ALERT Doctoral School 2007
11th-13th October 2007, Aussois, France
“Damage and fracture in geomaterials”
Coordination: M. Jirasek, G. Viggiani and D. Kondo
Day 1, Thursday, October 11
- Overview of phenomena and mechanisms to be dealt with (C. Viggiani)
- Basic concepts and equations of solid mechanics (M. Jirasek)
- Linear elastic fracture mechanics (C. Dascalu)
- Mesostructural fracture models (I. Carol)
- Non-linear fracture mechanics, part 1 + Handout (M. Jirasek)
- Non-linear fracture mechanics, part 2 (C. Dascalu)
Day 2, Friday, October 12
- Fundamentals of damage mechanics (D. Kondo)
- Microfracture and damage mechanics (L. Dormieux)
- Micromechanics of poroelastic damage propagation (L. Dormieux)
- Energy approaches to fracture and damage: links between scales (C. Dascalu)
- Size effects: several origins, different consequences (F. Dufour)
- Mathematical analysis of strain localization (M. Jirasek)
Day 3, Saturday, October 13
- Nonlocal damage mechanics + Micromechanical viewpoint (M. Jirasek, F. Dufour)
- Explicit and implicit gradient-enhanced damage models (A. Simone)
- Embedded crack models (M. Jirasek)
- Partition of unity-based discontinuous finite element: XFEM, GFEM, PUFEM (A. Simone)
- Continuous-discontinuous modeling of failure (A. Simone)