Engineering: Mechanics of solids

This International Institute of Welding (IIW) report was presented at the 52nd Annual Assembly in Lisbon in June 1999.

ICEM13 focused on all aspects of experimental mechanics of solids with emphasis on mechanical characterization and testing at the micro and nano scale levels.

This book describes the approach to engineering solutions through simplified modeling of important physical features and approximating their behavior.

Local approaches to fatigue assessment are used to predict the structural durability of welded joints, to optimise their design and to evaluate unforeseen joint failures.

This book offers the first comprehensive and practice-oriented guide to condition monitoring algorithms in MATLAB(R).

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

Methods in Nonlinear Plasma Theory is from lectures given in graduate classes in both University of Maryland and University of California at Berkeley.

This book focuses on the emerging additive manufacturing technology and its applications beyond state-of-the-art, fibre-reinforced thermoplastics.

An impulse for writing this book has originated from the effort to sum- marize and publicise the acquired results of a research team at the De- partment of Automation of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and In- formatics, Slovak Technical University in Bratislava.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the nucleation, motion, and interaction between crystalline defects called dislocations.

In materials science, dislocations are irregularities within the crystal structure or atomic scale of engineering materials, such as metals, semi-conductors, polymers, and composites.

This 2006 book combines modern and traditional solid mechanics topics in a coherent theoretical framework.

Viscoelasticity: Phenomenological Aspects provides information pertinent to the phenomenological aspects of viscoelasticity.

This book groups the main advances in material forming, considering different p- cesses (conventional and non-conventional) focusing in polymers, composites and metals, that are analyzed from the state of the art, describing the most significant recent advances and identifying the present challenges from the experimental, modeling and numerical points of view.

Your ticket to excelling in mechanics of materials With roots in physics and mathematics, engineering mechanics is the basis of all the mechanical sciences: civil engineering, materials science and engineering, mechanical engineering, and aeronautical and aerospace engineering.

One of the most important subjects for any student of engineering to master is the behaviour of materials and structures under load.

Within the last thirty years there is a growing acknowledgement that prevention of catastrophic failures necessitates engagement of a large pool of expertise.

This the fifth volume of five from the 28th IMAC on Structural Dynamics and Renewable Energy, 2010,, brings together 146 chapters on Structural Dynamics.

Computational Structural Mechanics: Static and Dynamic Behaviors provides a cutting-edge treatment of functionally graded materials and the computational methods and solutions of FG static and vibration problems of plates.

This book covers a wide range of issues in fire safety engineering in tunnels, describes the phenomena related to tunnel fire dynamics, presents state-of-the-art research, and gives detailed solutions to these major issues.

A unified approach is proposed for applied mechanics and optimal control theory.

Often, a new area of science grows at the confines between recognised subject divisions, drawing upon techniques and intellectual perspectives from a diversity of fields.

This timely book presents cutting-edge developments by experts in the field on the rapidly developing and scientifically challenging area of full-field measurement techniques used in solid mechanics including photoelasticity, grid methods, deflectometry, holography, speckle interferometry and digital image correlation.

This Brief deals with Performance Evaluation Criteria (PEC) for heat exchangers, single phase flow, objective function and constraints, algebraic formulation, constant flow rate, fixed flow area, thermal resistance, heat exchanger effectiveness, relations for St and f, finned tube banks, variations of PEC, reduced exchanger flow rate, exergy based PEC, PEC for two-phase heat exchangers, work consuming, work producing and heat actuated systems.

This monograph presents computational models that describe electro-mechanical characteristics of tapered and cylinder roller bearings in various industrial applications.

This book provides an overview of the experimental characterization of materials and their numerical modeling, as well as the development of new computational methods for virtual design.

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.

Ultrasonic guided waves in solid media are important in nondestructive testing and structural health monitoring.

This first of three volumes from the inaugural NODYCON, held at the University of Rome, in February of 2019, presents papers devoted to Nonlinear Dynamics of Structures, Systems and Devices.

There are numerous engineering applications for high-speed rotating structures which rotate about their symmetric axes.

This text describes the mathematical formulation and proof of the unified mechanics theory (UMT) which is based on the unification of Newton's laws and the laws of thermodynamics.

Energy Conversion Statics deals with equilibrium situations and processes linking equilibrium states.

This book integrates concepts from physical acoustics with those from linear viscoelasticity and fractional linear viscoelasticity.

This book presents the latest research advances relating to machines and mechanisms.

The ESIS-Technical Committee 9 on Concrete was established in 1990 and has met seven times.

Many physical systems lose or gain stability and pattern through bifurca- tion behavior.

Presenting the fundamentals, key multiscale methods, and case studies for computational design of engineering materials.

This book systematically presents a fundamental theory for the local analysis of bifurcation and stability of equilibriums in nonlinear dynamical systems.

This book draws together the most interesting recent results to emerge in mechanical engineering in Russia, providing a fascinating overview of the state of the art in the field in that country which will be of interest to a wide readership.

This book provides a modern static imperfect bifurcation theory applicable to bifurcation phenomena of physical and engineering problems and fills the gap between the mathematical theory and engineering practice.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations and applications in the field of vibration and technology of machinery, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the XV International Conference on Vibration Engineering and Technology of Machinery (VETOMAC), held in Curitiba, Brazil on November 10-15, 2019.

This volume presents the latest research and industrial applications in the areas of mechanism science, robotics and dynamics.

This book provides engineers and scientists with practical fundamentals for turbomachinery design.

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

Leading experts summarize our current understanding of the fundamental nature of turbulence, covering a wide range of topics.

"e;Constrained Deformation of Materials: Devices, Heterogeneous Structures and Thermo-Mechanical Modeling"e; is an in-depth look at the mechanical analyses and modeling of advanced small-scale structures and heterogeneous material systems.

Both refining and extending previous publications by the authors, the material in this monograph has been class-tested in mathematical institutions throughout the world.

Lead-free solders are used extensively as interconnection materials in electronic assemblies and play a critical role in the global semiconductor packaging and electronics manufacturing industry.