Lectures

After completing this class, students will be familiar with a typical commercial finite element (FE) software that is used both in industry and in academia for practical and research purposes ...

After completing this class, students will be familiar with a typical commercial finite element (FE) software that is used both in industry and in academia for practical and research purposes ...

An essential requirement for the understanding of load bearing mechanisms in materials as well as for the development of new innovative material models are experimental analyses of these materials. These ...

The aim of this lecture is to provide a general introduction into the linear finite element method. In the first years, students of mechanical engineering learn the basic equations for ...

After completing this module, students have acquired the knowledge of fundamental correlations between elasticity theory and the mathematical description for various shell structures and complex material behaviour.

Attendees are able to describe the deformation state as well as the strain state of a continuum body. They know conventional stress tensors and are familiar with basic accounting equations and ...

After completing this course attendees are aware of general computation and simulation methods in the field of plasticity and fracture mechanics. Further, they are familiar with different modelling techniques.

If you are considering realising your project thesis in the field of mechanics and you are motivated for the modelling and characterisation of challenging materials, write us an email to ...

Upon completion of this class, students will be familiar with basic concepts and methods of statics and mechanics of materials. The course will put the students in a position to ...

From a biological background students learn how to formulate mathematically biomechanical and biochemical processes of living materials. The understanding of biological processes is of special importance for the development and ...

After completing this course attendees are familiar with the basic and advanced simulation techniques in biomechanics. Continuum models for the simulation of the nonlinear material behaviour of bones and muscles ...

An essential requirement for the understanding of load bearing mechanisms in materials as well as for the development of new innovative material models are experimental analyses of these materials. These ...

After completing this module, students have acquired the knowledge of basic calculus of vectors, matrixes and tensors, which are typically used in continuum mechanics and numerical methods.

In this lecture, an introduction to the kinematics of deformable solid bodies is given. The balance equations of thermodynamics are derived for describing different material behaviours. Deformable bodies will be ...

In this course, students learn typical numerical techniques in the field of the nonlinear finite element methods. From the impulse balance equation used in classic mechanics, we discuss the need ...

Upon completion of this course attendees are familiar with basic and advanced simulation techniques in polymer mechanics and know different methods of modelling polymers.  Attendees will acquire knowledge of ...

This class is centered around the relationship between stochastic differential equations (SDEs), in particular those driven by Brownian motion, and partial differential equations (PDEs). After a brief review of elementary ...

After completing this course students are familiar with the basic concepts and methods of kinematics and kinetics. The course will put the attendees in a position to model simple dynamic ...