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Book Synopsis IUTAM Symposium on Mechanics and Reliability of Actuating Materials by : W. Yang
Download or read book IUTAM Symposium on Mechanics and Reliability of Actuating Materials written by W. Yang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-06-28 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actuating materials hold a promise for fast-spreading applications in smart structures and active control systems, and have attracted extensive attention from scientists of both mechanics and materials sciences communities. High performance and stability of actuating materials and structures play a decisive role in their successive applications as sensors and actuators in structural control and robotics. The advances of actuating materials, however, recently encountered a severe reliability issue. For a better understanding toward this issue, scientific efforts are of paramount significance to gain a deep insight into the intricate deformation and failure behaviors of actuating materials. To examine the state of the art in this subject, the general assembly of IUTAM approved in August, 2002 at Cambridge University, UK, a proposal to hold an IUTAM symposium to summarize the relevant research findings. The main themes of the symposium are: (i) the constitutive relations of actuating materials that couple mechanical, electrical, thermal and magnetic properties, as well as incorporate phase transformation and domain switch; (ii) the physical mechanisms of deformation, damage, and fatigue crack growth of actuating materials; (iii) the development of failure-resilient approaches that base on the macro-, meso-, and micro-mechanics analyses; (iv) the investigation of microstructural evolution, stability of phase transformation, and size effects of ferroelectric ceramics, shape memory alloys, actuating polymers, and bio-actuating materials. The above problems represent an exciting challenge and form a research thrust of both materials science and solid mechanics. The IUTAM Symposium (GA.
Book Synopsis IUTAM Symposium on Mechanical Behavior and Micro-Mechanics of Nanostructured Materials by : Y.L. Bai
Download or read book IUTAM Symposium on Mechanical Behavior and Micro-Mechanics of Nanostructured Materials written by Y.L. Bai and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-04-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Mechanical Behavior and Micro-mechanics of Nanostructured Materials, held in Beijing on June 27-30, 2005. The proceedings consist of approximately 30 presentations. Nano-scale, micro-scale, theoretical, experimental and numerical aspects of the subjects are covered. A wide scope of research and progress are displayed. This is the first work in print on this particular subject.
Book Synopsis IUTAM Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Nonlinear Systems with Uncertainty by : H.Y. Hu
Download or read book IUTAM Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Nonlinear Systems with Uncertainty written by H.Y. Hu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-26 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a state-of-the-art treatise on the problems of both nonlinearity and uncertainty in the dynamics and control of engineering systems. The concept of dynamics and control implies the combination of dynamic analysis and control synthesis. It is essential to gain insight into the dynamics of a nonlinear system with uncertainty if any new control strategy is designed to utilize nonlinearity.
Book Synopsis IUTAM Symposium on Topological Design Optimization of Structures, Machines and Materials by : Martin Philip Bendsoe
Download or read book IUTAM Symposium on Topological Design Optimization of Structures, Machines and Materials written by Martin Philip Bendsoe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers edited papers presented at the IUTAM-Symposium Topological design optimization of structures, machines and materials - status and perspectives, October 2005. The papers cover the application of topological design optimization to fluid-solid interaction problems, acoustics problems, and to problems in biomechanics, as well as to other multiphysics problems. Also in focus are new basic modelling paradigms, covering new geometry modelling such as level-set methods and topological derivatives.
Book Synopsis IUTAM Symposium on Elastohydrodynamics and Micro-elastohydrodynamics by : R.W. Snidle
Download or read book IUTAM Symposium on Elastohydrodynamics and Micro-elastohydrodynamics written by R.W. Snidle and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-09 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Elastohydrodynamics and Microelastohydrodynamics held in Cardiff from 1-3 September 2004. It contains 31 articles by leading researchers in the field. The symposium focused on theoretical, experimental and computational issues in elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) both in relation to smooth surfaces and in situations where the film is of the same order or thinner than the surface roughness (micro-EHL). The last IUTAM Symposium in this general area of contact of deformable bodies was in 1974. The emphasis in the Symposium was upon fundamental issues such as: solution methods; lubricant rheological models, thermal effects; both low and high elastic modulus situations; human and replacement joints; fluid traction; dynamic effects, asperity lubrication and the failure of lubrication; surface fatigue and thermal distress under EHL conditions. The book will be useful to those active in basic elastohydrodynamics research who wish to gain an up-to-date understanding of the subject from leading experts in the field.
Book Synopsis Multiscale Fatigue Crack Initiation and Propagation of Engineering Materials: Structural Integrity and Microstructural Worthiness by : George C. Sih
Download or read book Multiscale Fatigue Crack Initiation and Propagation of Engineering Materials: Structural Integrity and Microstructural Worthiness written by George C. Sih and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can be added to the fracture mechanics of metal fatigue that has not already been said since the 1900s? From the view point of the material and structure engineer, there are many aspects of failure by fatigue that are in need of attention, particularly when the size and time of the working components are changed by orders of magnitude from those considered by st traditional means. The 21 century marks an era of technology transition where structures are made larger and devices are made smaller, rendering the method of destructive testing unpractical. While health monitoring entered the field of science and engineering, the practitioners are discovering that the correlation between the signal and the location of interest depends on a priori knowledge of where failure may initiate. This information is not easy to find because the integrity of the physical system will change with time. Required is software that can self-adjust in time according to the monitored data. In this connection, effective application of health monitoring can use a predictive model of fatigue crack growth. Earlier fatigue crack growth models assumed functional dependence on the maximum stress and the size of the pre-existing crack or defect. Various possibilities were examined in the hope that the data could be grouped such that linear interpolation would apply.
Book Synopsis IUTAM Symposium on Multiscale Modelling of Damage and Fracture Processes in Composite Materials by : Tomasz Sadowski
Download or read book IUTAM Symposium on Multiscale Modelling of Damage and Fracture Processes in Composite Materials written by Tomasz Sadowski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-07-06 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating macroscopic properties with observations at lower levels, this book details advances in multiscale modelling and analysis pertaining to classes of composites which either have a wider range of relevant microstructural scales, such as metals, or do not have a very well-defined microstructure, e.g. cementitious or ceramic composites. The IUTAM symposia proceedings provide a platform for extensive further discussion and research.
Book Synopsis IUTAM Symposium on Vibration Control of Nonlinear Mechanisms and Structures by : H. Ulbrich
Download or read book IUTAM Symposium on Vibration Control of Nonlinear Mechanisms and Structures written by H. Ulbrich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last decades, the growth of micro-electronics has reduced the cost of computing power to a level acceptable to industry and has made possible sophisticated control strategies suitable for many applications. Vibration c- trol is applied to all kinds of engineering systems to obtain the desired dynamic behavior, improved accuracy and increased reliability during operation. In this context, one can think of applications related to the control of structures’ vib- tion isolation, control of vehicle dynamics, noise control, control of machines and mechanisms and control of ?uid-structure-interaction. One could continue with this list for a long time. Research in the ?eld of vibration control is extremely comprehensive. Pr- lems that are typical for vibration control of nonlinear mechanisms and str- tures arise in the ?elds of modeling systems in such a way that the model is suitable for control design, to choose appropriate actuator and sensor locations and to select the actuators and sensors. Theobjective of the Symposium was to present anddiscuss methodsthat contribute to thesolution of such problems and to demonstrate the state of the art inthe ?eld shown by typical examples. The intention was to evaluate the limits of performance that can beachievedby controlling the dynamics, and to point out gaps in present research and give links for areas offuture research.Mainly, it brought together leading experts from quite different areas presenting theirpoints of view.
Book Synopsis IUTAM Symposium on One Hundred Years of Boundary Layer Research by : Hans-Joachim Heinemann
Download or read book IUTAM Symposium on One Hundred Years of Boundary Layer Research written by Hans-Joachim Heinemann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-12-20 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects peer-reviewed lectures of the IUTAM Symposium on the 100th anniversary of Boundary Layer research. No other reference of this calibre, on this topic, is likely to be published for the next decade. Covers classification, definition and mathematics of boundary layers; instability of boundary layers and transition; boundary layers control; turbulent boundary layers; numerical treatment and boundary layer modelling; special effects in boundary layers.
Book Synopsis Elasticity of Transversely Isotropic Materials by : Haojiang Ding
Download or read book Elasticity of Transversely Isotropic Materials written by Haojiang Ding and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-07-09 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to the theory and applications of the mechanics of transversely isotropic elastic materials. There are many reasons why it should be written. First, the theory of transversely isotropic elastic materials is an important branch of applied mathematics and engineering science; but because of the difficulties caused by anisotropy, the mathematical treatments and descriptions of individual problems have been scattered throughout the technical literature. This often hinders further development and applications. Hence, a text that can present the theory and solution methodology uniformly is necessary. Secondly, with the rapid development of modern technologies, the theory of transversely isotropic elasticity has become increasingly important. In addition to the fields with which the theory has traditionally been associated, such as civil engineering and materials engineering, many emerging technologies have demanded the development of transversely isotropic elasticity. Some immediate examples are thin film technology, piezoelectric technology, functionally gradient materials technology and those involving transversely isotropic and layered microstructures, such as multi-layer systems and tribology mechanics of magnetic recording devices. Thus a unified mathematical treatment and presentation of solution methods for a wide range of mechanics models are of primary importance to both technological and economic progress.
Book Synopsis Fracture Mechanics by : Huy Duong Bui
Download or read book Fracture Mechanics written by Huy Duong Bui and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-01-03 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents, in a unified manner, a variety of topics in Continuum and Fracture Mechanics: energy methods, conservation laws, mathematical methods to solve two-dimensional and three-dimensional crack problems. Moreover, a series of new subjects is presented in a straightforward manner, accessible to under-graduate students. Emphasizing physical or experimental back-grounds, then analysis and theoretical results, this monograph is intended for use by students and researchers in solid mechanics, mechanical engineering and applied mathematics.
Book Synopsis Variational and Quasi-Variational Inequalities in Mechanics by : Alexander S. Kravchuk
Download or read book Variational and Quasi-Variational Inequalities in Mechanics written by Alexander S. Kravchuk and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential aim of this book is to consider a wide set of problems arising in the mathematical modeling of mechanical systems under unilateral constraints. In these investigations elastic and non-elastic deformations, friction and adhesion phenomena are taken into account. All the necessary mathematical tools are given: local boundary value problem formulations, construction of variational equations and inequalities and their transition to minimization problems, existence and uniqueness theorems, and variational transformations (Friedrichs and Young-Fenchel-Moreau) to dual and saddle-point search problems.
Book Synopsis Mechanics of Microelectronics by : G.Q. Zhang
Download or read book Mechanics of Microelectronics written by G.Q. Zhang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-08-25 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written by leading experts with both profound knowledge and rich practical experience in advanced mechanics and the microelectronics industry essential for current and future development. It aims to provide the cutting edge knowledge and solutions for various mechanical related problems, in a systematic way. It contains important and detailed information about the state-of-the-art theories, methodologies, the way of working and real case studies.
Download or read book Parallel Robots written by J.P. Merlet and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parallel robots are closed-loop mechanisms presenting very good performances in terms of accuracy, velocity, rigidity and ability to manipulate large loads. They have been used in a large number of applications ranging from astronomy to flight simulators and are becoming increasingly popular in the field of machine-tool industry. This book presents a complete synthesis of the latest results on the possible mechanical architectures, analysis and synthesis of this type of mechanism. It is intended to be used by students (with over 150 exercises and numerous internet addresses), researchers (with over 650 references and anonymous ftp access to the code of some algorithms presented in this book) and engineers (for which practical results, mistakes to avoid, and applications are presented). Since the publication of the first edition (2000) there has been an impressive increase in terms of study and use of this kind of structure that are reported in this book. This second edition has been completely overhauled. The initial chapter on kinematics has been split into Inverse Kinematics and Direct Kinematics. A new chapter on calibration was added. The other chapters have also been rewritten to a large extent. The reference section has been updated to include around 45% new works that appeared after the first edition.
Book Synopsis Reanalysis of Structures by : Uri Kirsch
Download or read book Reanalysis of Structures written by Uri Kirsch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-02-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with various computational procedures for multiple repeated analyses (reanalysis) of structures, and presents them in a unified approach. It meets the need for a general text covering the basic concepts and methods as well as recent developments in this area. To clarify the presentation, many illustrative examples and numerical results are demonstrated. Previous books on structural analysis do not cover most of the material presented here.
Book Synopsis Fire Properties of Polymer Composite Materials by : A. P. Mouritz
Download or read book Fire Properties of Polymer Composite Materials written by A. P. Mouritz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-01-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to deal with the important topic of the fire behaviour of fibre reinforced polymer composite materials. The book covers all of the key issues on the behaviour of composites in a fire. Also covered are fire protection materials for composites, fire properties of nanocomposites, fire safety regulations and standards, fire test methods, and health hazards from burning composites.
Book Synopsis Embedded Systems -- Modeling, Technology, and Applications by : Günter Hommel
Download or read book Embedded Systems -- Modeling, Technology, and Applications written by Günter Hommel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-08-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book synthesizes the results of the seventh in a successful series of workshops that were established by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Technische Universität Berlin, bringing together researchers from both universities in order to present research results to an international community. Aspects covered here include, among others, Models and specification; Simulation of different properties; Middleware for distributed real-time systems; Signal Analysis; Control methods; Applications in airborne and medical systems.
