Linear Elastic Stress Field in Cracked Bodies -- Elastic-Plastic Stress Field in Cracked Bodies -- Crack Growth Based on Energy Balance -- Critical Stress Intensity Factor Fracture Criterion -- J-Integral and Crack Opening Displacement Fracture Criteria -- Strain Energy Density Failure Criterion: Mixed-Mode Crack Growth -- Dynamic Fracture -- Fatigue and Environment-Assisted Fracture -- Microme…
Multiscale Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Elliptic Problems with Multiple Scales -- Discrete Network Approximation for Highly-Packed Composites with Irregular Geometry in Three Dimensions -- Adaptive Monte Carlo Algorithms for Stopped Diffusion -- The Heterogeneous Multi-Scale Method for Homogenization Problems -- A Coarsening Multigrid Method for Flow in Heterogeneous Porous Media -- On th…
Gas Flows -- Governing Equations and Slip Models -- Shear-Driven Flows -- Pressure-Driven Flows -- Thermal Effects in Microscales -- Prototype Applications of Gas Flows -- Basic Concepts and Technologies -- Liquid Flows -- Electrokinetic Flows -- Surface Tension-Driven Flows -- Mixers and Chaotic Advection -- Simple Fluids in Nanochannels -- Water in Nanochannels -- Electroosmotic Flow in Nanoc…
to Fuzzy Arithmetic -- The Theory of Fuzzy Sets -- Elementary Fuzzy Arithmetic -- Standard Fuzzy Arithmetic -- Advanced Fuzzy Arithmetic — The Transformation Method -- Addition to Fuzzy Arithmetic -- Applications in the Engineering Sciences -- Mechanical Engineering -- Geotechnical Engineering -- Biomedical Engineering -- Control Engineering.Applied Fuzzy Arithmetic provides a well-structured…
Physics of Unsteady Flows -- The Differential Equations of Fluid Flow -- Panel Methods -- Applications of Panel Method -- Boundary-Layer Methods -- Applications of Boundary-Layer Methods: Flows Without Separation -- Applications of Boundary-Layer Methods: Flows with Separation -- Navier-Stokes Methods -- Applications of Navier-Stokes Methods -- Companion Computer Programs.This book provides an …
Keynotes -- A Virtual Research Lab for a Knowledge Community in Production (VRL-KciP) -- Integrated Design for Manufacture, Service and Environment -- Design Strategies and Methodologies -- The Challenge of Environmental Improvement in Different Types of Innovation Projects -- Evolution of Collective Practices in Design by Integration of New Methods -- Effective Strategies in the Redesign Proce…
A Fast and Simple Semi-Recursive Formulation for Multi-Rigid-Body Systems -- Hardware-in-the-Loop for Quality Assurance of an Active Automotive Safety System -- Multibody Aspects of Motorcycle Modelling with Special Reference to Autosim -- Gluing for Dynamic Simulation of Distributed Mechanical Systems -- Multiscale Methods for Multibody Systems with Impacts -- Unified Modelling Theories for th…
Elements of Convex Analysis and Separation -- to Image Space Analysis -- Alternative and Separation -- Optimality Conditions. Preliminary Results.Over the last twenty years, Professor Franco Giannessi, a highly respected researcher, has been working on an approach to optimization theory based on image space analysis. His theory has been elaborated by many other researchers in a wealth of papers…
Units and Vectors -- Kinematics -- Newton’s Laws -- Work and Energy -- Impulse, Momentum and Collisions -- System of Particles -- Rotation of Rigid Bodies -- Rolling and Static Equilibrium -- Central Force Motion -- Oscillatory Motion.Open AccessThis open access textbook takes the reader step-by-step through the concepts of mechanics in a clear and detailed manner. Mechanics is considered to …
and Basic Concepts -- Review of Planar Kinematics -- Coordinate Systems, Components, and Transformations -- Relative Motion -- Foundations of Kinetics -- Kinetics of the Mass Center of a Rigid Body -- Angular Momentum and Inertia Matrix -- Angular Momentum Equations -- Fixed-Axis Rotation -- Motion of a Rigid Body With One Point Fixed; Gyroscopic Motion -- Work and Energy.Most books on this sub…