Provides graduate students with the essential knowledge necessary
to understand inelastic behavior of construction materials. Topics
will include linear and nonlinear viscoelasticity and basic
fracture mechanics.
Athena Title
Visoelasticity
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in CVLE 8410E
Prerequisite
Permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered every even-numbered year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
At the completion of this course, the student should be able to understand inelastic behavior of construction materials.
At the completion of this course, the student should be able to understand theory of viscoelasticity.
At the completion of this course, the student should be able to understand mechanical analogs and linear viscoelastic constitutive equation.
At the completion of this course, the student should be able to analyze experimental data generated from laboratory testing of construction materials.
Topical Outline
I. Representative Volume Element and Constitutive Behavior of Materials
II. Theory of Viscoelasticity
1. Time-dependent material responses (mechanical analogs)
2. Linear black box theory using hereditary integral
3. Creep compliance, relaxation modulus, and complex modulus
4. Time-temperature superposition with growing damage
5. Linear viscoelastic constitutive equations
6. Linear elastic-viscoelastic correspondence principle
7. Elastic-viscoelastic correspondence principle based on pseudo variables
III. Continuum Damage Mechanics (Internal State Variable Formulation)
IV. Viscoelastoplastic Continuum Damage Model for Construction Materials
