Engineering: Mechanics of solids

The theory of dynamic equations has many interesting applications in control theory, mathematical economics, mathematical biology, engineering and technology.

This book provides a systematic and thorough overview of the classical bending members based on the theory for thin beams (shear-rigid) according to Euler-Bernoulli, and the theories for thick beams (shear-flexible) according to Timoshenko and Levinson.

Numerical simulation methods in all engineering disciplines gains more and more importance.

Topics in Modal Analysis & Testing, Volume 8: Proceedings of the 39th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2021, the eighth volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book covers different topics of nonlinear mechanics in complex structures, such as the appearance of new nonlinear phenomena and the behavior of finite-dimensional and distributed nonlinear systems, including numerous systems directly connected with important technological problems.

This book provides a comprehensive yet concise presentation of the analysis methods of lightweight engineering in the context of the statics of beam structures and is divided into four sections.

This book provides the reader with a review of the most relevant research on the structural characterization and seismic retrofitting of adobe construction.

Perturbation Methods in Science and Engineering provides the fundamental and advanced topics in perturbation methods in science and engineering, from an application viewpoint.

This book reports on the 12th International Workshop on Railway Noise held on 12-16 September 2016 at Terrigal, Australia.

This book is the fourth volume in the series devoted to gear engineering and computer-aided design, production, testing and education.

This book presents an introduction to material theory and, in particular, to elasticity, plasticity and viscoelasticity, to bring the reader close to the frontiers of today's knowledge in these particular fields.

This book reports on topics at the interface between material processing, product and process optimization.

This book reports on the 13th International Workshop on Railway Noise (IWRN13), held on September 16-20, 2019, in Ghent, Belgium.

This book introduces the theory of structural dynamics, with focus on civil engineering structures.

This book presents an introduction, a discussion of the concept of the design and the concrete's development, and the properties and testing of the concrete in fresh and hardened stages.

This book covers the essentials of developments in the area of plate structures and presents them so that the readers can obtain a quick understanding and overview of the subject.

This book presents a complete framework for energy harvesting technologies based on graded elastic metamaterials.

This present book is concerned with analytical approaches to statement and solution of problems of non-equilibrium evaporation and condensation.

This book ties together classical and modern topics of advanced vibration analysis in an interesting and lucid manner.

This book provides an introduction to Acoustic Emission Testing and its applications to different materials like concrete, steel, ceramics, geotechnical materials, polymers, biological structures and wood.

This volume comprises the carefully revised papers of the 9th IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition, held at the Imperial College, London, UK, in September 2019.

This book offers selected contributions to fundamental research and application in designing and engineering materials.

The book explores the effect of nanoscale matrix additives along the four levels of material formation, particle-resin interaction, the influence of nanoparticles on the processability of the polymer, the influence of nanoparticles on polymer curing and the influence of nanoparticles on the fiber plastic composite.

This book is focused on the introduction of the finite difference method based on the classical one-dimensional structural members, i.

This book serves as a core text for university curricula in solid body mechanics and, at the same time, examines the main achievements of state of the art research in the mechanics of elastic and non-elastic materials.

This book conducts effective research on data-driven Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), and accordingly presents many novel feature extraction methods by time series analysis and signal processing, to extract reliable damage sensitive features from vibration responses.

This book presents the stream-tube method (STM), a method offering computational means of dealing with the two- and three-dimensional properties of numerous incompressible materials in static and dynamic conditions.

Available for the first time in English, this two-volume course on theoretical and applied mechanics has been honed over decades by leading scientists and teachers, and is a primary teaching resource for engineering and maths students at St.

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

This book provides structural reliability and design students with fundamental knowledge in structural reliability, as well as an overview of the latest developments in the field of reliability engineering.

This monograph offers a coherent, self-contained account of the theory of Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen measures and decay of correlations for nonuniformly hyperbolic dynamical systems.

This book offers a comprehensive and timely report of size-dependent continuum mechanics approaches.

This book reports on an original approach to problems of loci.

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.

The book introduces modern high-order methods for computational fluid dynamics.

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 textbook offers a strong introduction to the fundamental concepts of materials science.

This third edition builds on the introduction of spectral analysis as a means of investigating wave propagation and transient oscillations in structures.

This fourth edition focuses on the basics and advanced topics in strength of materials.

The book covers various topics of heat transfer.

This book uses a novel concept to teach the finite element method, applying it to solid mechanics.

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

This book describes the main approaches for production and synthesis of nanostructured metals and alloys, taking into account the fatigue behavior of materials in additive manufactured components.

This book focuses on the need for an Eulerian formulation of constitutive equations.

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.

This book highlights progress towards the capture, storage, and utilization of energy through the development of advanced materials and systems based on abundant elements, materials, and commodities.

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

This book provides an overview of the current of the state of the art in the multiscale mechanics of solids and structures.