IUTAM Symposium on Variational Concepts with Applications to the Mechanics of Materials : Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Variational Concepts with Applications to the Mechanics of Materials, Bochum, Germany, September 22-26, 2008 - Hackl, Klaus; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010)
Stability of Quasi-Static Crack Evolution through Dimensional Reduction -- FE2-Simulation of Microheterogeneous Steels Based on Statistically Similar RVEs -- Advancements in the Computational Calculus of Variations -- A Phase Field Approach to Wetting and Contact Angle Hysteresis Phenomena -- Application of Relaxation Methods in Materials Science: From the Macroscopic Response of Elastomers to Crystal Plasticity -- Variational Concepts with Applications to Microstructural Evolution -- A Micromechanical Model for Polycrystalline Shape Memory Alloys - Formulation and Numerical Validation -- Solution-Precipitation Creep - Modeling and Extended FE Implementation -- Time-Continuous Evolution of Microstructures in Finite Plasticity -- Models for Dynamic Fracture Based on Griffith's Criterion -- An Energetic Approach to Deformation Twinning -- Computational Homogenization of Confined Frictional Granular Matter -- Existence Theory for Finite-Strain Crystal Plasticity with Gradient Regularization -- Error Bounds for Space-Time Discretizations of a 3D Model for Shape-Memory Materials -- On the Implementation of Variational Constitutive Updates at Finite Strains -- Phase-Field Modeling of Nonlinear Material Behavior -- Polyconvex Energies for Trigonal, Tetragonal and Cubic Symmetry Groups -- Phase Transitions with Interfacial Energy: Interface Null Lagrangians, Polyconvexity, and Existence -- A Unified Variational Setting and Algorithmic Framework for Mono- and Polycrystalline Martensitic Phase Transformations -- Dissipative Systems in Contact with a Heat Bath: Application to Andrade Creep.
Keywords: Mechanics; Mechanics, Applied; Calculus of variations; Mathematical models; Mathematical analysis; Analysis (Mathematics).; Applied mathematics; Engineering mathematics; Solid Mechanics; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics; Analysis; Mathematical and Computational Engineering