IUTAM Symposium on Variations of Domain and Free-Boundary Problems in Solid Mechanics: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Paris, France, 22–25 April 1997 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792354508 ISBN 13: 9780792354505

Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998

Synopsis

This proceedings volume contains 39 papers presented at the IUTAM Sym­ posium on Variations of Domains and Free Boundary Problems in Solid Mechanics, held in Paris from April 22nd to 25th 1997, at the Ecole des Mines and the Ecole Poly technique. This symposium offered an opportunity for researchers from all engineering disciplines and applied mathematics to review the state of the art and to identify new trends and new features in the field. Mechanical modelling, mathematical discussion and numerical resolution have been the primary goals of the meeting. Principal subjects of discussion concerned ground freezing, shape memory alloys, crystal growth, phase change in solids, piezo-electricity, wavelets, delamination, damage, fracture mechanics, polymerization, adhesion, fric­ tion, porous media, nucleation, plasticity, inverse problems, and topological optimization. More than 80 scientists of different nationalities participated in this sym­ posium. Efforts of many people made this symposium possible. We would like to thank all the authors and participants for their contributions and the members of the Scientific Committee for their patronage and assistance in selecting papers. The effectiveness of the Organizing Committee is ac­ knowledged. We are pleased to thank all the involved members of the two Laboratories : Laboratoire de Mecanique des Solides and Laboratoire des Materiaux et des Structures du Genie Civil, specially Valerie Fran

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Synopsis

This volume contains the contributions presented at the IUTAM Symposium on Variations of Domains and Free-Boundary Problems in Solid Mechanics, held in Paris, France, 22-25 April, 1997. In solid mechanics, free-boundary problems are relevant in a large variety of subjects such as optimization, optimal control, phase transition, metal casting, solidification and melting, stability analysis, inverse problems, propagating surface of discontinuity etc., and they raised interesting discussions in the past and recent literature.Although the physics behind these phenomena is immense, the mathematical analyses often present many common features. The three aspects - mechanical modelling, mathematical formulation and numerical resolution - are the outstanding points of this book. It gives a review of the state-of-the-art in free-boundary problems for research engineers and researchers in applied mechanics and applied mathematics. The originality of this book is that it is solid mechanics oriented, whereas other books published in the same field are mathematics oriented.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792354508
• ISBN 13: 9780792354505
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 351
• Editor: Argoul P., Frémond M., Nguyen Q.S.