Mechanical engineering

A road traffic participant is a person who directly participates in road traffic, such as vehicle drivers, passengers, pedestrians, or cyclists, however, traffic accidents cause numerous property losses, bodily injuries, and even deaths to them.

Automobiles have played an important role in the shaping of the human civilization for over a century and continue to play a crucial role today.

In recent years, the control of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) has attracted strong attention for various automotive applications.

The intelligent vehicle will play a crucial and essential role in the development of the future intelligent transportation system, which is developing toward the connected driving environment, ultimate driving safety, and comforts, as well as green efficiency.

The next generation of autonomous vehicles will provide major improvements in traffic flow, fuel efficiency, and vehicle safety.

To resolve the urban transportation challenges like congestion, parking, fuel consumption, and pollution, narrow urban vehicles which are small in footprint and light in their gross weight are proposed.

Vehicle rollover accidents have been a serious safety problem for the last three decades.

Ever stringent vehicle safety legislation and consumer expectations inspire the improvement of vehicle dynamic performance, which result in a rising number of control strategies for vehicle dynamics that rely on driving conditions.

Thanks to the potential of reducing fuel consumption and emissions, hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) have been attracting more and more attention from car manufacturers and researchers.

As public attention on energy conservation and emission reduction has increased in recent years, engine idling has become a growing concern due to its low efficiency and high emissions.

X-by-wire Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) have been attracting increased attention for various civilian or military applications.

The number of heavy-duty construction vehicles is increasing significantly with growing urban development causing poor air quality and higher emissions.

This book reports research findings and outcome from various discipline of engineering and technology, focusing on industrial technology operation and sustainable development.

This book covers a variety of topics at the interface between biomedical engineering and manufacturing.

This book provides the fundamental knowledge allowing students in engineering and natural sciences to enter fluid mechanics and its applications in various fields where fluid flows need to be dealt with.

This book has been written for the introductory course of fluid mechanics for students at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

This book presents selected, peer-reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Mechanical Engineering, Automation and Sustainable Development 2021 (AMAS2021), held in the city of Ha Long, Vietnam, from November 4 to 7, 2021.

This book gathers the latest advances in the field of history of science and technology, as presented by leading international researchers at the 7th International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms (HMM), held in Granada and Jaen, Spain on April 28-30, 2022.

This book provides readers with the comprehensive insights of the recent research breakthroughs in additive, subtractive, and hybrid technologies.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations and applications in the field of condition monitoring, plant maintenance and reliability, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 6th International Conference on Maintenance Engineering and the 2021 conference of the Efficiency and Performance Engineering Network (IncoME-VI  TEPEN 2021), held in Tianjin, China on October 20-23, 2021.

This book presents the latest advances and emerging trends in research and industrial applications in non-destructive testing, manufacturing and process safety and diagnostics and materials science.

This book presents new technologies and applications in deep learning, artificial intelligence and robotics.

The proceedings of the conference is going to benefit the researchers, academicians, students and professionals in getting enlightened on latest technologies on structural mechanics, structure and infrastructure engineering.

This book presents the developments in engineering design application.

This book presents recent improvements in peridynamic modeling of structures.

This book presents the current state of the problem of describing the musculoskeletal system of a person.

This book offers a comprehensive review of collision avoidance techniques and safe trajectory planning for manned and unmanned ships, together with extensive information on how to develop and implement algorithms for applications in real-world settings.

The book presents theoretical and experimental studies of ice fracturing process during impact and explosion load.

This book is a collection of research results in a wide range of topics related to human-robot interaction, both physical and cognitive, including theories, methodologies, technologies, and empirical and experimental studies.

This book aims at serving the researchers and practitioners in related fields with a timely dissemination of the recent progress on robotics and artificial intelligence.

This book presents select, recent developments in nonlinear and complex systems reported at the 1st Online Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity, held on November 23-25, 2020.

The book covers the classical areas of technical thermodynamics: The first part deals with the basic equations for energy conversion and idealized fluids.

The book covers a wide range of applied engineering research compactly presented in one volume, and shows innovative practical engineering solutions for automotive, marine and aviation industries, as well as power generation related to nonlinear vibrations excited by limited power sources.

This book tackles the complex topic of implementing innovation and the successful application of advanced technology in the construction industry.

This book presents new research results in the field of gravity compensation in robotic systems.

This book explains how to improve the validity, reliability, and repeatability of slip resistance assessments amongst a range of shoes, floors, and environments from an engineering metrology viewpoint-covering theoretical and experimental aspects of slip resistance mechanics and mechanisms.

This book contains the papers that were presented at the 17th International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR).

This book offers a timely overview of nonlinear control methods applied to a set of vehicles and their applications to study vehicle dynamics.

The book retraces the history of the Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (AIMETA) since its establishment in 1965.

This contributed volume presents recent developments in nonlinear dynamics applied to engineering.

This book contains a collection of peer-reviewed papers from the 2020 Conference on Multidisciplinary Engineering and Technology (COMET 2020) held online on December 15-16, 2020.

This book presents selected, peer-reviewed contributions from the 9th International Conference on Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures (EVACES 2021), organized by the University of Tokyo and Saitama University from September 17-20, 2021 on the Hongo campus of the University of Tokyo, and hosted in an online format.

Theory of Applied Robotics: Kinematics, Dynamics, and Control presents detailed robotics concepts at a theoretical-practical level, concentrating on their practical use.

This book presents a collection of papers prepared by the researches of the Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IPME RAS) on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Institute.

This book was written by a team of leading gear experts from across the globe, including contributions from USA, Germany, Poland, China, Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.

This textbook explores the working principles of all kinds of turbomachines.

This book explains that the coming years undoubtedly bring new developments in mechatronics.

This edited volume summarizes research being pursued within the DFG Priority Programme 1748: "e;Reliable Simulation Methods in Solid Mechanics.

This book covers the International Conference on Engineering Research and Applications (ICERA 2021), which took place at Thai Nguyen University of Technology, Thai Nguyen, Vietnam on December 1-2, 2021, and provided an international forum to disseminate information on latest theories and practices in engineering research and applications.

The book explores the fundamental issues of robot mechanics for both the analysis and design of manipulations, manipulators and grippers, taking into account a central role of mechanics and mechanical structures in the development and use of robotic systems with mechatronic design.