Complementary, duality and symmetry in nonlinear mechanics. Proceedings of the IUTAM symposium, Shanghai, China, August 13--16, 2002. Dedicated Professor Wei-Zhang Chien on the occasion of his 90th birthday. (Q1764593)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. Indexed articles: \textit{Liu, Gaolian}, Weizang Chien and his contributions to applied mathematics and mechanics [Zbl 1094.01515] \textit{Chong, Ken P.}, Mechanics and materials: research and challenges in the twenty-first century, 1-11 [Zbl 1118.74300] \textit{Ekeland, Ivar}, Non-convex duality, 13-19 [Zbl 1118.74021] \textit{Gao, David Y.}, Duality, complementarity, and polarity in nonsmooth/nonconvex dynamics, 21-65 [Zbl 1118.70304] \textit{Gao, David Y.; Li, Jie-Fang; Viehland, D.}, Tri-duality theory in phase transformations of ferroelectric crystals with random defects, 67-84 [Zbl 1183.74206] \textit{Gasser, Thomas C.; Holzapfel, Gerhard A.}, Mathematical modeling of three-dimensional delamination processes of laminated composites, 85-99 [Zbl 1118.74344] \textit{Glocker, Christoph}, Newton's and Poisson's impact law for the non-convex case of reentrant corners, 101-125 [Zbl 1118.70303] \textit{Hung, Nguyen-Dang; Yan, Aimin; Khoi, Vu Duc}, Duality in kinematic approaches of limit shakedown analysis of structures, 127-148 [Zbl 1118.74307] \textit{Lange, Charles G.; Wan, Frederic Y. M.}, Bifurcation analysis of shallow spherical shells with meridionally nonuniform loading, 149-165 [Zbl 1118.74316] \textit{Li, Xingsi; Pan, Shaohua}, Duality for entropy optimization and its applications, 167-178 [Zbl 1274.90481] \textit{Liu, Gaolian}, Dual variational principles for the free-bounddary problem of cavitated bearing lubrication, 179-189 [Zbl 1118.76316] \textit{Martins, J. A. C.; Pinto da Costa, A.}, Finite-dimensional frictional contact quasi-static rate and evolution problems revisited, 192-208 [Zbl 1083.74038] \textit{Motreanu, D.}, Minimax theory, duality and applications, 209-223 [Zbl 1086.49022] \textit{Nguyen, Quoc Son}, Min-max duality and shakedown theorems in hardening plasticity, 225-240 [Zbl 1097.74010] \textit{Busuioc, Adriana Valentina; Ratiu, T. S.}, A fluid problem with Navier-slip boundary conditions, 241-254 [Zbl 1082.76004] \textit{Telega, J. Joachim; Hjiaj, Mohammed; Sloan, Scott W.}, An extension of limit analysis theorems to incompressible material with a non-associated flow rule, 255-275 [Zbl 1082.74009] \textit{Tajiri, Masayoshi}, Periodic soliton resonances, 277-287 [Zbl 1118.76308] \textit{Vallée, Claude; Hjiaj, Mohammed; Fortuné, Danièle}, Generalized Legendre-Fenchel transformation, 289-311 [Zbl 1088.44501] \textit{van der Heijden, G. H. M.}, A robust variational formulation for a rod subject to inequality constraints, 314-325 [Zbl 1118.74326] \textit{Venini, Paolo; Nascimbene, Roberto}, Computing FEM solutions of plasticity problems via nonlinear mixed variational inequalities, 327-338 [Zbl 1183.74321] \textit{Wu, Changchun; Li, Ziran; Li, Lei; Yagawa, G.}, Finite element dual analysis in piezoelectric crack estimation, 339-353 [Zbl 1095.74046] \textit{Yoshimura, Hiroaki}, Duality and complementarity in constrained mechanical systems, 355-373 [Zbl 1118.70306] \textit{Zhong, Wanxie; Zhang, Hongwu}, Mixed energy method for solution of quadratic programming problems, 375-389 [Zbl 1118.74325]