Engineering: Mechanics of solids

This book provides a compact history of gears, by summarizing the main stages of their development and the corresponding gradual acquisition of engineering expertise, from the antiquity to the Renaissance and the twentieth century.

This fifth edition of "e;Engineering Physiology"e; has the same purpose as the earlier prints: to provide physiological information which engineers, designers, supervisors, managers and other planners need to make work and equipment "e;fit the human.

This book is a liber amicorum to Professor Sergei Konstantinovich Godunov and gathers contributions by renowned scientists in honor of his 90th birthday.

Adding seven new chapters integrating modern approaches to dynamical systems theory, this revised second edition describes numerical approaches to the nonlinear theory of beams, plates and shells, with an emphasis to the elastic and thermoelastic features.

The book examines innovative numerical methods for computational solid and fluid mechanics that can be used to model complex problems in engineering.

This book aims at reviewing recent progress in the direction of algebraic and symbolic computation methods for functional systems, e.

This book provides an in-depth understanding of precise and approximate MMC modeling and calculation techniques of engineering systems.

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 explores the geometric and kinematic design of the various types of gears most commonly used in practical applications, also considering the problems concerning their cutting processes.

This book offers professionals working at power plants guidelines and best practices for vibration problems, in order to help them identify the respective problem, grasp it, and successfully solve it.

This textbook draws on the authors' experience gained by teaching courses for engineering students on e.

This textbook draws on the authors' experience gained by teaching courses for engineering students on e.

This book presents experimental techniques in the field of aerodynamics, a discipline that is essential in numerous areas, such as the design of aerial and ground vehicles and engines, the production of energy, and understanding the wind resistance of buildings.

The book explores the geometric and kinematic design of the various types of gears most commonly used in practical applications, also considering the problems concerning their cutting processes.

This book explores the key idea that the dynamical properties of complex systems can be determined by effectively calculating specific structural features using network science-based analysis.

This book presents the proceedings of the "e;5th International Interdisciplinary Chaos Symposium on Chaos and Complex Systems (CCS).

This book provides a broad overview of state-of-the-art research at the intersection of the Koopman operator theory and control theory.

The derivation and understanding of Partial Differential Equations relies heavily on the fundamental knowledge of the first years of scientific education, i.

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

This third of three volumes from the inaugural NODYCON, held at the University of Rome, in February of 2019, presents papers devoted to New Trends in Nonlinear Dynamics.

This book is a collection of high quality research and review papers submitted to the 1st World Conference on Advanced Materials for Defense (AUXDEFENSE 2018).

This book presents the signal processing and data mining challenges encountered in drilling engineering, and describes the methods used to overcome them.

This book presents state-of-the-art knowledge on problems of the effects of structural irregularities on their seismic response.

This book describes the entire process of designing guitars, including the theory and guidelines for implementing it in practice.

This conference proceeding presents contributions to the 59th International Conference of Machine Design (ICMD 2018), organized by the University of Zilina, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Design and Mechanical Elements.

This volume consists of a collection of chapters by recognized experts to provide a comprehensive fundamental theoretical continuum treatment of constitutive laws used for modelling the mechanical and coupled-field properties of various types of solid materials.

This book discusses the realization and control problems of finite-dimensional dynamical systems which contain linear and nonlinear systems.

This book discusses recent findings and advanced theories presented at two workshops at TU Berlin in 2017 and 2018.

This special anniversary book celebrates the success of this Springer book series highlighting materials modeling as the key to developing new engineering products and applications.

Residual Stress, Thermomechanics & Infrared Imaging and Inverse Problems, Volume 6 of the Proceedings of the 2019 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the sixth volume of six from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Mechanics of Composite, Hybrid, and Multifunctional Materials, Volume 5 of the Proceedings of the 2019 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the fifth volume of six from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1 of the Proceedings of the 2019 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the first volume of six from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Challenges in Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials, Volume 2 of the Proceedings of the 2019 SEM Annual Conference& Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the second volume of six from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book describes recent research findings on response and integrity of thick section composite and sandwich structures.

Vladimir Babitsky was born before the Second World War and migrated West after Perestroika.

This pocket guide serves as a supplementary learning resource to help students deconstruct challenging problems in the topic of rheology commonly encountered in engineering examinations, as well as those in related courses such as in the STEM disciplines.

Adding seven new chapters integrating modern approaches to dynamical systems theory, this revised second edition describes numerical approaches to the nonlinear theory of beams, plates and shells, with an emphasis to the elastic and thermoelastic features.

This book presents the work of the RILEM Technical Committee 259-ISR.

This book develops and substantiates methods for structural mathematical modeling in the context of protecting machines and equipment from vibration effects.

This monograph explores the application of the potential method to three-dimensional problems of the mathematical theories of elasticity and thermoelasticity for multi-porosity materials.

This book provides essential insights into recent developments in fundamental geotechnical engineering research.

This book offers a collection of original peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 8th International Congress on Design and Modeling of Mechanical Systems (CMSM'2019), held in Hammamet, Tunisia, from the 18th to the 20th of March 2019.

This book gives Abaqus users who make use of finite-element models in academic or practitioner-based research the in-depth program knowledge that allows them to debug a structural analysis model.

This self-contained book provides an introduction to the flow-oscillator modeling of vortex-induced bluff-body oscillations.

This book reports on cutting-edge findings concerning characterization of material behavior, material modeling and simulation, and applications in the field of manufacturing.

This is the first single volume monograph that systematically summarizes the recent progress in using non-Fourier heat conduction theories to deal with the multiphysical behaviour of smart materials and structures.

This thesis develops next-generation multi-degree-of-freedom gyroscopes and inertial measurement units (IMU) using micro-electromechanical-systems (MEMS) technology.

This book presents central problems in the design, research and maintenance of large-size mining machines for open pits, mobile earth-moving machinery, hydraulic hammers for mining and civil engineering, and screening processes for bulk materials.

This book reviews the most common state-of-the art methods for substructuring and model reduction and presents a framework that encompasses most method, highlighting their similarities and differences.

This book focuses on surface layers fracture of cyclical contacting bodies (machine parts).