Classical mechanics

Designing new structural materials, extending lifetimes and guarding against fracture in service are among the preoccupations of engineers, and to deal with these they need to have command of the mechanics of material behaviour.

With distributed generation interconnection power flow becoming bidirectional, culminating in network problems, smart grids aid in electricity generation, transmission, substations, distribution and consumption to achieve a system that is clean, safe (protected), secure, reliable, efficient, and sustainable.

The IUTAM Symposium on Mechanical and Electromagnetic Waves in Structured Media took place at the University of Sydney from January 18- 22, 1999.

The ancient Greeks believed that everything in the Universe should be describable in terms of geometry.

TIlis volume contains the contributions to the Euromech Colloquium No.

Rational extended thermodynamics (RET) is the theory that is applicable to nonequilibrium phenomena out of local equilibrium.

This textbook provides a detailed introduction to the use of software in combination with simple and economical hardware (a sound level meter with calibrated AC output and a digital recording system) to obtain sophisticated measurements usually requiring expensive equipment.

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is among the advanced energy technologies suggested to make the conventional fossil fuel sources environmentally sustainable.

This book is a systematic introduction to astrometry and celestial mechanics.

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This book presents the unified fatigue life prediction equation for low/medium/high cycle fatigue of metallic materials relevant to plain materials and notched components.

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Building upon the success of the first edition, the Nuclear Engineering Handbook, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of nuclear power engineering.

The International Symposium on Acoustical Imaging is a unique forum for advanced research, covering new technologies, developments, methods and theories in all areas of acoustics.

This book examines the environmental impact of emissions from ships, setting out the mandatory regulations of MARPOL 73/78 and the Shipboard Energy Efficiency Management Plan, as well as new International Maritime Organization regulations such as MEPC 80.

As global consumption of fossil fuels such as oil increases, previously abundant sources have become depleted or plagued with obstructions.

Power and Energy contains 86 selected papers from the International Conference on Power and Energy (CPE 2014, Shanghai, China, 29-30 November 2014), and presents a wide range of topics:- Energy management, planning and policy-making- Energy technologies and environment- Energy prospects- Conventional and renewable power generation- Power system man

Engineers seek solutions to problems, and the economic viability of each potential solution is normally considered along with the technical merits.

Statistical mechanics applied to quantum mechanical systems has become one of the most important streams of quantum mechanics.

This volume contains 37 contributions in which the research work is summarized which has been carried out between 1984 and 1990 in the Priority Research Program "e;Physik abgeloster Stromungen"e; of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Society).

This short primer provides a concise and tutorial-style introduction to transport phenomena in Newtonian fluids , in particular the transport of mass, energy and momentum.

Jerry Marsden, one of the world's pre-eminent mechanicians and applied mathematicians, celebrated his 60th birthday in August 2002.

This book briefly discusses the main provisions of the theory of modeling.

Das vorliegende Werk thematisiert einerseits die programmpolitische - als auch ökonomische - Relevanz des globalen Formathandels für die zuschauerstärksten inländischen TV-Sender, zum anderen werden Faktoren und Strategien benannt, die für eine erfolgreiche Reproduktion von Fernsehformaten ausschlaggebend sind.

Progress in fluid mechanics depends heavily on the availability of good experimental data which can inspire new ideas and concepts but which are also necessary to check and validate theories and numerical calculations.

The phase transformation from liquid to solid is a phenomenon central to a wide range of manufacturing and natural processes.

With contributions from some of the world's leading experts, the second edition of this classic reference compiles all major techniques of flow visualization and demonstrates their applications in all fields of science and technology.

As the shale revolution continues in North America, unconventional resource markets are emerging on every continent.

This book describes fundamental upscaling aspects of single-phase/two-phase porous media flow for application in petroleum and environmental engineering.

This book provides in-depth knowledge to solve engineering, geometrical, mathematical, and scientific problems with the help of advanced computational methods with a focus on mechanical and materials engineering.

Post-earthquake fire is one of the most complicated problems resulting from earthquakes and presents a serious risk to urban structures.

This book is a treatise on time and on background independence in physics.

How can we predict the trajectory of a baseball from bat to outfield?

A compilation of decades of knowledge spanning the author's career as a mechanical engineer specializing in heat transfer and thermodynamics in the solar and aerospace industries, this book is instantly practicable.

This unique volume presents an original approach to physical acoustics with additional emphasis on the most useful surface acoustic waves on solids.

This undergraduate text aimed primarily at high schoolers and lower level undergraduates focuses on explaining how the various forms of renewable energy work and the current ongoing research.

The uranium market is a particularly volatile and unpredictable international commodity market.

Heat transfer enhancement in single-phase and two-phase flow heat exchangers in important in such industrial applications as power generating plant, process and chemical industry, heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration systems, and the cooling of electronic equipment.

This textbook provides a comprehensive description of a variety of vibration and acoustic pickups and exciters, as well as strain gauge transducers.

Energy demand reduction is fast becoming a business activity for all companies and organisations because it can increase profits regardless of the nature of their core activity.

Steady Electric Fields and Currents, Volume 1 is an introductory text to electromagnetism and potential theory.

These two volumes contain the proceedings of the Workshop on Transition, Turbulence and Combustion, sponsored by the Insti- tute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE) and the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC), during June 7 to July 2, 1993.

This work represents one of the first comprehensive attempts to seamlessly integrate two highly active interdisciplinary domains in soft matter science - microfluidics and liquid crystals (LCs).

This book consists of contributions from the participants of the Abel Symposium 2019 held in Alesund, Norway.

The second edition of Shipboard Electrical Power Systems addresses new developments in this rapidly growing field.

This second edition adds new sections on derivation of dynamic equilibrium equations in unified mechanics theory and solution of an example, derivation of very high cycle fatigue thermodynamic fundamental equation and application/verification with two metal fatigue examples, derivation of thermodynamic fundamental equations for metal corrosion, examples of corrosion - fatigue interaction.