Engineering: Mechanics of solids

This volume is devoted to an actual topic which is the focus world-wide of various research groups.

This monograph presentsapproaches to characterize inelastic behavior of materials and structures athigh temperature.

This edited book aims at presenting current research activities in the field of robust variable-structure systems.

This book reviews the fundamentals of screw theory concerned with velocity analysis of rigid-bodies, confirmed with detailed and explicit proofs.

This book analyzes severalcompliant contact force models within the context of multibody dynamics, whilealso revisiting the main issues associated with fundamental contact mechanics.

This book addresses the properties of particles in colloidal suspensions.

This book includes selected papers from the ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics, that took place in Barcelona, Spain, from June 29 to July 2, 2015.

Addressing structures, this book presents a classic discipline in a modern setting by combining illustrated examples with insights into the solutions.

Topics in Modal Analysis & Testing, Volume 10.

Shock Vibration, Aircraft /Aerospace, Energy Harvesting, Acoustics Optics, Volume 9.

Rotating Machinery, Hybrid Test Methods, Vibro-Acoustics & Laser Vibrometry, Volume 8.

This book is intended to help researchers overcome the entrance barrier to Proper Generalized Decomposition (PGD), by providing a valuable tool to begin the programming task.

Written by a team of experts that has been working togetherfor several years in the context of a research network involving internationalinstitutions, this book brings several applications related to smart materialsystems such as vibration and noise control, structural health monitoring,energy harvesting and shape memory alloys.

The chapters in this book originate from the research work and contributions presented at the Sixth International Symposium on Recurrence Plots held in Grenoble, France in June 2015.

This book is focused on composites involving powders as the starting materials.

Special Topics in Structural Dynamics, Volume 6.

The present book provides a new method to estimate elastic-plastic strains via a series of linear elastic analyses.

The book reportson the latest advances in and applications of chaos theory and intelligentcontrol.

This treatment of modern topics relatedto the control of nonlinear systems is a collection of contributionscelebrating the work of Professor Henk Nijmeijer and honoring his 60thbirthday.

Sensors and Instrumentation, Volume 5.

Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 4.

Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantifi cation, Volume 3.

Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 2.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 1.

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.

Now in its third edition, this standard reference is a comprehensive treatment of nonsmooth mechanical systems refocused to give more prominence to issues connected with control and modelling.

This book presents the mainoutcomes of the first European research project on the seismic behavior ofadjustable steel storage pallet racking systems.

This is the fourth volume inthe well-established series of compendiums devoted to the subject of weld hotcracking.

This volume collects the edited and reviewedcontributions presented in the 6th iTi Conference in Bertinoro, coveringfundamental and applied aspects in turbulence.

With contributions from a number of pioneeringresearchers in the field, this collection is aimed not only at researchers andscientists in nonlinear dynamics but also at a broader audience interested inunderstanding and exploring how modern chaos theory has developed since thedays of Poincare.

This text presentsand studies the method of so called noncommuting variations in VariationalCalculus.

This book presents research advancesin the field of Continuous Media with Microstructure and considers the threecomplementary pillars of mechanical sciences: theory, research andcomputational simulation.

This book presents a detailed discussion of intelligenttechniques to measure the displacement of buildings when they are subjected tovibration.

This text is an advancement of the theory of vibration protection of mechanical systems with lumped and distributed parameters.

Thismonograph focuses on the mathematical modeling of distributed parameter systemsin which mass/energy transport or wave propagation phenomena occur and whichare described by partial differential equations of hyperbolic type.

This book is a concise navigator across the history of cybernetics, its state-of-the-art and prospects.

This book addresses flow separationwithin the context of fluid-structure interaction phenomena.

This book looks at the broad field of engineering science through the lens of nonlinear approaches.

This book provides a systematic and comprehensive description of high-entropy alloys (HEAs).

This book is the offspring of a summer school school "e;Macroscopic andlarge scalephenomena: coarse graining, mean field limits and ergodicity , which washeld in 2012 at the University of Twente, the Netherlands.

This book introduces the most recent innovations in natural polymer applications in the food, construction, electronics, biomedical, pharmaceutical, and engineering industries.

In the present volume numerous descriptions of Ram accelerators are presented.

This text is a companion volume to Transmission Electron Microscopy: A Textbook for Materials Science by Williams and Carter.

Mixing scientific, historic and socio-economic vision, this unique book complements two previously published volumes on the history of continuum mechanics from this distinguished author.

This book reports on the physical and mechanical characterization of Recycled Aggregate Concrete (RAC), produced through a partial-to-total replacement of ordinary aggregates with what have been dubbed Recycled Concrete Aggregates (RCAs).

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 offers in-depth insights into the photochemical behavior of multicomponent polymeric-based materials, with a particular emphasis on the photodegradation and photostabilization of these materials.

This research aims to achieve a fundamental understanding of synchronization and its interplay with the topology of complex networks.

The second edition of this textbook includes a refined presentation of concepts in each chapter, additional examples; new problems and sections, such as conformal mapping and mechanical behavior of wood; while retaining all the features of the original book.

This introductory text presents the basic aspects and most important features of various types of resonances and anti-resonances in dynamical systems.