Topics in Applied Mechanics

Bridge building.- Keynote paper.- Construction simulation of some bridges over the river IJssel.- Experimental mechanics.- Keynote paper.- Experimental mechanics; why, how, co-operatively?.- Keynote paper.- The bridge between experimental and numerical techniques: numerical modelling of linear elastic and viscoelastic response of composite structures.- Tuning shock test results and mathematical models using an optimal state estimation method.- Fluid-structure interaction in non-rigid pipeline systems; large scale validation tests (EUREKA project 274).- Experimental and numerical analysis of cracking in concrete and sandstone.- The verification of numerical calculations with tests on sand in the geocentrifuge.- Parametric identification of an aircraft landing gear damper, by means of periodic excitation.- Role of local effects in the analysis of structures and dynamic systems.- Keynote paper.- Damage processes in solids and structures and their numerical computation.- Keynote paper.- Computational models for fragmentation tests.- FAME-D, a finite element code based on continuum damage mechanics.- Continuous and discontinuous modelling of the contact between wheel flange and rail.- An anisotropic damage model for laminated composites.- Analysis of supercritical transformation with dilatation and shear effects during crack growth in ceramics.- Phenomenological modelling of damage in polymer blends.- Local effects and fluid flow.- Keynote paper.- Spin-up in non-axisymmetric containers.- Keynote paper.- Attack transient of a flue organ pipe.- Finite element simulation of local effects in nonisothermal viscoelastic flows.- Numerical analysis of unsteady viscoelastic contraction flows of multi-mode fluids.- Turbulent free-surface flow over a sill.- Local effects in some non-linear evolution equations.- Fluid-structure interaction and column separation in a closed pipe.- Micromechanics and constitutive equations.- Keynote paper.- Micro-rheological modelling of heat conduction in polymers.- Keynote paper.- Rheology and microstructure of liquid crystalline polymers.- Limiting toughness of polymers; the relation between molecular and microscopic structure.- Constitutive models for composite materials with interfaces.- A three dimensional model for nonlinear viscoelasticity.- Dynamic systems.- Keynote paper.- Structural dynamics of mechanical systems with local nonlinearities under periodic excitation.- Improving manipulator control with acceleration measurements.- Combined finite element and multibody techniques for vehicle occupant safety studies.- Application of cell mapping methods to a nonlinear dynamic system.- Manifolds of nonlinear dynamic single DOF systems.- Integration of Applied mechaninics with other disciplines.- Medicine.- A non-invasive method to find Langer’s lines of the skin.- The influence of minor stenoses on the flow in the carotid artery bifurcation.- Osmotic prestressing of a spinal motion segment.- Rheology.- Rheology and rheometry for highly filled reactive materials.- Optimisation.- Structural optimization history and state of the art.- Mining and petroleum engineering.- Thermo-mechanical properties of roof rock of coal for underground gasification.- Mathematics and numerical methods.- A finite rotation triangular shell element.- Finite element preconditioned spectral element methods for convection-diffusion problems.- Author Index.