Mechanical Modelling and Computational Issues in Civil Engineering - Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics 2005 edition

Marc Notes: Title from e-book title screen (viewed June 27, 2008).; Includes bibliographical references and index.; Electronic reproduction.; UK: MyiLibrary; 2006. Table of Contents: 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.