Nonsmooth Mechanics and Analysis

Convex and Nonsmooth Analysis.- Moreau’s Proximal Mappings and Convexity in Hamilton-Jacobi Theory.- Three Optimization Problems in Mass Transportation Theory.- Some Geometrical and Algebraic Properties of Various Types of Convex Hulls.- A Note on the Legendre-Fenchel Transform of Convex Composite Functions.- What Is to be a Mean?.- Nonsmooth Mechanics.- Thermoelastic Contact with Frictional Heating.- A Condition for Statical Admissibility in Unilateral Structural Analysis.- Min-Max Duality and Shakedown Theorems in Plasticity.- Friction and Adhesion.- The Clausius-Duhem Inequality, an Interesting and Productive Inequality.- Unilateral Crack Identification.- Penalty Approximation of Painlevé Problem.- Discrete Contact Problems with Friction: A Stress-Based Approach.- Fluid Mechanics.- A Brief History of Drop Formation.- Semiclassical Approach of the “Tetrad Model” of Turbulence.- Multibody Dynamics: Numerical Aspects.- The Geometry Of Newton’s Cradle.- Using Nonsmooth Analysis for Numerical Simulation of Contact Mechanics.- Numerical Simulation of a Multibody Gas.- Granular Media and Ballasted Railway Tracks Milieux Granulaires Et Voies Ballastées.- Scaling Behaviour of Velocity Fluctuations in Slow Granular Flows.- Topics in Nonsmooth Science.- Morphological Equations and Sweeping Processes.- Higher Order Moreau’s Sweeping Process.- An Existence Result in Non-Smooth Dynamics.- Finite Time Stabilization of Nonlinear Oscillators Subject to dry Friction.- Canonical Duality in Nonsmooth, Constrained Concave Minimization.