Molecular Structure and Energy States -- Some Basic Concepts of Kinetic Theory -- Interaction of Molecules with Solid Surface -- Free Molecular Flow -- Continuum Models -- Transitional Regime -- Direct Simulation Monte-Carlo (DSMC) Method -- Microscale Slow Gas Flows, IP Method.This book elucidates the methods of molecular gas dynamics or rarefied gas dynamics which treat the problems of gas fl…
Statistical Description of Large Systems. Postulates of Statistical Physics -- The Different Statistical Ensembles. General Methods in Statistical Physics -- Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics in Equilibrium -- The Ideal Gas -- Indistinguishability, the Pauli Principle (Quantum Mechanics) -- General Properties of the Quantum Statistics -- Free Fermions Properties -- Elements of Bands Theory…
A First Look -- Observers -- Translations -- Positions -- Rotations -- Orientations -- Review -- Velocities -- Constraints -- Review -- A Look Ahead.Multibody Mechanics and Visualization is designed to appeal to computer-savvy students who will acquire significant skills in mathematical and physical modelling of mechanical systems in the process of producing attractive computer simulations and …
Two Methods for Analysis of Continuum Mechanics of Elastic Structures -- Vibrations of Inclined Bars with End Constraint -- Vibrations of Frames with Inclined Members -- Vibrations of X-Braced Portal Frames -- Vibrations of X-Braced Multi-Story Frames -- Effect of Rotatory Inertia and Shear Deformation on Vibration of Inclined Bars -- Out-of-Plane Vibrations of Plane Frames -- Buckling of Incli…
Linear Elastic Stress-Strain Relations -- Elastic Constants Based on Micromechanics -- Plane Stress -- Global Coordinate System -- Elastic Constants Based on Global Coordinate System -- Laminate Analysis — Part I -- Laminate Analysis — Part II -- Effective Elastic Constants of a Laminate -- Failure Theories of a Lamina -- to Homogenization of Composite Materials -- to Damage Mechanics of Co…
Monumental Dams -- Approach of Mechanical Behaviour and Rupture of Cohesive Granular Media. Validation on a Model Medium -- Phase Change of Volatile Organic Compounds in Soil Remediation Processes -- Thermo-mechanical Behaviour of a Soil. Yield Surface Evolution -- Water Transport in Soil with Phase Change -- Tunnels in Saturated Elasto-plastic Soils: Three-dimensional Validation of a Plane Sim…
Matrix Analysis -- Vibrations of Discrete Systems -- Jacobi Matrices -- Inverse Problems for Jacobi Systems -- Inverse Problems for Some More General Systems -- Positivity -- Isospectral Systems -- The Discrete Vibrating Beam -- Discrete Modes and Nodes -- Green’s Functions and Integral Equations -- Inversion of Continuous Second-Order Systems -- A Miscellany of Inverse Problems -- The Euler-…
An Introduction to the Incremental-Iterative Solution of Nonlinear Structural Problems -- Fundamental Notions of Metal Plasticity -- A General Procedure for Stress Integration and Applications in Metal Plasticity -- Creep and Viscoplasticity -- Plasticity of Geological Materials -- Large Strain Elastic-Plastic Analysis.This book presents computational procedures for the stress integration of in…
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…
Tensor Notation -- Some Basic Equations of Continuum Mechanics -- Creep Behavior of Isotropic and Anisotropic Materials; Constitutive Equations -- Creep Behavior of Thick-Walled Tubes -- The Creep Potential Hypothesis in Comparison with the Tensor Function Theory -- Damage Mechanics -- Tensorial Generalization of Uniaxial Creep Laws to Multiaxial States of Stress -- Viscous Fluids -- Memory Flu…