Harmonic Balance for Nonlinear Vibration Problems

This monograph presents an introduction to Harmonic Balance for nonlinear vibration problems, covering the theoretical basis, its application to mechanical systems, and its computational implementation. Harmonic Balance is an approximation method for the computation of periodic solutions of nonlinear ordinary and differential-algebraic equations. It outperforms numerical forward integration …

Dynamic Stability and Bifurcation in Nonconservative Mechanics

The book offers a unified view on classical results and recent advances in the dynamics of nonconservative systems. The theoretical fundamentals are presented systematically and include: Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalism, non-holonomic constraints, Lyapunov stability theory, Krein theory of spectra of Hamiltonian systems and modes of negative and positive energy, anomalous Doppler effect, re…

Mathematical Methods in Continuum Mechanics of Solids

This book primarily focuses on rigorous mathematical formulation and treatment of static problems arising in continuum mechanics of solids at large or small strains, as well as their various evolutionary variants, including thermodynamics. As such, the theory of boundary- or initial-boundary-value problems for linear or quasilinear elliptic, parabolic or hyperbolic partial differential equation…

Manipulation of Surface Waves through Metasurfaces

This book presents innovative ideas and technical contributions in the area of metasurfaces and antenna technologies. On the one hand, it presents an effective method to analyze metasurfaces constituted by metallic texture with certain geometries. It shows how this method can be applied to the design of metasurface (MTS) antennas for deep space communications and other planar microwave devices.…

Trauma Biomechanics

This well-established book on injury biomechanics has been extensively revised and expanded for this new edition. It now includes a fundamental treatment of the mechanics at a cellular level, written by the new coauthor Prof. Barclay Morrison III from Columbia University. Furthermore, considerably more attention is paid to computer modeling, and in particular modeling the human body. The boo…

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Theoretical, Applied and…

ICTAEM_1 treated all aspects of theoretical, applied and experimental mechanics including biomechanics, composite materials, computational mechanics, constitutive modeling of materials, dynamics, elasticity, experimental mechanics, fracture, mechanical properties of materials, micromechanics, nanomechanics, plasticity, stress analysis, structures, wave propagation. During the conference special…

The Finite Element Method, FOURTH EDITION: Volume 1 Basic Formulation and Lin…

Edition

4th

ISBN/ISSN

0-07-084174-8

Collation

xvii, 720 p.; 23 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

620.001 Zie f

Flow Visualization and Image Analysis

-

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…

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

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-534-92130-2

Collation

xiv, 665 p. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

624.151 Das p

ENGINEERING PROPERTIES OF SOILS AND THEIR MEASUSREMENT, FOURTH EDITION

Edition

4th

ISBN/ISSN

0-07-911266-8

Collation

x, 1051 p.; 30 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

620.1 Bow e

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…

ELEMENTS OF MATERIALS SCIENCE : An Introductory Text for Engineering Students

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

59-7551

Collation

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

Series Title

-

Call Number

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

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-07-016375-8

Collation

xix, 90 p. ; 25 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

532 Nev f

AN INTRODUCTION TO FLUID MECHANICS

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

-

Collation

245 p.; 25 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

620.106 Jam i

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

Edition

4th

ISBN/ISSN

0-471-38149-7

Collation

xii, 759 p. : ill. ; 26 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

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…