Chapter 1 Robust Numerical Schemes for an Efficient Implementation of Tangent Matrices: Application to Hyperelasticity, Inelastic Standard Dissipative Materials and Thermo-Mechanics at Finite Strains

Chapter 2 Folding Patterns in Partially Delaminated Thin Films

Chapter 3 Thermo-mechanical Behavior of Confined Granular Systems

Chapter 4 Elastomeric Gels: A Model and First Results

Chapter 5 A Tensegrity Paradigm for Minimal Mass Design of Roofs and Bridges

Chapter 6 Universal Meshes for the Simulation of Brittle Fracture and Moving Boundary Problems

Chapter 7 Free Energy, Free Entropy, and a Gradient Structure for Thermoplasticity

Chapter 8 Comparison of Isotropic Elasto-Plastic Models for the Plastic Metric Tensor  $$C_p=F_p^T\, F_p$$ C p = F p T F p

Chapter 9 Quasi-Static Evolutions in Brittle Fracture Generated by Gradient Flows: Sharp Crack and Phase-Field Approaches

Chapter 10 Improving the Material-Point Method

Chapter 11 Meshfree Methods Applied to Consolidation Problems in Saturated Soils

Chapter 12 A Multiscale Microstructural Model of Permeability in Fractured Solids