A Journey into

the Non-linear world

Basic to Advanced
3 days of theory and applications
August 26-28, 2015. Chennai, India.

Why a Non-linear Course?

Nature is nonlinear. Although, for our own understanding, we often look to simplify the world
around us, ultimately we need to come to terms with the fact that nature and hence engineering
science is inherently nonlinear, either due to material or geometry effects or other multi-physics
characteristics.
With the increase of hardware capacity and software improvements in the last decade, the
linearisation of real life engineering problems is no longer necessary, and more and more virtual
simulations are being performed using nonlinear techniques. Automotive, aerospace, marine/
naval, defense, construction, biomedical and packaging are just some of the industries where
nonlinear techniques are used at this moment.

Dr. Ted Wertheimer

Dr. Ted Wertheimer has been focused on Non-linear Finite Element technologies for four
decades, in the fields of material nonlinearities, manufacturing, thermal sciences and
software architectures. He is one of the core inventors and was the chief developer of
MSC's Marc finite element program. He holds a BS degree in Theoretical and Applied
Mechanics from the University of Illinois, and MS and PhD degrees in Applied Mechanics
from Stanford University.
His development contributions have included contact analysis, material modeling and
multiphysics. He has taught numerous classes on both practical and theoretical methods
to creatively apply nonlinear technologies to solve complex simulation problems, and has
provided endless hours of guidance to colleagues, end-users, researchers and educators
in its applicaions.

Course Schedule
Day 1

Day 3

Following wil be provided

Laptops with necessary

Welcome and Registration

Advanced Contact

Overview

Adaptive Meshing

Electronic course notes

Introduction to Non-linearity Behavior

Global-Local (Structural Zooming)

Certicate of Participation

software for the duration of

the course

signed by Dr. Wertheimer

Introduction to Finite Element Method for

Non-linear analysis
Basics of Large Deformation / Large Strain

Workshop: Global Remeshing

Lunch & Tea / Coffee on the

training days

High Performance Computing

Venue will be a 5 star hotel

Convergence: Tips and Tricks

Composites

Solution Control

Fracture Mechanics

Time Stepping

Cohesive Zone Modeling

Workshop: Elastomeric Contact Analysis

Progressive Failure Analysis

Day 2

Who should attend

Workshop: Composites

Design Engineers

CAE Engineers
Product Managers

Material
High endexperts
simulation experts

Pricing

Recent Advances in Element Technology

Workshop: Fracture Mechanics

INR 25,000/- per participant *

Material Nonlinearity
Early bird Group discount:
For every 5 registrations in a group
by July 30 2015, 6th registration
will be FREE provided the payment
is done by August 15 2015.

Metal Plasticity
Rate Independent Rubber Materials

* Taxes extra

Visco-elasticity and Creep

Workshop: Viscoelastic Analysis
Rubber Damping and Harmonic Analysis
Introduction to Contact
Workshop: Large Strain Plasticity with
Contact

Limited Seats. Register today!

Contact: Vinay Marje
vinay.marje@mscsoftware.com
+91 98817 26108
www.mscsoftware.com