Course
Program
Monday 21 September ’09
9:00–09:15 Welcome and introduction
9:15–10:00 Fundamentals of asphalt material behavior (Little)
10:00–10:45 Calibrated-Mechanistic models* (Lytton)
11:00–12:00 Vector & matrix notations, introduction to tensors (Kringos)
12:00–13:00 Lunch
13:00–13:45 Descriptions of motion, deformation measures (Kringos)
13:45–14:30 Polar decomposition, time derivatives* (Kringos)
14:45–15:30 Mechanical characterization of asphalt mix properties (Masad)
15:30–17:00 Mechanical characterization laboratory (Masad)
19:00 Group dinnerTuesday 22 September ‘09
9:00– 9:45 Stress tensors, stress rates (Kringos)
09:45–10:30 Mechanical balance laws, objectivity* (Scarpas)
10:45–11:30 Virtual work, Clausius-Planck inequality (Scarpas)
11:30–12:15 Linearization, the directional derivative (Scarpas)
12:15–13:15 Lunch
13:15–14:00 Higher order tensor operations (Kringos)
14:00–14:45 Surface energy theory and measurements* (Bhasin)
15:00–15:45 Asphalt healing process (Little)
15:45–17:00 Surface energy characterization laboratory (Little, Bhasin)
Wednesday 23 September ‘09
9:00– 9:45 Hyperelasticity (Kringos)
09:45–10:30 Introduction to plasticity* (Kringos)
10:45–11:30 Small strain linear viscoelasticity (Masad)
11:30–12:15 Applications of linear viscoelasticity (Masad)
12:15–13:15 Lunch
13:15–14:00 Large strain elasto- plastic constitutive modeling (Scarpas)
14:00–14:45 Analysis and measurements of asphalt mix microstructure* (Masad)
15:00–17:00 Microstructure characterization laboratory (Masad)
Thursday 24 September ‘09
9:00– 9:45 Large strain visco-elastic constitutive modeling (Scarpas)
09:45–10:30 Strong discontinuities constitutive modeling* (Scarpas)
10:45–11:30 Parameter determination I (Kringos)
11:30–12:15 Parameter determination II (Kringos)
12:15–13:15 Lunch
13:15–14:00 Introduction to damage mechanics (Abu Al-Rub)
14:00–14:45 Large strain elasto-plasto-damage constitutive modeling (Abu Al-Rub)
15:00–17:00 Presentations by course participants (All)
19:00– … Group dinner
Friday 25 September ‘09
9:00– 9:45 Special topics: modeling moisture damage (Kringos)
09:45–10:30 Special topics: modeling compaction* (Masad)
10:45–11:45 FE simulation examples, discussion (all)
11:45–11:00 Lunch and distribution of completion certificates* followed by 15 minute break