Advances in Crystals and Elastic Metamaterials, Part 2

Multi-scale Theory and Computation, Volume 52, the latest release in the Advances in Applied Mechanics series, draws together recent, significant advances in various topics in applied mechanics. Published since 1948, the book aims to provide authoritative review articles on topics in the mechanical sciences. While the book is ideal for scientists and engineers working in various branches of mechanics, it is also beneficial to professionals who use the results of investigations in mechanics in various applications, such as aerospace, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical and nuclear engineering.

1. Multiscale modeling of material failure: Theory and computational methods Pattabhi Ramaiah Budarapu, Xiaoying Zhuang, Timon Rabczuk and Stephane P.A. Bordas 2. Phononic and photonic crystals for sensing applications Yan Pennec, Yabin Jin and Bahram Djafari Rouhani 3. Topologically protected edge states in mechanical metamaterials Raj KumarPal, Javier Vila and MassimoRuzzene

Researchers in Mechanics, industrial research and development, graduate students and post-doctoral researchers.

Born in Paris, France, in 1975, Stéphane joined in 1999 a joint graduate programme of the French Institute of Technology (Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics) and the American Northwestern University. In 2003, he graduated in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics with a Ph.D. from Northwestern University under the guidance of Professor Brian Moran. Between 2003 and 2006, he was at the Laboratory of Structural and Continuum Mechanics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, working under the support of Professor Thomas Zimmermann. In 2006, he became permanent lecturer at Glasgow University’s Civil Engineering Department.

Stéphane joined the Computational Mechanics team at Cardiff University on 1st September 2009, as a Professor in Computational Mechanics and directed the institute of Mechanics and Advanced Materials (http://www.engin.cf.ac.uk/research/resInstitute.asp?InstNo=13) from October 2010 to November 2013. He is the Editor of the book series “Advances in Applied Mechanics” since July 2013. On November 1st, 2013, he joined the University of Luxembourg as a Professor in Computational Mechanics. http://wwwen.uni.lu/recherche/fstc/research_unit_in_engineering_science_rues/members/stephane_bordas?page=Publications http://scholar.google.fr/citations?hl=fr&user=QKZBZ48AAAAJ

The main research axes of his team include:

• free boundary problems and problems involving complex geometries, in particular moving boundaries : fracture and cutting mechanics, biofilms, tumours… This research direction requires, in particular, devising efficient numerical methods to treat spatially evolving discontinuities, singularities or boundary layers, e.g. enriched/extended finite element methods, meshless/meshfree methods, mixed methods ; this requires also to handle complex geometries, e.g. through generalised isogeometric analysis.
• ‘a posteriori’ discretisation and model error control, rationalisation of the computational expense :

• Includes contributions from world-leading experts that are acquired by invitation only
• Beneficial to scientists, engineers and professionals who use the results of investigations in mechanics in various applications, such as aerospace, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical and nuclear engineering
• Covers not only traditional topics, but also important emerging fields