FSE3131 Constitutive Modeling

A course in solid mechanics at the basic level is required. It is strongly recommended that the course participants also have some additional courses in solid mechanics such as material mechanics, theory of elasticity, theory of plasticity or continuum mechanics at the advanced level.

The course provides the foundation of constitutive modeling of deformable solid materials, where elastic and inelastic material responses at small and finite strains are addressed. Constitutive descriptions are developed within well-known continuum mechanical frameworks and their numerical implementation into FE software is detailed.

After the course, the participants should be able to

1. Understand the continuum mechanical basis of constitutive modeling of deformable solid materials
2. Model a particular engineering problems by selecting appropriate constitutive modeling assumptions
3. Understand the purpose, function, implication and limitation of constitutive modeling
4. Learn how to implement a constitutive model into FE software
5. Apply tools to verify and validate constitutive models and their implementation
6. Combine and integrate different solution strategies to address a constitutive modeling problem 
7. Extract key constitutive phenomena from experimental observations and turn them into a constitute model.
8. Understand and discuss the published literature in the field of solid mechanics constitutive modeling.