The aim of the present chapter is to provide an in‐depth survey of arbitrary Lagrangian–
Eulerian (ALE) methods, including both conceptual aspects of the mixed kinematical …

Soft body impacts, namely hail or birds, are a serious and inevitable threat for the integrity of
aircrafts, automobiles and trains windshield, wind towers nacelles, photovoltaic panels …

Timber joints are a key part of timber structures. Their reliable performance is a prerequisite
to successful timber construction. The structural loadbearing behaviour of timber joints is …

An orthotropic constitutive model is developed in order to capture the complex response of
unidirectional fibrous materials with arbitrary orientation under a three-dimensional (3D) …

Permanent, inelastic deformations of one or several pavement and subgrade layers
originate from insufficient material (mix rutting) or structural design (subgrade rutting) of the …

A very simple and general expression of the consistent tangent matrix for substepping time-
integration schemes is presented. If needed, the derivatives required for the computation of …

In this paper an arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian (ALE) method to solve dynamic problems
involving large deformation is presented. This ALE method is based upon the operator-split …

A numerical model based on moving mesh strategy is proposed to simulate the evolution of
internal material discontinuities in a continuum medium. The approach combines concepts …

This paper presents a new Updated Reference Lagrangian Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics
(SPH) algorithm for the analysis of large deformation isothermal elasticity and elasto …

The present contribution deals with the derivation of a generic hyperelastic Arbitrary
Lagrangian–Eulerian formulation on the basis of a consistent variational framework. The …