Mechanics category: 1527 books
Managed Pressure Drilling
Modeling, Strategy and Planning
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Managed Pressure Drilling Operations is a significant technology worldwide and beginning to make an impact all over the world. Often reservoir and drilling engineers are faced with the decision on how best to construct a well to exploit zones of interest while seeking to avoid drilling problems that...
Hybrid Modeling and Optimization of Manufacturing
Combining Artificial Intelligence and Finite Element Method
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and the finite element method (FEM) are both powerful computing tools, which are extensively used for modeling and optimizing manufacturing processes. The combination of these tools has resulted in a new flexible and robust approach as several recent studies...
Advanced Machining Processes
Innovative Modeling Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Modeling and machining are two terms closely related. The benefits of the application of modeling on machining are well known. The advances in technology call for the use of more sophisticated machining methods for the production of high-end components. In turn, more complex, more suitable, and reliable...
Machining of Light Alloys
Aluminum, Titanium, and Magnesium
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Aluminium, magnesium and titanium are alloys of special interest for engineering applications in a wide range of sectors such as aeronautics, automotive and medical. Their low density, along with sufficient mechanical properties, makes them especially adequate for sectors such as transportation allowing...
by Prasanta Sahoo, Tapan Barman, J. Paulo Davim
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2011
The concept of fractals is often considered to describe surface roughness. Fractals retain all the structural information and are characterized by a single descriptor, the fractal dimension, D. Fractal dimension is an intrinsic property of the surface and independent of the filter processing of measuring...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Composites are widely used in marine applications. There is considerable experience of glass reinforced resins in boats and ships but these are usually not highly loaded. However, for new areas such as offshore and ocean energy there is a need for highly loaded structures to survive harsh conditions...
Microfluidics Based Microsystems
Fundamentals and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
This volume contains an archival record of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Microfluidics Based Microsystems – Fundamentals and App- cations held in Çe ?me-Izmir, Turkey, August 23–September 4, 2009. ASIs are intended to be high-level teaching activity in scientific and technical areas of...
Advances in Mechanical Engineering
Selected Contributions from the Conference “Modern Engineering: Science and Education”, Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
This book draws together the most interesting recent results to emerge in mechanical engineering in Russia, providing a fascinating overview of the state of the art in the field in that country which will be of interest to a wide readership. A broad range of topics and issues in modern engineering...
by Philip A. Yecko, Oded Regev, Orkan M. Umurhan
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
This book grew out of the need to provide students with a solid introduction to modern fluid dynamics. It offers a broad grounding in the underlying principles and techniques used, with some emphasis on applications in astrophysics and planetary science.
The book comprehensively...
by Helmut Wiedemann
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This book by Helmut Wiedemann is a well-established, classic text, providing an in-depth and comprehensive introduction to the field of high-energy particle acceleration and beam dynamics.
The present 4th edition has been significantly revised, updated and expanded. The newly conceived Part...
Basic Earthquake Engineering
From Seismology to Analysis and Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
This book provides senior undergraduate students, master students and structural engineers who do not have a background in the field with core knowledge of structural earthquake engineering that will be invaluable in their professional lives. The basics of seismotectonics, including the causes, magnitude,...
by Kozo Sato
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Maximizing reader insights into the fundamentals of complex analysis, and providing complete instructions on how to construct and use mathematical tools to solve engineering problems in potential theory, this book covers complex analysis in the context of potential flow problems. The basic concepts...
Fundamentals of Earthquake Engineering
From Source to Fragility
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Fundamentals of Earthquake Engineering: From Source to Fragility, Second Edition combines aspects of engineering seismology, structural and geotechnical earthquake engineering to assemble the vital components required for a deep understanding of response of structures to earthquake ground motion,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
This book is intended for non-destructive testing (NDT) technicians who want to learn practical acoustic emission testing based on level 1 of ISO 9712 (Non-destructive testing – Qualification and certification of personnel) criteria. The essential aspects of ISO/DIS 18436-6 (Condition monitoring...