Bücher der Reihe Springer Tracts in Mechanical Engineering

This book introduces the basics of contact mechanics, friction, lubrication, and wear mechanisms, providing simplified analytical relationships that are useful for quantitative assessments. Covers friction and wear, with practical tools for their resolution.

This book focuses on discrete element methods for arbitrarily shaped granular materials, including super-quadric models, spherical harmonic functions and level set methods, and numerical analysis of the flow characteristics of non-spherical granular materials. This book is used as a reference book for scientific researchers engaged in dynamic analysis of granular materials and optimal design of equipment structures in the fields of engineering mechanics, applied physics, mechanical engineering, and chemical engineering, as well as for graduate students or senior undergraduates of related majors in institutions of higher education.

This book provides a comprehensive coverage on robot fish including design, modeling and optimization, control, autonomous control and applications. Moreover, the book discusses various important issues for future research and development, including design methodology, control methodology, and autonomous control strategy.

The finite element (FE) method is one such widely used numerical method. Finite Element Applications begins with demystifying the 'black box' of finite element solvers and progresses to addressing the different pillars that make up a robust finite element solution framework.

This book provides in-depth theoretical and practical information on recent advances in micro-manufacturing technologies and processes, covering such topics as micro-injection moulding, micro-cutting, micro-EDM, micro-assembly, micro-additive manufacturing, moulded interconnected devices, and microscale metrology.

This book reports on a novel approach for generating mechanical energy from different, external heat sources using the body of a typical piston engine with valves.

This book provides a brief introduction to the theory of finitedimensional differential inclusions, and deals in depth with control of threekinds of differential inclusion systems.

The book presents a series of concise papers by researchers specialized in various fields of continuum and computational mechanics and of material science.

The book describes the implementation of different methods, including artificial neural networks, the Matrix Method, the Monte Carlo method and the virtual CMM (Coordinate Measuring Machine), and demonstrates how these methods can be effectively used in practice to gauge the accuracy of coordinate measurements.

High-Performance Computing for Structural Mechanics and Earthquake/Tsunami Engineering

This book explores the rotordynamics of automotive turbochargers, which encompasses analysis of the dynamics of machines rotating at very high speeds. Benefits both working practioners and graduate students in mechanical engineering.

This book provides a comprehensive coverage on robot fish including design, modeling and optimization, control, autonomous control and applications. Moreover, the book discusses various important issues for future research and development, including design methodology, control methodology, and autonomous control strategy.

The book encompasses novel CFD techniques to compute offshore wind and tidal applications. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques are regarded as the main design tool to explore the new engineering challenges presented by offshore wind and tidal turbines for energy generation.

The book describes in detail electromechanical equipment of PAT systems, their installation and operation, and gives important practical insight into the use of PAT in water transmission and distribution systems, as part of thermal power plants and cooling systems, in oil distribution systems and other systems as well.

This book presents recent progress in the application of RANS turbulence models based on the Reynolds stress transport equations.

The book presents cutting-edge research in the emerging fields of micro, nano and smart devices and systems from experts working in these fields over the last decade.

Vibro-Acoustics of Lightweight Sandwich Structures introduces the study of the coupled vibration and acoustic behavior of lightweight sandwich structures in response to harmonic force and sound pressure.

This book shows how slender structural systems with high seismic performance can be achieved by including viscous and viscoelastic dampers, which opens up new possibilities in forms and configurations without compromising structural performance.

The book is an outcome of research work in the areas of nanotechnology, interfacial science, nano- and micro-fluidics and manufacturing, soft matter, and transport phenomena at nano- and micro-scales.

This book reports on solved problems concerning vibrations and stability of complex beam systems.

This book covers the systematic classification of parallel mechanisms (PMs) as well as provides a large number of mechanical architectures of PMs available for use in practical applications. It focuses on the kinematic design of parallel robots.

This book provides a uniform formula for the design of any planar four-bar linkages. It develops Burmester theory to fit for the design with any number of positions and offers a method to build the statics and structural dynamics of complex planar linkages.

Application of Surrogate-based Global Optimization to Aerodynamic Design

First, dynamic process simulation models based on mixture flow and two-fluid models are developed for combined-cycle power plants, pulverised coal-fired power plants, concentrated solar power plant and municipal waste incineration.

This book describes the development of a new analytical, full-vehicle model with nine degrees of freedom, which uses the new modified skyhook strategy (SKDT) to control the full-vehicle vibration problem.

With the implementation of the strategic plan ¿Made in China 2025¿ as its guideline and ¿the study of formulation of executive summary of innovative design in the manufacturing industry¿ as the main theme, this book provides an in-depth interpretation of innovative design from three perspectives ¿ why, what and how. Chapter One, ¿The Necessity of Developing Innovative Design,¿ focuses on why innovative design should be developed, and Chapter Two, ¿Concept And Connotation of Innovative Design,¿ explains what innovative design is, while Chapters Three to Seven systematically and comprehensively discuss how to develop innovative design and how to improve innovative design skills in various contexts, including key industries, business, personnel training, platform building, and supporting measures. Lastly, Chapter Eight ¿Cases of Innovative Design¿ explores the value of innovative design and innovative design-driven industrial transformation. By analyzing several design-driven companies, such as China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation, Haier Group and GAG Trumpchi, and the role of corporate innovative development as well as typical examples of major innovative design projects, it offers readers insights and inspiration.

First, dynamic process simulation models based on mixture flow and two-fluid models are developed for combined-cycle power plants, pulverised coal-fired power plants, concentrated solar power plant and municipal waste incineration.