Engineering: Mechanics of solids

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

Discusses the significant advances made within the last decade in the area of fluid film lubrication and its applications.

This book familiarises students with the basic elements of fluid mechanics and provides a comprehensive foundation for more advanced courses.

This comprehensive book ranges from elementary concepts to state-of-the-art computational fluid dynamics techniques used to study and solve complex fluid flow problems.

An introduction to the mathematical basis of finite element analysis as applied to vibrating systems.

This book familiarises students with the basic elements of fluid mechanics and provides a comprehensive foundation for more advanced courses.

This comprehensive book ranges from elementary concepts to state-of-the-art computational fluid dynamics techniques used to study and solve complex fluid flow problems.

An introduction to the mathematical basis of finite element analysis as applied to vibrating systems.

This book provides a background in the mechanics of solids for students of mechanical engineering.

A comprehensive graduate textbook on the mechanical properties of ceramics.

Explains the special techniques required to model the radiation and diffraction of elastic and surface waves.

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

A discussion of continuum mechanics which uniquely includes thermodynamics for engineering graduate students.

A quantitative introduction to atmospheric physics for intermediate-advanced undergraduate and graduate students, with an emphasis on the underlying physical principles.

This book provides a background in the mechanics of solids for students of mechanical engineering.

First book on the fast multipole BEM, bringing together classical theory in BEM formulations and the fast multipole method.

Covers two important aspects of large-scale ocean circulation – wind-driven circulation, and thermohaline-driven circulation caused by changes in water density.

An expanded textbook for mechanical behavior of materials courses in mechanical and materials engineering that emphasizes quantitative problem solving.

This book provides a thoroughly modern approach to learning and understanding mechanics problems.

First book on the fast multipole BEM, bringing together classical theory in BEM formulations and the fast multipole method.

A theoretical treatment of nonlinear behaviour of solids and structures, suitable for numerical computation.

Presents innovative mathematical theory and corresponding numerical results for wave propagation in layered media with arbitrary amounts of intrinsic absorption.

This graduate text on viscoelastic materials addresses design applications as diverse as earplugs, computer disks and medical diagnostics.

This book describes a tecnique for numerical simulation of turbulent flows, Implicit Large Eddy Simulation (ILES).

Provides a complete course in continuum mechanics with examples and exercises and a chapter on continuum thermodynamics.

This text treats solids and fluids in a balanced manner, using thermodynamic restrictions on the relation between applied forces and material responses.

Describes fluid flow, transport and contamination in rocks and sediments, for graduate students and professionals in hydrology, water resources, geochemistry.

Emphasises the power of mathematics to provide quantitative insights across the whole area of solid mechanics; accessible and comprehensive.

A modern vector oriented treatment of classical dynamics and its application to engineering problems.

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

A concise account of classic theories of fluids and solids, for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in continuum mechanics.

This 2007 book concerns the vibration and the stability of slender structural components.

This book covers elastic stability of solids and structures, Warner Koiter''s area of special expertise.

This book presents the ideas of structural theory rather than a review of calculation techniques.

This book covers nonlinear continuum mechanics theory and its use in nonlinear computer formulations.

Covers the theoretical and experimental aspects of nonlinear vibrations and stability of shells and plates.

This book introduces key ideas and principles in the theory of elasticity with symbolic computation.

This book is ideal as a graduate textbook and reference for the advanced learner in fluid mechanics.

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

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

This 2006 work addresses development and application of continuum-mechanical models that describe the macroscopic response of certain materials.

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

Dynamics of Multibody Systems, Third Edition, first published in 2005, introduces multibody dynamics, with an emphasis on flexible body dynamics.

This book uniquely covers both Statics and Dynamics with a revision section on background mathematics.

A 2003 reference relating the strength characteristics of atoms to their electronic structure.

The Duffing Equation: Nonlinear Oscillators and their Behaviour brings together the results of a wealth of disseminated research literature on the Duffing equation, a key engineering model with a vast number of applications in science and engineering, summarizing the findings of this research.

The Duffing Equation: Nonlinear Oscillators and their Behaviour brings together the results of a wealth of disseminated research literature on the Duffing equation, a key engineering model with a vast number of applications in science and engineering, summarizing the findings of this research.

Mechanics and Physics of Porous Solids addresses the mechanics and physics of deformable porous materials whose porous space is filled by one or several fluid mixtures interacting with the solid matrix.

The subject of computational plasticity encapsulates the numerical methods used for the finite element simulation of the behaviour of a wide range of engineering materials considered to be plastic i.

A comprehensive treatment of the chemistry and physics of mechanical hardness Chemistry and Physics of Mechanical Hardness presents a general introduction to hardness measurement and the connections between hardness and fundamental materials properties.