Engineering: Mechanics of solids

An easy-to-read textbook linking together bond strength and the arrangement of atoms in space with the properties that they control.

This book comprises select papers presented at the International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE 2018).

This book is derived from notes used in teaching a first-year graduate-level course in elasticity in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh.

Handbook of Materials Failure Analysis: With Case Studies from the Oil and Gas Industry provides an updated understanding on why materials fail in specific situations, a vital element in developing and engineering new alternatives.

The fascinating rainbow colors we see in soap film not only delight us; they also help us understand the physical essence of nature.

This book is ideal as a graduate textbook and reference for the advanced learner in fluid mechanics.

This book provides a broad overview on the relationship between structure and mechanical properties of carbon nanomaterials from world-leading scientists in the field.

Building on the previous volume "e;Vibrations of Rotating Machinery -  Volume 1.

Predictive Modeling of Dynamic Processes provides an overview of hydrocode technology, applicable to a variety of industries and areas of engineering design.

This book describes most recent advances and limitations concerning design of adhesive joints under humid conditions and discusses future trends.

Understand why fatigue happens and how to model, simulate, design and test for it with this practical, industry-focused referenceWritten to bridge the technology gap between academia and industry, the Metal Fatigue Analysis Handbook presents state-of-the-art fatigue theories and technologies alongside more commonly used practices, with working examples included to provide an informative, practical, complete toolkit of fatigue analysis.

This textbook on continuum mechanics reflects the modern view that scientists and engineers should be trained to think and work in multidisciplinary environments.

This book presents a concise, clear, and consistent account of the methodology of phase synchronization, an extension of modal analysis to decouple any linear system in real space.

This book presents research results of PowerWeb, TU Delft's consortium for interdisciplinary research on intelligent, integrated energy systems and their role in markets and institutions.

Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems in Offshore Engineering is a comprehensive treatment of marine mechanical systems (MMS) involved in processes of great importance such as oil drilling and mineral recovery.

This volume collects the edited and reviewed contribution presented in the 7th iTi Conference in Bertinoro, covering fundamental and applied aspects in turbulence.

This volume gives an overview on recent developments for various applications of modern engineering design.

This book examines the issues across the breadth of elasticity theory.

A major part of this sediment transport representation closely follows the progress made in understanding the interactions between a turbulent flow and transportable solid particles.

Observer Design for Nonlinear Systems deals with the design of observers for the large class of nonlinear continuous-time models.

This book is tailored to the needs of structural engineers who are seeking to become familiar with the design of steel structures based on Eurocode 3.

The desire to understand the mechanics of elastic and plastic solids, new materials and the stability, reliability and dynamic behaviour of structures and their components under extreme environmental conditions has dominated research in structural engineering for many decades.

This book addresses anti-fatigue manufacturing, analysis and test verification technologies for typical aircraft structures, including fastening holes, shot peening plates, different types of joints and wing boxes.

* Assumes no prior knowledge* Adopts a modelling approach* Numerous tutorial problems, worked examples and exercises included* Elementary topics augmented by planetary motion and rotating framesThis text provides an invaluable introduction to mechanicsm confining attention to the motion of a particle.

This book gathers contributions on analytical, numerical, and application aspects of time-delay systems, under the paradigm of control theory, and discusses recent advances in these different contexts, also highlighting the interdisciplinary connections.

This volume contains selected papers presented at the Symposium on "e;Recent Developments in Non-linear Oscillations of Mechanical Systems"e;, held in Hanoi, Vietnam, from 2 - 5 March 1999.

This book gathers the latest advances and innovations in the field of flow-induced vibration and noise, as presented by leading international researchers at the 4th International Symposium on Flow-Induced Noise and Vibration Issues and Aspects (FLINOVIA), which was held in Sydney, Australia, in May 2023.

This second edition of Impact Mechanics offers new analytical methods with examples for the dynamics of low-speed impact.

This book presents a panorama of recent developments in the theory of tilings and related dynamical systems.

Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 2:  Proceedings of the 38th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2020, the second volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book contains short courses in current topics in nonlinear physics given by distinguished professionals in their fields.

Lamb waves are guided waves that propagate in thin plate or shell structures.

Generalized Plasticity deals with the plasticity of materials and structures.

The major goal of this book is to present the implementation of some damage models with finite elements.

This book, provides a general introduction to the ideas and methods of statistical mechanics with the principal aim of meeting the needs of Master's students in chemical, mechanical, and materials science engineering.

The book offers a snapshot of the state-of-art in the field of model-based mechatronic system design.

This contributed book focuses on optimization methods inspired by nature such as Harmony Search Algorithm, Drosophila Food-Search Algorithm, Cohort intelligence algorithm and its variations, fuzzy logic along with their hybridization variants.

This book started its life as a series of lectures given by the second author from the 1970's onwards to students in their third and fourth years in the Department of Mathematics at the Rostov State University.

This revised and significantly expanded edition contains a rigorous examination of key concepts, new chapters and discussions within existing chapters, and added reference materials in the appendix, while retaining its classroom-tested approach to helping readers navigate through the deep ideas, vast collection of the fundamental methods of structural analysis.

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

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

This book is based on results obtained over a decade of study and research.

This book aims to serve as an essential reference to facilitate civil engineers involved in the design of new conventional (ordinary) reinforced concrete (R/C) buildings regulatedby the current European EC8 (EN 1998-1:2004) and EC2 (EN 1992-1-1:2004) codesof practice.

This book discusses the impact of different range of velocities (low, high, ballistic and hyper-velocity impact) on composites.

This book provides state of the art coverage of important current issues in the analysis, measurement, and monitoring of the dynamic response of infrastructure to environmental loads, including those induced by earthquake motion and differential soil settlement.