After successful completion of the course, students are able to:

• apply the solution strategies for nonlinear FE-problems taught in the lecture to concrete problems
• check if the obtained results are meaningful and if necessary to modify the solution strategy accordingly
• document the solution procedure and the obtained results in form of a protocol

• incremental-iterative solution schemes
• geometric nonlinearities
• material nonlinearities
• nonlinear stability

• hand-out of the examples at the beginning of the semester
• students can focus on the specialization area of their choice
• self-dependent treatment of the examples using a commercial FE-code
• weekly question hour in which issues with the examples can be discussed

Students have to write and hand-in a protocol that has to contain a discussion about the chosen solution strategies, issues that occurred during the simulations, and the obtained results.

Knowledge on the level of the lecture Nonlinear Finite Element Methods (317.262)