Recent Developments and Innovative Applications in Computational Mechanics

<p>New applications of mortar methodology to extended and embedded finite element formulations.- Thermo-mechanical coupling in beam-to-beam contact.- On regularization of the convergence path for the implicit solution of contact problems.- On different variational formulations of the Nitsche method.- Challenges in computational nanoscale contact mechanics.- On the four-node quadrilateral element.- Stability of mixed finite element formulations </p>– a new approach.- A finite element formulation based on the theory of a Cosserat point – modification of the torsional modes.- A brick element for finite deformations with inhomogeneous mode enhancement.- Automatic differentiation based formulation of computational models.- Nonlinear finite element shell formulation accounting for large strain material models.- Hybrid and mixed variational principles for the geometrically exact analysis of shells.- A shell theory with scale effects, higher order gradients, and meshfree