Mechanics category: 1527 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
(4). The next three papers extend these views by taking a closer look on parameters that govern hydraulic diffusivity in sandstones and other types of rocks. Specific targets addressed are the influence of differential stress on permeability (5), imaging of the fracture geometry (6), and pressure...
by W. Brian Rowe
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Solve your bearing design problems with step-by-step procedures and hard-won performance data from a leading expert and consultant
Compiled for ease of use in practical design scenarios, Hydrostatic, Aerostatic and Hybrid Bearing Design provides the basic principles, design procedures and data...
by Hiromi Yamakawa, Takenao Yoshizaki
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
This book presents the "helical wormlike chain" model – a general model for both flexible and semiflexible polymer chains. It explains how statistical-mechanical, hydrodynamic, and dynamic theories of their solution properties can be developed on the basis of this model. This new second...
Strain Hardening Cement Composites: Structural Design and Performance
State-of-the-Art Report of the RILEM Technical Committee 208-HFC, SC3
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Strain Hardening Cement Composites, SHCC hereafter, demonstrate excellent mechanical behavior showing tensile strain hardening and multiple fine cracks. This strain hardening behavior improves the durability of concrete structures employing SHCC and the multiple fine cracks enhance structural performance....
Shear Strengthening of T-beam with GFRP
A Systematic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This book presents a systematic approach to the experimental, theoretical, and numerical investigation of reinforced concrete (RC) T-beams strengthened in shear with glass-fibre-reinforced polymers (GFRP) with variation in transverse steel reinforcements. It discusses experiments conducted on simply...
by Philippe Gueguen
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
This book is focused on the seismic vulnerability assessment methods, applied to existing buildings, describing several behaviors and new approaches for assessment on a large scale (urban area).
It is clear that the majority of urban centers are composed of old buildings, designed according to concepts...
Recent Developments in Anisotropic Heterogeneous Shell Theory
Applications of Refined and Three-dimensional Theory—Volume IIA
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
This brief book presents solutions of stress-strain problems for a wide class of anisotropic inhomogeneous shells obtained by the refined model. Studying these problems results in severe computational difficulties due to partial differential equations with variable coefficients resulting from the...
by Gunnar Wijk
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2015
This book describes new models for projectile penetration and perforation. The models are based on conservation of mass, momentum, energy and an empirical EOS. There are four chaptersCh1: Transition from rigid to eroding projectile penetrationCh2: A new model for rigid projectile perforation of ductile...
The Duffing Equation
Nonlinear Oscillators and their Behaviour
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
The Duffing Equation: Nonlinear Oscillators and their Behaviour brings together the results of a wealth of disseminated research literature on the Duffing equation, a key engineering model with a vast number of applications in science and engineering, summarizing the findings of this research. Each...
Design of Piles Under Cyclic Loading
SOLCYP Recommendations
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Recent developments in the fields of energy, transport and industrial engineering have led to the emergence of new types of structures and infrastructures subject to variable stresses, for which the usual methods for designing pile foundations are now inadequate. The recommendations presented in this...
by Farzad Hejazi, Keyhan Karimzadeh
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This book presents an analysis procedure for structures that are exposed to the lateral loads such as earthquake and wind. It includes the process for calculating and distributing the effective load into structural elements, as well as for calculating the displacements for different types of structures,...
Advances in Mechanical Engineering
Selected Contributions from the Conference “Modern Engineering: Science and Education”, Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 20-21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
This book draws together the most interesting recent results to emerge in mechanical engineering in Russia, providing a fascinating overview of the state of the art in the field in that country which will be of interest to a wide readership. A broad range of topics and issues in modern engineering...
by Pierre Delhaes
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
It is well known that solid carbons can be found in various guises with different forms of bulk phases (graphites, diamonds and carbynes) as well as more molecular forms (fullerenes,nanotubes and graphenes) resulting from recent discoveries.
The cause of this rich polymorphism is analyzed in...
Particle Image Velocimetry: Recent Improvements
Proceedings of the EUROPIV 2 Workshop held in Zaragoza, Spain, March 31 – April 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
The Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) measurement technique has undergone a strong development in the last 10 years. This book presents the proceedings of an international workshop held in Zaragoza, Spain on March 31st and April 1st, 2003 containing contributions from worldwide leading teams in the...