Mechanical engineering

A revision of a popular textbook, this volume emphasizes the development of analysis techniques from basic principles for a broad range of practical problems, including simple structures, pressure vessels, beams, and shafts.

Tribology for engineers discusses recent research and applications of principles of friction, wear and lubrication, and provides the fundamentals and advances in tribology for modern industry.

Stresses, which are induced by interstitial atoms, exhibit a resistive effect with respect to mechanical loading of metallic materials, i.

This proceedings volume gathers selected papers presented at the Chinese Materials Conference 2017 (CMC2017), held in Yinchuan City, Ningxia, China, on July 06-12, 2017.

This book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advancements in Mechanical Engineering (ICRAME 2020).

Folienlager sind Gleitlager mit einer nachgiebigen Innenkontur.

This book presents a collection of the best papers from the Seventh Asian Joint Workshop on Thermophysics and Fluid Science (AJWTF7 2018), which was held in Trivandrum, India, in November 2018.

This book discusses the core principles and practical applications of a brand new machine category: liquid-metal soft machines and motors.

EBOOK FLUID MECHANICS IN SI UNITS

This book consists of one hundred and twenty-five selected papers presented at the 2015 International Conference on Applied Mechanics, Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems (AMMIS2015), which was held in Nanjing, China during June 19-20, 2015.

In recent decades, metrology-an accurate and precise technology of high quality for automotive engines-has garnered a great deal of scientific interest due to its unique advanced soft engineering techniques in design and diagnostics.

Materials of micro-/nanometer dimensions have aroused remarkable interest, motivated by the diverse utility of unconventional mechanical and electronic properties distinguished from the bulk counterpart and various industrial applications such as electronic/optic devices and MEMS/NEMS.

Two large international conferences on Advances in Engineering Sciences were held in Hong Kong, March 12-14, 2014, under the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS 2014), and in London, UK, 2-4 July, 2014, under the World Congress on Engineering 2014 (WCE 2014) respectively.

This book focuses on the triboemission of low-energy electrons from the freshly generated surface.

This book is a compilation of witty and insightful short pieces on scientific developments in the science of friction, lubrication and wear.

ISHM is an innovative combination of technologies and methods that offers solutions to the reliability problems caused by increased complexities in design, manufacture, use conditions, and maintenance.

Interest in control of climbing and walking robots has remarkably increased over the years.

Robot Hands and Multi-Fingered Haptic Interfaces is a monograph focusing on the comparison of human hands with robot hands, the fundamentals behind designing and creating the latter, and robotics' latest advancements in haptic technology.

Telexistence is a fundamental concept which refers to the general technology that enables a human being to have the real-time sensation of being at a place other than where he or she actually exists, while being able to interact with the remote environment, which may be real, virtual, or a combination of both.

This book focuses on the fabrication and applications of cantilever beams with nanoscale dimensions.

This book, which is a result of a coordinated effort by 22 researchers from five different countries, addresses the methods of determining the local and global mechanical properties of a variety of materials: metals, plastics, rubber, and ceramics.

This text presents the state of the art in friction drag/resistance reduction technologies for BODIES and crafts operating in liquids at and beneath the free surface.

Man lubricates mostly with oil.

This is one of the few unique books that explicitly explores what the common methodologies are across disciplines that stretch from the humanities to the exact sciences.

The papers collected in this volume, presented at the workshop on 'Nonlinear Problems in Engineering', held in ENEA Rome (Italy) from 6 - 7 May 1991, and sponsored by ENEA, report nonlinear problems of prevailing engineering interest.

This volume contains the research papers for the final Workshop of European Robotics Network (ERNET).

This volume contains the proceedings of an interdisciplinary meeting which attracted participants from the fields of physics, engineering, applied mathematics, and geology.

The 5th of a prestigious series of conferences, these proceedings are devoted to the latest achievements in ceramic materials and components for engines.

This book is the expanded version of the earlier (first edition) text.

This book presents a discussion of lattice dynamics for perfect and imperfect lattices and their relation to continuum theories of elasticity, piezoelectricity, viscoelasticity and plasticity.

This book develops a general methodological approach to investigate complex physical systems presented by the author in a previous book.

This English translation, with revisions, of the well-known Chinese edition presents systematically the geometric theory of conjugate tooth surfaces in a more or less rigorous form.

This monograph presents solutions and examples of application of several problems of mechanics connected with the behavior of the macroscale with that on the mesoscale.

In a significantly revised English edition the text provides a solid course on mechanics of porous & fractured media (mainly of geomaterials).

From the point of view of mechanics, this monograph systematically demonstrates the theory of plastic bending and its engineering applications; most of the contents of the book are based on the authors' research in the past decade.

This book presents a systematic and coherent approach to phase transitions and critical phenomena, namely the coherent-anomaly method (CAM theory) based on cluster mean-field approximations.

This book offers an advanced course on "e;Computational Geometry for Ships"e;.

This book provides final year undergraduate students, graduate students, research scientists and engineers with an up-to-date overview of the power of using surface analytical techniques for probing complex solid surfaces and lubricants as well as for understanding their interactions in tribological systems.

The motion of mechanical systems undergoing rotation about a fixed axis has been the subject of extensive studies over a few centuries.

The dynamics of dissipative mechanical and structural systems is being investigated at various institutions and laboratories worldwide with ever-increasing sophistication of modeling, analysis and experiments.

The book gives a novel treatment of recent advances on constrained control problems with emphasis on the controllability, reachability of dynamical discrete-time systems.

The book starts with an historical overview of road vehicles.

Rapid developments in nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory have led to publication of many valuable monographs and books.

This volume covers friction-induced vibration, the influence of actuator-bearing grease composition, wear measurements for proximity recording heads, characteristics of a suspension assembly, design and analysis of the HDD Servo System, reluctance torque reduction, etc.

Scientific Editor & Translator E B Kremer (St.

Advances in Information Storage Systems (AISS), volumes 9 & 10, are special volumes which contain selected papers regarding not only information storage but also information equipment in general and related technologies.

The elegance and logic of the superposition method have made it a highly attractive analytical procedure for obtaining accurate mathematical solutions to plate vibration problems.

This book is devoted to the theory of chaotic oscillations in mechanical systems.

Motor monitoring, incipient fault detection, and diagnosis are important and difficult topics in the engineering field.