Mechanics category: 1527 books
by Chris Collinson, Tom Roper
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1995
* Assumes no prior knowledge
* Adopts a modelling approach
* Numerous tutorial problems, worked examples and exercises included
* Elementary topics augmented by planetary motion and rotating frames
This text provides an invaluable introduction to mechanicsm confining attention to the motion...
Modeling High Temperature Materials Behavior for Structural Analysis
Part I: Continuum Mechanics Foundations and Constitutive Models
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
This monograph presents approaches to characterize inelastic behavior of materials and structures at high temperature. Starting from experimental observations, it discusses basic features of inelastic phenomena including creep, plasticity, relaxation, low cycle and thermal fatigue.
The authors...
by Wolfgang H. Müller
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
This book introduces field theory as required in solid and fluid mechanics as well as in electromagnetism. It includes the necessary applied mathematical framework of tensor algebra and tensor calculus, using an inductive approach particularly suited to beginners. It is geared toward undergraduate...
Nonlinear Inclusions and Hemivariational Inequalities
Models and Analysis of Contact Problems
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
This book introduces the reader the theory of nonlinear inclusions and hemivariational inequalities with emphasis on the study of contact mechanics. The work covers both abstract results in the area of nonlinear inclusions, hemivariational inequalities as well as the study of specific contact problems,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
This book is a compilation of selected papers from the 2014 New Trends in Fatigue and Fracture (NT2F14) Conference, which was held in Belgrade, Serbia. This prestigious conference brought together delegates from around the globe to discuss how to characterize, predict and analyze the fatigue and fracture...
Advances in Structural Integrity
Proceedings of SICE 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2017
This book includes selected technical papers presented at the First Structural Integrity Conference and Exhibition (SICE-2016). The papers, by eminent scientists and academicians working in the areas of structural integrity, life prediction, and condition monitoring, are classified under the domains...
Differential Geometry
Basic Notions and Physical Examples
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Differential Geometry offers a concise introduction to some basic notions of modern differential geometry and their applications to solid mechanics and physics.
Concepts such as manifolds, groups, fibre bundles and groupoids are first introduced within a purely topological framework. They are...
Joining Technologies for Composites and Dissimilar Materials, Volume 10
Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Joining Technologies for Composites and Dissimilar* Materials**, Volume 10 of the *Proceedings of the 2016 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the tenth volume of ten from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research...
Computational Statics and Dynamics
An Introduction Based on the Finite Element Method
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This book introduces readers to modern computational mechanics based on the finite element method. It helps students succeed in mechanics courses by showing them how to apply the fundamental knowledge they gained in the first years of their engineering education to more advanced topics.
In...
by Tian-You Fan
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
This interdisciplinary work on condensed matter physics, the continuum mechanics of novel materials, and partial differential equations, discusses the mathematical theory of elasticity and hydrodynamics of quasicrystals, as well as its applications. By establishing new partial differential equations...
by Alexander H.-D. Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This book treats the mechanics of porous materials infiltrated with a fluid (poromechanics), focussing on its linear theory (poroelasticity). Porous materials from inanimate bodies such as sand, soil and rock, living bodies such as plant tissue, animal flesh, or man-made materials can look very different...
by Olek C Zienkiewicz, Robert L Taylor, P. Nithiarasu
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
The Finite Element Method for Fluid Dynamics offers a complete introduction the application of the finite element method to fluid mechanics. The book begins with a useful summary of all relevant partial differential equations before moving on to discuss convection stabilization procedures, steady...
Tensor Algebra and Tensor Analysis for Engineers
With Applications to Continuum Mechanics
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
This is the fourth and revised edition of a well-received book that aims at bridging the gap between the engineering course of tensor algebra on the one side and the mathematical course of classical linear algebra on the other side. In accordance with the contemporary way of scientific publications,...
Shell and Membrane Theories in Mechanics and Biology
From Macro- to Nanoscale Structures
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
This book presents the latest results related to shells characterize and design shells, plates, membranes and other thin-walled structures, a multidisciplinary approach from macro- to nanoscale is required which involves the classical disciplines of mechanical/civil/materials engineering (design,...