Bücher der Reihe Solid Mechanics and Its Applications

This comprehensive treatise covers in detail practical methods of analysis as well as advanced mathematical models for structures highly sensitive to creep and shrinkage.

This book presents pedestrian injuries from a biomechanical perspective. It gives a detailed treatment of the physics of pedestrian impact plus a review of the accident databases and relevant injury criteria used to assess pedestrian injuries.

This collection of cutting-edge papers, written by leading authors in honor of Professor Jacob Aboudi, covers a wide spectrum of topics in the field, presents both theoretical and experimental approaches, and suggests directions for possible future research.

The conclusion of a larger work on structural synthesis of parallel robots, this book offers topologies of parallel robotic manipulators with two and three degrees of freedom systematically generated by using a structural synthesis approach proposed in Part 1.

Chris Calladine's research has ranged very widely across the field of struc tural mechanics, with a particular focus on the plastic deformation of solids and structures, and the behaviour of thin-shell structures.

Finite element model updating has emerged in the 1990s as a subject of immense importance to the design, construction and maintenance of mechanical systems and civil engineering structures.

In most previously published rotordynamics texts, the behavior of simple rotors has been of a primary concern, while more realistic, multi-degree-f-freedom or continuous systems are seldom treated in a rigorous way, mostly due to the difficulty of a mathematical treatment of such complicated systems.

Elastic plate analysis results must be translated to economic cross-section dimensions and reinforcement ratios, and that process raises difficulties. This book acts as a bridge between commercially available FEM packages and consulting structural engineers.

This book examines low and high frequency mechanical, acoustic random vibrations. The theory of random vibration is strongly related to the design of spacecraft structures and is illustrated with simple and more difficult worked examples.

It will bring students and engineers from various disciplines up to date on key concepts that have become increasingly important in the design of safety-relevant engineering structures in general and in modern lightweight structures in the transportation industry in particular.

A fascinating dis cipline, analytical mechanics is not only indispensable for the solution of certain mechanics problems but also contributes so effectively towards a fundamental under standing of the subject of mechanics and its applications.

This book is intended as an introductory text on Solid Mechanics suitable for engineers, scientists and applied mathematicians.

This book is intended for mechanicians, engineering mathematicians, and, generally for theoretically inclined mechanical engineers. I did not think that the surface of the problem had even been scratched, so I joined de Pater, who had by then become Professor in the Engineering Mechanics Lab.

Contact Mechanics studies the stress and strain states of bodies in contact; This book investigates a variety of contact problems: discrete contact of rough surfaces, the effect of imperfect elasticity and mechanical inhomogeneity of contacting bodies, models of friction and wear, changes in contact characteristics during the wear process, etc.

This book is concerned with the numerical solution of crack problems. The techniques to be developed are particularly appropriate when cracks are relatively short, and are growing in the neighbourhood of some stress raising feature, causing a relatively steep stress gradient.

Finite element model updating has emerged in the 1990s as a subject of immense importance to the design, construction and maintenance of mechanical systems and civil engineering structures.

The subject of Elasticity can be approached from several points of view, depending on whether the practitioner is principally interested in the mathematicalstructure of the subject or in its use in engineering applications and in the latter case, whether essentially numerical or analytical methods are envisaged as the solution method.

In most previously published rotordynamics texts, the behavior of simple rotors has been of a primary concern, while more realistic, multi-degree-f-freedom or continuous systems are seldom treated in a rigorous way, mostly due to the difficulty of a mathematical treatment of such complicated systems.

Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Stuttgart, Germany, 20-24 August 2001

This volume consists of a collection of chapters by recognized experts to provide a comprehensive fundamental theoretical continuum treatment of constitutive laws used for modelling the mechanical and coupled-field properties of various types of solid materials.

This book started its life as a series of lectures given by the second author from the 1970's onwards to students in their third and fourth years in the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics at Rostov State University.

Random vibration is one of the main design drivers in the context of the design, development and verification of spacecraft structures, instruments, equipment, etc, and Miles' equation provides a valuable tool for solving random vibration problems.

Now in this third updated and expanded edition, this text offers an introduction to the dynamics of active structures and to the feedback control of lightly damped flexible structures, with the emphasis on basic issues and simple control strategies that work.

The material in this work is focused on recent developments in research into the stress-strain behavior of geomaterials, with an emphasis on laboratory measurements, soil constitutive modeling and behavior of soil structures (such as reinforced soils, piles and slopes).

Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Marrakech, Morocco, 20-25 October 2002

The aim of this book is to present the mathematical theory and the know-how to make computer programs for the numerical approximation of Optimal Control of PDE's.

This book reviews core concepts of fracture mechanics including special techniques for FEM analysis of crack problems. Covers all kinds of static, dynamic and fatigue fracture problems in two- and three-dimensional elastic and plastic structural components.

This book describes the current state of the art in damage mechanics, applying theory to typical damage and fracture problems encountered in various fields of current engineering. Shows the possibilities of this promising branch of mechanics.

Contains the edited papers of the IUTAM Symposium on the Biomechanics of Impact, which was held in University College Dublin, Ireland in July 2005. These papers can be grouped into those that are concerned with the different causes of accidents, and the mechanics involved in accident analysis. This work is useful for researchers.

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