Recent Developments and Innovative Applications in Computational Mechanics

Download or read book Recent Developments and Innovative Applications in Computational Mechanics written by Dana Mueller-Hoeppe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Festschrift is dedicated to Professor Dr.-Ing. habil. Peter Wriggers on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It contains contributions from friends and collaborators as well as current and former PhD students from almost all continents. As a very diverse group of people, the authors cover a wide range of topics from fundamental research to industrial applications: contact mechanics, finite element technology, micromechanics, multiscale approaches, particle methods, isogeometric analysis, stochastic methods and further research interests. In summary, the volume presents an overview of the international state of the art in computational mechanics, both in academia and industry.