Novel Approaches in Civil Engineering [Paperback]

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.

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.

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 l“$