Goal: Representative theoretical and computational approaches to the modelling of engineering structures

Theoretical and computational approaches to the modeling of engineering structures; interplay between modeling, discretization and solution of structural systems; 3-dim. continua: balance equations, FE discretization, variational principles, solution components and applications; problems, advanced concepts and applications for 2-dim. continua; Timoshenko and Euler/Bernoulli beam theory, as well as Reissner-Mindlin and Kirchhoff plate models: locking phenomena, robust element formulations, boundary layer, applications; introduction into shell structures: Kirchhoff-Love kinematics, stress resultants, membrane and bending theory for axisymmetric cylindrical shells, solutions and applications.