Engineering: Mechanics of solids

This book presents theoretical explorations of several fundamental problems in the dynamics and control of flexible beam systems.

This book presents novel algorithms for designing Discrete-Time Sliding Mode Controllers (DSMCs) for Networked Control Systems (NCSs) with both types of fractional delays namely deterministic delay and random delay along with different packet loss conditions such as single packet loss and multiple packet loss that occur within the sampling period.

This book includes selected technical papers presented at the First Structural Integrity Conference and Exhibition (SICE-2016).

This book primarily focuses on methodologies to enable marine structures to resist high velocity impact loadings.

This book offers the first comprehensive introduction to the inerter, its successful application in Formula One racing, and other state-of-the-art applications in vibration control.

This book aims at finding some answers to the questions: What is the influence of humans in controlling CAD and how much is human in control of its surroundings?

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

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

This book describes the development of a new analytical, full-vehicle model with nine degrees of freedom, which uses the new modified skyhook strategy (SKDT) to control the full-vehicle vibration problem.

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.

This book highlights aesthetics as pertaining to the structural component in architectural design.

This book proposes the concept of a multi-layer pavement system to fulfill the blast resistance requirement for pavement design.

This book presents two distinct aspects of wave dynamics - wave propagation and diffraction - with a focus on wave diffraction.

This book presents in detail an alternative approach to solving problems involving both linear and nonlinear oscillations of elastic distributed parameter systems.

This book includes keynote presentations, invited speeches, and general session papers presented at the 7th International Symposium on Environmental Vibration and Transportation Geodynamics (formerly the International Symposium on Environmental Vibration), held from October 28 to 30, 2016 at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

This book discusses the thermal-elastic mechanics problems of concrete rectangular thin plate.

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 develops original results regarding singular dynamic systems following two different paths.

This book discusses offshore platform integration technology, focusing on the floatover methodology and its applications.

This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Durability of Critical Infrastructure.

This book focuses on the theory and design of special space orbits.

This book describes the fast reactor (FR), a type of new reactor for nuclear plants, currently under research and development.

This book explores the dynamics and vibration properties of gearboxes, with a focus on geared rotor systems.

This book focuses on mathematical theory and numerical simulation related to various aspects of continuum mechanics, such as fracture mechanics, elasticity, plasticity, pattern dynamics, inverse problems, optimal shape design, material design, and disaster estimation related to earthquakes.

This book of recommendations presents an overview of High Frequency Mechanical Impact (HFMI) techniques existing today in the market and their proper procedures, quality assurance measures and documentation.

This book presents tutorial overviews for many applications of variational methods to molecular modeling.

This book begins with the dynamic characteristics of the covering layerbedrock type slope, containing monitoring data of the seismic array, shaking table tests, numerical analysis and theoretical derivation.

This book presents essential studies and applications in the context of sliding mode control, highlighting the latest findings from interdisciplinary theoretical studies, ranging from computational algorithm development to representative applications.

This book focuses on the free vibrations of graphite-epoxy laminated composite stiffened shells with cutout both in terms of the natural frequencies and mode shapes.

This book systematically summarizes the latest research findings on high-speed railway track dynamics, made by the author and his research team over the past decade.

This book presents a novel, generalized approach to the design of nonlinear state feedback control laws for a large class of underactuated mechanical systems based on application of the block backstepping method.

This book presents essential methods of deformation compatibility control, and explicitly addresses the implied conditions on the methods' deformation compatibility.

This book provides a concise introduction to soft matter modelling.

This book explores the extremely modular systems that meet two criteria: they allow the creation of structurally sound free-form structures, and they are comprised of as few types of modules as possible.

This book is comprised of two parts, both of which exploremodular systems: Pipe-Z (PZ) and Truss-Z (TZ), respectively.

This book presents three projects that demonstrate thefundamental problems of architectural design and urban composition the layoutdesign, evaluation and optimization.

Based on simple examples, this book offers a short introduction to the general-purpose finite element program MSC Marc, a specialized program for non-linear problems (implicit solver) distributed by the MSC Software Corporation, which is commonly used in academia and industry.

This book introduces readers to modern computational mechanics based on the finite element method.

This book introduces novel developments in the field of electromagnetic non-destructive testing and evaluation (NDT/E).

This book comprehensively discussesessential aspects of terminal ballistics, combining experimental data,numerical simulations and analytical modeling.

This monograph focuses on the dynamical researchwork on crank-piston mechanisms considering basic and additional motions.

This comprehensive treatise covers in detail practical methods of analysis as well as advanced mathematical models for structures highly sensitive to creep and shrinkage.

This is the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Strain-Hardening Cement-Based Composites (SHCC4), that was held at the Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany from 18 to 20 September 2017.

This comprehensive treatise covers in detail practical methods of analysis as well as advanced mathematical models for structures highly sensitive to creep and shrinkage.

The book explores the two opposite natural trends of composite systems: (i) order and structure emerging from heterogeneity and randomness, and (ii) instability and chaos arising from simple nonlinear rules.

This book provides a concise discussion of fatigue crack growth (FCG) failure and lifing analysis methods for metallic aircraft structures and components.

This book covers both classical and modern analytical methods in nonlinear systems.

Written to teach students the nature of transonic flow and its mathematical foundation, this book offers a much-needed introduction to transonic aerodynamics.