Engineering: Mechanics of solids

Computational Mechanics of the Classical Guitar describes a new dynamic paradigm in instrument acoustics based on time-dependent transient analysis and simulation of complete musical instruments.

The practicing design engineer, who deals with the design of structures and structural and mechanical components in general, is often confronted with nonlinear problems and he/she needs to develop a design procedure that deals e?

After a brief introduction into crystal plasticity,the fun- damentals of crystallographic textures and plastic anisotro- py, a main topic of this book, are outlined.

The purpose of 'Numerical Analysis of Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media' is to provide a collection of recent contributions in the field of computational heat and mass transfer in porous media.

The purpose of this book is to bridge the gap between the traditional Geomechanics and Numerical Geotechnical Modelling with applications in science and practice.

Dieses Buch führt in die Modellbildung und Regelung von starren und elastischen Robotersystemen ein.

Das anwendungsorientierte Buch führt in den Zusammenhang von Kontaktmechanik und Reibung ein und ermöglicht damit ein tieferes Verständnis der Tribologie.

In the last few decades, much research work was conducted to improve ship structure analysis and design.

In this book, regular structures are de ned as periodic structures consisting of repeated elements (translational symmetry) as well as structures with a geom- ric symmetry.

This book addresses the characterization of flow and transport in porous fractured media from experimental and modeling perspectives.

Fatigue and wear are the most damaging phenomena affecting machines since they result in some 90% of breakdowns.

Satellite development worldwide has significantly changed within the last decade and has been accelerated and optimized by modern simulation tools.

The last two decades have brought two important developments for aerothermodynamics.

This volume summarizes the results of experimental investigations on the mechanical behaviour of rock.

Discusses experimental results and theoretical approaches in a range of mechanics topics, including: hybrid techniques in stress analysis; optical techniques in experimental mechanics; automatic data acquisition and processing; transient phenomena and vibrations analysis; and residual stresses.

Interface problems involving materials and structures arise in most fields of engineering.

Interface problems involving materials and structures arise in most fields of engineering.

Discusses experimental results and theoretical approaches in a range of mechanics topics, including: hybrid techniques in stress analysis; optical techniques in experimental mechanics; automatic data acquisition and processing; transient phenomena and vibrations analysis; and residual stresses.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of structural glass design, covering the entire process from material properties to conceptual and structural design, calculation methods, and real-world applications.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of structural glass design, covering the entire process from material properties to conceptual and structural design, calculation methods, and real-world applications.

This volume summarizes the results of experimental investigations on the mechanical behaviour of rock.

Das Buch beinhaltet eine strukturierte Sammlung der vollständigen Lösungen aller wesentlichen ebenen Kontaktprobleme.

Das Buch beinhaltet eine strukturierte Sammlung der vollständigen Lösungen aller wesentlichen ebenen Kontaktprobleme.

Due to their high stiffness and strength and their good processing properties short fibre reinforced thermoplastics are well-established construction materials.

This book bridges the current gap between the theory of symmetry-based dynamics and its application to model and analyze complex systems.

Due to their high stiffness and strength and their good processing properties short fibre reinforced thermoplastics are well-established construction materials.

This book bridges the current gap between the theory of symmetry-based dynamics and its application to model and analyze complex systems.

This thesis focuses on the seismic response of piles in liquefiable ground.

This unique book presents the discretization of continuous systems and implicit mapping dynamics of periodic motions to chaos in continuous nonlinear systems.

In this monograph Prof.

The extension of collision models for single impacts between two bodies, to the case of multiple impacts (which take place when several collisions occur at the same time in a multibody system) is a challenge in Solid Mechanics, due to the complexity of such phenomena, even in the frictionless case.

This present book describes the different construction systems and structural materials and elements within the main buildings typologies, and it analyses the particularities of each of them, including, at the end, general aspects concerning laboratory and in-situ testing, numerical modeling, vulnerability assessment and construction maintenance.

This book presents analyses of the most commonly reported failure modes of hip stems: loosening and thigh pain; both are attributed to the relative motion and instability at the bone-implant interface due to failure to achieve sufficient primary fixation.

This book summarizes the actual state of the art and future trends of surface effects in solid mechanics.

This book presents a critical review on the development and application of hygrothermal analysis methods to simulate the coupled transport processes of Heat, Air, and Moisture (HAM) transfer for one or multidimensional cases.

This book presents an introduction to viscoelasticity; in particular, to the theories of dilute polymer solutions and dilute suspensions of rigid particles in viscous and incompressible fluids.

This collection of recent activities provides researchers and scientists with the latest trends in characterization and developments of composed materials and structures.

This book presents an analysis of the stress distribution and contact stresses in severe rheumatoid wrist after total wrist arthroplasty.

This textbook presents finite element methods using exclusively one-dimensional elements.

The idea of this monograph is to present the latest results related to design and analysis of materials and engineering structures.

Moving inertial loads are applied to structures in civil engineering, robotics, and mechanical engineering.

The book presents foundations of the micropolar continuum mechanics including a short but comprehensive introduction of stress and strain measures, derivation of motion equations and discussion of the difference between Cosserat and classical (Cauchy) continua, and the discussion of more specific problems related to the constitutive modeling, i.

Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics is a rapidly growing field of research.

In this self-consistent monograph, the author gathers and describes different mathematical techniques and combines all together to form practical procedures for the inverse analyses.

The monograph deals with methods to determine mechanical properties and evaluate the flow curve of ductile materials from the tensile test.

The concept of fractals is often considered to describe surface roughness.

This book presents a modern continuum mechanics and mathematical framework to study shell physical behaviors, and to formulate and evaluate finite element procedures.