Non-Linear Finite Element Analysis in Structural Mechanics (Hardcover, 2015)

Basic Mathematical Methods.- Geometrically Non-linear Behaviour.- Stability Problems.- Load Incrementation in a Non-Linear Analysis.- Fundamentals of Material Models.- Theory and Numerics of the Linear Visco-Elasticity.- Theory and Numerics of Creep.- Theory and Numerics of Elasto-Plasticity.- Contact Analysis: Introduction, Kinematics.- Fulfilling the Contact Condition.- Aspects of Modeling Contact.- Contact Detection.- Contact with Shell- and Beam-Elements.