Key-Notes -- Environmental Friendly Coastal Protection Structures the Endless Struggle of the Engineer Against Water, Waves and Erosion — Opening Address — -- Beach Nourishment: Benefits, Theory and Case Examples -- Innovations in Coastal Protection -- Classical, Innovative and Unconventional Coastline Protection Methods -- On the Stability of Rock Slopes -- Integrated Hydraulic-Environment…
Background on Continuum Damage Mechanics -- Numerical Analysis of Damage -- Ductile Failures -- Low Cycle Fatigue -- Creep, Creep-Fatigue, and Dynamic Failures -- High Cycle Fatigue -- Failure of Brittle and Quasi-Brittle Materials.Engineering Damage Mechanics is deliberately oriented toward applications of Continuum Damage Mechanics to failures of mechanical and civil engineering components in…
Basic topics -- Jeffcott rotor -- Model with four degrees of freedom: Gyroscopic effect -- Discrete multi-degrees-of-freedom rotors -- Continuous systems: Transmission shafts -- Anisotropy of rotors or supports -- Torsional and axial dynamics -- Rotor-bearings interaction -- Advanced topics -- Anisotropy of rotors and supports -- Nonlinear rotordynamics -- Nonstationary rotordynamics -- Dynamic…
Case Studies -- 1992–2002: Perspective on a Decade of Post-Tsunami Surveys -- The Fiordland Earthquake and Tsunami, New Zealand, 21 August 2003 -- Timing and Scale of Tsunamis Caused by the 1994 Rabaul Eruption, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea -- Analysis of Tide-Gauge Records of the 1883 Krakatau Tsunami -- Model of Tsunami Generation by Collapse of Volcanic Eruption: The 1741 Oshima-Oshi…
Transformations and Projections -- Differential Geometry of Curves -- Design of Curves -- Splines -- Differential Geometry of Surfaces -- Design of Surfaces -- Solid Modeling -- Computations for Geometric Design -- Geometric Modeling Using Point Clouds -- Finite Element Method -- Optimization.A new discipline is said to attain maturity when the subject matter takes the shape of a textbook. Seve…
Experimental Evidence and Elementary Theory -- Hydraulic Fractures -- Termination and Spacing of Tension Joints in Layered Rocks -- Multiple Sets of Tension Joints -- Shear Joints -- Joints in Faulting and Folding -- Échelon Joints and Veins.Rock Joints deals exclusively with the mechanical genesis of joints in rocks. It is aimed at a coherent, critical and comprehensible presentation of the u…
Seismic Hazard and Extreme Motions -- Data Needs for Improved Seismic Hazard Analysis -- Capturing and Limiting Groundmotion Uncertainty in Seismic Hazard Assessment -- Long-Period Ground Motions from Digital Acceleration Recordings: A New Era in Engineering Seismology -- Observed Ground Motions, Extreme Ground Motions, and Physical Limits to Ground Motions -- Engineering Uses of Strong Motion …
Simulation Models and Their Application: State of the Art -- Application of a Simulation-Based Dynamic Traffic Assignment Model -- The DRACULA Dynamic Network Microsimulation Model -- Dynamic Network Simulation with AIMSUN -- Microscopic Traffic Simulation: Models and Application -- Applications of Transport Simulation -- The Art of the Utilization of Traffic Simulation Models: How Do We Make T…
Toward a Mathematical Theory of Aeroelasticity -- Uniform Cusp Property, Boundary Integral, and Compactness for Shape Optimization -- Interior and Boundary Stabilization of Navier-Stokes Equations -- Matrix Rounding and Related Problems with Application to Digital Halftoning -- Nonlinear Programming: Algorithms, Software, and Applications -- Stochastic Modeling and Optimization of Complex Infra…
The Finite Difference Method -- Finite Difference Calculus -- Elliptic Equations -- Iterative Methods for Elliptic Equations -- Parabolic Equations -- Hyperbolic Equations -- The Finite Element Method -- General Principles -- A 1-D Tutorial -- Multi-Dimensional Elements -- Time-Dependent Problems -- Vector Problems -- Numerical Analysis -- Inverse Methods -- Inverse Noise, SVD, and Linear Least…