Bøger i CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences serien

A motivation for structural health monitoring. Vibration-based damage diagnosis and monitoring of external loads.Statistical time series methods for vibration based structural health monitoring.

It presents a review of the current knowledge of the behaviour of soft tissues in the cardiovascular system under mechanical loads, and the importance of constitutive laws in understanding the underlying mechanics is highlighted.

This book presents new directions in research on generalized continua, from the point of view of modeling and simulation, identification and numerical methods. Covers micro-macro aspects, computational effort and much more.

This book proposes a design support methodology which can help water utilities, managers and researchers to define the optimal districts or sectors of a water supply network. The methodology is based on graph theory principles and tested in real-world cases.

The articles in this volume present the state-of-the-art in noise prediction, modeling and measurement. The articles are partially based on class notes provided during the course Noise sources in turbulent shear flows, given at CISM on April 2011.

A comprehensive review of the material behavior of concrete under dynamic loads, especially impact and impuls, opens the volume. For readers not current in dynamic analysis methods, an appendix contains a review of the mathematical methods most commonly used for such analysis.

The volume introduces basic concepts necessary for a modern treatment of inequality problems in finite degree of freedom dynamics. The lectures cover a broad area of non-smooth dynamics from primal and dual energy functions in variational and differential form to application problems as chimney dampers or vibration conveyors.

Multiscale mechanics of hierarchical materials plays a crucial role in understanding and engineering biological and bioinspired materials and systems.

This book shows the range of current theoretical concepts and tools in earth deformation studies: poroelastic field theory to micro-mechanical and homogenization studies, chemomechanics and interfacial stability theory of soluble solids under stress and more.

In particular, the governing equations of non linear thermoelasticity and thermoinelasticity as well as the basic properties of these equations as resulting from the primary assumptions of continuum thermodynamics are derived. The possible forms of the second law of thermodynamics are discussed within the frame work ofaxiomatic thermodynamics.

The book presents a state-of-the-art in environmental aerodynamics and the structural design of wind energy support structures, particularly from a modern computational perspective.

The book provides a state-of-the-art knowledge on both theoretical and applied aspects of the electrical manipulation of colloidal particles and fluids in microsystems and covers the following topics: dielectrophoresis, electrowetting, electrohydrodynamics in microsystems, and electrokinetics of fluids and particles.

This book presents the underlying theories of the different approaches for modeling cracking of concrete and offers a survey of the state-of-the-art in computational concrete mechanics. It covers a broad spectrum of topics related to modeling of cracks.

Reviews theoretical, computational and experimental developments in mechanics of random and multiscale solid materials. This book aims to provide tools for better understanding and prediction of the effects of stochastic (non-periodic) microstructures on materials' mesoscopic and macroscopic properties.

Proceedings of the Fourteenth CISM-IFToMM Smposium

This book presents the most recents developments in the modelling of degradations (of thermo-chemo-mechanical origin) and of bifurcations and instabilities (leading to localized or diffuse failure modes) taking place in geomaterials (soils, rocks, concrete).

In these systems at least one dimension is in a range of colloidal forces action: colloidal dispersions/emulsions are examples of three dimensional colloidal systems, while thin liquid films are examples of one dimensional colloidal systems.