Engineering: Mechanics of solids

The major goal of this book is to present the implementation of some damage models with finite elements.

Durability of Building Materials and Components provides a collection of recent research works to contribute to the systematization and dissemination of knowledge related to the long-term performance and durability of construction and, simultaneously, to show the most recent advances in this domain.

This book describes most recent advances and limitations concerning design of adhesive joints under humid conditions and discusses future trends.

This book was written to serve as the standard textbook of elastoplasticity for students, engineers and researchers in the field of applied mechanics.

The simplest way to formulate the basic equations of continuum mech- ics and the constitutive or evolutional equations of various materials is to restrict ourselves to rectangular cartesian coordinates.

The aim of this book is to describe an efficient procedure to model dynamical contact problems with friction.

The aim of this book is to describe an efficient procedure to model dynamical contact problems with friction.

Constantly increasing attention is paid in the course 'Vibration 'Theory' to vibration of mechanical systems with distributed parameters, since the real elements of machines, devices, and constructions are made of materials that are not perfectly rigid.

The book describes current mission analysis and design techniques that may be applied to a very wide range of interplanetary missions from those targeting the inner planets to those destined for the outer planets and Solar System escape trajectories.

Many practical control problems are dominated by characteristics such as state, input and operational constraints, alternations between different operating regimes, and the interaction of continuous-time and discrete event systems.

This book is an introduction to modern numerical methods in engineering.

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This book covers the new topic of GPU computing with many applications involved, taken from diverse fields such as networking, seismology, fluid mechanics, nano-materials, data-mining , earthquakes ,mantle convection, visualization.

This book deals with rotordynamics of automotive turbochargers while encompassing the analysis of the dynamics of rotating machines at very high rotor speeds of 300,000 rpm and above.

An important part of the science of complexity is the study of emergent properties arising through dynamical processes in various types of natural and artificial systems.

This book is a collection of papers contributed by some of the greatest names in the areas of chaos and nonlinear dynamics.

Effective evacuation of people from closed spaces is an extremely important topic, since it can save real lives in emergency situations that can be brought about by natural and human made disasters.

One of the most striking features of Coordination Dynamics is its interdisciplinary character.

Synchronization of chaotic systems, a patently nonlinear phenomenon, has emerged as a highly active interdisciplinary research topic at the interface of physics, biology, applied mathematics and engineering sciences.

By now, most academics have heard something about the new science of complexity.

This monograph is devoted to a new approach to an old field of scientific investigation, freeway traffic research.

We present an improved and enlarged version of our book Nonlinear - namics of Chaotic and Stochastic Systems published by Springer in 2002.

Emergence and complexity refer to the appearance of higher-level properties and behaviours of a system that obviously comes from the collective dynamics of that system's components.

Chaos and nonlinear dynamics initially developed as a new emergent field with its foundation in physics and applied mathematics.

This book reviews the state-of-the-art in multiscale computer modeling, in terms of both accomplishments and challenges.

Pressure-related chronic wounds are an important health concern that affects millions of patients and accumulates billions in annual costs.

Complex Nonlinearity: Chaos, Phase Transitions, Topology Change and Path Integrals is a book about prediction & control of general nonlinear and chaotic dynamics of high-dimensional complex systems of various physical and non-physical nature and their underpinning geometro-topological change.

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of morbidity and premature death of modern era medicine.

How is free will possible in the light of the physical and chemical underpinnings of brain activity and recent neurobiological experiments?

In this book a number of ideas and results related to the ?

The study of physics has changed in character, mainly due to the passage from the analyses of linear systems to the analyses of nonlinear systems.

The focus of this book is on mechanical aspects of skeletal fragility related to aging and osteoporosis.

Damage to the central nervous system resulting from pathological mechanical loading can occur as a result of trauma or disease.

This volume focuses on the biomechanical modeling of biological tissues in the context of Computer Assisted Surgery (CAS).

The past two decades have witnessed an explosion of ideas in the general ?

Coordination represents one of the most striking, most taken for granted, but least understood features of living things.

Chaos and nonlinear dynamics initially developed as a new emergent field with its foundation in physics and applied mathematics.

Organic Computing is a research field emerging around the conviction that problems of organization in complex systems in computer science, telecommunications, neurobiology, molecular biology, ethology, and possibly even sociology can be tackled scientifically in a unified way.

Our contemporary understanding of brain function is deeply rooted in the ideas of the nonlinear dynamics of distributed networks.

This second edition offers a comprehensive collection of state-of-the-art chapters on continuum mechanics, covering topics such as the constitutive theory of magnetoelastic solids, solids with evolving reference configurations, second-gradient solids, and biological tissues.

This second edition offers a comprehensive collection of state-of-the-art chapters on continuum mechanics, covering topics such as the constitutive theory of magnetoelastic solids, solids with evolving reference configurations, second-gradient solids, and biological tissues.

This comprehensive textbook presents fundamental concepts and detailed analysis of stress in homogeneous and isotropic solids using a tensor approach.

This comprehensive textbook presents fundamental concepts and detailed analysis of stress in homogeneous and isotropic solids using a tensor approach.

Pitting corrosion poses a significant threat to infrastructure in engineering and there is a lack of comprehensive modeling methodologies to assess the effectiveness of corrosion mitigation strategies specifically designed for various structural systems.

Pitting corrosion poses a significant threat to infrastructure in engineering and there is a lack of comprehensive modeling methodologies to assess the effectiveness of corrosion mitigation strategies specifically designed for various structural systems.

This book analyses the multifield behavior of doubly-curved shells made of anisotropic and advanced materials.