FEM course 2007 - Announcement

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Subject: FEM course 2007 - Announcement
ANNOUNCEMENT
NONLINEAR FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS
Berlin-Germany May 28 - June 1, 2007
By T.J.R.Hughes &T.Belytschko

COURSE OBJECTIVES
The purpose of this course is to provide engineers, scientists, and researchers with a critical survey of the state-of-the-art of finite element methods in solids, structures, and fluids, with an emphasis on methodologies and applications for nonlinear problems
WHO ATTENDS
This seminar is designed for engineers in industry, government, and academia who wish to obtain an overview and understanding of nonlinear finite element methods.
COURSE OUTLINE:
NONLINEAR FORMULATIONS AND SOLUTION STRATEGIES
Nonlinear FEM Analysis                                                           
SEMIDISCRETIZATION AND SOLUTION METHODS
   FE Methods of Nonlinear Mechanics                                    
Solution Algorithms for Nonlinear Problems
Time Integration Procedures                                                  
Explicit Dynamic Integration                                                  
Direct and Iterative Equation Solvers                                    
CAD and Finite Elements
ELEMENT TECHNOLOGY
Incompressible and Slightly Compressible Media                                                               
            Underintegrated Elements         
Plates and Shells                        
CONSTITUTIVE MODELS
Rate-Independent Deviatoric Plasticity                                 
Unstable Materials, Fracture and Failure                              
Return Mapping Algorithms for General Classes of Inelastic Materials                                                                                   
OTHER TOPICS
Contact-Impact                                                                        
Adaptivity and Meshfree Methods                                          
Fluids
For additional informations, contact:
ZACE SERVICES Ltd, P.O.Box 2-CH-1015 Lausanne 15, Switzerland, Phone +41/21/802 46 05, fax +41/21/802 46 06
http://www.zace.com,                              e-mail: info@zace.com

LECTURERS:
THOMAS J.R. HUGHES
Computational and Applied Mathematics Chair III
The University of Texas at Austin
Previously taught at the U.C. Berkeley, Caltech and Stanford University. He is the author of over 300 works with emphasis on finite element methods. Author or editor of eighteen books, including  The Finite Element Method: Linear Static and Dynamic Finite Element Analysis and Computational Inelasticity .
TED BELYTSCHKO
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computational Mechanics, Northwestern University
He is the author of over 300 works with emphasis on explicit finite element methods. Editor of seven books, including: He is author of the recent book Nonlinear Finite Elements for Continua and Structures.