A History of the Work Concept : From Physics to Economics

This book traces the history of the concept of work from its earliest stages and shows that its further formalization leads to equilibrium principle and to the principle of virtual works, and so pointing the way ahead for future research and applications. The idea that something remains constant in a machine operation is very old and has been expressed by many mathematicians and philosophers…

Meshless Methods in Biomechanics: Bone Tissue Remodelling Analysis

This book presents the complete formulation of a new advanced discretization meshless technique: the Natural Neighbour Radial Point Interpolation Method (NNRPIM). In addition, two of the most popular meshless methods, the EFGM and the RPIM, are fully presented. Being a truly meshless method, the major advantages of the NNRPIM over the FEM and other meshless methods, are the remeshing flexibilit…

Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity

This important collection presents recent advances in nonlinear dynamics including analytical solutions, chaos in Hamiltonian systems, time-delay, uncertainty, and bio-network dynamics. Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity equips readers to appreciate this increasingly main-stream approach to understanding complex phenomena in nonlinear systems as they are examined in a broad array of disciplines.…

Trends in Nanoscale Mechanics: Mechanics of Carbon Nanotubes, Graphene, Nanoc…

This book contains a collection of the state-of-the-art reviews written by the leading researchers in the areas of nanoscale mechanics, molecular dynamics, nanoscale modeling of nanocomposites and mechanics of carbon nanotubes. No other book provides reviews of recent discoveries such as a nanoscale analog of the Pauli’s principle, i.e., effect of the spatial exclusion of electrons or the SEE…

Engineering Mechanics 3: Dynamics

Dynamics is the third volume of a three-volume textbook on Engineering Mechanics. It was written with the intention of presenting to engineering students the basic concepts and principles of mechanics in as simple a form as the subject allows. A second objective of this book is to guide the students in their efforts to solve problems in mechanics in a systematic manner. The simple approach to t…

Plasticity of Pressure-Sensitive Materials

Classical plasticity theory of metals is independent of the hydrostatic pressure. However if the metal contains voids or pores or if the structure is composed of cells, this classical assumption is no more valid and the influence of the hydrostatic pressure must be incorporated in the constitutive description. Looking at the microlevel, metal plasticity is connected with the uniform planes of a…

Active and Passive Vibration Control of Structures

Active and Passive Vibration Control of Structures form an issue of very actual interest in many different fields of engineering, for example in the automotive and aerospace industry, in precision engineering (e.g. in large telescopes), and also in civil engineering. The papers in this volume bring together engineers of different background, and it fill gaps between structural mechanics, vibrat…

Lazare and Sadi Carnot: A Scientific and Filial Relationship

Lazare Carnot was the unique example in the history of science of someone who inadvertently owed the scientific recognition he eventually achieved to earlier political prominence. He and his son Sadi produced work that derived from their training as engineering and went largely unnoticed by physicists for a generation or more, even though their respective work introduced concepts that proved fu…

Fracture Phenomena in Nature and Technology:Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposiu…

This book contains contributions presented at the IUTAM Symposium "Fracture Phenomena in Nature and Technology" held in Brescia, Italy, 1-5 July, 2012.The objective of the Symposium was fracture research, interpreted broadly to include new engineering and structural mechanics treatments of damage development and crack growth and also large-scale failure processes as exemplified by earthquake or…

PRINCIPLES OF GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING, Second Edition

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0-534-92130-2

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xiv, 665 p. ; 23 cm

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624.151 Das p

ENGINEERING PROPERTIES OF SOILS AND THEIR MEASUSREMENT, FOURTH EDITION

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4th

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0-07-911266-8

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x, 1051 p.; 30 cm.

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620.1 Bow e

Applications of Membrane Computing in Systems and Synthetic Biology

Membrane Computing was introduced as a computational paradigm in Natural Computing. The models introduced, called Membrane (or P) Systems, provide a coherent platform to describe and study living cells as computational systems. Membrane Systems have been investigated for their computational aspects and employed to model problems in other fields, like: Computer Science, Linguistics, Biology, Eco…

Continuum Mechanics Through the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Historic…

Conceived as a series of more or less autonomous essays, the present book critically exposes the initial developments of continuum thermo-mechanics in a post Newtonian period extending from the creative works of the Bernoullis to the First World war, i.e., roughly during first the “Age of reason” and next the “Birth of the modern world”. The emphasis is rightly placed on the original co…

Machining Processes and Machines

Thanks to God who blessed me with the wisdom that enabled me to write this book. I appreciate my wife for her extended cooperation during the write-up of this book. I would like to acknowledge Syed Amir Iqbal, PhD, Professor and Dean, Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering, NED University of Engineering & Technology, Pakistan, for providing the high resolution picture of CNC machines i…

Design of Ultra-Low Power Impulse Radios

This book covers the fundamental principles behind the design of ultra-low power radios and how they can form networks to facilitate a variety of applications within healthcare and environmental monitoring, since they may operate for years off a small battery or even harvest energy from the environment. These radios are distinct from conventional radios in that they must operate with very const…

Mathematical and Computational Analyses of Cracking Formation: Fracture Morph…

This book is about the pattern formation and the evolution of crack propagation in engineering materials and structures, bridging mathematical analyses of cracks based on singular integral equations, to computational simulation of engineering design. The first two parts of this book focus on elasticity and fracture and provide the basis for discussions on fracture morphology and its numerical s…

Plasticity and Beyond: Microstructures, Crystal-Plasticity and Phase Transitions

The book presents the latest findings in experimental plasticity, crystal plasticity, phase transitions, advanced mathematical modeling of finite plasticity and multi-scale modeling. The associated algorithmic treatment is mainly based on finite element formulations for standard (local approach) as well as for non-standard (non-local approach) continua and for pure macroscopic as well as for di…

Fundamental Algorithms in Computational Fluid Dynamics

Intended as a textbook for courses in computational fluid dynamics at the senior undergraduate or graduate level, this book is a follow-up to the book Fundamentals of Computational Fluid Dynamics by the same authors, which was published in the series Scientific Computation in 2001. Whereas the earlier book concentrated on the analysis of numerical methods applied to model equations, this new bo…

Residual Stress, Thermomechanics & Infrared Imaging, Hybrid Techniques and In…

Residual Stress, Thermomechanics & Infrared Imaging, Hybrid Techniques and Inverse Problems, Volume 8: Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the eighth volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on a wide range of areas, …

Engineering Capstone Design

Structured with a practical approach, Engineering Capstone Design guides engineering students to successfully manage capstone design projects. The book addresses the challenge of open-ended design projects, often in a team-based format, discussing team member roles, communication, and cooperation. It incorporates accreditation requirements and provides a modern framework for working with indust…

ELEMENTS OF MATERIALS SCIENCE : An Introductory Text for Engineering Students

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59-7551

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ix, 515 p.; ill.; tab.: 23 cm

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620.1 Van e

Design of Special Planar Linkages

Planar linkages play a very important role in mechanical engineering. As the simplest closed chain mechanisms, planar four-bar linkages are widely used in mechanical engineering, civil engineering and aerospace engineering. Design of Special Planar Linkages proposes a uniform design theory for planar four-bar linkages. The merit of the method proposed in this book is that it allows engineers t…

FLUID MECHANICS FOR CHEMICAL ENGINEERS

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0-07-016375-8

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xix, 90 p. ; 25 cm

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532 Nev f

AN INTRODUCTION TO FLUID MECHANICS

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245 p.; 25 cm

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620.106 Jam i

Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat, and Mass Transfer, 4th Edition

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4th

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0-471-38149-7

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xii, 759 p. : ill. ; 26 cm

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620.1 Wel f

The Proper Generalized Decomposition for Advanced Numerical Simulations A Pr…

Many problems in scientific computing are intractable with classical numerical techniques. These fail, for example, in the solution of high-dimensional models due to the exponential increase of the number of degrees of freedom. Recently, the authors of this book and their collaborators have developed a novel technique, called Proper Generalized Decomposition (PGD) that has proven to be a sig…

Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials, Volume 4; Proceedings of the 2…

Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials, Volume 4: Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the fourth volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on a wide range of areas, including:

Towards a Unified Fatigue Life Prediction Method for Marine Structures

In order to apply the damage tolerance design philosophy to design marine structures, accurate prediction of fatigue crack growth under service conditions is required. Now, more and more people have realized that only a fatigue life prediction method based on fatigue crack propagation (FCP) theory has the potential to explain various fatigue phenomena observed. In this book, the issues leading …

MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF MECHANICAL COMPLEX SYSTEMS, Volume 1 discrete models

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0-13-563750-3

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293 p. ; 24 cm

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307.12 Arc m

Principles of Geotechnical Engineering, Third Edition

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0-534-93375-0

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Series Title

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624.1 Das p