Direct Methods for Limit and Shakedown Analysis of Structures Advanced Computational Algorithms and

hydraulic engineering, and the application of genetic algorithms for the registration of laser scanner point

certain metaheuristic algorithms to specific engineering problems. Genetic algorithm, bat algorithm

includes all source codes so that students can develop their own material models, or different algorithms

to control the quality of numerical simulations and drive adaptive algorithms, with a focus on

the numerical algorithms, engineering applications, and highlights a large class of novel

Algorithms The Author Alexander Reiter is a Senior Scientist at the Institute of Robotics of the Johannes

This book contains contributions presented at the IUTAM Symposium "Fracture Phenomena in Nature and Technology" held in Brescia, Italy, 1-5 July, 2012.The objective of the Symposium was fracture research, interpreted broadly to include new engineering and structural mechanics treatments of damage development and crack growth, and also large-scale failure processes as exemplified by earthquake or landslide failures, ice shelf break-up, and hydraulic fracturing (natural, or for resource extraction or CO2 sequestration), as well as small-scale rupture phenomena in materials physics including, e.g., inception of shear banding, void growth, adhesion and decohesion in contact and friction, crystal dislocation processes, and atomic/electronic scale treatment of brittle crack tips and fundamental cohesive properties.Special emphasis was given to multiscale fracture description and new scale-bridging formulations capable to substantiate recent experiments and tailored to become the basis for innovative computational algorithms.

shakedown analysis, the development of relevant algorithms and computational procedures, sophisticated

Evolutionary Algorithms for Single and Multi-Objective Design Optimization in Engineering, by Dong Seop Lee

methods in mechanics, physics, and biology;  * Variational problems and methods; minimization algorithms

Materials Using Digital Image Correlation -- 37.Strains in Shallow and Deep Notches Using Two DIC Algorithms