Synopses & Reviews
In this edited book various novel approaches to problems of current interest in civil engineering are demonstrated. The topics range from dynamic band seismic problems to the analysis of long-span structures and ancient buildings. Experts associated within the Lagrange Laboratory present recent research results on functionally- graded or composite materials, granular materials, geotechnics, as well as frictional or adhesive contact problems.
Table of Contents
From the contents:
An Introduction to Unilateral Dynamics.- Large Structures Behaviour: the Past and the Future.- Convex Difference Algorithm and Applications to some Mechancal Problems.- Adhesively Bonded Joints in Civil Engineering: some Physicochemical Aspects Related to the Mechanical Bahaviour.- On the Role of Interface Energies in the Description of Material Behaviour.- Equilibrium of Masonry Vaults.- Mecromechanical Analysis of Reinforced Masonry.- Localization Analysis in Dilatant Elasto-Plastic Solids by a Strong-Discontinuity Method.- Elasto-Plastic Modelling of the Behaviour of Granular Soil-Structure Interfaces.- Neural-Fuzzy Modelling to Analyse Complex Geotechnical Systems.- Speckle and Infrared Images Processing Applied to the Analysis of the Thermomechanical Behaviour of a Semicrystalline Polymer.- A Delamination Model.- Granular Decohesion Thermal-Damage in Marble Monuments.