18SC001 - Recent Advances on Computational Damage Mechanics

Instructor:  Cemal Basaran. University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Outline of the course

1.  Introduction to Computational Damage Mechanics

2.  History of Computational Damage Mechanics

3.  Phenomenological Damage Mechanics Models

4.  Damage Metrics in Phenomenological Models

5.  Physics Based Computational Models with no Curve Fitting

6.  Using Entropy Generation Rate as Damage Metric

7.  Computational Damage Mechanics Under Concurrent

     Thermal-Mechanical-Electrical-Chemical-Corrosion Loads

8.  Verification of Computational Damage Mechanics Models

9   Discussion and Answering Questions from the Audience