Mechanical engineering

This book presents and applies a novel efficient meta-heuristic optimization algorithm called Colliding Bodies Optimization (CBO) for various optimization problems.

This book presents guidelines on quantitative and qualitative measures of the geometric features and imperfections of welds to ensure that it meets the fatigue strength requirements laid out in the recommendations of the IIW (International Institute of Welding).

As in the previous volume on the topic, the authors close the gap between abstract mathematical approaches, such as applied methods of modern algebra and analysis, fundamental and computational mechanics, nonautonomous and stochastic dynamical systems, on the one hand and practical applications in nonlinear mechanics, optimization, decision making theory and control theory on the other.

This book starts with background concerning three-dimensional integration - including their low energy consumption and high speed image processing - and then proceeds to how to construct them and which materials to use in particular situations.

This volume is dedicated to Professor Okyay Kaynak to commemorate his life time impactful research and scholarly achievements and outstanding services to profession.

This book introduces a general approach for schematization of mechanical systems with rigid and deformable bodies.

This volume contains the Proceedings of the 3rd IFToMM Symposium on Mechanism Design for Robotics, held in Aalborg, Denmark, 2-4 June, 2015.

This book provides discussions and the exchange of information on principles, strategies, models, techniques, methodologies and applications of industrial engineering.

This book presents theories and the main useful techniques of the Finite Element Method (FEM), with an introduction to FEM and many case studies of its use in engineering practice.

This book is at once a supplement to traditional foundation engineering textbooks and an independent problem-solving learning tool.

This book describes mathematical techniques for integral transforms in a detailed but concise manner.

Pattern formation is a fascinating and challenging aspect in polymer science.

This book details the relationships between microstructure, interface roughness, and properties of thermal barrier coatings.

The book presents interesting examples of recent developments in this area.

This volume deals with topics such as mechanism and machine design, biomechanics and medical engineering, gears, mechanical transmissions, mechatronics, computational and experimental methods, dynamics of mechanisms and machines, micromechanisms and microactuators, and history of mechanisms and transmissions.

This book presents the relevant consequences of recently discovered and interdisciplinary phenomena, triggered by local mechanical instabilities.

This book gives the background to differential-pressure flow measurement and goes through the requirements explaining the reason for them.

This book includes an in-depth analysis of the environmental and energy security impacts of replacing the internal combustion engine vehicle with various forms of electric vehicles and replacing gasoline and diesel fuel with alternative fuels including electricity, hydrogen and biofuels.

This book gives a detailed and practical introduction to complex flows of polymers and reinforced polymers as well as the flow of simple fluids in complex microstructures.

This monograph presents recent advances in differential flatness theory and analyzes its use for nonlinear control and estimation.

This book reports on the latest advances in the analysis of non-stationary signals, with special emphasis on cyclostationary systems.

The book encompasses novel CFD techniques to compute offshore wind and tidal applications.

This book focuses on particulate matter emissions produced by vehicles with combustion engines.

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 SpringerBrief utilizes a surface chemistry/physical chemistry approach toward the study of aqueous corrosion processes.

This book emphasizes in detail the applicability of the Optimal Homotopy Asymptotic Method to various engineering problems.

This book is written for the users and designers of joint replacements.

This book describes current, competitive coating technologies for vehicles.

This book addresses the broad multi-disciplinary topic of robotics, and presents the basic techniques for motion and operation planning in robotics systems.

This book introduces novel design techniques developed to increase the safety of aircraft engines.

This book reports on the state of the art in the field of multiphysics systems.

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This book complements available one-make books on domestic synchronous clocks.

This book examines material composites used in connection with brake friction, their design and safety.

This book examines mechatronics and automatic control systems.

This edited volume presents research results of the PPP European Green Vehicle Initiative (EGVI), focusing on Electric Vehicle Systems Architecture and Standardization Needs.

This book presents co-sputtered processes ways to produce chrome doped TiO2 thin films onto various substrates such as quartz, silicon and porous silicon.

Professionals as well as researchers can benefit from this comprehensive introduction into the topic of setup planning, which reflects the latest state of research and gives hands-on examples.

This book deals with magnetorheological fluid theory, modeling and applications of automotive magnetorheological dampers.

Maximizing reader insights into the fundamentals of complex analysis, and providing complete instructions on how to construct and use mathematical tools to solve engineering problems in potential theory, this book covers complex analysis in the context of potential flow problems.

Articles in this book examine various materials and how to determine directly the limit state of a structure, in the sense of limit analysis and shakedown analysis.

This book focuses on the methods of dynamic analysis and synthesis of machines, comprising of cyclic action mechanisms, such as linkages, cams, steppers, etc.

In this book advanced balancing methods for planar and spatial linkages, hand operated and automatic robot manipulators are presented.

Demonstrating the latest research and analysis in the area of through-life engineering services (TES), this book utilizes case studies and expert analysis from an international array of practitioners and researchers - who together represent multiple manufacturing sectors: aerospace, railway and automotive - to maximize reader insights into the field of through-life engineering services.

This book presents the most recent trends and concepts in power engineering, especially with regard to prosumer and civic energy generation.

The book begins with the fundamentals of light scattering, first by individual particles, then by small groups of particles, and finally by the trillions of particles present in a real-life paint film.

This book deals with wear and performance testing of thin solid film lubrication and hard coatings in an ultra-high vacuum (UHV), a process which enables rapid accumulation of stress cycles compared with testing in oil at atmospheric pressure.

This book presents bond graph model-based fault detection with a focus on hybrid system models.

This book contains state-of-the-art contributions in the field of evolutionary and deterministic methods for design, optimization and control in engineering and sciences.

The book analyzes the basic problems of oscillation processes and theoretical aspects of noise and vibration in friction systems.