Engineering: Mechanics of solids

This book offers a compact introduction to modern linear control design.

This book is primarily a research monograph that presents in a unified man- ner some recent research on a class of hybrid dynamical systems (HDS).

I was delighted when I learned in the fall of 2005 that Steve Cowin was working on a textbook in biomechanics.

This best-selling textbook presents the concepts of continuum mechanics, and the second edition includes additional explanations, examples and exercises.

Drawing on forty years of teaching experience, the author presents the basic concepts of mathematical modeling of fluids and solids.

Topics in Experimental Dynamics Substructuring, Volume 2: Proceedings of the 31st IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2013, the second volume of seven from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

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

This book comprises the selected contributions from the 2nd World Congress on Condition Monitoring (WCCM 2019), held in Singapore in December 2019.

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

Size effects on material and structural behaviors are of great interest to physicists, material scientists, and engineers who need to understand and model the mechanical behavior of solids especially at micron- and nano-scales.

Solid cellular materials (foams, lattice materials, honeycombs, etc.

Servo Motors and Industrial Control Theory presents the fundamentals of servo motors and control theory in a manner that is accessible to undergraduate students, as well as practitioners who may need updated information on the subject.

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Optimal control of partial differential equations (PDEs) is a well-established discipline in mathematics with many interfaces to science and engineering.

Engineering the Guitar: Theory and Practice uniquely describes the mechanics of the guitar for engineers and craftsmen alike.

"e;Piezoelectric-Based Vibration-control Systems: Applications in Micro/Nano Sensors and Actuators"e; covers: Fundamental concepts in smart (active) materials including piezoelectric and piezoceramics, magnetostrictive, shape-memory materials, and electro/magneto-rheological fluids; Physical principles and constitutive models of piezoelectric materials; Piezoelectric sensors and actuators; Fundamental concepts in mechanical vibration analysis and control with emphasis on distributed-parameters and vibration-control systems; and Recent advances in piezoelectric-based microelectromechanical and nanoelectromechanical systems design and implementation.

This book is designed to serve as a text for engineering students.

This third of three volumes presents papers from the third series of NODYCON to be held in June of 2023.

Experimental solid mechanics is the study of materials to determine their physical properties.

This book is an outgrowth of my involvement in two groups of research in solid mechanics, created in 1960 for the French nuclear energy program.

This book offers a collection of original peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 10th International Congress on Design and Modeling of Mechanical Systems (CMSM'2023), held on December 18-20, 2023, in Hammamet, Tunisia.

This book covers the principles and applications of vehicle handling dynamics from an advanced perspective in depth.

Simplified fracture mechanics based assessment methods are widely used by the industry to determine the structural integrity significance of postulated cracks, manufacturing flaws, service-induced cracking or suspected degradation of engineering components under normal and abnormal service loads.

International Series of Monographs on Aeronautics and Astronautics, Division VII, Volume 5: The Flight of Uncontrolled Rockets focuses on external ballistics of uncontrolled rockets.

Residual Stress Measurement and the Slitting Method provides complete coverage of the slitting method with new results in analysis, computation and estimation.

Nonlinear Approaches in Engineering Applications 2 focuses on the application of nonlinear approaches to different engineering and science problems.

This book presents the micromechanics of random structure heterogeneous materials, a multidisciplinary research area that has experienced a revolutionary renascence at the overlap of various branches of materials science, mechanical engineering, applied mathematics, technical physics, geophysics, and biology.

This book presents a selection of cutting-edge methods that allow readers to obtain novel models for nonlinear solid mechanics.

Topics in Modal Analysis I, Volume 5.

This book offers a new calculation procedure of the structural behavior of grouped layout of silos, easy to use and with satisfactory responses.

Nontraditional machining utilizes thermal, chemical, electrical, mechanical and optimal sources of energy to bind, form and cut materials.

Fatigue of structures and materials covers a wide scope of different topics.

This volume gathers the latest advances and innovations in the field of flow-induced vibration and noise, as presented by leading international researchers at the 3rd International Symposium on Flow Induced Noise and Vibration Issues and Aspects (FLINOVIA), which was held in Lyon, France, in September 2019.

This book describes the modelling and optimisation of vibration reduction systems in an integrated fashion using nonlinear equations of motion.

A major part of this sediment transport representation closely follows the progress made in understanding the interactions between a turbulent flow and transportable solid particles.

Master the theory, applications and control mechanisms of flow control techniques.

Introduction to Solid Mechanics: An Integrated Approach presents for the first time in one text the concepts and processes covered in statics and mechanics of materials curricula following a granular, topically integrated approach.

This book offers a collection of original peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 10th International Congress on Design and Modeling of Mechanical Systems (CMSM'2023), held on December 18-20, 2023, in Hammamet, Tunisia.

Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1 of the Proceedings of the 2020 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the first volume of seven from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

An eminent engineer and historian tackles one of the most elemental aspects of life: how we experience and utilize physical force "e;Another gem from a master of technology writing.

This is an elementary book on stress and strain theory for geologists.

This book is based on lecture notes for a graduate course that has been offered at University of Nebraska-Lincoln on and off since 1998.

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.

This book describes the current state of knowledge in the field of multi-scale ECM mechanics and mechanobiology with a focus on experimental and modelling studies in biomechanical characterization, advanced optical microscopy and imaging, as well as computational modeling.

Elementary Plane Rigid Dynamics focuses on the basic ideas of particle dynamics, including center of gravity, inertia, friction, and oscillations.

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

This book represents the HELS (Helmholtz equation least squares) theory and its applications for visualizing acoustic radiation from an arbitrarily shaped vibrating structure in free or confined space.

Master the principles of thermodynamics, and understand their practical real-world applications, with this deep and intuitive undergraduate textbook.