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This book presents theoretical fundamentals and applications of a new numerical model that has the ability to simulate wave propagation. In addition, the book includes a numerical simulation of wave propagation based on scalar and vector wave equations, as well as fluid-structure interaction and soil-structure interaction.

The mechanics of Coupled Fields is a discipline at the edge of modern research connecting Continuum Mechanics with Solid State Physics. A vast number of problems are considered so that the reader can get a clear quantitative and qualitative understanding of the phenomena taking place.

This book is devoted to the theory of coupled electro-magneto-thermo-elastic fields excited in different bodies by various sources, both static and dynamic.

Fracture Mechanics presents the fundamentals of fracture research and engineering practice. Class-tested at Cornell, this book is designed for students, researchers and practitioners interested in understanding, and contributing, to a diverse and vital field of knowledge.

This book serves as the standard textbook on elastoplasticity for students, engineers and researchers in applied mechanics. It explains physical concepts in elastoplasticity in detail and offers formulations and derivations/transformations for all equations.

This monograph combines the knowledge of both the field of nonlinear dynamics and non-smooth mechanics, presenting a framework for a class of non-smooth mechanical systems using techniques from both fields.

This book examines nonlinear dynamic analyses based on the existence of strongly nonlinear but simple counterparts to the linear models and tools. Discusses possible application to periodic elastic structures with non-smooth or discontinuous characteristics.

The other method that can consistently discretize continuum mechanics problems showing arbitrarily complex geometries is ?nite element method. These methods have the same advantage as ?nite element method of consistently discretizing cont- uum mechanics problems having arbitrarily complex geometries.

In this, its second corrected printing, Zohdi and Wriggers' illuminating text presents a comprehensive introduction to the subject. This volume is ideal for researchers and engineers, and can be used in a first-year course for graduate students with an interest in the computational micromechanical analysis of new materials.

While the stability theory for systems with bilateral constraints is a well-established field, this monograph represents a systematic study of mechanical systems with unilateral constraints, such as unilateral contact, impact and friction.

This monograph examines the theoretical foundations of the spectral method for fatigue life determination. The formula proposed in this book enables readers to determine power spectral density of the equivalent history directly from the components of the power spectral density matrix of the multidimensional stochastic process.

Micromechanics provides a link between the structure and the properties at different scales of observation. This book deals with micromechanical analysis of interfaces and interface layers and presents several modelling tools.

This book deals with various aspects in relation with thin shell theory: general geometric formalism of shell theory, analysis of singularities, numerical computing of thin shell problems, mathematical considerations on boundary values problems.

This book presents the fundamental principles of mechanical systems and their dynamics. It provides both the theory and applications of mechanical systems in an intermediate theoretical level, ranging from basic concepts to machine dynamics and robotics.

This monograph firstly provides a detailed description of the constitutive equation of masonry-like materials, clearly setting out its most important features. It then goes on to provide a numerical procedure to solve the equilibrium problem of masonry solids.

The book is devoted to the dynamics of axially moving material objects of low flexural stiffness, referred to as webs. Webs move at high speed, for example, in paper production the paper webs are transported with longitudinal speeds of up to 3000 m/min.

There are relatively few books related to contact between structural elements, like beams, plates or shells. The purpose of this state-of-the-art work is to fill this gap. It offers a systematic description of a finite element analysis of beam-to-beam contact.

With elastic-plastic analysis of accumulate damage and fracture, this book considers practical applications with engineering materials and structure fatigue life estimations. Models as well as practical applications are presented and emphasis is laid on approaches to the mixed-mode problem.

Studies of vibro-impact dynamics falls into three main categories: modeling, mapping and applications. This text covers the latest in those studies plus selected deterministic and stochastic applications. It includes a bibliography exceeding 1,100 references.

The book can be used as a textbook for graduate students concentrating on structural mechanics, or as a reference book for engineers and researchers in the fields of engineering mechanics, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, and aerospace engineering.

The book describes results of investigations of a series of convective heat and mass transfer problems in rotating-disk systems. Methodology used included integral methods, self-similar and approximate analytical solutions, as well as CFD.

In this book a systematic discussion of crack problems in elastic-plastic materials is presented. After a brief introduction to fracture mechanics, the two-parameter concept for stationary cracks is studied in addition to the issues in three-dimensional crack fields under coupling with strong out-of-plane effects.

This book is interdisciplinary in character and combines the knowledge of me chanics and chemical engineering with the aim of presenting a more exhaustive analysis ofthe phenomena occurring in wet materials during drying.

This monograph develops a unified methodology for dynamic analysis and minimization of the inertia-induced forces occurring in high speed multiloop planar as well as spatial mechanisms based on the multibody system modeling approach.

This book concerns the numerical simulation of dynamical systems whose trajec- ries may not be differentiable everywhere. Usually nonsmooth dynamical systems are represented as differential inclusions, complementarity systems, evolution va- ational inequalities, each of these classes itself being split into several subclasses.

This book presents suitable methodologies for the dynamic analysis of multibody mechanical systems with joints. It contains studies and case studies of real and imperfect joints. The book is intended for researchers, engineers, and graduate students in applied and computational mechanics.

The monograph Micropolar Theory of Elasticity is devoted to the asymmetric theory of elasticity and thermoelasticity, aiming at researchers and postgraduate students in solid mechanics and applied mathematics, as well as mechanical engineers.

This book covers the numerical simulation of mechanical systems with unilateral contacts and friction. It gives an excellent overview on well established methods in non-smooth mechanics and opens new perspectives for development in this promising field.