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Title Nonsmooth mechanics and analysis : theoretical and numerical advances / edited by P. Alart, O. Maisonneuve, R.T. Rockafellar
Published New York, N.Y. : Springer, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 320 pages) : illustrations
Series Advances in mechanics and mathematics ; v. 12
Advances in mechanics and mathematics ; v. 12.
Contents Convex and Nonsmooth Analysis -- Moreau's Proximal Mappings and Convexity in Hamilton-Jacobi Theory -- Three Optimization Problems in Mass Transportation Theory -- Some Geometrical and Algebraic Properties of Various Types of Convex Hulls -- A Note on the Legendre-Fenchel Transform of Convex Composite Functions -- What Is to be a Mean? -- Nonsmooth Mechanics -- Thermoelastic Contact with Frictional Heating -- A Condition for Statical Admissibility in Unilateral Structural Analysis -- Min-Max Duality and Shakedown Theorems in Plasticity -- Friction and Adhesion -- The Clausius-Duhem Inequality, an Interesting and Productive Inequality -- Unilateral Crack Identification -- Penalty Approximation of Painlevé Problem -- Discrete Contact Problems with Friction: A Stress-Based Approach -- Fluid Mechanics -- A Brief History of Drop Formation -- Semiclassical Approach of the "Tetrad Model" of Turbulence -- Multibody Dynamics: Numerical Aspects -- The Geometry Of Newton's Cradle -- Using Nonsmooth Analysis for Numerical Simulation of Contact Mechanics -- Numerical Simulation of a Multibody Gas -- Granular Media and Ballasted Railway Tracks Milieux Granulaires Et Voies Ballastées -- Scaling Behaviour of Velocity Fluctuations in Slow Granular Flows -- Topics in Nonsmooth Science -- Morphological Equations and Sweeping Processes -- Higher Order Moreau's Sweeping Process -- An Existence Result in Non-Smooth Dynamics -- Finite Time Stabilization of Nonlinear Oscillators Subject to dry Friction -- Canonical Duality in Nonsmooth, Constrained Concave Minimization
Summary This book's title, Nonsmooth Mechanics and Analysis, refers to a major domain of mechanics, particularly those initiated by the works of Jean Jacques Moreau. Nonsmooth mechanics concerns mechanical situations with possible nondifferentiable relationships, eventually discontinuous, as unilateral contact, dry friction, collisions, plasticity, damage, and phase transition. The basis of the approach consists in dealing with such problems without resorting to any regularization process. Indeed, the nonsmoothness is due to simplified mechanical modeling; a more sophisticated model would require too large a number of variables, and sometimes the mechanical information is not available via experimental investigations. Therefore, the mathematical formulation becomes nonsmooth; regularizing would only be a trick of arithmetic without any physical justification. Nonsmooth analysis was developed, especially in Montpellier, to provide specific theoretical and numerical tools to deal with nonsmoothness. It is important not only in mechanics but also in physics, robotics, and economics. Audience This book is intended for researchers in mathematics and mechanics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Moreau, Jean Jacques, 1923- -- Congresses
SUBJECT Moreau, Jean Jacques, 1923- cct
Moreau, Jean Jacques, 1923- fast
Subject Mechanics, Analytic -- Congresses
Nonsmooth optimization -- Congresses
Mechanical engineering.
mechanical engineering.
SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General.
SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- Solids.
Mechanics, Analytic.
Nonsmooth optimization.
Mecánica analítica -- Congresos
Ingeniería mecánica
Mechanics, Analytic
Nonsmooth optimization
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Festschriften
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Festschriften.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Alart, P
Maisonneuve, O
Rockafellar, R. Tyrrell, 1935-
LC no. 2005932761
ISBN 9780387291956
0387291954
0387291962
9780387291963
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9781280612312
6610612315
9786610612314