Innovative Numerical Approaches for Multi-Field and Multi-Scale Problems

1. Robust Numerical Schemes for an Efficient Implementation of Tangent Matrices: Application to Hyperelasticity, Inelastic Standard Dissipative Materials and Thermo-Mechanics at Finite Strains
Masato Tanaka, Daniel Balzani, Jörg Schröder

2. Folding Patterns in Partially Delaminated Thin Films
David Bourne, Sergio Conti, Stefan Müller

3. Thermo-mechanical Behavior of Confined Granular Systems
Güls?ad Küçük, Marcial Gonzalez, Alberto M. Cuitiño

4. Elastomeric Gels: A Model and First Results
Mariarita Luca, Antonio DeSimone

5. A Tensegrity Paradigm for Minimal Mass Design of Roofs and Bridges
Gerardo Carpentieri, Fernando Fraternali, Robert E. Skelton

6. Universal Meshes for the Simulation of Brittle Fracture and Moving Boundary Problems
Maurizio M. Chiaramonte, Evan S. Gawlik, Hardik Kabaria, Adrian J. Lew

7. Free Energy, Free Entropy, and a Gradient Structure for Thermoplasticity
Alexander Mielke

8. Comparison of Isotropic Elasto-Plastic Models for the Plastic Metric Tensor C_p=F_p^T, F_p




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Patrizio Neff, Ionel-Dumitrel Ghiba

9. Quasi-Static Evolutions in Brittle Fracture Generated by Gradient Flows: Sharp Crack and Phase-Field Approaches
Matteo Negri

10. Improving the Material-Point Method
Deborah Sulsky, Ming Gong

11. Meshfree Methods Applied to Consolidation Problems in Saturated Soils
Pedro Navas, Susana López-Querol, Rena C. Yu, Bo Li

12. A Multiscale Microstructural Model of Permeability in Fractured Solids
Anna Pandolfi, Maria Laura Bellis, Gabriele Della Vecchia

13. Thermal Diffusion in a Polymer Blend
Kerstin Weinberg, Stefan Schuß, Denis Anders

Nyckelord: Engineering, Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials, Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization, Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences