- Introduction to solid mechanics: Deformation, stress concept, balance laws, constitutive relations.
- Brittle fracture: Linear elastic fracture mechanics, crack-tip stress fields, fracture modes, stress intensity factors, Griffiths energy balance, J-Integral, cohesive zone models.
- Ductile fracture: Models of elastic-plastic behavior, plastic crack-tip fields, small- and large-scale yielding.
- Introduction to dynamic fracture: Foundations of elastodynamics, dynamic loading of a stationary crack, crack propagation.
- Introduction to micromechancis: Defects, effective elastic properties, homogenization of elastoplastic materials.
- Further topics (time permitting): Damage mechanics, probabilistic fracture mechanics, . . .
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