Day 1, Sunday September 3rd, 2017 

13.00-13.45 Registration

13.45-14.00 Introduction, R. Owen and E. Oñate

14.00-16.00 

Computational plasticity - Basic principles and theory, D. Peric and R. Owen
· Introduction to elasto-plasticity and viscoplasticity
· The basic approach to incremental solution - consistent linearisation
· Finite element modelling

16.00-16.30 Coffee

16.30-18.30 

Elasto-plasticity/viscoplasticity with finite strains, D. Peric and E. A. de Souza Neto 
· Fundamentals
· Constitutive modelling - Hyperelastic & plasticity relations
· Operator split methodology for numerical integration of the constitutive model
· Mesh adaptivity procedures


Day 2, Monday September 4th, 2017  

9.00-11.00 

Further issues in plasticity modelling, E. A. de Souza Neto 
· Treatment of singular and other yield surfaces
· Element formulation for near-incompressibility
· Introduction to multi-scale models

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-13.30 

Transient problems, E. Oñate 
· Explicit finite element analysis for solids and shells
· Coupled particle-based and finite element methods
· Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) analysis
· Applications: industrial forming problems, impact problems, blast analysis, excavation and drilling, 
  structural failure in FSI problems, etc.

13.30-14.30 Lunch 

14.30-15.30 

Coupled thermomechanical problems, C. Agelet de Saracibar 
· Fundamentals formulation
· Finite element formulation
· Applications to metal forming problems

15.30-16.30

Plastic damage approach to fatigue analysis, S. Oller, X. Martinez and L. Barbu
· General concepts of fatigue
· Plastic damage  approach to high cycle fatigue failure. Formulation and numerical examples
· Plastic damage model for the simulation of ultra-low cycle fatigue. Formulation and numerical examples

16.30-17.00 Coffee

17.00-18.00

Mixed FE formulations and strain localisation, M. Cervera and M. Chiumenti 
· Mixed Displacement/Pressure and Displacement/Stress
· Strain localization and mesh objectivity
· Size effect
· Numerical examples

18.00-19.00
 
Computational design of engineering materials, O. Lloberas and X. Oliver
· General concepts of multiscale material design and optimization
· Applications to the design of engineering materials with specific properties

19.00 

General discussion & Course closure

19.30 Course Reception