Mechanical engineering

This book focuses on the use of nanotechnology in several fields of engineering.

This book draws together the most interesting recent results to emerge in mechanical engineering in Russia, providing a fascinating overview of the state of the art in the field in that country which will be of interest to a wide readership.

This book highlights recent advances in soft and stretchable biointegrated electronics.

This book contains papers of the 5th International Symposium on Experimental Mechanics (5-ISEM) and the 9th Symposium on Optics in Industry (9-SOI), whose general theme is Emerging Challenges for Experimental Mechanics in Energy and Environmental Applications.

This book reports on a novel approach for generating mechanical energy from different, external heat sources using the body of a typical piston engine with valves.

This revised, updated and expanded new edition presents an overview of biomimetics and biologically inspired structured surfaces.

This book examines the theoretical and practical aspects of tribological process using synergy, fractal and multifractal methods, and the fractal and multifractal models of self-similar tribosystems developed on their basis.

This text is an advancement of the theory of vibration protection of mechanical systems with lumped and distributed parameters.

This volume contains the best papers presented at the 2nd ECCOMAS International Conference on Multiscale Computations for Solids and Fluids, held June 10-12, 2015.

This carefully edited book introduces the latest achievements of thescientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the field of theory andpractice of Smart Electromechanical Systems (SEMS).

This brief details non-circular journal bearing configurations.

 This proceeding bookconsists of 10 topical areas of selected papers like: telecommunication, powersystems, robotics, control system, renewable energy, power electronics, computerscience and more.

This bookcomprehensively presents the computational design of rolling bearings dealingwith many interdisciplinary difficult working fields.

This book is a comprehensive collaboration on intelligent polymers and coatings for industrial applications by worldwide researchers and specialists.

This bookpresents recent advances and developments in control, automation, robotics, andmeasuring techniques.

This timely book deals with a current topic, i.

This book describes various hybrid machining and finishing processes.

This book provides the fundamentals of the application of mathematical methods, modern computational tools (Excel, Mathcad, SMath, etc.

Maximizing reader insights into the key scientific disciplines of Machine Tool Metrology, this text will prove useful for the industrial-practitioner and those interested in the operation of machine tools.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Mathematical modeling of technological processes track of the 8th International Conference on Computational and Information Technologies in Science, Engineering and Education, CITech 2015, held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in September 2015.

The second edition of this textbook includes refined text in each chapter, new sections on corrosion of steel-reinforced concrete and on cathodic protection of steel reinforced bars embedded in concrete, and some new solved examples.

This thesis conceptualizes and implements a new framework for designing materials that are far from equilibrium.

This book presents resent research advances in the area of eco-triobology.

Focusing on the most rapidly changing areas of mechatronics, this book discusses signals and system control, mechatronic products, metrology and nanometrology, automatic control & robotics, biomedical engineering, photonics, design manufacturing and testing of MEMS.

This volume contains selected papers in three closely related areas: mathematical modeling in mechanics, numerical analysis, and optimization methods.

This book presents the most recent advances in the research and applications of reconfigurable mechanisms and robots.

This book focuses on natural gas and synthetic methane as contemporary and future energy sources.

This book is based on the 55th International Conference of Machine Design Departments 2014 (ICMD 2014) which was hosted by the Czech Technical University in September 2014.

This book treats several subjects from the History of Mechanism and Machine Science, and also contains an illustrative presentation of the Museum of Engines and Mechanisms of the University of Palermo, Italy, which houses a collection of various pieces of machinery from the last 150 years.

Advancement of Optical Methods in Experimental Mechanics, Volume 3 of the Proceedings of the 2015SEM Annual Conference& Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the third volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

The purpose of this monograph is to characterize and describe the quality of machined wood surfaces, whereas particular attention is given to the utility and to aesthetical values in product design.

This volume contains papers that have been selected after review for oral presentation at ISRM 2015, the Fourth IFToMM International Symposium on Robotics and Mechatronics held in Poitiers, France 23-24 June 2015.

This book guides readers through the systematic analysis of Arc Spraying: one of the most widespread and important thermal spraying methods.

This book develops continuum modeling skills and approaches the topic from three sides: (1) derivation of global integral laws together with the associated local differential equations, (2) design of constitutive laws and (3) modeling boundary processes.

This book explores emerging methods and algorithms that enable precise control of micro-/nano-positioning systems.

Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution, Volume 8 represents the eighth of nine volumes of technical papers presented at the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) 15th International Congress & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, held at Costa Mesa, California, June 8-11, 2015.

This book deals with the problem of dynamics of bodies with time-variable mass and moment of inertia.

Residual Stress, Thermomechanics& Infrared Imaging, Hybrid Techniques and Inverse Problems, Volume 9 of the Proceedings of the 2015SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the ninth volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Experimental Mechanics of Composite, Hybrid, and Multifunctional Materials, Volume 7 of the Proceedings of the 2015SEM Annual Conference& Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the seventh volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book will assess and compare several options for ammonia co-fueling of diesel locomotives with integrated heat recovery, multigeneration (including on-board hydrogen fuel production from ammonia), and emission reduction subsystems from energy, exergy, and environmental perspectives.

This book provides important insights into the combustion behavior of novel energy crops and agricultural fuels.

This book presents a new theory of effective stresses in soils, which takes into account the internal stresses caused by the molecular, electrostatic, and structural mechanical forces.

This work provides an overview of a posteriori error assessment techniques for Finite Element (FE) based numerical models.

The book provides readers with a snapshot of recent research and technological trends in the field of condition monitoring of machinery working under a broad range of operating conditions.

This book summarizes the theoretical and experimental studies confirming the concept of the liquid-crystalline nature of boundary lubrication in synovial joints.

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This book consists of chapters that focus specifically on single figures that worked on Descriptive Geometry and also in Mechanisms Sciences and contain biographical notes, a survey of their work and their achievements, together with a modern interpretation of their legacy.

This Brief describes systematically results of research studies on a series of convective heat transfer phenomena from rotating disks in air crossflow.

This book starts with a short recapitulation on basic concepts, common to any types of robots (serial, tree structure, parallel, etc.

This book brings together papers from all spheres of mechanical engineering related to gears and transmissions, from fundamentals to advanced applications, from academic results in numerical and experimental research, to new approaches to gear design and aspects of their optimization synthesis and to the latest developments in manufacturing.