Engineering: Mechanics of solids

Nonlinear Structures & Systems, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 37th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2019, the first volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Special Topics in Structural Dynamics & Experimental Techniques, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 37th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2019, the fifth volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 4:  Proceedings of the 37th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2019, the fourth volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 2:  Proceedings of the 37th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2019, the second volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book fills a unique position in the literature as a dedicated mechanical shock analysis book.

Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Volume 3:  Proceedings of the 37th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2019, the third volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

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 gathers contributions addressing issues related to the analysis of composite structures, whose most relevant common thread is augmented numerical efficiency, which is more accurate for given computational costs than existing methods and methodologies.

This book covers a variety of topics in mechanics, with a special emphasis to fluid mechanics and energy transfer.

This primer is intended to provide the theoretical background for the standard undergraduate, mechanical engineering course in dynamics.

This book presents a collection of chapters on the current problems of the theory of dynamical processes in generalized continua and structures, and has been compiled to commemorate the 70th birthday of Prof.

This well-established book on injury biomechanics has been extensively revised and expanded for this new edition.

This book offers a comprehensive treatment of nonlocal elasticity theory as applied to the prediction of the mechanical characteristics of various types of biological and non-biological nanoscopic structures with different morphologies and functional behaviour.

This book contains advances on the theory and applications of time-delay systems with particular focus on interconnected systems.

This book is aimed at researchers, industry professionals and students interested in the broad ranges of disciplines related to condition monitoring of machinery working in non-stationary conditions.

This corrected version of the landmark 1981 textbook introduces the physical principles and theoretical basis of acoustics with deep mathematical rigor, concentrating on concepts and points of view that have proven useful in applications such as noise control, underwater sound, architectural acoustics, audio engineering, nondestructive testing, remote sensing, and medical ultrasonics.

Observer Design for Nonlinear Systems deals with the design of observers for the large class of nonlinear continuous-time models.

This is an advanced modern textbook on thermal stresses.

This monograph provides a compendium of established and novel error estimation procedures applied in the field of Computational Mechanics.

This book describes in detail different types of vibration signals and the signal processing methods, including signal resampling and signal envelope, used for condition monitoring of drivetrains.

This book presents various state-of-the-art applications for the development of new materials and technologies, discussing computer-based engineering tools that are widely used in simulations, evaluation of data and design processes.

This monograph presents computational models that describe electro-mechanical characteristics of tapered and cylinder roller bearings in various industrial applications.

The book presents new results and applications of the topological derivative method in control theory, topology optimization and inverse problems.

This book addresses the basic concepts of continuum mechanics, that is, the classical field theory of deformable bodies.

This book provides an extensive introduction to the mechanics of anti-sandwiches: non-classical composites with multiple homogeneous layers but widely differing parameters concerning their geometry and materials.

This revised, updated textbook adds new focus on computational methods and the importance of vibration theory in computer-aided engineering to fundamental aspects of vibration of discrete and continuous systems covered in the previous two editions of Vibration of Discrete and Continuous Systems.

This book offers an excellent complementary text for an advanced course on the modelling and dynamic analysis of multi-body mechanical systems, and provides readers an in-depth understanding of the modelling and control of robots.

This book provides a comprehensive and thorough guide to those readers who are lost in the often-confusing context of weld fatigue.

This self-contained book addresses the three most popular computational methods in CAE (finite elements, boundary elements, collocation methods) in a unified way, bridging the gap between CAD and CAE.

This book discusses how to identify the level of adhesion in layered systems made of cement composites using a multi-scale approach based on experimental and numerical analyses.

This book presents tensors and tensor analysis as primary mathematical tools for engineering and engineering science students and researchers.

This book constitutes the Proceedings of the Second International Conference of IFToMM ITALY, held in Cassino, Italy, in 2018.

This book discusses the main mechanical features of masonry buildings and the peculiarities that affect their structural behaviour.

This textbook introduces theoretical piezoelectricity.

This book presents the synthesis and analysis of fuzzy controllers and its application to a class of mechanical systems.

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

This book introduces the peridynamic (PD) differential operator, which enables the nonlocal form of local differentiation.

This book highlights fundamental research on the design and application of engineering materials, and predominantly mechanical engineering applications.

This book primarily focuses on rigorous mathematical formulation and treatment of static problems arising in continuum mechanics of solids at large or small strains, as well as their various evolutionary variants, including thermodynamics.

This book presents, in a uniform way, several problems in applied mechanics, which are analysed using the matrix theory and the properties of eigenvalues and eigenvectors.

This book includes a collection of state-of-the-art contributions addressing both theoretical developments in, and successful applications of, seismic structural health monitoring (S2HM).

This volume shines a new light on short fibre reinfoced cementitious composites and particle reinforced ceramics.

This book is based on results obtained over a decade of study and research.

This book treats dynamic stability of structures under nonconservative forces.

This volume contains the proceedings of the RAAD 2018 conference, covering major areas of research and development in robotics.

This book presents research results of PowerWeb, TU Delft's consortium for interdisciplinary research on intelligent, integrated energy systems and their role in markets and institutions.

This book introduces the peridynamic (PD) differential operator, which enables the nonlocal form of local differentiation.

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

This book offers a comprehensive treatment of nonlocal elasticity theory as applied to the prediction of the mechanical characteristics of various types of biological and non-biological nanoscopic structures with different morphologies and functional behaviour.

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