Advanced Composites, 5 cr

Core content

• Understands scientific thinking, reasoning and explanation
• Evaluates and develops his/her information gathering
  processes
• Stress-states in polymer composites
• Thermo-mechanical loads: applied to systems
• Finite element models of composite materials
  
• Failure onset models
• Gathers, processes, evaluates, analyses and uses information in a versatile, critical and ethical way

Complementary knowledge

• Has mastered at least one foreign language at a level that allows him/her to follow the developments in the field and to work in an international environment
• Durability in composites
• Dynamic, transient analysis
• Micromechanic models
• Damage evolution
• Delamination
• Knows the risks associated with digital environments and takes them into account in his/her own actions

Specialist knowledge

• Nonlinear material models
• Fatigue loads
• Interface modelling
• Shell theory basics