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Reanalysis is needed in many areas such as structural optimization, analysis of damaged structures, nonlinear analysis, probabilistic analysis, controlled structures, smart structures and adaptive structures.

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.

This comprehensive treatise covers in detail practical methods of analysis as well as advanced mathematical models for structures highly sensitive to creep and shrinkage.

This book presents pedestrian injuries from a biomechanical perspective. It gives a detailed treatment of the physics of pedestrian impact plus a review of the accident databases and relevant injury criteria used to assess pedestrian injuries.

The conclusion of a larger work on structural synthesis of parallel robots, this book offers topologies of parallel robotic manipulators with two and three degrees of freedom systematically generated by using a structural synthesis approach proposed in Part 1.

Finite element model updating has emerged in the 1990s as a subject of immense importance to the design, construction and maintenance of mechanical systems and civil engineering structures.

This book examines low and high frequency mechanical, acoustic random vibrations. The theory of random vibration is strongly related to the design of spacecraft structures and is illustrated with simple and more difficult worked examples.

The fourteen chapters of the book cover the basic principles and traditional applications, as well as the latest developments of fracture mechanics as applied to problems of composite materials, thin films, nanoindentation and cementitious materials.