This traditional course taught by Milan Jirasek is now offered in a new format, namely in two parts that can be attended independently.

The first part (Sep 10-12) provides an overview of modeling approaches used in the mechanics of inelastic materials and structures, in particular in plasticity and damage mechanics, with brief comments on fracture mechanics. The second part (Sep 14-16) focuses on the objective description of highly localized deformation modes such as cracks or shear bands, using regularized models (e.g., nonlocal, gradient-enriched, phase-field, micromorphic).

The course is intended for graduate students at the doctoral level, but it can be equally useful to motivated master students, post-doctoral researchers, or senior researchers who are not specialists in this field.

For details see https://mech.fsv.cvut.cz/~milan/course2026.html

For further information, see the attached [PDF].