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Informationen zum Autor Javier Bonet is a Professor of Engineering and Head of the College of Engineering at Swansea University, Director of the Welsh 'Sêr Cymru' National Research Network in Advanced Engineering and Materials, and a Visiting Professor at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Spain. He has extensive experience of teaching topics in structural mechanics, including large strain nonlinear solid mechanics, to undergraduate and graduate engineering students. He has been active in research in the area of computational mechanics for over 25 years, with contributions in modeling superplastic forming, large strain dynamic analysis, membrane modeling, and finite element technology, including error estimation and meshless methods (smooth particle hydrodynamics). Since the book was completed, he has been appointed as Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research and Enterprise, at the University of Greenwich. Klappentext A clear and complete postgraduate introduction to the theory and computer programming for the complex simulation of material behavior. Zusammenfassung This book provides a clear and complete postgraduate introduction to the theory and computer programming for the complex simulation of material behavior. It will also appeal to those in industry wishing to appreciate the way their computer simulations work. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Mathematical preliminaries; 3. Analysis of three-dimensional truss structures; 4. Kinematics; 5. Stress and equilibrium; 6. Hyperelasticity; 7. Large elasto-plastic deformations; 8. Linearized equilibrium equations; 9. Discretization and solution; 10. Computer implementation; Bibliography; Index.
