Bücher der Reihe CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences

The aim of this book is to provide, both the non-specialist and the specialist in EHD, with the ability to extract meaningful information from his/her experimental data and acquire a good physical understanding, by applying the ideas presented in this book.

The aim of the book is to fill up the gaps between theoretical, numerical, and practical design approaches in the field of coupled instabilities of metal structures.

That is, economists formulate their hypotheses and study the dynamics of the resulting models rather than formulating the dynamics and studying hypotheses that could lead to models with such dynamics.

This text presents papers from the fifth International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing Systems and Technology - AMST'99. It provides up-to-date information on the developments, research results and industrial experience in the field of advanced manufacturing systems and technology.

This book is dedicated to fundamental concepts, problems and methods of structural stability along with qualitative understanding of instability phenomena. Recent exciting experiments on dynamic stability of non-conservative systems are described and shown by many photographs.

These lecture notes cover numerous elements of configurational mechanics, including mathematical foundations, linear and nonlinear elasticity and continuum mechanics, coupled fields, fracture mechanics, as well as strength of materials.

Rapid shearing flow of granular materials lead to constitutive relations for the stresses which incorporate rate independent behavior of Mohr-Coulomb type together with dispersive stress contributions due to particle collisions.

Slender structures, such as towers, masis, high-rise buildings and bridges, are especially prone to wind excited vibrations. The lectures show how the susceptibility of a structure to wind excited vibrations can be assessed in early stages of design and what measures are effective for control or avoidance of vibrations.

However, since contact can readily be interpreted as a special type of interface problem, it seems advisable not to isolate contact mechanics, but rather to address it in the context of a broader class of problems denoted as computational interface mechanics.

On XXI Winter Universiads 2003, CISM offered its scientific contribution by hosting a conference on mechanics applied to sports and, in general, to human movement.

The subject of the book is the design of aluminium alloys structures.A parallel trend has been observed in the last decades in civil engineering structures, where aluminium alloys compete with steel (long-span roofing, bridges, hydraulic structures, offshore superstructures).

The experience of people working with different perspectives in different fields of masonry modeling, from mathematics to applied engineering and practice, is brought together in this book. It presents both the theoretical background and an overview of the state-of-the-art in static and dynamic masonry modeling.

This account of thermomechanical behaviour of granular and porous materials deals with: experiments; theoretical deduction of macroscale equations; the macroscopic description in a continuum-thermodynamical and statistical context; and analysis of solutions by numerical techniques.

This text contains scientific and engineering results from the design of tubular structures. It includes static and fatigue analysis, theoretical and experimental results, calculations of earthquake-resistant structures, analysis of connections and application of structural optimization.

The book is mainly devoted to the thermomechanical behavior of materials during solid-solid phase transformations. The physical mechanisms including diffusion, martensitic transformation and plasticity are described from material science point of view. Mainly metals, both non ferrous and ferrous alloys but also geological problems are dealt with.

The book presents the state of the art in the interdisciplinary field of fluid mechanics applied to cardiovascular modelling. It is arranged in 4 scientific chapters each presenting thoroughly the approach of a leading research team;

This book offers an introduction to nonlinear phenomena in structural dynamics, covering such topics as approximate methods for analyzing nonlinear systems, vibration isolation, mitigation of ndesirable torsional vibration in rotating systems and more.

Deployable structures can vary their shape automatically from a compact, packaged configuration to an expanded, operational configuration. Three main themes are discussed in this book: concepts, working principles, and mechanics of deployable structures, both in engineering and biology;

This volume presents modeling and simulation techniques for the dynamical analysis of coupled engineering systems consisting of mechanical, electrical, hydraulic and biological components as well as control devices based on computer hardware and software.

Moving Interfaces in Solids are typically phase boundaries and grain or subgrain boundaries. Continuum thermodynamics and continuum mechanics are applied to explain the motion process. Experts from material physics and mechanics bridge the gap between these fields. Examples are presented for various material systems.

This book focuses on turbulent flows generated and/or influenced by multiscale/fractal structures. It consists of six chapters which demonstrate, each one in its own way, how such structures and objects can be used to design bespoke turbulence for particular applications and also how they can be used for fundamental studies of turbulent flows.

This book explores damage growth and fracture processes in cementitious, ceramic, polymer and metal matrix composites, integrating properties like stiffness and strength with observation at below macroscopic scale.

This book provides a detailed overview and comprehensive analysis of the main theoretical and experimental advances on free surface thin film and jet flows of soft matter. At the experimental front, a variety of recent experimental developments is outlined and the link between theory and experiments is illustrated.

Recent investigations have highlighted the similarities between turbulence in cryogenic fluids at temperatures close to absolute zero, in particular superfluid helium, and turbulence in ordinary fluids.

This is an up-to-date review of recent advances in the study of two-phase flows, with focus on gas-liquid flows, liquid-liquid flows, and particle transport in turbulent flows.

Five main topics of computational plasticity are treated in this volume. The aim was primarily an integrated representation of the mathematical models, the analysis of numerical methods and the newest algorithm for the consistent and stable computation of large dimensional systems.

Neural Networks are a new, interdisciplinary tool for information processing. Neurocomputing being successfully introduced to structural problems which are difficult or even impossible to be analysed by standard computers (hard computing).

A survey of asymptotic methods in fluid mechanics and applications is given including high Reynolds number flows (interacting boundary layers, marginal separation, turbulence asymptotics) and low Reynolds number flows as an example of hybrid methods, waves as an example of exponential asymptotics and multiple scales methods in meteorology.

However, since contact can readily be interpreted as a special type of interface problem, it seems advisable not to isolate contact mechanics, but rather to address it in the context of a broader class of problems denoted as computational interface mechanics.