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This volume emphasizes the fundamentals and mechanisms giving rise to flow-induced vibration of use to researchers, designers, and operators. Fluid--Structure Interactions provides useful problem-solving tools, and conveys the ideas in a physically comprehensible manner. The book includes a complete bibliography of important work in the field. . The Non-linear behaviour of Fluid-Structure interactions . The possible existence of chaotic oscillations . The use of this area as a model to demonstrate new mathematical techniques This book will prove invaluable to researchers, practitioners, and students in fluid-structure interactions, flow-induced vibrations, and dynamics and vibrations.

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This book constitutes the first six chapters of what, with Volume II, is to be a text with a total of 13 chapters. The 6 chapters at hand comprise a careful and focused review of the central concern of the author's research for more than 3 decades: the problems of oscillation and general structural instability induced by the axial flow in and around pipes, the representative paradigmatic example being the fire hose or jet-follower instability problem. While avoiding a claim of exhaustive treatment, the text does in fact offer a very detailed, thorough and exacting analytic and bibliographical coverage of many aspects of axial-flow pipe problems, certainly more than any other text. ... The work is clearly a labor of sustained dedication and care. The author has enlivened it in places with brief anecdotal material from practical situations. As he hints, he does not wish to risk boring the reader. He aims the text at engineers and applied mathematicians, especially researchers and practicing professionals. All of these should welcome it as an unusual, responsible, and highly valuable reference. -Robert H. Scanlan, Journal of Fluids and Structures This book is the first of two volumes that focus on the fundamentals of flow-induced vibrations. Both the causes of vibrations and the symptoms are discussed, along with some long-term preventive measures. The author stresses the benefits of discovering the source of the vibration and solving the vibration problems rather than adding a buffer to reduce vibratory effects. The text begins with a general overview of the topic and a classification of flow-induced vibrations. A brief description of the contents of volume 2 is also given. -Civil Engineering, June 1999 a very fine book ... not only is the scientific-technical content of high caliber, also the style of reporting is commendable, sometimes being outright funny and/or bordering on the artistic. --Professor Geir Moe, Texas A&M, U.S.A.

[a] very fine book... Not only is the scientific-technical content of high callibre, also the style of reporting is commendable, sometimes being outright funny and/or bordering on the artistic! - Professor Moe, Visiting Professor, Texas A&M, USA.

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Michael Paidoussis is Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University and a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME), the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM). He is the Editor of the Journal of Fluids and Structures, having founded it in 1986, and won the ASME International Fluids Engineering Award in1999. His principal research interests are in fluid-structure interactions, flow-induced vibrations, aero- and hydroelasticity, dynamics, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, all areas in which he is recognized as a leading expert.

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