ContentsPreface xiAcknowledgements xiii1 Introduction 11.1 General Formulation of Continuum Problems 11.2 General Formulation of Discontinuum Problems 21.3 A Typical Problem of Computational Mechanicsof Discontinua 41.4 Combined Continua-Discontinua Problems 271.5 Transition from Continua to Discontinua 281.6 The Combined Finite-Discrete Element Method 291.7 Algorithmic and Computational Challenge of the Combined Finite-DiscreteElement Method 322 Processing of Contact Interaction in the Combined ...