Engineering: Mechanics of solids

This volume contains the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region, RAAD 2017, held at the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy, from June 21-23, 2017.

This volume contains two-page abstracts of the 698 papers presented at the "e;16th European Conference of Fracture,"e; (ECF16) held in Alexandroupolis, Greece, July 3-7, 2006.

From time to time the International Journal of Fracture has presented matters thought to be of special interest to its readers.

This book provides recent developments and improvements in the modeling as well as application examples and is a complementary work to the previous Lecture Notes Vols.

Extensive solved exercises and solutions to complement the authors'' theoretical text Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics for Finite Element Analysis.

Written for students and practising engineers working in automotive engineering, this book provides a fundamental yet comprehensive understanding of chassis systems and requires little prior knowledge on the part of the reader.

This book describes for the first time a simulation method for the fast calculation of contact properties and friction between rough surfaces in a complete form.

This book presents a modern introduction to analytical and numerical techniques for solving ordinary differential equations (ODEs).

One of the goals of the Journal of Elasticity: The Physical and Ma- ematical Science of Solids is to identify and to bring to the attention of the research community in the physical and mathematical sciences extensive expositions which contain creative ideas, new approaches and currentdevelopmentsinmodellingthebehaviourofmaterials.

This book provides a unified mechanics and materials perspective on polymers: both the mathematics of viscoelasticity theory as well as the physical mechanisms behind polymer deformation processes.

This book presents a novel theory of multibody dynamics with distinct features, including unified continuum theory, multiscale modeling technology of multibody system, and motion formalism implementation.

This handbook is a comprehensive source of information on all aspects of non-destructive testing (NDT), for use by professionals, educators, and most of all, by the practitioners of testing.

This book is a study of the interactions between different types of systems, their environment, and their subsystems.

Address physical principles and unified theories governing multiphase flows, with methods, applications, and problems.

The book discusses the recent research trends in various sub-domains of computing, communication and control.

This book focuses on the vibration behavior of ceramic-matrix composites (CMCs), including (1) vibration natural frequency of intact and damaged CMCs; (2) vibration damping of CMCs considering fibers debonding and fracture; (3) temperature-dependent vibration damping of CMCs; (4) time-dependent vibration damping of CMCs; and (5) cyclic-dependent vibration damping of CMCs.

Fracture mechanics has established itself as an important discipline of growing interest to those working to assess the safety, reliability and service life of engineering structures and materials.

This book covers the essentials of developments in the area of plate structures and presents them so that the readers can obtain a quick understanding and overview of the subject.

This book contains advances on the theory and applications of time-delay systems with particular focus on interconnected systems.

Nonlinear Structural Dynamics Using FE Methods emphasises fundamental mechanics principles and outlines a modern approach to understanding structural dynamics.

This short book describes the basic technological aspects involved in the creation of purely clinch and clinch-adhesive joints made of different types of adherent materials and employing different joining technologies.

This book presents selected papers from the International Conference of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering 2019 (AeroMech 2019), held at the Universiti Sains Malaysia's School of Aerospace Engineering.

This book focuses on safeguarding civil structures and residents from natural hazards such as earthquakes through the use of active control.

This concise textbook for students preferably of a postgraduate level, but also for engineers in practice, contains the basic kinematical and kinetic structures of dynamics together with carefully selected applications.

This is the first book presenting dynamic responses and failure of polymer composite structures as they interact with internal and/or external fluid media.

The increase in the requirements on the reliability of units makes it necessary to analyze the relationship between mathematicalmeth- ods of calculating reliability and the physical nature of fail- ures.

This book provides an overview of various methods of concrete reinforcement against corrosion.

This book serves as a core text for university curricula in solid body mechanics and, at the same time, examines the main achievements of state of the art research in the mechanics of elastic and non-elastic materials.

Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Volume 3.

This book presents the proceedings of one of the major conferences in fatigue, fracture and structural integrity (NT2F).

The book covers a wide range of applied engineering research compactly presented in one volume, and shows innovative practical engineering solutions for automotive, marine and aviation industries, as well as power generation related to nonlinear vibrations excited by limited power sources.

Multibody dynamics started with the ideas of Jacob and Daniel Bernoul- li and later on with d'Alembert's principle.

Revised to include current components considered for today's unconventional and multi-fracture grids, Mechanics of Hydraulic Fracturing, Second Edition explains one of the most important features for fracture design - the ability to predict the geometry and characteristics of the hydraulically induced fracture.

This book perfects the theoretical system of fracture mechanics of nonhomogeneous materials through the establishment of the piecewise exponential model and expands the fracture research scope to nonhomogeneous materials containing complex interfaces through proposing the domain-independent interaction integral concept.

This book summarizes the basic theory of wavelets and some related algorithms in an easy-to-understand language from the perspective of an engineer rather than a mathematician.

This volume consists of a collection of chapters by recognized experts to provide a comprehensive fundamental theoretical continuum treatment of constitutive laws used for modelling the mechanical and coupled-field properties of various types of solid materials.

The Handbook of Materials Modeling, 2nd edition is a six-volume major reference serving a steadily growing community at the intersection of two mainstreams of global research: computational science and materials science and technology.

Now in an updated second edition, this classroom-tested textbook describes essential concepts in vibration analysis of mechanical systems.

This book summarizes recent developments in epoxy blends.

This International Institute of Welding (IIW) report was presented at the 52nd Annual Assembly in Lisbon in June 1999.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 1.

This monograph assesses in depth the application of recursive Bayesian filters in structural health monitoring.

This book reports on a comprehensive analytical, experimental and numerical study on the flexural response of post-tensioned masonry walls under in-plane loads.

This volume constitutes the Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on 'Nonlinear Analysis of Fracture', held in Cambridge from 3rd to 7th Septem- ber 1995.

ICEM13 focused on all aspects of experimental mechanics of solids with emphasis on mechanical characterization and testing at the micro and nano scale levels.

This book highlights the applications of data mining technologies in structural dynamic analysis, including structural design, optimization, parameter identification, model updating, damage identification, in civil, mechanical, and aerospace engineering.

This book presents a basic introduction to micromechanisms and microactuators, particularly to their basic configurations and design.