Mechanics of solids books

Presented in a clear and concise way as an introductory text and practical handbook, the book provides the basic...  Read More >>

The 8th International Symposium on fracture mechanics of ceramics was held in on the campus of the University of...  Read More >>

The existence of crack-like flaws cannot be precluded in any engineering structure. At the same time, the increasing...  Read More >>

Covers the theoretical, computational and experimental research on fracture and damage mechanics, as well as on...  Read More >>

Discretization methods have been proposed which are more flexible and which have the potential of capturing (moving)...  Read More >>

The main aim of the Symposium was to discuss the basic principles of damage growth and fracture processes in different...  Read More >>

Contains the edited papers of the IUTAM Symposium on the Biomechanics of Impact, which was held in University College...  Read More >>

This dynamical behavior mandates concepts and methods from such areas of mathematics and physics as nonlinear differential...  Read More >>

Granular or particulate materials arise in almost every aspect of our lives, including many familiar materials such...  Read More >>

This book presents original and practical approaches to the reliability determination of fatigue and fracture behaviour....  Read More >>

The nonlinear normal modes of a parametrically excited cantilever beam are constructed by directly applying the...  Read More >>

The objective of the Book Series is to publish monographs, textbooks, and proceedings of conferences of archival...  Read More >>

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One of the major difficulties in predicting the capacity of pipe piles in sand has resulted from a lack of understanding...  Read More >>

This book presents a thorough investigation of stability effects on three broad classes of switching mechanism:...  Read More >>

The second edition of this successful textbook covers the important basic aspects of the entire field of solid state...  Read More >>

Dynamics of Nonlinear Time-Delay Systems presents the fundamentals of chaotic time-delay systems and their synchronization,...  Read More >>

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Zaslavsky (1935—2008)” covers the recent developments and advances in the theory and application of Hamiltonian...  Read More >>

Dedicated to the late Dr. George Zaslavsky, one of the three originators of the theory of Hamiltonian chaos, this...  Read More >>

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In the last decade, we have seen an extraordinary progress in the the­ ory and applications of robot kinematics....  Read More >>

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With the advent of the 80's there has been an increasing need for analytic and numerical techniques, based on a...  Read More >>