Engineering: Mechanics of solids

This book is primarily a research monograph that presents in a unified man- ner some recent research on a class of hybrid dynamical systems (HDS).

This volume is devoted to an actual topic which is the focus world-wide of various research groups.

By drawing together the current theoretical and experimental understanding of the phenomena of delayed hydride cracking (DHC) in zirconium alloys, The Effect of Hydrogen and Hydrides on the Integrity of Zirconium Alloy Components: Delayed Hydride Cracking provides a detailed explanation focusing on the properties of hydrogen and hydrides in these alloys.

This corrected version of the landmark 1981 textbook introduces the physical principles and theoretical basis of acoustics with deep mathematical rigor, concentrating on concepts and points of view that have proven useful in applications such as noise control, underwater sound, architectural acoustics, audio engineering, nondestructive testing, remote sensing, and medical ultrasonics.

I was delighted when I learned in the fall of 2005 that Steve Cowin was working on a textbook in biomechanics.

This book is the standard text book for elastoplasticity/viscoplasticity which is explained comprehensively covering the rate-independent to -dependent finite deformations of metals, soils, polymers, crystal plasticity, etc.

This best-selling textbook presents the concepts of continuum mechanics, and the second edition includes additional explanations, examples and exercises.

This book, the sixth of 15 related monographs, discusses singularity and networks of equilibriums and 1-diemsnional flows in product quadratic and cubic systems.

Mechanics of Additive and Advanced Manufacturing, Volume 8 of the Proceedings of the 2018 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the eighth volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Drawing on forty years of teaching experience, the author presents the basic concepts of mathematical modeling of fluids and solids.

Topics in Experimental Dynamics Substructuring, Volume 2: Proceedings of the 31st IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2013, the second volume of seven from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book describes thermoelastic and inelastic deformation processes in crystalline solids undergoing loading by shock compression.

This book is the thirteenth of 15 related monographs on Cubic Dynamical Systems, discusses self- and product-cubic systems with a crossing-linear and self-quadratic products vector field.

This book introduces the theory of structural dynamics, with focus on civil engineering structures.

This book comprises the selected contributions from the 2nd World Congress on Condition Monitoring (WCCM 2019), held in Singapore in December 2019.

The failure of any welded joint is at best inconvenient and at worst can lead to catastrophic accidents.

This book offers a comprehensive and timely report of size-dependent continuum mechanics approaches.

Size effects on material and structural behaviors are of great interest to physicists, material scientists, and engineers who need to understand and model the mechanical behavior of solids especially at micron- and nano-scales.

This book presents recent advances in robot control theory on task space sensory feedback control of robot manipulators.

Solid cellular materials (foams, lattice materials, honeycombs, etc.

Servo Motors and Industrial Control Theory presents the fundamentals of servo motors and control theory in a manner that is accessible to undergraduate students, as well as practitioners who may need updated information on the subject.

The book contains state-of the-art reviews in the area of effective properties of heterogeneous materials - the classical field at interface of materials science and solid mechanics.

This textbook covers the basic concepts and applications of finite element analysis.

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This book presents selected peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Innovative Technologies in Mechanical Engineering (ITME) 2019.

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

Engineering the Guitar: Theory and Practice uniquely describes the mechanics of the guitar for engineers and craftsmen alike.

The numerous applications of optimal control theory have given an incentive to the development of approximate techniques aimed at the construction of control laws and the optimization of dynamical systems.

This book presents iterative learning control (ILC) to address practical issues of flexible structures.

Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution, Volume 7 of the Proceedings of the 2017 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the seventh volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Dissipative Systems Analysis and Control (second edition) presents a fully revised and expanded treatment of dissipative systems theory, constituting a self-contained, advanced introduction for graduate students, researchers and practising engineers.

This volume presents selected papers from IACMAG Symposium,The major themes covered in this conference are Earthquake Engineering, Ground Improvement and Constitutive Modelling.

"e;Piezoelectric-Based Vibration-control Systems: Applications in Micro/Nano Sensors and Actuators"e; covers: Fundamental concepts in smart (active) materials including piezoelectric and piezoceramics, magnetostrictive, shape-memory materials, and electro/magneto-rheological fluids; Physical principles and constitutive models of piezoelectric materials; Piezoelectric sensors and actuators; Fundamental concepts in mechanical vibration analysis and control with emphasis on distributed-parameters and vibration-control systems; and Recent advances in piezoelectric-based microelectromechanical and nanoelectromechanical systems design and implementation.

This book presents the research results of advanced vibration control technology, based on two types of typical equipment in industrial engineering of China: power equipment and vibration-sensitive equipment.

This book is designed to serve as a text for engineering students.

This third of three volumes presents papers from the third series of NODYCON to be held in June of 2023.

Experimental solid mechanics is the study of materials to determine their physical properties.

On Fracture Mechanics A major objective of engineering design is the determination of the geometry and dimensions of machine or structural elements and the selection of material in such a way that the elements perform their operating function in an efficient, safe and economic manner.

As the sequel to the proceedings of the International Conference of Continuum Mechanics Focusing on Singularities (CoMFoS15), the proceedings of CoMFoS16 present further advances and new topics in mathematical theory and numerical simulations related to various aspects of continuum mechanics.

This book is an outgrowth of my involvement in two groups of research in solid mechanics, created in 1960 for the French nuclear energy program.

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Future Learning Aspects of Mechanical Engineering (FLAME 2018).

This text is an advancement of the theory of vibration protection of mechanical systems with lumped and distributed parameters.

This book offers a collection of original peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 10th International Congress on Design and Modeling of Mechanical Systems (CMSM'2023), held on December 18-20, 2023, in Hammamet, Tunisia.

This book covers the essential topics for a second-level course in strength of materials or mechanics of materials, with an emphasis on techniques that are useful for mechanical design.

This book proposes, for the first time, a basic formulation for structural control that takes into account the stochastic dynamics induced by engineering excitations in the nature of non-stationary and non-Gaussian processes.