Recent Developments and Innovative Applications in Computational Mechanics

1. New Applications of Mortar Methodology to Extended and Embedded Finite Element Formulations
Tod A. Laursen, Jessica D. Sanders

2. Thermo-Mechanical Coupling in Beam-to-Beam Contact
Daniela P. Boso, Przemyslaw Litewka, Bernhard A. Schrefler

3. On Regularization of the Convergence Path for the Implicit Solution of Contact Problems
Giorgio Zavarise, Laura Lorenzis, Robert L. Taylor

4. On Different Variational Formulations of the Nitsche Method
Ridvan Izi, Alexander Konyukhov, Karl Schweizerhof

5. Challenges in Computational Nanoscale Contact Mechanics
Roger A. Sauer

6. On the Four-node Quadrilateral Element
Ulrich Hueck, Peter Wriggers

7. Stability of Mixed Finite Element Formulations – A New Approach
Stefanie Reese, Vivian Tini, Yalin Kiliclar, Jan Frischkorn, Marco Schwarze

8. A Finite Element Formulation based on the Theory of a Cosserat Point – Modification of the Torsional Modes
Eiris F. I. Boerner, Dana Mueller-Hoeppe, Stefan Loehnert

9. A Brick Element for Finite Deformations with Inhomogeneous Mode Enhancement
Dana Mueller-Hoeppe, Stefan Loehnert

10. Automatic Differentiation Based Formulation of Computational Models
Jože Korelc

11. Nonlinear Finite Element Shell Formulation Accounting for Large Strain Material Models
Friedrich Gruttmann

12. Hybrid and Mixed Variational Principles for the Geometrically Exact Analysis of Shells
Paulo Mattos Pimenta

13. A Shell Theory with Scale Effects, Higher Order Gradients, and Meshfree Computations
Carlo Sansour, Sebastian Skatulla

14. An Electro-mechanically Coupled FE-Formulation for Piezoelectric Shells
W. Wagner, K. Schulz, S. Klinkel

15. Non-intrusive Coupling: An Attempt to Merge Industrial and Research Software Capabilities
Olivier Allix, Lionel Gendre, Pierre Gosselet, Guillaume Guguin

16. Constitutive Models and Failure Prediction for Al-Alloys in Industrial Applications
Christian Leppin

17. A Phenomenological Damage Model to Predict Material Failure in Crashworthiness Applications
Markus Feucht, Frieder Neukamm, André Haufe

18. A Computational Approach for Mixed-Lubrication Effects in Sealing Applications
Markus André

19. Deformations of a Large Hall: Structural Design and Analysis
Klaus-Dieter Klee, Reinhard Kahn

20. Recovering Micropolar Continua from Particle Mechanics by Use of Homogenisation Strategies
Wolfgang Ehlers

21. Modelling of Microstructured Materials with Micromorphic Continuum Approaches
C. Britta Hirschberger, Paul Steinmann

22. On Computational Homogenisation of Heterogeneous Media with Debonded Inclusions
D. Perić, D. D. Somer, E. A. Souza Neto, W. Dettmer

23. Assessment of Homogenization Errors in Transient Problems
K. Runesson, F. Su, F. Larsson

24. Multiscale Modeling of Metal Foams Using the XFEM
Lovre Krstulovic-Opara, Stefan Loehnert, Dana Mueller-Hoeppe, Matej Vesenjak

25. 3D Multiscale Projection Method for Micro-/Macrocrack Interaction Simulations
Stefan Loehnert, Dana Mueller-Hoeppe

26. Goal-Oriented Residual Error Estimates for XFEM Approximations in LEFM
Marcus Rüter, Erwin Stein

27. Multi-field Coupling Strategies for Large Scale Particle-Fluid Problems
D. R. J. Owen, Y. T. Feng, K. Han, C. R. Leonardi

28. Numerical Simulation of Particle-Fluid Systems
Bircan Avci, Peter Wriggers

29. A Concurrent Multiscale Approach to Non-cohesive Granular Materials
Christian Wellmann, Peter Wriggers

30. On Some Features of a Polygonal Discrete Element Model
Ekkehard Ramm, Manfred Bischoff, Benjamin Schneider

31. Isogeometric Failure Analysis
Clemens V. Verhoosel, Michael A. Scott, Michael J. Borden, René Borst, Thomas J. R. Hughes

32. A Method for Enforcement of Dirichlet Boundary Conditions in Isogeometric Analysis
Toby J. Mitchell, Sanjay Govindjee, Robert L. Taylor

33. Application of Isogeometric Analysis to Computational Contact Mechanics
İlker Temizer

34. Stochastic Galerkin Method for the Elastoplasticity Problem with Uncertain Parameters
Bojana V. Rosic, Hermann G. Matthies

35. A Time-Discontinuous Galerkin Approach for the Numerical Solution of the Fokker-Planck Equation
Udo Nackenhorst, Friederike Loerke

36. Interface Modelling in Computational Limit Analysis
A. V. Lyamin, K. Krabbenhøft, S. W. Sloan

37. On the Coexistence of Intermeshed Hostile Populations
Tarek I. Zohdi

Keywords: Engineering, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Computational Science and Engineering