In this edited book various novel approaches to problems of modern civil engineering are demonstrated. Experts associated within the Lagrange Laboratory present recent research results in civil engineering dealing both with modelling and computational aspects. Many modern topics are covered, such as monumental dams, soil mechanics and geotechnics, granular media, contact and friction problems, damage and fracture, new structural materials, and vibration damping presenting the state of the art of mechanical modelling and computational issues in civil engineering.

Outcome of a meeting of a European research project on the highest scientific level Includes a wonderful full-colour presentation about monumental dams

Inhalt
Monumental Dams.- Approach of Mechanical Behaviour and Rupture of Cohesive Granular Media. Validation on a Model Medium.- Phase Change of Volatile Organic Compounds in Soil Remediation Processes.- Thermo-mechanical Behaviour of a Soil. Yield Surface Evolution.- Water Transport in Soil with Phase Change.- Tunnels in Saturated Elasto-plastic Soils: Three-dimensional Validation of a Plane Simulation Procedure.- A Plasticity Model and Hysteresis Cycles.- Computational Analysis of Isotropic Plasticity Models.- A Non-linear Hardening Model Based on Two Coupled Internal Hardening Variables: Formulation and Implementation.- Comparison between Static and Dynamic Criteria of Material Stability.- Material Damage Description via Structured Deformations.- Singular equilibrated stress fields for no-tension panels.- Damage of Materials: Damaging Effects of Macroscopic Vanishing Motions.- A Numerical Method for Fracture of Rods.- Softening Behavior of Reinforced Cementitious Beams.- An Experimental and Numerical Investigation on the Plating of Reinforced Concrete Beams with FRP Laminates.- Reliability of CFRP Structural Repair for Reinforced Concrete Elements.- Elastic Plates with Weakly Incoherent Response.- A Finite Element for the Analysis of Monoclinic Laminated Plates.- A Mixed FSDT Finite-Element Formulation for the Analysis of Composite Laminates Without Shear Correction Factors.- On the use of Continuous Wavelet Analysis for Modal Identification.- Propagation of Phase Change Front in Monocrystalline SMA.- Entropy balance versus energy balance Application to the heat equation and to phase transitions.- On the Choice of the Shunt Circuit for Single-mode Vibration Damping of Piezoactuated Structures.