Engineering: Mechanics of solids

This book provides the theory of anisotropic elasticity with the computer program for analytical solutions as well as boundary element methods.

Stress and strain analysis of rotors subjected to surface and body loads, as well as to thermal loads deriving from temperature variation along the radius, constitutes a classic subject of machine design.

Discrete-event dynamic systems (DEDs) permeate our world, being of great importance in modern manufacturing processes, transportation and various forms of computer and communications networking.

This book develops a uniform accurate method which is capable of dealing with vibrations of laminated beams, plates and shells with arbitrary boundary conditions including classical boundaries, elastic supports and their combinations.

At the VIIth International Congress on Rheology, which was held in Goteborg in 1976, Proceedings were for the first time printed in advance and distributed to all participants at the time of the Congress.

In this book, well-known scientists discuss modern aspects of generalized continua, in order to better understand modern materials and advanced structures.

This book is intended to serve as a text on dynamics for undergraduate students of engineering.

As any human activity needs goals, mathematical research needs problems.

This inter-disciplinary work covering the continuum mechanics of novel materials, condensed matter physics and partial differential equations discusses the mathematical theory of elasticity of quasicrystals (a new condensed matter) and its applications by setting up new partial differential equations of higher order and their solutions under complicated boundary value and initial value conditions.

The first part of this book covers the general theory of structural dynamics, in a calculous format as well as a finite element formulation.

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This book reports on the latest advances in the study of motion control in biomimetic swimming robots with high speed and high manoeuvrability.

Specialist Periodical Reports provide systematic and detailed review coverage of progress in the major areas of chemical research.

Over the past decades a considerable interest has been concentrated on problems involving signals and systems that depend on more than one variable.

This authored monograph presents a study on fundamental limits and robustness of stability and stabilization of time-delay systems, with an emphasis on time-varying delay, robust stabilization, and newly emerged areas such as networked control and multi-agent systems.

This fourth issue on "e;progress in turbulence"e; is based on the fourth ITI conference (ITI interdisciplinary turbulence initiative), which took place in Bertinoro, North Italy.

Fracture mechanics is a vast and growing field.

Manufacturing systems and processes are becoming more complex, so more rational decision-making in process control is a necessity.

This book is a novel tutorial for research-oriented study of vibration mechanics.

Emphasises the power of mathematics to provide quantitative insights across the whole area of solid mechanics; accessible and comprehensive.

Master the theory, applications and control mechanisms of flow control techniques.

This book describes the properties of single polymer molecules and polymeric materials and the methods how to characterize them.

The idea for this book came out of the EURESCO Conference on High Performance Fibers: Euroconference on Fiber Fracture in 2000.

Theincreasingcomplexityofspacevehiclessuchassatellites,andthecostreduction measures that have affected satellite operators are increasingly driving the need for more autonomy in satellite diagnostics and control systems.

This Publication is an outgrowth of the Proceedings for the Geotechnical Symposium in Roma, also known as Tatsuoka Symposium, which was held on March 16 and 17, 2006 in th Rome, Italy.

This book presents the proceedings of Fatigue Durability India 2016, which was held on September 28-30 at J N Tata Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

This monograph presents numerical methods for solving transient wave equations (i.

This textbook offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to analytical mechanics, one of the core components of undergraduate physics courses.

This is the third in a series of compendiums devoted to the subject of weld hot cracking.

This book on micromechanics explores both traditional aspects and the advances made in the last 10-15 years.

Mechanics of Composite, Hybrid, and Multifunctional Materials, Volume 6 of the Proceedings of the 2017 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the sixth volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Though PID control has a long history as much as its life force since Ziegler and Nichols published the empirical tuning rules in 1942, surprisingly, it has never been changed in the structure itself.

This book features a selection of high-quality papers chosen from the best presentations at the International Conference on Spectral and High-Order Methods (2016), offering an overview of the depth and breadth of the activities within this important research area.

This book presents fundamental theory of shock and detonation waves as well as selected studies in detonation research in Japan, contributed by selected experts in safety research on explosives, development of industrial explosives, and application of explosives.

Topics in Modal Analysis, Testing & Parameter Identification, Volume 9:  Proceedings of the 42nd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2024, the nineth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

By now, most academics have heard something about the new science of complexity.

The study of physics has changed in character, mainly due to the passage from the analyses of linear systems to the analyses of nonlinear systems.

Wave Propagation in Nanostructures describes the fundamental and advanced concepts of waves propagating in structures that have dimensions of the order of nanometers.

This book presents the latest results related to shells characterize and design shells, plates, membranes and other thin-walled structures, a multidisciplinary approach from macro- to nanoscale is required which involves the classical disciplines of mechanical/civil/materials engineering (design, analysis, and properties) and physics/biology/medicine among others.

This book presents the micromechanics of random structure heterogeneous materials, a multidisciplinary research area that has experienced a revolutionary renascence at the overlap of various branches of materials science, mechanical engineering, applied mathematics, technical physics, geophysics, and biology.

Biomechanics covers a wide field such as organ mechanics, tissue mechanics, cell mechanics to molecular mechanics.

Mechanical engineering, an engineering discipline forged and shaped by the needs of the industrial revolution, is once again asked to do its substantial share in the call for industrial renewal.

Problems in Undergraduate Physics, Volume I: Mechanics focuses on solutions to problems in physics.

Size Reduction of Divided Solids, part of the Industrial Equipment for Chemical Engineering set, presents a practical guide for choosing devices and flow and rate parameters in the size reduction of divided solids.

This volume is a result of two international workshops, namely the Second Annual Workshop on Inverse Problems and the Workshop on Large-Scale Modeling, held jointly in Sunne, Sweden from May 1-6 2012.