Novel Approaches in Civil Engineering

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
An introduction to Unilateral Dynamics....Pages 1-46
Large Structures Behaviour: the Past and the Future....Pages 47-79
Convex Difference Algorithm and Applications to Some Mechanical Problems....Pages 81-89
Adhesively Bonded Joints in Civil Engineering: some Physico-chemical Aspects Related to the Mechanical Behaviour....Pages 91-101
On the Role of Interface Energies in the Description of Material Behavior....Pages 103-104
Equilibrium of Masonry Vaults....Pages 105-111
Micromechanical Analysis of Reinforced Masonry....Pages 113-120
Localization Analysis in Dilatant Elasto-Plastic Solids by a Strong-Discontinuity Method....Pages 121-132
Elasto-plastic Modelling of the Behaviour of Granular Soil-structure Interfaces....Pages 133-158
Neural-Fuzzy Modelling to Analyse Complex Geotechnical Systems....Pages 159-166
Speckle and Infrared Images Processing Applied to the Analysis of the Thermomechanical Behaviour of a Semicrystalline Polymer....Pages 167-174
A Delamination Model....Pages 175-175
Granular Decohesion Thermal-Damage in Marble Monuments....Pages 177-185
Study of Thermal and Kinematic Phenomena Associated with Quasi-static Deformation and Damage Process of some Concretes....Pages 187-201
Using Infrared Thermography for the Experimental Analysis of the Thermal Profile of Building Elements Subjected to Thermal and Mechanical Action....Pages 203-208
Strains and Stresses Induced by Water Transport in Hygroscopic Elastic Media....Pages 209-216
Numerical Algorithm for a Three-dimensional Stress-induced Solid-phase-transformation Model....Pages 217-224
Interaction Energy in some Phenomenological Modelings of Phase Transitions in Crystalline Solids....Pages 225-232
Thermomechanical Couplings and Scale Transitions in Mechanics of Materials....Pages 233-251
Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis: a Matter of Homogenization of Composites with Imperfect Interfaces....Pages 253-255
Passive Vibration Damping of Piezoactuated Structures by Using Enhanced Shunt Electric Circuits....Pages 257-265
Flexure Waves in Electroelastic Plates....Pages 267-275
On the Plating of Reinforced Concrete Beams with Composite Laminates....Pages 277-284
Modelling of Fibre Reinforced Concrete....Pages 285-296
Influence of the Steel Properties on the Ductility of R.C. Structures....Pages 297-309
Wavelet Analysis of Transient Signals in Civil Engineering....Pages 311-318
Dynamic Identification of Physical Parameters with Subspace State Models....Pages 319-328
Application of the Wavelet-element Method to Linear Random Materials....Pages 329-337
Towards Tensegrity Systems Design....Pages 339-340
Density Methods Applied to Form Finding of Initially Stressed Systems....Pages 341-350
Simple Analytical Models of Tensegrity Structures....Pages 351-358
Modelling and Simulation of Long-Span Bridges under Aerodynamic Loads....Pages 359-381
Collisions Involving Solids and Fluids....Pages 383-400