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Computational Mechanics of Discontinua
Author(s): Esteban Rougier (Author), Antonio A. Munjiza (Author), Earl E. Knight (Author)
- Publisher: Wiley
- Publication Date: November 7, 2011
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 284 pages
- ISBN-10: 0470970804
- ISBN-13: 9780470970805
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
“This introduction to the rapidly growing field of Mechanics of Discontinua will appeal to graduate and undergraduate students, as well as practicing engineers, and will equip the reader with a sound theoretical and practical understanding of the topic.” (Mathematical Reviews, 1 January 2013)
About the Author
Ante Munjiza is professor of computational mechanics in the Department of Computational Mechanics at Queen Mary College, London. His research interests include finite element methods, discrete element methods, molecular dynamics, structures and solids, structural dynamics, software engineering, blasts, impacts, and nanomaterials. He has authored one book, The Combined Finite-Discrete Element Method (Wiley 2004), and over 110 refereed journal papers. In addition, he is on the editorial board of seven international journals. Dr Munjiza is widely recognised as a key international expert in computational mechanics of discontinua. He is also an accomplished software engineer with three research codes behind him and one commercial code all based on his technology.
Earl E. Knight & Esteban Rougier, Los Alamos National Laboratories
Earl Knight is a Team Leader in the Geodynamics Team at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His research interests include geodynamic modeling, rock mechanical modeling for deep water oil reservoirs and ground based nuclear explosion monitoring
Esteban Rougier is a Post Doctoral Research Associate at LANL. He has received his Ph.D. from Queen Mary, University of London in 2008` on Computational Mechanics of Discontinuum and its Application to the Simulation of Micro-Flows.
