Josef Eberhardsteiner & Christian Hellmich 
ECCOMAS Multidisciplinary Jubilee Symposium 
New Computational Challenges in Materials, Structures, and Fluids

This book contains 23 papers presented at the ECCOMAS Multidisciplinary Jubilee Symposium – New Computational Challenges in Materials, Structures, and Fluids (EMJS08), in Vienna, February 18–20, 2008. The main intention of EMJS08 was to react adequately to the increasing need for interdisciplinary research activities allowing ef?cient solution of complex problems in engineering and in the applied sciences. The 15th anniversary of ECCOMAS (European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences) provided a suitable frame for taking the afo- mentioned situation into account by inviting distinguished colleagues from d- ferent areas of engineering and the applied sciences, encouraging them to choose multidisciplinary topics for their lectures. The main themes of EMJS08 have a long tradition in engineering and in the applied sciences: materials, structures, and ?uids. The solution of scienti?c pr- lems involving ?uids together with solids and structures, not to forget the materials the structures are made of, is of paramount importance in a technical world of rapidly increasing sophistication, referred to as the Leonardo World by the eminent German philosopher Ju¨rgen Mittelstraß. More recently, the main themes of EMJS08 have gained considerable mom- tum, owing to signi?cant progress in nanotechnology. It enables resolution of a multitude of materials into their micro- and nanostructures. Covering aspects such as • Physical and chemical characterization • Multiscale modeling concepts, continuum micromechanics, and computational homogenization, as well as • Applications in various engineering ?elds the individual contributions to this book ?ow along different tracks of ?uids, materials, and structures.

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Isogeometric Analysis of Phase-Field Models: Application to the Cahn-Hilliard Equation.- New Computational Challenges in Fluid– Structure Interactions Problems.- Brick Elements for Finite Deformations Based on Macro-concepts and on Inhomogeneous Mode Enhancement.- Multi-phase Modelling of Unsaturated Soils.- Swelling of a Bentonite Plug: A Micromechanical Approach.- Solution of Large-Scale Porous Media Problems.- A Finite Element Method for Level Sets.- Modelling of Cementitious Materials by Means of a Multiphysics Approach.- On the Multiscale Computation of Confined Granular Media.- Computational Model Verification and Validation in Structural Mechanics.- Microstructure-Oriented Modeling and Computational Remodeling of the Collagen Network in Corneo-Scleral Shells.- Microstructure Optimization and Identification in Multi-scale Modelling.- “Homogenization of Strength” – A Numerical Limit Analysis Approach.- Computable Error Indicators for Approximate Solutions of Elliptic Problems.- Interaction of Incompressible Flows and Thin-Walled Structures.- Advances in Fixed-Grid Fluid Structure Interaction.- Exploring Automatic Multi-objective Turbine Disc Design for Virtual Engines.- Modeling of Smart Structures by Meshless Local Integral Equation Method.- Meshless Local Petrov–Galerkin (MLPG) Formulations for Analysis of Shell-Like Structures.- Hierarchical Meshing for the Adaptive Finite Elements.- One-Dimensional Shock-Capturing for High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Methods.- Computing Interfaces in Diverse Applications.- New Aerospace Design Challenges: Robust Multidisciplinary Evolutionary Techniques.