Engineering: Mechanics of solids

This book comprises select proceedings of the 63rd Congress of the Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ISTAM) held in Bangalore, in December 2018.

Deployable structures can vary their shape automatically from a compact, packaged configuration to an expanded, operational configuration.

Dieses Lehrbuch für Studierende ingenieurwissenschaftlicher Studiengänge besticht insbesondere in seinen verständnisfördernden und praxisorientierten  Beispielen.

Topics in Modal Analysis & Testing, Volume 10:  Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017, the tenth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book presents recent advances in mechatronic and integrated monitoring and management systems with applications to architectural, archaeology survey, construction management and civil engineering.

This book is the fourth of 15 related monographs presents systematically a theory of crossing-cubic nonlinear systems.

This book presents the findings of a detailed study to explore the behavior of architectural glazing systems during and after an earthquake and to develop design proposals that will mitigate or even eliminate the damage inflicted on these systems.

This book provides essential insights into recent developments in fundamental geotechnical engineering research.

This expanded second edition presents in one text the concepts and processes covered in statics and mechanics of materials curricula following a systematic, topically integrated approach.

This book presents selected papers from International Conference on Intelligent and Efficient Electrical Systems (ICIEES'17).

This textbook has been written for the engineering students.

Structural Health Monitoring & Damage Detection, Volume 7: Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017, the seventh volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This volume comprises the select proceedings of the 3rd Biennial International Conference on Future Learning Aspects of Mechanical Engineering (FLAME) 2022.

This monograph provides both an introduction to and a thorough exposition of the theory of rate-independent systems, which the authors have been working on with a lot of collaborators over 15 years.

This book presents an introduction to material theory and, in particular, to elasticity, plasticity and viscoelasticity, to bring the reader close to the frontiers of today's knowledge in these particular fields.

This book gathers 23 papers by top experts from 11 countries, presented at the 3rd Houston International Forum: Concrete Structures in Earthquake.

Adaptive Structural Systems with Piezoelectric Transducer Circuitry provides a comprehensive discussion on the integration of piezoelectric transducers with electrical circuitry for the development and enhancement of adaptive structural systems.

Topics in Modal Analysis & Testing, Volume 10:  Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017, the tenth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book presents state-of-the-art research, challenges and solutions in the area of cloud-based cyber-physical systems (CPS) used in manufacturing.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Damage Assessment of Structures DAMAS 2019, 9-10 July 2019, Porto, Portugal.

This textbook contains sections with fundamental, classical knowledge in solid mechanics, as well as original modern mathematical models to describe the state and behavior of solid deformable bodies.

An important instance of the application of unbuckled solid mechanics is that of its stability and small movements from this situation.

This work gives a modern, up-to-date account of recent developments in computational multiscale mechanics.

This monograph presents an original method to unify the mathematical theories of well-posed problems and contact mechanics.

This book on wire ropes is dedicated mainly to all users of wire ropes - the construction engineers, operators and supervisors of machines and instal- tions running on wire ropes - and it is divided into three main sections.

This book is devoted to the discussion and studies of simple and efficient numerical procedures for large deflection and elasto-plastic analysis of steel frames under static and dynamic loading.

Ballistic reentry vehicles, capsules and planetary probes are the fastest human designed objects to fly through planet's atmospheres.

An introductory textbook for engineering students, connecting finite element theory with practical application and implementation.

This unique text/reference provides a detailed overview of the latest advances in machine learning and computer vision related to visual attributes, highlighting how this emerging field intersects with other disciplines, such as computational linguistics and human-machine interaction.

This unique text offers comprehensive coverage of fundamental particle science, processing and technology, and includes quantitative tools, case studies and end-of-chapter problems.

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

The book presents reduction methods that are using tools from dynamical systems theory in order to provide accurate models for nonlinear dynamical solutions occurring in mechanical systems featuring either smooth or non smooth nonlinearities.

Geologists, engineers, and petrophysicists concerned with hydrocarbon production from naturally fractured reservoirs will find this book a valuable tool for obtaining pertinent rock data to evaluate reserves and optimize well location and performance.

Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1 of the Proceedings of the 2017 SEM Annual Conference& Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the first volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book presents a class of novel optimal control methods and games schemes based on adaptive dynamic programming techniques.

Theseproceedings primarily focus on advances in the theory, experiments, andnumerical simulations of turbulence in the contexts of flow-induced vibrationand noise, as well as their control.

This textbook presents the motion of pure nonlinear oscillatory systems and various solution procedures which give the approximate solutions of the strong nonlinear oscillator equations.

This work presents a unified approach to the vibrations of elastic systems as applied to MEMS devices, mechanical components, and civil structures.

In the context of urbanization and compact urban living, conventional experience-based planning and design often cannot adequately address the serious environmental issues, such as thermal comfort and air quality.

The book comprises a rigorous and self-contained treatment of initial-value problems for ordinary differential equations.

This graduate textbook describes atomic-level kinetics of thermal energy storage, transport, and transformation by principal energy carriers.

Recognized authors contributed to this collection of original papers from all fields of research in continuum mechanics.

This book offers an in-depth insight into the general-purpose finite element program MSC Marc, which is distributed by MSC Software Corporation.

This book offers a unique approach to integrated high-temperature process modelling, intended to serve as a design aid for new metal processing technologies.

Today, multi-functional materials such as piezoelectric/ferroelectric ceramics, magneto-strictive and shape memory alloys are gaining increasing applications as sensors, actuators or smart composite materials systems for emerging high tech areas.

This second edition adds newly established techniques and material properties codified in the past ten years to this authoritative reference.

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

This book introduces the engineering application of the discrete element method (DEM), especially the simulation analysis of the typical equipment (scraper conveyor, coal silos, subsoiler) in the coal and agricultural machinery.