Recent Developments and Innovative Applications in Computational Mechanics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mueller-Hoeppe, Dana (Editor), Loehnert, Stefan (Editor), Reese, Stefanie (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer mathematics.; Mechanics.; Mechanics, Applied.; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.; Computational Science and Engineering.

This Festschrift is dedicated to Professor Dr.-Ing. habil. Peter Wriggers on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It contains contributions from friends and collaborators as well as current and former PhD students from almost all continents. As a very diverse group of people, the authors cover a wide...

Table of Contents:

• New applications of mortar methodology to extended and embedded finite element formulations
• Thermo-mechanical coupling in beam-to-beam contact
• On regularization of the convergence path for the implicit solution of contact problems
• On different variational formulations of the Nitsche method
• Challenges in computational nanoscale contact mechanics
• On the four-node quadrilateral element
• Stability of mixed finite element formulations – a new approach
• A finite element formulation based on the theory of a Cosserat point – modification of the torsional modes
• A brick element for finite deformations with inhomogeneous mode enhancement
• Automatic differentiation based formulation of computational models
• Nonlinear finite element shell formulation accounting for large strain material models
• Hybrid and mixed variational principles for the geometrically exact analysis of shells
• A shell theory with scale effects, higher order gradients, and meshfree.