Engineering: Mechanics of solids

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of efficiency and performance engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the TEPEN International Workshop on Fault Diagnostics and Prognostics (TEPEN-IWFDP), held in Qingdao, China on May 8-11, 2024.

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

Digital fabrication has been termed the "e;third industrial revolution"e;, and is promising to revolutionize many disciplines, including most recently the construction sector.

Nonlinear Structures & Systems, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 41st IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2023, the first volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Tensegrity Systems discusses analytical tools to design energy efficient and lightweight structures employing the concept of "e;tensegrity.

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

This book addresses theoretical and experimental methods for exploring microstructured metamaterials, with a special focus on wave dynamics, mechanics, and related physical properties.

This book consists of select proceedings of the National Conference on Wave Mechanics and Vibrations (WMVC 2018).

Dynamic Deformation, Damage and Fracture in Composite Materials and Structures, Second Edition reviews various aspects of dynamic deformation, damage and fracture, mostly in composite laminates and sandwich structures, and in a broad range of application areas including aerospace, automotive, defense and sports engineering.

This book is to provide 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.

In five chapters, this volume presents recent developments in fatigue assessment.

This book focuses on the theory and design of special space orbits.

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Fluid Flow and Thermal Sciences (ICAFFTS 2021) and summarizes the modern research practices in fluid dynamics and fluid power.

This volume comprises the communications presented at the ETC 11, the EUROMECH European Turbulence conference held in 2007 in Porto.

This book provides a systematic introduction to the dynamical behaviors of discontinuous dynamical systems and system synchronization.

Structural design sensitivity analysis concerns the relationship between design variables available to the design engineer and structural responses determined by the laws of mechanics.

This book gathers selected research papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Computers and Devices for Communication (CODEC 2019), held at the Department of Radio Physics and Electronic, University of Calcutta, India, on 19 - 20 December 2019.

This book focuses on the justification and refinement of highly diverse approximate dynamic models for engineering structures arising in modern technology, including high-tech domains involving nano- and meta-materials.

This book is a collection of papers presented at Acoustics and Vibration of Mechanical Structures 2017 - AVMS 2017 - highlighting the current trends and state-of-the-art developments in the field.

This book sheds light on how Member States and EU neighbours relate to Russia.

Granular or particulate materials arise in almost every aspect of our lives, including many familiar materials such as tea, coffee, sugar, sand, cement and powders.

The present book is devoted to a rapidly developing field of science which studies the behavior of viscoelastic materials under the influence of deformation~the rheology of polymers.

This reference tutorial contains modern experimental approaches to analysis of strain-stress distribution based on interference-optical methods of registration of strain or displacement fields, including coherent-optical techniques (holographic interferometry, speckle photography, electronic digital speckle interferometry techniques) and photoelastic methods as well as the shadow optical method of caustic.

"e;For he who knows not mathematics cannot know any other sciences; what is more, he cannot discover his own ignorance or find its proper remedies.

Structures Under Crash and Impact: Continuum Mechanics, Discretization and Experimental Characterization examines the testing and modeling of materials and structures under dynamic loading conditions.

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This text is an introduction to the dynamics of active structures and to the feedback control of lightly damped flexible structures; the emphasis is placed on basic issues and simple control strategies that work.

This book focuses on the qualitative theory in structural mechanics, an area that remains underdeveloped.

Vibration of Hydraulic Machinery deals with the vibration problem which has significant influence on the safety and reliable operation of hydraulic machinery.

This book presents the fundamentals and advanced research on the global stability analysis of the shear flows.

FEM updating allows FEMs to be tuned better to reflect measured data.

"e;Settlement Calculation on High-Rise Buildings: Theory and Application"e; discusses, for the first time, the latest developments in settlement calculation theory and case studies including analysis and research results for more than thirty high-rise buildings with a height of 100m-420m.

From Charpy to Present Impact Testing contains 52 peer-reviewed papers selected from those presented at the Charpy Centenary Conference held in Poitiers, France, 2-5 October 2001.

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 book is designed for students in engineering, physics and mathematics.

Nonlinear Structures & Systems, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 40th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2022, the first volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

An introductory textbook on all aspects of climate system dynamics and modelling for students, scientists and professionals.

This book highlights aesthetics as pertaining to the structural component in architectural design.

This book presents the fundamentals of modern tensor calculus for students in engineering and applied physics, emphasizing those aspects that are crucial for applying tensor calculus safely in Euclidian space and for grasping the very essence of the smooth manifold concept.

In their 1909 publication Theorie des corps deformables, Eugene and Francois Cosserat made a historic contribution to materials science by establishing the fundamental principles of the mechanics of generalized continua.

This book presents a precise approach for defect sizing using ultrasonics.

This book presents up-to-date concepts and design methods relating to space dynamics and control, including spacecraft attitude control, orbit control, and guidance, navigation, and control (GNC), summarizing the research advances in control theory and methods and engineering practice from Beijing Institute of Control Engineering over the years.

In mechanical engineering and structural analysis there is a significant gap between the material models currently used by engineers for industry applications and those already available in research laboratories.

Many elements and inorganic compounds play an extraordinary role in daily life for numerous applications, e.

Mathematical models of deformation of elastic plates are used by applied mathematicians and engineers in connection with a wide range of practical applications, from microchip production to the construction of skyscrapers and aircraft.

Fracture Mechanics of Rock