Download or read book New Trends in Thin Structures: Formulation, Optimization and Coupled Problems written by Paolo de Mattos Pimenta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main focus of the book is to convey modern techniques applied within the range of computational mechanics of beams, plates and shells. The topics of interest are wide ranging and include computational aspects of nonlinear theories of shells and beams including dynamics, advanced discretization methods for thin shells and membranes, shear-deformable shell finite elements for SMA composite devices, optimization and design of shells and membranes, fluid-structure interaction with thin-walled structures, contact mechanics with application to thin structures and edge effects in laminated shells.