Computational Mechanics in solids, structures and coupled problems in engineering is today a mature science with applications to major industrial designs. This book reflects the state of art and it is written by some of the world leading authorities in this field, addressing such topics as: design and topology optimisation, inverse engineering, multibody dynamics, non-linear and railway dynamics, non-linear and textile composites, sandwich structures, uncertainty and reliability of structures, micromechanics of biological materials, computational geometry, multiscale strategies, discrete and mesh free elements, hybrid crack element, adaptive mesh generation, neural networks, structural model validation, vibro-acoustics, active aeroelastic structures, shells with incompressible flows, fluid-structure interaction, aeroelasticity, fluid-saturated and damage porous media and ceramics, high porosity solids, multiphase viscous porous material and masonry. This book contains the edited version of some Plenary and Keynote Lectures presented at the III European Conference on Computational Mechanics: Solids, Structures and Coupled Problems in Engineering (ECCM-2006), held in the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal, 5th - 8th June 2006.

State of the art overview of a very wide ranging area of engineering

Inhalt
Computational Challenges for Multi-Physics Topology Optimization.- Computational Geometry and the Analysis of Solids and Structures.- Advances in the Particle Finite Element Method for Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems.- Elastic and Plastic Impacts in Multibody Dynamics.- Active Aeroelastic Aircraft Structures.- Multiscale Strategy for Solving Industrial Problems.- Numerical Integration of the Nonlinear Dynamics of Elastoplastic Solids.- Analysis and Design of Sandwich Structures Made of Steel and Lightweight Concrete.- Multiscale Modeling of Pore Collapse Instability in High-Porosity Solids.- Instabilities and Discontinuities in Two-Phase Media.- Towards Maneuvering Aeroelasticity Progress in the Simulation of Large Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems.- A Design Optimization Formulation for Problems with Random and Fuzzy Input Variables Using Performan Measure Approach.- Strength of Porous Ceramics Mechanical Testing and Numerical Modelling.- Reduced Order Models in Unsteady Aerodynamic Models, Aeroelasticity and Molecular Dynamics.- Inverse Engineering.- Multiscale Approaches for Bridging Discrete and Continuum Scales.- Adaptive Mesh Generation in 3 Dimensions by Means of a Delaunay Based Method. Applications to Mechanical Problems.- Computational Micromechanics of Biological Materials: Bone and Wood.- Recent Developments of Hybrid Crack Element: Determination of its Complete Displacement Field and Combination with XFEM.- Structural Model Validation and the Lack-of-Knowledge Theory.- Modeling of Historical Masonry with Discrete Elements.- A Regularized Strong-form Meshfree Method for Adaptive Analysis.- Dissipative Interface Modeling for Vibroacoustic Problems A New Symmetric Formulation.- Seismic Design Procedures in The Framework of EvolutionaryBased Structural Optimization.- Interaction of Shells and Membranes with Incompressible Flows.- Nonlinear Analysis of Composite and FGM Shells Using Tensor-Based Shell Finite Elements.- Strength of Textile Composites A Voxel Based Continuum Damage Mechanics Approach.- Concrete at Early Ages and Beyond: Numerical Model and Validation.- Uncertainty & Reliability Analysis of Structural Dynamical Systems.- Neural Networks: New Results and Prospects of Applications in Structural Engineering.- Computational Railway Dynamics.- Characterization and Multiscale Modeling of Asphalt Recent Developments in Upscaling of Viscous and Strength Properties.