Mechanical engineering

This book presents recent advances and developments in control, automation, robotics, and measuring techniques.

This book collects a number of important contributions presented during the Second Conference on Interdisciplinary Applications of Kinematics (IAK 2013) held in Lima, Peru.

This is a textbook for graduate and final-year-undergraduate computer-science and electrical-engineering students interested in the hardware and software aspects of embedded and cyberphysical systems design.

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of nonlinear multi-modal structural vibration problems, and shows how vibration suppression can be applied to such systems by considering a sample set of relevant control techniques.

This book broadens readers' understanding of proactive condition monitoring of low- speed machines in heavy industries.

This volume contains the Proceedings of MUSME 2014, held at Huatulco in Oaxaca, Mexico, October 2014.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary research and emerging measurement technologies associated with gas transport in solid oxide fuel cells.

The fuel consumption of a modern combustion engine is one of the most important purchase criteria in contemporary society.

The main aim of this book is to introduce and give an overview of a novel, easy, and highly effective heat transfer augmentation technique for single-phase micro/minichannel heat sink.

This textbook covers fundamental and advanced topics in orbital mechanics and astrodynamics to expose the student to the basic dynamics of space flight.

The VETOMAC-X Conference covered a holistic plethora of relevant topics in vibration and engineering technology including condition monitoring, machinery and structural dynamics, rotor dynamics, experimental techniques, finite element model updating, industrial case studies, vibration control and energy harvesting, and signal processing.

This essential textbook concerns analysis and control of engineering mechanisms, which includes almost any apparatus with moving parts used in daily life, from musical instruments to robots.

This book presents a concise, yet thorough, reference for all heat transfer coefficient correlations and data for all types of cylinders: vertical, horizontal, and inclined.

This book provides an invaluable reference to Piezoelectric Accelerometers with Integral Electronics (IEPE).

This book covers all basic areas of mechanical engineering, such as fluid mechanics, heat conduction, beams and elasticity with detailed derivations for the mass, stiffness and force matrices.

This essential reference defines the principle and most commonly used terms found in engineering documents and drawings across multiple disciplines and explains them in plain, unambiguous English.

Applied Dynamics is an important branch of engineering mechanics widely applied to mechanical and automotive engineering, aerospace and biomechanics as well as control engineering and mechatronics.

Servo Motors and Industrial Control Theory is the only text focused on the fundamentals of servo motors and control theory.

By having its origin in analytical and continuum mechanics, as well as in computer science and applied mathematics, multibody dynamics provides a basis for analysis and virtual prototyping of innovative applications in many fields of contemporary engineering.

The book offers a snapshot of the state-of-art in the field of model-based mechatronic system design.

This Brief describes the influence of the different organic chelating agents on the topography, physical properties and phases of SPPS-deposited spinel ferrite splats.

MEMS and Nanotechnology, Volume 8: Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the eighth volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the first volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Experimental Mechanics of Composite, Hybrid, and Multifunctional Materials, Volume 4: Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the fourth volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the sixth volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to important areas of research and engineering.

Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials, Volume 7: Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the seventh volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

The book presents a complete new methodology for the on-board measurements and modeling of gas concentrations in turbocharged diesel engines.

Covering the complete design cycle of nanopositioning systems, this is the first comprehensive text on the topic.

This book presents the proceedings of the 9th IFToMM International Conference on Rotor Dynamics.

This book presents the complete formulation of a new advanced discretization meshless technique: the Natural Neighbour Radial Point Interpolation Method (NNRPIM).

This book presents efficient metaheuristic algorithms for optimal design of structures.

This edited volume presents basic principles as well as advanced concepts of the computational modeling of steering systems.

This volume describes new frontiers in medical and service robotics in the light of recent developments in technology to advance robot design and implementation.

This book presents and discusses mathematical models, numerical methods and computational techniques used for solving coupled problems in science and engineering.

This book summarizes the main methods of experimental stress analysis and examines their application to various states of stress of major technical interest, highlighting aspects not always covered in the classic literature.

This book defines the current state-of-the-art for predicting the lifetime of plastics exposed to weather and outlines the future research needed to advance this important field of study.

The book presents state-of-the-art works in computational engineering.

This book introduces the basic concepts of contact mechanics, friction, lubrication, and wear mechanisms, providing simplified analytical relationships that are useful for quantitative assessments.

Optomechatronics, as a fusion of optical and mechatronic engineering, have played a key role in developing innovative products such as high precision instruments, defence, photonic systems, measurements, diagnostics, semiconductors, and so on.

Simulation of ODE/PDE Models with MATLAB(R), OCTAVE and SCILAB shows the reader how to exploit a fuller array of numerical methods for the analysis of complex scientific and engineering systems than is conventionally employed.

An original mechanical formulation to treat nonlinear orthotropic behavior of composite materials is presented in this book.

This book focuses on the way in which the problem of the motion of bodies has been viewed and approached over the course of human history.

The International Multidisciplinary Microscopy Congress (INTERM2013) was organized on October 10-13, 2013.

This fifth volume of eight from the IMAC - XXXII Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This fourth volume of eight from the IMAC - XXXII Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Focussing on occurrences of unstable vibrations, or Chatter, in machine tools, this book gives important insights into how to eliminate chatter with associated improvements in product quality, surface finish and tool wear.

This book has been created on the basis of contributions to the 54th International Conference of Machine Design Departments that was held for the 60th anniversary of Technical University of Liberec.

This book lays the foundation of knowledge that will allow a better understanding of nonlinear phenomena that occur in structural dynamics.

This book contains contributions presented at the IUTAM Symposium "e;Fracture Phenomena in Nature and Technology"e; held in Brescia, Italy, 1-5 July, 2012.

In the last decade the research in signal analysis was dominated by models that encompass nonstationarity as an important feature.