Mechanical engineering

This book is composed of chapters that focus specifically on technological developments by distinguished figures in the history of MMS (Mechanism and Machine Science).

This work deals with numerical simulations of fresh concrete flows.

This book deals with ship design and in particular with methodologies of the preliminary design of ships.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the cavitation erosion phenomenon and state-of-the-art research in the field.

The research and its outcomes presented in this book treat applications of NDT techniques to on-site measurements.

This book coversa broad range of materials science that has been brought to bear on providingsolutions to the challenges of developing self-healing and protective coatingsfor a range of metals.

This work presents the results of RILEM TC 237-SIB (Testing and characterization of sustainable innovative bituminous materials and systems).

This book analyses the current knowledge on structural behaviour of RC elements and structures strengthened with composite materials (experimental, analytical and numerical approaches for EBR and NSM), particularly in relation to the above topics, and the comparison of the predictions of the current available codes/recommendations/guidelines with selected experimental results.

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This conference provides a forum for exchange of technical and operational information across a wide range of pipeline activities.

From time to time the International Journal of Fracture has presented special matters thought to be of interest to its readers.

In March 2002, the Naval Research Laboratory brought together leading researchers and government sponsors for a three-day workshop in Washington, D.

This book is devoted to the PSI method.

SMC COLOMBIER FONTAINE is a company in the AFE METAL group, which uses a sand casting process to manufacture steel primary parts.

Design is a fundamental creative human activity.

The word cleaning covers a wide range of activities from good housekeeping and janitorial duties to clinical process cleaning applications that form part of our everyday lives, most people are not aware of their existence, and yet without them, many of the services and products we take for granted would not be available.

HYDRODYNAMIC PROPULSION AND ITS OPTIMIZATION ANALYTIC THEORY Hydrodynamic propulsion has been of major interest ever since craft took to the water.

Shell structures are widely used in the fields of civil, mechanical, architectural, aeronautical, and marine engineering.

This volume contains the edited version of selected papers presented at the Nato Advanced Study Institute on "e;Computer Aided Analysis of Rigid and Flexible Mechanical Systems"e;, held in Portugal, from the 27 June to 9 July, 1994.

The aim of this book is to investigate and explain the rapid advances in the characterization of high temperature crack growth behaviour which have been made in recent years, with reference to industrial applications.

This book focuses in particular on Geometrical Product Specification and Verification which is an integrated tolerancing view and metrology proposed for ISO/TC213.

Computer Aided techniques, Applications, Systems and tools for Geometric Modeling are extremely useful in a number of academic and industrial settings.

This is the fifth book of the Kluwer's series Advances in Robot Kine- matics.

The German Research Council (DFG) decided 1987 to establish a nationwide five year research project devoted to dynamics of multibody systems.

As is well-known, a control system always works under a variety of accidental or continued disturbances.

The papers in this proceeding are a collection of the works presented at the IUTAM symposium-Marrakech 2002 (October 20-25) which brought together scientists from various countries.

As robots are becoming more and more sophisticated the interest in robot dynamics is increasing.

Two key words for mechanical engineering in the future are Micro and Intelligence.

Joints in components or structures incur a weight penalty, are a source of failure, cause manufacturing problems, and are unfortunately unavoidable in most structures ranging from aircraft, and spacecraft to ships and offshore platforms, to automobiles, bridges and buildings.

As robotic systems make their way into standard practice, they have opened the door to a wide spectrum of complex applications.

The steady increase in computational power induces an equally steady increase in the complexity of the engineering models and associated computer codes.

Process planning detennines how a product is to be manufactured and is therefore a key element in the manufacturing process.

This handbook is a collection of elasticity solutions.

Phase transition phenomena in solids are of vital interest to physicists, materials scientists, and engineers who need to understand and model the mechanical behavior of solids during various kinds of phase transformations.

During the last two decades the boundary element method has experienced a remarkable evolution.

This book is a welcome edition to the Particle Technology Series, formerly Powder Technology Series.

The International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms is a new initiative to promote explicitly researches and publications in the field of the History of TMM (Theory of Machines and Mechanisms).

Segregation is a pervasive phenomenon whereby a flowing granular mass consisting of particles with diverse physical properties becomes spatially inhomogeneous.

Force and motion control systems of varying degrees of sophistication have shaped the lives of all individuals living in industrialized countries all over the world, and together with communication technology are largely responsible for the high standard ofliving prevalent in many communities.

Polymerie materials have been replacing other conventional materials like metals, glass and wood in a number of applications.

This volume contains the selected manuscripts of the papers presented at the Second IDMME Conference on "e;Integrated Design and Manufacturing in Mechanical Engineering"e;, held in Compiegne, France, at the University of Technology of Compiegne, May 27-29, 1998.

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This textbook deals with optimization of dynamic systems.

In May 1995 a meeting took place at the Manchester Metropolitan Uni- versity, UK, with the title International Workshop on Numerical Methods for Wave Propagation Phenomena.

During 27-31 July 1997, thirty-seven researchers in acoustics, aeronautics, elastodynamics, electromagnetics, hydrodynamics and mathematics participated in a Symposium on Computa- tional Methods for Unbounded Domains.

The main advantages of sandwiches as structural components are now well- known and well-established.