Iutam Symposium on Variational Concepts with Applications to the Mechanics of Materials: Proceedings of the Iutam Symposium on Variational Concepts wi (Hardcover, 2010)

Stability of Quasi-Static Crack Evolution through Dimensional Reduction.- FE2-Simulation of Microheterogeneous Steels Based on Statistically Similar RVEs.- Advancements in the Computational Calculus of Variations.- A Phase Field Approach to Wetting and Contact Angle Hysteresis Phenomena.- Application of Relaxation Methods in Materials Science: From the Macroscopic Response of Elastomers to Crystal Plasticity.- Variational Concepts with Applications to Microstructural Evolution.- A Micromechanical Model for Polycrystalline Shape Memory Alloys - Formulation and Numerical Validation.- Solution-Precipitation Creep - Modeling and Extended FE Implementation.- Time-Continuous Evolution of Microstructures in Finite Plasticity.- Models for Dynamic Fracture Based on Griffith's Criterion.- An Energetic Approach to Deformation Twinning.- Computational Homogenization of Confined Frictional Granular Matter.- Existence Theory for Finite-Strain Crystal Plasticity with Gradient Regularization.- Error Bounds for Space-Time Discretizations of a 3D Model for Shape-Memory Materials.- On the Implementation of Variational Constitutive Updates at Finite Strains.- Phase-Field Modeling of Nonlinear Material Behavior.- Polyconvex Energies for Trigonal, Tetragonal and Cubic Symmetry Groups.- Phase Transitions with Interfacial Energy: Interface Null Lagrangians, Polyconvexity, and Existence.- A Unified Variational Setting and Algorithmic Framework for Mono- and Polycrystalline Martensitic Phase Transformations.- Dissipative Systems in Contact with a Heat Bath: Application to Andrade Creep.