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Mechanics of Plastics and Composites

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 330-0526/02
Abbreviation MechPla
Course title Mechanics of Plastics and Composites
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Applied Mechanics
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Stanislav Polzer, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
1)plastic materials-structure, manufacturing, applications, mechanical properties, effect of temperature
2) finite deformations, deformation, strain and stress tensors
3) hyperelastic materials-structure, manufacturing, properties, applications
4) experimental testing of the hyperelastic materials
5) consitutive models-Neo Hookean, Mooney-Rivlin, Aruda-Boyce
6) viscoelastic behavior-Voight, Kelvin model,
7) composites-structures-long fiber and short fiber composites, manufacturing, applications
8)composites-limit states-strength of fibers, matrix and composite, rule of mixture
9)composites-limit state of delamination
10) composites-elastic constanty of transversally isotropic material-ELT, muLT, ETT´
11) composites-elastic constanty of transversally isotropic material-muTT´, GLT,
12) composites-homogenization (lonf fibers, short fibers, particle composites)
13) composites-experimental estimation of elastic constants
14)sandwich structures-structure, application, manufacturing, simulations, limit states

Exercise:
1)plastic materials-analysis of replacement of steel part by plastic one, definition of the credit project
2) analysis of uniaxial tensile test in finite deformations. Estimation of strains and stresses
3) FEA of rubber part
4) analysis of biaxial test in finite deformations Estimation of strains and stresses
5) Fitting of constitutive models to experimental data, prediction of different deformation mode
6) Analysis of creep and relaxation tests, fitting of viscoelastic models
7) test1
8)composites-calculations of constants of transversally isotropic material-ELT, muLT,ETT´
9) composites-calculations of constants of transversally isotropic material -muTT´, GLT,
10 composites –homogenization
11) composites –stress strain analysis of laminated composite
12)composites –FEA including limit states
13)sandwich structures-FEA of sandwich beam
14) student presentation of the credit project

Literature

1) Nonlinear Solid Mechanics: A Continuum Approach for Engineering. Gerhard Holzapfel. John Wiley & sons ltd, Chichester, England.
2)Mechanics Of Composite Materials. Robert Jones. CRC Press 2018.

Advised literature

1)Hyperelasticity Primer, Robert M. Hacket. Springer, 2018. Berlin, Germany
2)Computational Mechanics of Composite Materials Marcin M Kaminski. Springer, Germany, Berlin 2005.