Computational Mechanics in Science and Engineering – Quo Vadis

Abstract

Computational Mechanics has many applications in science and engineering. Its range of application has been enlarged widely in the recent decades. Hence, nowadays areas such as biomechanics and additive manufacturing are among the new research topics, in which computational mechanics helps solve complex problems and processes. In this contribution, these emerging areas will be discussed together with new discretization schemes, e. g. virtual element method and particle methods, whereby the latter need high performance computing facilities in order to solve problems such as mixing in an accurate way. Failure analysis of structures and components is another topic that is developing fast. Here, modern computational approaches rely on the phase field method that simplifies discretizations schemes. All these approaches and methods are discussed and evaluated by means of examples.