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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gao, David Y
• Ogden, Ray W
• Stavroulakis, Georgios E

Titel

Nonsmooth/Nonconvex Mechanics : Modeling, Analysis and Numerical Methods [Elektronische Ressource]

Ist Teil von

• Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications : 50

Ort / Verlag

Boston, MA : Springer US

Erscheinungsjahr

2001

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Nonsmoothness and nonconvexity arise in numerous applications of mechanics and modeling due to the need for studying more and more complicated phenomena and real life applications. Mathematicians have started to provide the necessary tools and theoretical results underpinning these applications. Applied mathematicians and engineers have begun to realize the benefits of this new area and are adopting, increasingly, these new tools in their work. New computational tools facilitate numerical applications and enable the theory to be tested, and the resulting feedback poses new theoretical questions. Because of the upsurge in activity in the area of nonsmooth and nonconvex mechanics, Professors Gao and Ogden, together with the late Professor P.D. Panagiotopoulos, had planned to organize a Minisymposium with the title Nonsmooth and Nonconvex Mechanics within the ASME 1999 Mechanics & Materials Conference, June 27-30 1999, Blacksburg, Virginia. After the unexpected death of Professor Panagiotopoulos the first two editors invited the third editor (Professor Stavroulakis) to join them. A large number of mathematical and engineering colleagues supported our efforts by presenting lectures at the Minisymposium in which the available mathematical methods were described and many problems of nonsmooth and nonconvex mechanics were discussed. The interest of the many participants encourages us all to continue our research efforts