly Compressible Media 
Underintegrated Elements 
Plates and Shells 
CONSTITUTIVE MODELS ! 
Rate-Independent Deviatoric Plasticity 
Materials Instabilities, Fracture and Failure 
Return Mapping Algorithms for General Classes of Inelastic Materials 
OTHER TOPICS 
Contact-Impact 
Adaptivity and Meshfree Methods 
Fluids 

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LECTURERS:
THOMAS J.R. HUGHES
Computational and Applied Mathematics Chair III
The University of Texas at Austin
Previously taught at the U.C. Berkeley, Caltech and Stanford University. He
is the author of over 300 works with emphasis! on finite element methods.
Author or editor of eighteen books, including The Finite Element Method:
Linear Static and Dynamic Finite Element Analysis and Computational
Inelasticity . 
TED BELYTSCHKO
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computational Mechanics, Northwestern
University 
He is the author of over 300 works with emphasis on explicit finite element
methods. Editor of seven books, he is author of the recent book Nonlinear
Finite Elements for Continua and Structures.