Engineering: Mechanics of solids

This graduate textbook describes atomic-level kinetics of thermal energy storage, transport, and transformation by principal energy carriers.

A brief yet complete textbook for a first course in mechanical vibrations with more than sixty exercise problems where using MATLAB® is emphasized.

This book teaches the principles of soil mechanics to undergraduates, along with other properties of engineering materials.

This book teaches the principles of soil mechanics to undergraduates, along with other properties of engineering materials.

Introducing multibody dynamics with an emphasis on flexible body dynamics, this edition features an additional chapter with explanations for the fundamental issues addressed.

A graduate text on the fundamentals of chemically reacting flows for students of applied physics, aerospace, mechanical, and chemical engineering.

A balanced mechanics-materials approach to mechanical behavior that now also covers biomaterials and electronic materials, ideal for upper-level undergraduate courses.

This 2006 book combines modern and traditional solid mechanics topics in a coherent theoretical framework.

This 2006 work is intended for students who want a rigorous, systematic, introduction to engineering dynamics.

Ideal for those involved in designing sheet metal forming processes, where the understanding of advances in plasticity theory is essential.

This book presents an integrated approach to kinematic and dynamic analysis.

Ideal for those involved in designing sheet metal forming processes, where the understanding of advances in plasticity theory is essential.

This book presents an integrated approach to kinematic and dynamic analysis.

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

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

Approximation Methods in Engineering and Science covers fundamental and advanced topics in three areas: Dimensional Analysis, Continued Fractions, and Stability Analysis of the Mathieu Differential Equation.

An in-depth, comprehensible approach to theoretical soil mechanics and an introduction to the new theory of barodesy.

An overview of the processes related to geopressure development, prediction and detection using state-of-the-art tools and technologies.

Adopting a step by step methodical approach, the book is aimed at first and second year undergraduates and addresses the mathematical difficulties faced by them.

This text is the primary recommendation of the UK Engineering Council Faculty of Technology to all British universities as of approved standard and quality for use as a text for the Board's own examinations.

Within the last decade there has been an increasing awareness that use of standards deeply notched fracture mechanics test specimens can result in substantial over-or-under-assessments of the real fracture toughness associated with shallow surface cracks.

This International Institute of Welding (IIW) report was presented at the 52nd Annual Assembly in Lisbon in June 1999.

Welding is a cost-effective and flexible method of fabricating large structures, but drawbacks such as residual stress, distortion and buckling must be overcome in order to optimize structural performance.

The failure of any welded joint is at best inconvenient and at worst can lead to catastrophic accidents.

Creep is the tendency of materials to deform when subjected to long-term stress, particularly when exposed to heat.

Hypersingular Integral Equations in Fracture Analysis explains how plane elastostatic crack problems may be formulated and solved in terms of hypersingular integral equations.

Friction-vibration interactions are common but important phenomena in science and engineering.

Creep is the tendency of materials to deform when subjected to long-term stress, particularly when exposed to heat.

This textbook takes a broad yet thorough approach to mechanics, aimed at bridging the gap between classical analytic and modern differential geometric approaches to the subject.

Many problems in mathematical physics rely heavily on the use of elliptical partial differential equations, and boundary integral methods play a significant role in solving these equations.

An enormous array of problems encountered by scientists and engineers are based on the design of mathematical models using many different types of ordinary differential, partial differential, integral, and integro-differential equations.

Toachieve design, implementation,and servicing ofcomplex systems and struc- tures in an efficient and cost-effective way,a deeper knowledge and understanding of the subtle cast and detailed evolution of materials is needed.

Both refining and extending previous publications by the authors, the material in this monograph has been class-tested in mathematical institutions throughout the world.

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

Featuring original research from well-known experts in the field of sliding mode control, this monograph presents new design schemes for implementing LQ control solutions in situations where the output system is the only information provided about the state of the plant.

The sliding mode control methodology has proven effective in dealing with complex dynamical systems affected by disturbances, uncertainties and unmodeled dynamics.

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Most nonlinear systems can be modeled as linear systems with constrains on their inputs and selected outputs.

Based on a streamlined presentation of the authors' successful work Linear Systems, this textbook provides an introduction to systems theory with an emphasis on control.

Discontinuous control systems are the oldest type of control system and the mostwidespreadtypeofnonlinearcontrolsystem.

Fuzzy logic methodology has been proven effective in dealing with complex nonlinear systems containing uncertainties that are otherwise difficult to model.

This volume is an outgrowth of the workshop "e;Applications of Advanced Control Theory to Robotics and Automation, "e;organized in honor of the 70th birthdays of Petar V.

Prior to the computer era, analytical methods in elasticity had already been developed and - proved up to impressive levels.

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Because of its versatility in analyzing a broad range of applications, multibody dynamics has grown in the past two decades to be an important tool for designing, prototyping, and simulating complex articulated mechanical systems.

Welding is a cost-effective and flexible method of fabricating large structures, but drawbacks such as residual stress, distortion and buckling must be overcome in order to optimize structural performance.

Textbook providing a self-contained course on atmospheric dynamics for advanced students and researchers.