Novel Approaches in Civil Engineering

ISBN-13: 9783642075292 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 400 str.

Michel Fremond; Franco Maceri

Opis

In this edited book various novel approaches to problems of current interest in civil engineering are demonstrated. The topics range from dynamic band seismic problems to the analysis of long-span structures and ancient buildings. Experts associated within the Lagrange Laboratory present recent research results on functionally-graded or composite materials, granular materials, geotechnics, as well as frictional or adhesive contact problems.

Spis treści

An introduction to Unilateral Dynamics.- Large Structures Behaviour: the Past and the Future.- Convex Difference Algorithm and Applications to Some Mechanical Problems.- Adhesively Bonded Joints in Civil Engineering: some Physico-chemical Aspects Related to the Mechanical Behaviour.- On the Role of Interface Energies in the Description of Material Behavior.- Equilibrium of Masonry Vaults.- Micromechanical Analysis of Reinforced Masonry.- Localization Analysis in Dilatant Elasto-Plastic Solids by a Strong-Discontinuity Method.- Elasto-plastic Modelling of the Behaviour of Granular Soil-structure Interfaces.- Neural-Fuzzy Modelling to Analyse Complex Geotechnical Systems.- Speckle and Infrared Images Processing Applied to the Analysis of the Thermomechanical Behaviour of a Semicrystalline Polymer.- A Delamination Model.- Granular Decohesion Thermal-Damage in Marble Monuments.- Study of Thermal and Kinematic Phenomena Associated with Quasi-static Deformation and Damage Process of some Concretes.- Using Infrared Thermography for the Experimental Analysis of the Thermal Profile of Building Elements Subjected to Thermal and Mechanical Action.- Strains and Stresses Induced by Water Transport in Hygroscopic Elastic Media.- Numerical Algorithm for a Three-dimensional Stress-induced Solid-phase-transformation Model.- Interaction Energy in some Phenomenological Modelings of Phase Transitions in Crystalline Solids.- Thermomechanical Couplings and Scale Transitions in Mechanics of Materials.- Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis: a Matter of Homogenization of Composites with Imperfect Interfaces.- Passive Vibration Damping of Piezoactuated Structures by Using Enhanced Shunt Electric Circuits.- Flexure Waves in Electroelastic Plates.- On the Plating of Reinforced Concrete Beams with Composite Laminates.- Modelling of Fibre Reinforced Concrete.- Influence of the Steel Properties on the Ductility of R.C. Structures.- Wavelet Analysis of Transient Signals in Civil Engineering.- Dynamic Identification of Physical Parameters with Subspace State Models.- Application of the Wavelet-element Method to Linear Random Materials.- Towards Tensegrity Systems Design.- Density Methods Applied to Form Finding of Initially Stressed Systems.- Simple Analytical Models of Tensegrity Structures.- Modelling and Simulation of Long-Span Bridges under Aerodynamic Loads.- Collisions Involving Solids and Fluids.