Engineering: Mechanics of solids

This book demonstrates how mathematical methods and techniques can be used in synergy and create a new way of looking at complex systems.

The handbook covers the topics of vibro-acoustics, noise, harshness and their related applications in detail.

This new edition presents the theory of continuum mechanics using computational methods.

This book reports the results of exhaustive research work on modeling and control of vertical oil well drilling systems.

The International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) initiated and sponsored an International Symposium on Optimization of Mechanical Systems held in 1995 in Stuttgart, Germany.

This book provides a broad overview of state-of-the-art research at the intersection of the Koopman operator theory and control theory.

The first International Symposium on Shipboard Acoustics, held in Noordwijkerhout (The Netherlands) in 1976, was a meeting of invited experts, each having considerable expertise in ship acoustics.

This monograph presentsapproaches to characterize inelastic behavior of materials and structures athigh temperature.

The Advances in Applied Mechanics book series draws together recent significant advances in various topics in applied mechanics.

Inverse Problems are found in many areas of engineering mechanics and there are many successful applications e.

This self-contained book addresses the three most popular computational methods in CAE (finite elements, boundary elements, collocation methods) in a unified way, bridging the gap between CAD and CAE.

This book presents a class of novel, self-learning, optimal control schemes based on adaptive dynamic programming techniques, which quantitatively obtain the optimal control schemes of the systems.

This book addresses dynamic modelling methodology and analyses of tree-type robotic systems.

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of nonlinear multi-modal structural vibration problems, and shows how vibration suppression can be applied to such systems by considering a sample set of relevant control techniques.

Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 2:  Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017, the second volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book provides background and guidance on the use of the structural hot-spot stress approach to fatigue analysis.

Neutron Applications in Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences offers a comprehensive overview of the wide ranging applications of neutron scattering techniques to elucidate the fundamental materials properties at the nano-, micro- and meso-scale, which underpin research in the related fields of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences.

The 5th International Congress on Design and Modeling of Mechanical Systems (CMSM) was held in Djerba, Tunisia on March 25-27, 2013 and followed four previous successful editions, which brought together international experts in the fields of design and modeling of mechanical systems, thus contributing to the exchange of information and skills and leading to a considerable progress in research among the participating teams.

The unique design problems which helicopters produce are many and complex.

The variational method is a powerful tool to investigate states and processes in technical devices, nature, living organisms, systems, and economics.

THE MOST COMPLETE, UP-TO-DATE CORROSION CONTROL REFERENCEFully revised throughout, Handbook of Corrosion Engineering, Second Edition discusses the latest advances in corrosion-resistant materials, methods, and protective coatings.

This is a theoretical and practical guide for fatigue design of marine structures including sailing ships and offshore oil structures.

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.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of efficiency and performance engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the TEPEN International Workshop on Fault Diagnostics and Prognostics (TEPEN-IWFDP), held in Qingdao, China on May 8-11, 2024.

The papers in this volume present an overview of the general aspects and practical applications of dynamic inverse methods, through the interaction of several topics, ranging from classical and advanced inverse problems in vibration, isospectral systems, dynamic methods for structural identification, active vibration control and damage detection, imaging shear stiffness in biological tissues, wave propagation, to computational and experimental aspects relevant for engineering problems.

Mechanics of Composite, Hybrid, and Multifunctional Materials, Volume 5 of the Proceedings of the 2019 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the fifth volume of six from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Future Learning Aspects of Mechanical Engineering (FLAME 2020).

This book offers a comprehensive treatment of nonlocal elasticity theory as applied to the prediction of the mechanical characteristics of various types of biological and non-biological nanoscopic structures with different morphologies and functional behaviour.

Increasing concern with fuel consumption leads to widespread interest in lightweight structures for transportation vehicles.

This monograph provides a rigorous treatment of problems related to partial asymptotic stability and controllability for models of flexible structures described by coupled nonlinear ordinary and partial differential equations or equations in abstract spaces.

A lot of recent developments have been made about adhesively bonded joints modeling using various methods of analysis.

These proceedings gather a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Fracture Fatigue and Wear (FFW 2018), held at Ghent University, Belgium on 9-10 July 2018.

The EUCOMES08, Second European Conference on Mechanism Science is the second event of a series that has been started in 2006 as a conference activity for an European community working in Mechanism Science.

Sensors and Instrumentation, Volume 5.

Viscoelasticity: Phenomenological Aspects provides information pertinent to the phenomenological aspects of viscoelasticity.

This volume contains the proceedings of MeTrApp 2017, the 4th Conference on Mechanisms, Transmissions and Applications, that was held in Trabzon, Turkey, July 3-5, 2017.

This book consists of selected and peer-reviewed papers presented at the 13th International Conference on Vibration Problems (ICOVP 2017).

This book opens with a discussion of the vorticity-dynamic formulation of the low Mach number viscous flow problem.

This book was developed while I was teaching graduate courses on analysis, design and optimization of structures, in the United States, Europe and Israel.

This book offers a concise introduction to ergodic methods in group homology, with a particular focus on the computation of L2-Betti numbers.

The major developments in the fields of fluid and solid mechanics are scattered throughout an array of technical journals, often making it difficult to find what the real advances are, especially for a researcher new to the field or an individual interested in discovering the state-of-the-art in connection with applications.

This book highlights the importance of outdoor thermal comfort for improving urban living quality in the context of urban planning and urban geometry design.

This monograph provides a complete and up-to-date examination of rigid body dynamics using a Lagrangian approach.

This book presents simplified analytical methodologies for static and dynamic problems concerning various elastic thin plates in the bending state and the potential effects of dead loads on static and dynamic behaviors.

In recent years, numerous scientific investigations have studied the anatomical, biomechanical and functional role of structures involved in the human knee joint.