Engineering: Mechanics of solids

This book presents peer reviewed articles from The 26th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials (ACMSM26) held in December 2023 at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

This book reports on topics at the interface between material processing, product and process optimization.

Balancing of rotors is an indispensable process for the quality management, involving many stages from design to commissioning.

Drawing on years of practical on-site experience, this book presents a new method for controlling "e;bridge-head bumping"e; in soft soil ground.

This book starts with the invention of the wheel nearly 5000 years ago, and via Archimedes, Aristotle and Hero describes the first practical applications such as water wheels and grinding wheels, pushing on to more rigorous scientific research by inquiring minds such as Leonardo da Vinci and Copernicus in later ages.

Researchers are interested in the development of modeling methods applied to predicting the atomistic, microscopic and macroscopic response of composite materials under stress and hostile environment.

This book is a collection of the papers from the proceedings of the 1st Asian Workshop on Meshfree Methods held in conjunction with the 2nd International Conference on Structural Stability & Dynamics (ICSSD02) on 16-18 December 2002 in Singapore.

The optimal control of flexible structures is an active area of research.

Civil Engineering Topics, Volume 4 Proceedings of the 29th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2011, the fourth volume of six from the Conference, brings together 35 contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Optimal control of partial differential equations (PDEs) is a well-established discipline in mathematics with many interfaces to science and engineering.

In this book, the authors use molecular dynamics simulations to conduct a comprehensive study of the compression/superheating limit and phase transition of 2D (monolayer, bilayer, and trilayer) water/ice constrained in graphene nanocapillaries.

In diesem Lehrbuch werden folgende Themengebiete abgedeckt: Kinematik, Massenpunkt- und Starrkörperkinetik, Mehrkörpersysteme und schwingungsfähige Systeme – einschließlich ausgewählter Fragestellungen der sogenannten Maschinendynamik.

This book addresses the fascinating phenomena associated with nonlinear waves and spatio-temporal patterns.

This substantially updated and augmented second edition adds over 200 pages of text covering and an array of newer developments in nanoscale thermal transport.

This book discusses stochastic dynamics of power systems and the related analytical methodology.

Rotating Machinery, Structural Health Monitoring, Shock and Vibration, Volume 5 Proceedings of the 29th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2011, the fifth volume of six from the Conference, brings together 35 contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book addresses theoretical and experimental methods for exploring microstructured metamaterials, with a special focus on wave dynamics, mechanics, and related physical properties.

This book provides a direct and comprehensive introduction to theoretical and numerical concepts in the emerging field of optimal control of partial differential equations (PDEs) under uncertainty.

This monograph presents an introduction to Harmonic Balance for nonlinear vibration problems, covering the theoretical basis, its application to mechanical systems, and its computational implementation.

Stability of Non-linear Constitutive Formulations for Viscoelastic Fluids provides a complete and up-to-date view of the field of constitutive equations for flowing viscoelastic fluids, in particular on their non-linear behavior, the stability of these constitutive equations that is their predictive power, and the impact of these constitutive equations on the dynamics of viscoelastic fluid flow in tubes.

This book provides a concise discussion of fatigue crack growth (FCG) failure and lifing analysis methods for metallic aircraft structures and components.

This book presents a novel, generalized approach to the design of nonlinear state feedback control laws for a large class of underactuated mechanical systems based on application of the block backstepping method.

This book combines semi-physical simulation technology with an Internet of Things (IOT) application system based on novel mathematical methods such as the Fisher matrix, artificial neural networks, thermodynamic analysis, support vector machines, and image processing algorithms.

This volume contains the proceedings of the USA-Japan Joint Seminar on "e;Fracture Mechanics of Ductile and Tough Materials and Its Applications to Energy Related Structures"e;.

Theory of Arched Structures: Strength, Stability, Vibration presents detailed procedures for analytical analysis of the strength, stability, and vibration of arched structures of different types, using exact analytical methods of classical structural analysis.

This is the first-ever book on smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and its variations, covering the theoretical background, numerical techniques, code implementation issues, and many novel and interesting applications.

Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 4:  Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017, the fourth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book describes principles, industry practices and evolutionary methodologies for advanced safety studies, which are helpful in effectively managing volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environments within the framework of quantitative risk assessment and management and associated with the safety and resilience of structures and infrastructures with tolerance against various types of extreme conditions and accidents such as fires, explosions, collisions and grounding.

This book focuses on the mechanobiological principles in tissue engineering with a particular emphasis on the multiscale aspects of the translation of mechanical forces from bioreactors down to the cellular level.

This book covers elastic stability of solids and structures, Warner Koiter''s area of special expertise.

This volume presents the characterization methods involved with carbon nanotubes and carbon nanotube-based composites, with a more detailed look at computational mechanics approaches, namely the finite element method.

Dynamic Response and Failure of Composite Materials and Structures presents an overview of recent developments in a specialized area of research with original contributions from the authors who have been asked to outline needs for further investigations in their chosen topic area.

Vibro-Acoustics of Lightweight Sandwich Structures introduces the study of the coupled vibration and acoustic behavior of lightweight sandwich structures in response to harmonic force and sound pressure.

This book presents operational modal analysis (OMA), employing a coherent and comprehensive Bayesian framework for modal identification and covering stochastic modeling, theoretical formulations, computational algorithms, and practical applications.

This volume presents treat the material science and mechanical issues of hybrid adhesive bonds which are a combination of adhesive bonding rather than mechanical fasteners.

Hydropneumatic suspension systems combine the excellent properties of gas springs with the favourable damping properties of hydraulic fluids.

This book discusses the revolution of cycles and rhythms that is expected to take place in different branches of science and engineering in the 21st century, with a focus on communication and information processing.

This volume presents the latest research and industrial applications in the areas of mechanism science, robotics and dynamics.

In two volumes, this book provides comprehensive coverage of the fundamental knowledge and technology of composite materials.

This book provides a comprehensive reference for the studies of mechanical properties of materials over multiple length and time scales.

This book presents the outcomes of the International Conference on Intelligent Manufacturing and Automation (ICIMA 2018) organized by the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Production Engineering at Dwarkadas J.

This book explores the research fields of engineering cybernetics, bionics, artificial self-recovery and engineering self-recoveries.

The proposed book will provide a detailed, technical introduction to the analysis of orbital motion in strongly perturbed environments, focusing on motion about small Solar System bodies, such as comets and asteroids.

This book gives an overview on the fatigue of materials under non-proportional loads.

The basic idea of this introduction to the finite element method is based on the concept of explaining the complex method using only one-dimensional elements.