IIT Bhubaneswar : Online Course on Computational Fracture Mechanics

About IIT Bhubaneswar : Online Course on Computational Fracture Mechanics

Mechanics of materials under various loading and operating conditions is an important area to be understood for efficient design of materials for various applications. Design of materials involves various topics, such as: (i) analysis of material response through load-displacement behaviour, (ii) analytical and computational techniques to simulate the material behaviour under operating conditions, (iii) influence of the defects on the material behaviour and (iv) experimental techniques to asses the actual characteristics.

Fracture simulations play a key role in devising new lighter, stronger and efficient materials for various applications. Computational fracture analysis requires developing suitable analytical models, discretisation techniques, and solution methods. Each of the above three steps poses its own difficulties, like: non-linear and non-homogeneous behaviour around the crack tip. Variety of solutions have been proposed to tackle such issues, for both academic and for practical applications, e.g. design of materials through the bottom up approach, as the material behaviour at sub-scales provide crucial information about the physical properties at higher scales, particularly with respect to material failure.

On the other hand, experimental studies to asses the fracture behaviour of materials is expensive and time consuming. Therefore, the study of fracture using computational methods has deep-reaching applications throughout science and engineering. The aim of this short course is to present the stateof-the-art and the most recent developments in computational and experimental methods for the analysis and simulation of fracture at multiple scales, such that the design of materials can be optimised.

Event date : 24 May 2021 – 4 June 2021

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