Advanced Computational Materials Modeling: From Classical to Multi-Scale Techniques - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3527324798 ISBN 13: 9783527324798

Publisher: Wiley-VCH, 2010

Synopsis

With its discussion of strategies for modeling complex materials using new numerical techniques, mainly those based on the finite element method, this monograph covers a range of topics including computational plasticity, multi-scale formulations, optimization and parameter identification, damage mechanics and nonlinear finite elements.

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About the Author

Miguel Vaz Jr. heads the research group "Development and Application of Numerical Methods to Continuum Mechanics" at the State University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering in 1998 from the Swansea University, UK. He has worked in multi-physics and coupled problems, especially computational plasticity, thermo-mechanical coupling and polymer melt flow.

Eduardo A. de Souza Neto is a Reader at the School of Engineering, Swansea University, UK. He received his Ph.D. in 1994 from Swansea University for his work in computational plasticity. He has dedicated his research activities to the development of constitutive models and numerical algorithms aimed at large strain inelasticity. He authored key papers on finite element technology, finite strain plasticity and damage mechanics and has been more recently publishing articles on multi-scale methods in non-linear solid mechanics. He is also the author of a textbook on computational methods for plasticity.

Pablo Andrés Muñoz-Rojas leads the "Computational Mechanics Laboratory" at the State University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. He obtained his Ph.D. degree at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, with research on the application of optimization techniques to metal forming problems. He has focused his work on numerical techniques for sensitivity analysis, parameter identification of elastic-plastic properties and viscoelasticity.

From the Back Cover

Computer simulations are a very useful tool in materials science for investigating already existing materials and for designing new ones. The use of simulations for studying engineering materials is rapidly increasing. Recent developments in the methodology allow materials to be modeled in an accurate and realistic way. The methods in this book are mainly based upon a widely used technique called the finite element method. Among these, the increasingly popular multiscale methods are also discussed.

Written by an international group of experts, this book is must-have resource for graduate students and researchers entering or working in the field of materials modeling. The book covers important types of mechanical engineering materials and a range of innovative modeling techniques.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-VCH
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3527324798
• ISBN 13: 9783527324798
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 450
• Editor: Vaz Junior Miguel, De Souza Neto Eduardo A., Munoz-Rojas Pablo A.