Engineering Computations: Volume 22 Issue 5/6

Identification strategy in the presence of corrupted measurements

O. Allix, P. Feissel, H.M. Nguyen

To propose and develop an identification method of material parameters from dynamics test in the presence of extensively corrupted measurements.

Constrained finite rotations in dynamics of shells and Newmark implicit time‐stepping schemes

Boštjan Brank, Said Mamouri, Adnan Ibrahimbegović

Aims to address the issues pertaining to dynamics of constrained finite rotations as a follow‐up from previous considerations in statics.

Saint‐Venant multi‐surface plasticity model in strain space and in stress resultants

J‐B. Colliat, A. Ibrahimbegović, L. Davenne

To present a new constitutive model for capturing inelastic behavior of brittle materials.

Prediction of crack pattern distribution in reinforced concrete by coupling a strong discontinuity model of concrete cracking and a bond‐slip of reinforcement model

Norberto Dominguez, Delphine Brancherie, Luc Davenne, Adnan Ibrahimbegović

To provide a reinforced concrete model including bonding coupled to a classical continuum damage model of concrete, capable of predicting numerically the crack pattern…

On numerical implementation of a coupled rate dependent damage‐plasticity constitutive model for concrete in application to high‐rate dynamics

Guillaume Hervé, Fabrice Gatuingt, Adnan Ibrahimbegović

To provide an efficient and robust constitutive equations for concrete ion application to high rate dynamics.

Shape optimization of two‐phase inelastic material with microstructure

Adnan Ibrahimbegović, Igor Grešovnik, Damijan Markovič, Sergiy Melnyk, Tomaž Rodič

Proposes a methodology for dealing with the problem of designing a material microstructure the best suitable for a given goal.

Parameterization based shape optimization: theory and practical implementation aspects

Marko Kegl

To present an approach to parameterization based shape optimization of statically loaded structures and to propose its practical implementation.

Multi‐scale modeling of heterogeneous structures with inelastic constitutive behaviour: Part I – physical and mathematical aspects

Damijan Markovic, Rainer Niekamp, Adnan Ibrahimbegović, Hermann G. Matthies, Robert L. Taylor

To provide a computational strategy for highly accurate analyses of non‐linear inelastic behaviour for heterogeneous structures in civil and mechanical engineering applications

Some aspects of 2D and/or 3D numerical modelling of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures

Pavao Marović, Željana Nikolić, Mirela Galić

To provide an insight in one relatively simple and efficient numerical model for analysing reinforced and prestressed concrete structures, and to raise a discussion…

Coupling FEM and BEM for computationally efficient solutions of multi‐physics and multi‐domain problems

Boris Štok, Nikolaj Mole

To present numerical approaches to the solution of physically coupled non‐linear problems, which frequently happen to be characterized by their multi‐domain character.