Title Page	2
	Preface	6
	Contents	8
	A Quick Start into DAEdalon	10
	Download and Installation	10
	Elastomechanical Example	10
	Principle of Virtual Displacements	11
	Discretization of Basic Equations	12
	Run DAEdalon	14
	Fundamentals of Solid (Continuum) Mechanics	19
	Vector–, Matrix– and Tensor–Notation	19
	Kinematics and Deformation Gradient F	20
	Definitions	20
	Properties and Derivatives of F	21
	Implementation	23
	Strain– and Stress–Tensors	23
	A Selection	23
	Invariants and Derivatives of Strain Tensors	24
	Stress Representation — Voigt Notation	24
	Rate of Strain Energy — Stress Power, Internal Energy Turn Over	26
	Variational Principle and Weak Form	26
	Discretization in Space	27
	Preparation and Rearrangement of Equations	27
	Linear Shape Functions	28
	Derivatives of the Shape Functions	29
	Volume Integration	31
	General Treatment of Nonlinearities — Solution by Newton–Procedure	33
	Linearization	34
	Iteration	34
	Constitutive Behavior	35
	The Materials Point of View	35
	Stress Response	35
	The Material Modulus ID	35
	Selected Constitutive Models	36
	Hyperelasticity	36
	Parameter Calibration	39
	Inelastic Behavior	40
	FEM Implementation within {\sc Matlab}	45
	{\sc Matlab} Basics	45
	Structure of DAEdalon	46
	Preprocessing	47
	Structure of Input-Files and Processing	47
	Numerical Solution	47
	Assembly Procedure — The Global System	47
	{\sc Newton}–Iteration	48
	Postprocessing	49
	Mesh Representation, Loads and Boundary Conditions	49
	Contour-Plots	49
	GUI — Realization of a Graphical Environment	49
	Writing Extensions for DAEdalon	50
	Continuum Element elem4.m with 4–Nodes in Plane Strain	50
	Formulation for Rotational Symmetry of elem4.m	51
	EAS Expansion of elem4.m	52
	General Truss Element elem10.m with 2 Nodes	55
	Material Models	56
	Applications and Examples	58
	Crane Modeled by 2D–Trusses	58
	Axisymmetric Applications	60
	Crack Tip Simulation	61
	K_I–Field	61
	Analysis of Plastic Zone within K_I–Field	64
	What Does DAEdalon Mean ?— Background for Computational System — and Greek Mythology	65
	References	67
	Index	69