Human Resource Management and Technological Challenges

Front Matter....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Origins of Mechanical Conservation Principles and Variational Calculus in the 17 th Century....Pages 3-22
Principles of Least Action and of Least Constraint....Pages 23-43
Lagrange’s “Récherches sur la libration de la lune”....Pages 45-59
The Development of Analytical Mechanics by Euler, Lagrange and Hamilton – From a Student’s Point of View....Pages 61-72
Heun and Hamel – Representatives of Mechanics around 1900....Pages 73-80
The Machine of Bohnenberger....Pages 81-100
On the Historical Development of Human Walking Dynamics....Pages 101-116
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
On the History of Material Theory – A Critical Review....Pages 119-131
Some Remarks on the History of Plasticity – Heinrich Hencky, a Pioneer of the Early Years....Pages 133-152
Prandtl-Tomlinson Model: A Simple Model Which Made History....Pages 153-168
A Historical View on Shakedown Theory....Pages 169-193
Some Remarks on the History of Fracture Mechanics....Pages 195-209
Porous Media in the Light of History....Pages 211-227
Parameter Identification in Continuum Mechanics: From Hand-Fitting to Stochastic Modelling....Pages 229-247
Historical Development of the Knowledge of Shock and Blast Waves....Pages 249-265
The Historical Development of the Strength of Ships....Pages 267-295
Front Matter....Pages 297-297
The Development of Fluid Mechanics from Archimedes to Stokes and Reynolds....Pages 299-316
The Millennium-Problem of Fluid Mechanics – The Solution of the Navier-Stokes Equations....Pages 317-341
On Non-uniqueness Issues Associated with Fröhlich’s Solution for Boussinesq’s Concentrated Force Problem for an Isotropic Elastic Halfspace....Pages 343-353
Essential Contributions of Austria to Fluid Dynamics Prior to the End of World War II....Pages 355-382
Front Matter....Pages 383-383
From Newton’s Principia via Lord Rayleigh’s Theory of Sound to Finite Elements....Pages 385-398
History of the Finite Element Method – Mathematics Meets Mechanics – Part I: Engineering Developments....Pages 399-442
History of the Finite Element Method – Mathematics Meets Mechanics – Part II: Mathematical Foundation of Primal FEM for Elastic Deformations, Error Analysis and Adaptivity....Pages 443-478
Back Matter....Pages 479-490