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In his book,George of Bohemia: King of Heretics, Frederick G. Heymann characterized the early Hussite movement as "the first and thus the most daring and pioneering of the great European revolutions," "one of the greatest dynamic movements for socio-political and spiritual freedom in all history"

This paper presents a simple Finite Element model aimed at efficient simulation of layered glass units. The approach is based on considering the independent kinematics of each layer, tied together via Lagrange multipliers. Validation and verification of the resulting model against independent data demonstrate its accuracy, showing its potential for generalization towards more complex problems.

Finite element simulations on fibrous composites with nonlinear viscoelastic response of the matrix phase are performed to explain why so called two-point averaging schemes may fail to deliver a realistic macroscopic response. Nevertheless, the potential of two-point averaging schemes (the overall response estimated in terms of localized averages of a two-phase composite medium) has been put forward in number of studies either in its original format or modified to overcome the inherited stiffness of classical "elastic" localization rules. However, when the material model and geometry of the microstructure promote the formation of shear bands, none of the existing two-point averaging schemes will provide an adequate macroscopic response, since they all fail to capture the above phenomenon. Several examples are presented here to support this statement.