Research Catalog

Title

Nonsmooth mechanics and analysis : theoretical and numerical advances / edited by P. Alart, O. Maisonneuve, R.T. Rockafellar.

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Springer, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

• Alart, P.
• Maisonneuve, O.
• Rockafellar, R. Tyrrell, 1935-

Description

xiv, 320 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Advances in mechanics and mathematics ; v. 12

Uniform Title

Advances in mechanics and mathematics ; v. 12.

Subjects

• Moreau, Jean Jacques, 1923- > Congresses
• Nonsmooth optimization > Congresses

Note

• Festschrift honoring Jean Jacques Moreau's 80th birthday and based on a symposium "Theoretical and Numerical Nonsmooth Mechanics," held in Montpellier in 2003.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

A short biology of Jean Jacques Moreau -- 1. Moreau's proximal mappings and convexity in Hamilton-Jacobi theory / R. T. Rockafellar -- 2. Three optimization problems in mass transportation theory / G. Buttazzo -- 3. Geometrical and algebraic properties of various convex hulls / B. Dacorogna -- 4. Legendre-Fenchel transform of convex composite functions / J.-B. Hiriart-Urruty -- 5. What is to be a mean? / M. Valadier -- 6. Thermoelastic contact with frictional heating / L.-E. Andersson, A. Klarbring, J. R. Barber and M. Ciavarella -- 7. A condition for statical admissibility in unilateral structural analysis / G. Del Piero -- 8. Min-max duality and shakedown theorems in plasticity / Q. S. Nguyen -- 9. Friction and adhesion / M. Raous -- 10. The Clausius-Duhem inequality, an interesting and productive inequality / M. Fremond -- 11. Unilateral crack identification / G. E. Stavroulakis, M. Engelhardt and H. Antes -- 12. Penalty approximation of Painleve problem / M. Schatzman -- 13. Discrete contact problems with friction / F. Maceri and P. Bisegna -- 14. A brief history of drop formation / J. Eggers -- 15. Semiclassical approach of the "tetrad model" of turbulence / A. Naso and A. Pumir -- 16. The geometry of Newton's cradle / C. Glocker and U. Aeberhard -- 17. Nonsmooth analysis for contact mechanics simulations / P. Alart, D. Dureisseix and M. Renouf -- 18. Numerical simulation of a multibody gas / M. Jean -- 19. Granular media and ballasted railway tracks / C. Cholet, G. Saussine, P.-E. Gautier and L.-M. Cleon -- 20. Scaling behaviour of velocity fluctuations in slow granular flows / F. Radjai and S. Roux -- 21. Morphological equations and sweeping processes / J.-P. Aubin and J. A. Murillo Hernandez -- 22. Higher order Moreau's sweeping process / V. Acary and B. Brogliato -- 23. An existence result in non-smooth dynamics / M. D. P. Monteiro Marques and L. Paoli -- 24. Finite time stabilization of nonlinear oscillators subject to dry friction / S. Adly, H. Attouch and A. Cabot -- 25. Canonical duality in nonsmooth, constrained concave minimization / D. Y. Gao -- App. Theoretical and numerical nonsmooth mechanics international colloquium.

ISBN

0387291962 (hd.bd.)

LCCN

• 2005932761
• 9780387291963

OCLC

• ocm63127475
• SCSB-5224433

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries