Numerical Methods for Strong Nonlinearities in Mechanics: Contact and Fracture

Numerical Methods for Strong Nonlinearities in Mechanics deals with recent advances in the numerical treatment of contact/friction and damage phenomena. Although physically distinct, these phenomena both lead to a strong nonlinearity in the mechanical problem, therefore limiting the regularity of the problem, which is now non-differentiable.

This has two direct consequences: on the one hand, the mathematical characteristics of the problem deviate from wellestablished forms, requiring innova...