Mechanical engineering

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In December 1994 Professor Enok Palm celebrated his 70th birthday and retired after more than forty years of service at the University of Oslo.

The great, complex and rapid change happening in fonner Soviet Union is overfloading an impressive impact on the western world, especially Europe, and, in the close future, on the global world.

The International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) initiated and sponsored an International Symposium on Optimization of Mechanical Systems held in 1995 in Stuttgart, Germany.

The idea of optimization runs through most parts of control theory.

MV engineering is a truly multidisciplinary area and perhaps because of this, it is plagued with imprecise jargon.

Projects are becoming more complex and traditional project management is proving inadequate.

This book is an introduction to automotive engineering, to give freshmen ideas about this technology.

This book treats corrosion as it occurs and affects processes in real-world situations, and thus points the way to practical solutions.

This book introduces field theory as required in solid and fluid mechanics as well as in electromagnetism.

This book traces the history of the concept of work from its earliest stages and shows that its further formalization leads to equilibrium principle and to the principle of virtual works, and so pointing the way ahead for future research and applications.

This book integrates history of science and technology with modern social network theory.

The Second Conference on Mechanisms, Transmissions and Applications - MeTrApp 2013 was organised by the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of the Basque Country (Spain) under the patronage of the IFToMM Technical Committees Linkages and Mechanical Controls and Micromachines and the Spanish Association of Mechanical Engineering.

This book represents the fifth part of a larger work dedicated to the structural synthesis of parallel robots.

Computational kinematics is an enthralling area of science with a rich spectrum of problems at the junction of mechanics, robotics, computer science, mathematics, and computer graphics.

This book assesses the state-of-the-art in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applied to ship hydrodynamics and provides guidelines for the future developments in the field based on the Gothenburg 2010 Workshop.

This book starts with a discussion of nonlinear ordinary differential equations, bifurcation theory and Hamiltonian dynamics.

The Machines of Sex Research describes how researchers worldwide integrated technology into studies of human sexuality in the postwar era.

The micro- and nano-modification of infrastructure materials and the associated multi-scale characterization and simulation has the potential to open up whole new uses and classes of materials, with wide-ranging implications for society.

Knowing the safety factor for limit states such as plastic collapse, low cycle fatigue or ratcheting is always a major design consideration for civil and mechanical engineering structures that are subjected to loads.

This books contains the Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Power Transmissions, that was held in Sinaia, Romania from June 20 -23, 2012.

This book focuses on the nonlinear behaviour of thin-wall shells (single- and multilayered with delamination areas) under various uniform and non-uniform loadings.

Humanoid Robotics: a Reference provides a comprehensive compilation of developments in the conceptualization, design and development of humanoid robots and related technologies.

The 22nd International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM) of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics was hosted by the Australasian mechanics community in the city of Adelaide during the last week of August 2008.

The design and construction of rotating machinery operating at supercritical speeds was, in the 1920s, an event of revolutionary importance for the then new branch of dynamics known as rotor dynamics.

The book opens with a derivation of kinematically nonlinear 3-D continuum mechanics for solids.

The book contains state-of the-art reviews in the area of effective properties of heterogeneous materials - the classical field at interface of materials science and solid mechanics.

Vibration of Hydraulic Machinery deals with the vibration problem which has significant influence on the safety and reliable operation of hydraulic machinery.

This book is focused on geometrical models of robot mechanisms.

This book summarizes research advances in micromechanics modeling of ductile fractures made in the past two decades.

This book contains a collection of papers that were presented at the IUTAM Symposiumon "e;Computer Models in Biomechanics: From Nano to Macro"e; held at Stanford University, California, USA, from August 29 to September 2, 2011.

The International Conference on the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms is organized every four years, under the auspices of the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM) and the Czech Society for Mechanics.

This book contains the results in numerical analysis and optimization presented at the ECCOMAS thematic conference "e;Computational Analysis and Optimization"e; (CAO 2011) held in Jyvaskyla, Finland, June 9-11, 2011.

With regard to both the environmental sustainability and operating efficiency demands, modern combustion research has to face two main objectives, the optimization of combustion efficiency and the reduction of pollutants.

This book contains the papers of the European Conference on Mechanisms Science (EUCOMES 2012 Conference).

This book addresses patient-specific modeling.

In the recent past, new materials, laboratory and in-situ testing methods and construction techniques have been introduced.

This work presents a unified approach to the vibrations of elastic systems as applied to MEMS devices, mechanical components, and civil structures.

Deformable solids have a particularly complex character; mathematical modeling is not always simple and often leads to inextricable difficulties of computation.

This book presents a mechatronic approach to Active Noise Control (ANC).

Kinematics is an exciting area of computational mechanics which plays a central role in a great variety of fields and industrial applications.

The first Workshop on Mechanisms, Transmissions and Applications -- MeTrApp-2011 was organized by the Mechatronics Department at the Mechanical Engineering Faculty, "e;Politehnica"e; University of Timisoara, Romania, under the patronage of the IFToMM Technical Committees Linkages and Mechanical Controls and Micromachines.

This book contains selected papers presented at MAMM 2010, the First Workshop on Microactuators and Micromechanisms.

This book represents the fourth part of a larger work dedicated to the structural synthesis of parallel robots.

This book contains the proceedings of HMM2012, the 4th International Symposium on Historical Developments in the field of Mechanism and Machine Science (MMS).

This book contains mechanism analysis and synthesis.

The well documented increase in the use of high performance composites as structural materials in aerospace components is continuously raising the demands in terms of dynamic performance, structural integrity, reliable life monitoring systems and adaptive actuating abilities.

This book focuses on the mechanisms and underlying mechanics of failure in various classes of materials such as metallic, ceramic, polymeric, composite and bio-material.