Table of Contents:
  • Direct and Inverse Problems
  • Direct nonsmooth mechanics problems
  • Inverse and identification problems
  • Recent results and future work
  • Theoretical and Computational Tools
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Elastostatics
  • Small displacement smooth (classical) elastostatics
  • Unilateral contact problems
  • The unilateral contact conditions
  • Friction problems with convex energy potential
  • Combined frictional contact problem
  • BEM formulation and implementation
  • BEM formulation of unilateral problems
  • LCP-BEM static unilateral-frictional contact problems
  • Multi-region BEM formulation for inequality problems
  • Unified LCP formulation of combined unilateral frictional contact problems
  • Solution algorithms
  • Smooth and nonsmooth optimization approach
  • QPP and LCP solution schemes
  • Nonlinear equations for complementerity problems
  • Nonlinear equation reformulation
  • Examples of NCP functions
  • Merit functions
  • Solution technique
  • Formulation of nonlinear equations with FEM and BEM
  • NCP functions proposed in the engineering literature
  • Elastodynamics
  • Steady state, harmonic problems
  • Transient elastodynamics
  • LCP-BEM dynamic unilateral-frictional contact problems
  • Computational and Structural Optimization
  • Optimization and optimality conditions
  • Smooth, inequality constrained, convex problems
  • Lagrangians, saddle points, duality
  • Concise form of optimality conditions
  • Convex, nonsmooth optimization
  • Unconstrained
  • Constrained
  • Convex optimization algorithms.