NONLINEAR COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS

Fall 2011

Instructor: Prof. Jacob Fish, 212-854-5275, email: fishj@columbia.edu

Office Hours: TA

Course comments

1. The material in this course is based on the book entitled “Nonlinear Finite Element
Method” by J. Fish. The book is currently in preparation. pdf file of the book can be
found in the directory below
2. Introductory courses in Continuum Mechanics and Finite Element Method are
required.
3. Grading: 20% for class assignments and 80% for the project.
4. The project topic should be relevant to the course material and should include at least
some portion of programming. A progress reports and a final report are required. The
progress report is due on October 30. The final report should be submitted by December
10.
5. Guidelines for project write-ups will be given later.

Course outline

1. Introduction

2. Solution procedures of nonlinear system of equations

2.1. Solving nonlinear equations with one unknown

2.1.1. Newton method

2.1.2. Convergence of Newton method

2.1.3. Secant method

2.2. Nonlinear solution methods for system of equations

2.2.1. Newton method

 2.2.2. Local convergence of Newton method

2.2.3. Globally convergent Newton method

2.2.4. Line search

2.2.5. Continuation methods

2.2.6. Secant method for system of nonlinear equations

2.2.7. The Broyden’s Method

2.2.8. The BFGS method

2.2.9. Quasi-Newton method

3. Selected topics in continuum mechanics

3.1. Preliminaries: tensor calculus

3.2. Particles, Configurations, Deformation, and Motion

3.3. The Material Derivative

3.4. Deformation Gradients Tensor

3.5. Polar Decomposition

3.6. Velocity Gradient, Rate of Deformation, Vorticity

3.7. Deformation of surface and volume elements

3.8. Lagrangian strain measures

3.9. Stress measures

4. Stress update procedures

4.1. Additive decomposition based rate of deformation theories

4.1.1. Rotational stress update

 4.1.2. Material Stress update

4.1.3. Material stress update for rate independent hypoelastic-plasticity

4.1.4. Material stress update for rate independent hypoelastic-plasticity

4.1.5. Extension to hyperelastic-plasticity

4.2. Multiplicative decomposition based theories

4.2.1. Hyperelastic materials with damage

4.2.2. Hyperelstic-plastic materials

5. Consistent Linearization

5.1. Linearization of internal force

5.1.1. Linearization for additive decomposition of rate of deformation

5.1.2. Linearization of incremental rotation from polar decomposition

5.1.3. Linearization of internal force for hyperelastic materials

5.2. Linearization of external force vector

5.2.1. Linearization of a traction term

5.3. Implementation issues

5.3.1. Matrix and vector notation

6. Special topic

6.1. Linearized buckling analysis

6.2. Nonlinear dynamics

6.2.1. Linear Momentum Principle, Equations of Motion

6.2.2. Implicit Time Integration Scheme

 6.2.3. Explicit integration schemes

6.2.4. Contact

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