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It is the only book to date on fatigue and fracture of fibre metal laminates (FMLs). The first section of the book provides a general background of the FML technology, highlighting the major FML types developed and studied over the past decades in conjunction with an overview of industrial developments based on filed patents.

This book describes an effective method for modeling advanced materials like polymers, composite materials and biomaterials, which are, as a rule, inhomogeneous.

This book focuses on the mathematical potential and computational efficiency of the Boundary Element Method (BEM) for modeling seismic wave propagation in either continuous or discrete inhomogeneous elastic/viscoelastic, isotropic/anisotropic media containing multiple cavities, cracks, inclusions and surface topography.

It will bring students and engineers from various disciplines up to date on key concepts that have become increasingly important in the design of safety-relevant engineering structures in general and in modern lightweight structures in the transportation industry in particular.

This book offers an introduction to numerical optimization methods in structural design. Employing a readily accessible and compact format, the book presents an overview of optimization methods, and equips readers to properly set up optimization problems and interpret the results.

This book focuses on Creep in Ceramics. In part A general knowledge of creep in ceramics is considered, while part B specifies creep in technologically important ceramics, namely creep in oxide ceramics, carnides and nitrides.

This book analyzes severalcompliant contact force models within the context of multibody dynamics, whilealso revisiting the main issues associated with fundamental contact mechanics.

Mixing scientific, historic and socio-economic vision, this unique book complements two previously published volumes on the history of continuum mechanics from this distinguished author.

The field of structural optimization is still a relatively new field undergoing rapid changes in methods and focus. There is still no shortage of new publications, but there are also exciting applications of the methods of structural optimizations in the automotive, aerospace, civil engineering, machine design and other engineering fields.

The book shows how the formidable developments that blossomed in the twentieth century (and perused in a previous book of the author in the same Springer Series: "Continuum Mechanics through the Twentieth Century", Springer 2013) found rich compost in the constructive foundational achievements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This book discusses the mechanical properties of ceramics in depth. It features a good balance of theory and applications and includes many examples.

This robust introduction to the field theory required for solid and fluid mechanics, as well as electromagnetism, has a wealth of examples and problems. It adopts an inductive approach to the relevant applied mathematics that is especially suited to beginners.

This book examines the modelling and analysis of the many types of ropes, linear fibre assemblies, with a focus on load extension behaviour. All the modelling is based on the Principle of Virtual Work and admissible modes of deformation.

This book offers a step-by-step tutorial for the application of the Boundary Integral Equation Method in mechanics. Two major parts of the book are devoted to the solution of problems in homogeneous and inhomogeneous solids.

This book investigates underactuated multibody systems from an integrated perspective. It details all major steps from the modeling of rigid and flexible multibody systems, through nonlinear control theory, to optimal system design.

This is the first book on robotics that presents solutions for coupled, decoupled, uncoupled, fully-isotropic and maximally regular robotic manipulators with Schoenflies motions systematically generated by using the structural synthesis approach proposed in Part 1.

This self-contained book presents problems in classical elasticity, tailored for the geotechnician. Each begins with an examination of prevailing symmetries, and moves from a search for balanced stress fields to the associated strain and displacement fields.

Using analytical and semi-analytical approaches to calculate out-of-plane dynamics and stability, this volume includes new results on fundamental aspects of moving materials that can be applied to industrial processes from paper-making to foil extrusion.

This book reviews core concepts of fracture mechanics including special techniques for FEM analysis of crack problems. Covers all kinds of static, dynamic and fatigue fracture problems in two- and three-dimensional elastic and plastic structural components.

Composite structures and products have developed tremendously since the publication of the first edition of this work in 1986.

Opening with a derivation of kinematically nonlinear 3-D continuum mechanics for solids, this book uses virtual work to derive the simpler, kinematically linear 3-D theory and to offer a foundation for consistent theories of kinematic nonlinearity and linearity.

This book covers all basic areas of mechanical engineering, such as fluid mechanics, heat conduction, beams and elasticity with detailed derivations for the mass, stiffness and force matrices.

This book deals with the dynamics of discrete and continuous mechanical systems; seismic excitation; random vibration (including fatigue); rotor dynamics; vibration isolation and dynamic vibration absorbers; the last chapter introduces active vibration control.

Synthesizing the contents of three classic textbooks by the authors, this book offers a comprehensive approach to theory and practice, problems, solutions and exercises which thoroughly explore the mathematical principles of Elasticity and Thermal Stress.

This book examines analytical and numerical methods for modeling composite materials, laminates, polycrystals and other heterogeneous solids, focused on connections between material properties and responses ranging from nanoscale to micro to macroscale.

A body which is modelled as a continuous system will be governed by a partial differential equation in time and one or more spatial variables. In general, if some such spectral data is given, there can be no system, a unique system, or many systems, having these properties.

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of nonlinear multi-modal structural vibration problems, and shows how vibration suppression can be applied to such systems by considering a sample set of relevant control techniques.

Now in this third updated and expanded edition, this text offers an introduction to the dynamics of active structures and to the feedback control of lightly damped flexible structures, with the emphasis on basic issues and simple control strategies that work.