Mechanical Modelling and Computational Issues in Civil Engineering

Michel Fremond (editor), Franco Maceri (editor)9783540255673, 3540255672

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.

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Table of contents :
Monumental Dams….Pages 1-102
Approach of Mechanical Behaviour and Rupture of Cohesive Granular Media. Validation on a Model Medium….Pages 103-112
Phase Change of Volatile Organic Compounds in Soil Remediation Processes….Pages 113-123
Thermo-mechanical Behaviour of a Soil. Yield Surface Evolution….Pages 125-134
Water Transport in Soil with Phase Change….Pages 135-142
Tunnels in Saturated Elasto-plastic Soils: Three-dimensional Validation of a Plane Simulation Procedure….Pages 143-164
A Plasticity Model and Hysteresis Cycles….Pages 165-172
Computational Analysis of Isotropic Plasticity Models….Pages 173-200
A Non-linear Hardening Model Based on Two Coupled Internal Hardening Variables: Formulation and Implementation….Pages 201-209
Comparison between Static and Dynamic Criteria of Material Stability….Pages 211-234
Material Damage Description via Structured Deformations….Pages 235-253
Singular equilibrated stress fields for no-tension panels….Pages 255-265
Damage of Materials: Damaging Effects of Macroscopic Vanishing Motions….Pages 267-275
A Numerical Method for Fracture of Rods….Pages 277-292
Softening Behavior of Reinforced Cementitious Beams….Pages 293-302
An Experimental and Numerical Investigation on the Plating of Reinforced Concrete Beams with FRP Laminates….Pages 303-314
Reliability of CFRP Structural Repair for Reinforced Concrete Elements….Pages 315-322
Elastic Plates with Weakly Incoherent Response….Pages 323-331
A Finite Element for the Analysis of Monoclinic Laminated Plates….Pages 333-343
A Mixed FSDT Finite-Element Formulation for the Analysis of Composite Laminates Without Shear Correction Factors….Pages 345-358
On the use of Continuous Wavelet Analysis for Modal Identification….Pages 359-368
Propagation of Phase Change Front in Monocrystalline SMA….Pages 369-377
Entropy balance versus energy balance Application to the heat equation and to phase transitions….Pages 379-388
On the Choice of the Shunt Circuit for Single-mode Vibration Damping of Piezoactuated Structures….Pages 389-400