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