Innovative Numerical Approaches for Multi-Field and Multi-Scale Problems: In Honor of Michael Ortiz'

Robust Numerical Schemes for an Efficient Implementation of Tangent Matrices: Application to Hyperelasticity, Inelastic Standard Dissipative Materials and Thermo-Mechanics at Finite Strains.- Folding patterns in partially delaminated thin films.- Thermo-mechanical Behavior of Confined Granular Systems.- Elastomeric gels: a model and first results.- A Tensegrity Paradigm for Minimal Mass Design of Roofs and Bridges.- Universal Meshes for the Simulation of Brittle Fracture and Moving Boundary Problems.- Free energy, free entropy, and a gradient structure for Thermoplasticity.- Comparison of isotropic elasto-plastic models for the plastic metric tensor C p = F T p F p .- Quasi-static evolutions in brittle fracture generated by gradient flows: sharp crack and phase-field approaches.- Improving the Material-PointMethod.- Meshfree methods applied to consolidation problems in saturated Soils.- A multiscale microstructural model of permeability in fractured Solids.- Thermal diffusion in a polymer blend