Author : David Yang Gao
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048195772
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)
Book Synopsis Complementarity, Duality and Symmetry in Nonlinear Mechanics by : David Yang Gao
Download or read book Complementarity, Duality and Symmetry in Nonlinear Mechanics written by David Yang Gao and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complementarity, duality, and symmetry are closely related concepts, and have always been a rich source of inspiration in human understanding through the centuries, particularly in mathematics and science. The Proceedings of IUTAM Symposium on Complementarity, Duality, and Symmetry in Nonlinear Mechanics brings together some of world's leading researchers in both mathematics and mechanics to provide an interdisciplinary but engineering flavoured exploration of the field's foundation and state of the art developments. Topics addressed in this book deal with fundamental theory, methods, and applications of complementarity, duality and symmetry in multidisciplinary fields of nonlinear mechanics, including nonconvex and nonsmooth elasticity, dynamics, phase transitions, plastic limit and shakedown analysis of hardening materials and structures, bifurcation analysis, entropy optimization, free boundary value problems, minimax theory, fluid mechanics, periodic soliton resonance, constrained mechanical systems, finite element methods and computational mechanics. A special invited paper presented important research opportunities and challenges of the theoretical and applied mechanics as well as engineering materials in the exciting information age. Audience: This book is addressed to all scientists, physicists, engineers and mathematicians, as well as advanced students (doctoral and post-doctoral level) at universities and in industry.