Topics in Applied Mechanics, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993 Integration of Theory and Applications in Applied Mechanics

In collaboration with the Contact Group Experimental Mechanics in The Netherlands and under the auspices of the Technological Institute of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Ingenieurs Vereniging (Royal Flemish Society of Engineers), the Department of Ap­ plied Mechanics of the Koninklijk Instituut van Ingenieurs (Royal Institution of Engineers in The Netherlands) organised the second National Mechanics Congress in The Netherlands, on November 16-18, 1992. About hundred participants from universities and industrial research laboratories in The Netherlands and Belgium discussed topics around the theme: Building Bridges, Integration of Theory and Applications in Applied Mechanics. Building bridges is of course one of the main tasks of a civil engineer, in order to improve the infrastructure of our society. Strength, stiffness and stability have to be guaranteed for a large number of years of service. Localised effects such as shear lag in longitudinal stiffeners, small cracks in concrete structures and effects of corrosion may on the long tenn lead to catastrofic failure of bridges. During the congress J.P. Gailliez presented a talk about the hydraulic ship lifts in the Canal du Centre in south Belgium. Built more than a hundred years ago, the elevators still are in a perfect condition and are recognized now as an industrial archeological monument.

Bridge building.- Keynote paper.- Construction simulation of some bridges over the river IJssel.- Experimental mechanics.- Keynote paper.- Experimental mechanics; why, how, co-operatively?.- Keynote paper.- The bridge between experimental and numerical techniques: numerical modelling of linear elastic and viscoelastic response of composite structures.- Tuning shock test results and mathematical models using an optimal state estimation method.- Fluid-structure interaction in non-rigid pipeline systems; large scale validation tests (EUREKA project 274).- Experimental and numerical analysis of cracking in concrete and sandstone.- The verification of numerical calculations with tests on sand in the geocentrifuge.- Parametric identification of an aircraft landing gear damper, by means of periodic excitation.- Role of local effects in the analysis of structures and dynamic systems.- Keynote paper.- Damage processes in solids and structures and their numerical computation.- Keynote paper.- Computational models for fragmentation tests.- FAME-D, a finite element code based on continuum damage mechanics.- Continuous and discontinuous modelling of the contact between wheel flange and rail.- An anisotropic damage model for laminated composites.- Analysis of supercritical transformation with dilatation and shear effects during crack growth in ceramics.- Phenomenological modelling of damage in polymer blends.- Local effects and fluid flow.- Keynote paper.- Spin-up in non-axisymmetric containers.- Keynote paper.- Attack transient of a flue organ pipe.- Finite element simulation of local effects in nonisothermal viscoelastic flows.- Numerical analysis of unsteady viscoelastic contraction flows of multi-mode fluids.- Turbulent free-surface flow over a sill.- Local effects in some non-linear evolution equations.- Fluid-structure interaction and column separation in a closed pipe.- Micromechanics and constitutive equations.- Keynote paper.- Micro-rheological modelling of heat conduction in polymers.- Keynote paper.- Rheology and microstructure of liquid crystalline polymers.- Limiting toughness of polymers; the relation between molecular and microscopic structure.- Constitutive models for composite materials with interfaces.- A three dimensional model for nonlinear viscoelasticity.- Dynamic systems.- Keynote paper.- Structural dynamics of mechanical systems with local nonlinearities under periodic excitation.- Improving manipulator control with acceleration measurements.- Combined finite element and multibody techniques for vehicle occupant safety studies.- Application of cell mapping methods to a nonlinear dynamic system.- Manifolds of nonlinear dynamic single DOF systems.- Integration of Applied mechaninics with other disciplines.- Medicine.- A non-invasive method to find Langer’s lines of the skin.- The influence of minor stenoses on the flow in the carotid artery bifurcation.- Osmotic prestressing of a spinal motion segment.- Rheology.- Rheology and rheometry for highly filled reactive materials.- Optimisation.- Structural optimization history and state of the art.- Mining and petroleum engineering.- Thermo-mechanical properties of roof rock of coal for underground gasification.- Mathematics and numerical methods.- A finite rotation triangular shell element.- Finite element preconditioned spectral element methods for convection-diffusion problems.- Author Index.