Nonlinear Solid Mechanics

• Main Author: Ibrahimbegovic, Adnan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Series: Solid Mechanics and its Applications, 160
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Computer mathematics.; Calculus of variations.; Computational intelligence.; Continuum mechanics.; Structural materials.; Computational Science and Engineering.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Computational Intelligence.; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization.; Structural Materials.

This volume provides insight into modelling and ultimate limit computation of complex structures, with their components represented by solid deformable bodies. The book examines practically all the important questions of current interests for nonlinear solid mechanics: plasticity, damage, large defo...

Table of Contents:

• Boundary value problem in linear and nonlinear elasticity
• Inelastic behavior at small strains
• Large displacements and deformations
• Changing boundary conditions: contact problems
• Dynamics and time-integration schemes
• Thermodynamics and solution methods for coupled problems
• Geometric and material instabilities
• Multi-scale modelling of inelastic behavior.