Engineering: Mechanics of solids

This book provides a simple and unified approach to the mechanics of discontinuous-fibre reinforced composites, and introduces readers as generally as possible to the key concepts regarding the mechanics of elastic stress transfer, intermediate modes of stress transfer, plastic stress transfer, fibre pull-out, fibre fragmentation and matrix rupture.

This book is the eleventh of 15 related monographs on Cubic Systems, examines self-linear and crossing-quadratic product systems.

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This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations and applications in the field of cable robots, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 7th International Conference on Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (CableCon), held in Hong Kong on July 8-11, 2025.

This book lays down the foundation on the mechanics and design of auxetic solids and structures, solids that possess negative Poisson's ratio.

This book, the 14th of 15 related monographs on Cubic Dynamical Systems, discusses crossing and product cubic systems with a self-linear and crossing-quadratic product vector field.

This book treats the mechanical behavior of one-dimensional sandwich structures, a typicaloncept in the context of lightweight design.

This book presents various types of aperiodic resonances in the form of a complete theoretical framework for the first time.

This book presents the most important findings from the 9th International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (ICMIC'17), held in Kunming, China on July 10-12, 2017.

This book gathers selected research papers presented at the International Conference on Power, Control and Communication Infrastructure 2019 (ICPCCI 2019), organized by the Institute of Infrastructure, Technology, Research and Management (IITRAM), Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, on July 4-5, 2019.

Solid Particle Erosion: Occurrence, Prediction and Control collects together the work of more than 130 industrially-supported research projects conducted over 50 years on erosion at the Tallinn Technical University, Estonia (now the Tallinn University of Technology), much of which is previously unpublished in English.

Hemorheologic therapy has gained considerably in importance in recent years.

This book is a compilation of select chapter from the 2023 International Conference on Nonlinear Science and Complexity.

This dictionary offers clear and reliable explanations of over 100 keywords covering the entire field of non-classical continuum mechanics and generalized mechanics, including the theory of elasticity, heat conduction, thermodynamic and electromagnetic continua, as well as applied mathematics.

This book presents and discusses recent developments in the broad field of spectroscopy, providing the reader with an updated overview.

This book highlights the mechanics of the elastic elements made of steel alloys with a focus on the metal springs for automotive industry.

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

Although the subject of wave propagation in solids has a long history, the classical theory of elastic waves having been developed in the nine- teenth century by STOKES, POISSON, RAYLEIGH and KELVIN, the last two decades have seen a remarkable revival of interest in this subject among both theoreticians and experimenters.

Balancing of rotors is an indispensable process for the quality management, involving many stages from design to commissioning.

This book gathers a large amount of recent research results on this topic to better understand the static creep micro-macro fracture mechanics in brittle solids (e.

This book presents recent advances in robot control theory on task space sensory feedback control of robot manipulators.

Humans have always been fascinated with the concept of artificial life and the construction of machines that look and behave like people.

Machining dynamics are vital to the performance of machine tools and machining processes in manufacturing.

Complex, microstructured materials are widely used in industry and technology and include alloys, ceramics and composites.

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.

The postgraduate seminar series on advanced structured materials is designed to facilitate teaching and informal discussion in a supportive and friendly environment.

This book examines new approaches for the estimation of errors in approximate theories.

Sensors & Instrumentation and Aircraft/Aerospace Testing Techniques, Volume 8: Proceedings of the 42nd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2024, the eighth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Computer Vision & Laser Vibrometry, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 42nd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2024, the sixth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This short book provides a concise study of the mechanics of head impact in a soccer heading manoeuvre.

This book provides an overview of various methods of concrete reinforcement against corrosion.

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

The purpose of this book is to present a self-contained and coordinated de- scription of several design methods for nonlinear control systems, with special emphasis on the problem of achieving stability, globally or on arbitrarily large domains, in the presence of model uncertainties.

Fatigue has long been recognized as a mechanism that can provoke catastrophic material failure in structural applications and researchers are now turning to the development of prediction tools in order to reduce the cost of determining design criteria for any new material.

This book discusses key concepts, challenges and potential solutions in connection with established and emerging topics in advanced computing, renewable energy and network communications.

This book aims to provide readers with the latest exciting advancements in applied and interdisciplinary engineering science and technologies, particularly in nonlinear dynamics, vibration analysis and control, control systems theory and methods, robotics, and their various engineering applications developed in recent years.

As we enter an exciting new era in industrial design, simulation, and manufacturing, a clear understanding of mechanics of solids is needed now more than ever.

This volume is dedicated to the sixtieth birthday of Prof.

Data Science in Engineering, Volume 10: Proceedings of the 42nd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2024, the tenth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

A typical design procedure for model predictive control or control performance monitoring consists of: 1.

The basic idea of this introduction to the finite element method is based on the concept of explaining the complex method using only one-dimensional elements.

Drawing on years of practical on-site experience, this book presents a new method for controlling "e;bridge-head bumping"e; in soft soil ground.

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.

This book presents detailed insights into the characterization of bionanocomposite materials based on rubber.

This book provides readers with up-to-date advances in applied and interdisciplinary engineering science and technologies related to nonlinear dynamics, vibration, control, robotics, and their engineering applications, developed in the most recent years.

Gathering the proceedings of the conference MeTrApp 2019, this book covers topics such as mechanism and machinery design, parallel manipulators, robotics and mechatronics, control applications, mechanical transmissions, cam and gear mechanisms, and dynamics of machinery.

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