Recent Developments and Innovative Applications in Computational Mechanics

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New Applications of Mortar Methodology to Extended and Embedded Finite Element Formulations....Pages 1-8
Thermo-Mechanical Coupling in Beam-to-Beam Contact....Pages 9-16
On Regularization of the Convergence Path for the Implicit Solution of Contact Problems....Pages 17-28
On Different Variational Formulations of the Nitsche Method....Pages 29-38
Challenges in Computational Nanoscale Contact Mechanics....Pages 39-46
On the Four-node Quadrilateral Element....Pages 47-50
Stability of Mixed Finite Element Formulations – A New Approach....Pages 51-60
A Finite Element Formulation based on the Theory of a Cosserat Point – Modification of the Torsional Modes....Pages 61-68
A Brick Element for Finite Deformations with Inhomogeneous Mode Enhancement....Pages 69-77
Automatic Differentiation Based Formulation of Computational Models....Pages 79-86
Nonlinear Finite Element Shell Formulation Accounting for Large Strain Material Models....Pages 87-95
Hybrid and Mixed Variational Principles for the Geometrically Exact Analysis of Shells....Pages 97-106
A Shell Theory with Scale Effects, Higher Order Gradients, and Meshfree Computations....Pages 107-114
An Electro-mechanically Coupled FE-Formulation for Piezoelectric Shells....Pages 115-123
Non-intrusive Coupling: An Attempt to Merge Industrial and Research Software Capabilities....Pages 125-133
Constitutive Models and Failure Prediction for Al-Alloys in Industrial Applications....Pages 135-142
A Phenomenological Damage Model to Predict Material Failure in Crashworthiness Applications....Pages 143-153
A Computational Approach for Mixed-Lubrication Effects in Sealing Applications....Pages 155-162
Deformations of a Large Hall: Structural Design and Analysis....Pages 163-177
Recovering Micropolar Continua from Particle Mechanics by Use of Homogenisation Strategies....Pages 179-189
Modelling of Microstructured Materials with Micromorphic Continuum Approaches....Pages 191-198
On Computational Homogenisation of Heterogeneous Media with Debonded Inclusions....Pages 199-206
Assessment of Homogenization Errors in Transient Problems....Pages 207-214
Multiscale Modeling of Metal Foams Using the XFEM....Pages 215-222
3D Multiscale Projection Method for Micro-/Macrocrack Interaction Simulations....Pages 223-230
Goal-Oriented Residual Error Estimates for XFEM Approximations in LEFM....Pages 231-238
Multi-field Coupling Strategies for Large Scale Particle-Fluid Problems....Pages 239-248
Numerical Simulation of Particle-Fluid Systems....Pages 249-256
A Concurrent Multiscale Approach to Non-cohesive Granular Materials....Pages 257-264
On Some Features of a Polygonal Discrete Element Model....Pages 265-273
Isogeometric Failure Analysis....Pages 275-282
A Method for Enforcement of Dirichlet Boundary Conditions in Isogeometric Analysis....Pages 283-293
Application of Isogeometric Analysis to Computational Contact Mechanics....Pages 295-302
Stochastic Galerkin Method for the Elastoplasticity Problem with Uncertain Parameters....Pages 303-310
A Time-Discontinuous Galerkin Approach for the Numerical Solution of the Fokker-Planck Equation....Pages 311-319
Interface Modelling in Computational Limit Analysis....Pages 321-330
On the Coexistence of Intermeshed Hostile Populations....Pages 331-340
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