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This book is an adventure into the computer analysis of three dimensional composite structures using the finite element method (FEM). Once the basic philosophy of the method is understood, the reader may expand its application and modify the computer programs to suit particular needs.

Composite materials are increasingly used in aerospace, underwater, and automotive structures. Joints, cutouts, woven composites, environmental effects, postbuckling response and failure of composite laminates are discussed by considering specific examples.

Proceedings of the 3rd Contact Mechanics International Symposium, Praia da Consolacao, Peniche, Portugal, June 17-21, 2001

Parallel robots are closed-loop mechanisms presenting very good performances in terms of accuracy, rigidity and ability to manipulate large loads.

This book is intended for mechanicians, engineering mathematicians, and, generally for theoretically inclined mechanical engineers. I did not think that the surface of the problem had even been scratched, so I joined de Pater, who had by then become Professor in the Engineering Mechanics Lab.

This book is intended as an introductory text on Solid Mechanics suitable for engineers, scientists and applied mathematicians.

The associated models, that are derived from kinematic relations known as closure equations, lead to systems of nonlinear algebraic equations in the variables or parameters sought. What we mean by algebraic equations here is equations whereby the unknowns are numbers, as opposed to differen tial equations, where the unknowns are functions.

A fascinating dis cipline, analytical mechanics is not only indispensable for the solution of certain mechanics problems but also contributes so effectively towards a fundamental under standing of the subject of mechanics and its applications.

The volume can be used as a reference book by researchers in academia, industry, and government laboratories, and it can be used as a reference text for a graduate course on the mechanics of composite materials.

Proceedings of the IUTAM-ISIMM Symposium, held in Nottingham, U.K., 30 August--3 September 1994

This book is concerned with the numerical solution of crack problems. The techniques to be developed are particularly appropriate when cracks are relatively short, and are growing in the neighbourhood of some stress raising feature, causing a relatively steep stress gradient.

Many dynamical systems are described by differential equations that can be separated into one part, containing linear terms with constant coefficients, and a second part, relatively small compared with the first, containing nonlinear terms. A weakly nonlinear system is called quasi-linear and is governed by quasi-linear differential equations.

This book is an adventure into the computer analysis of three dimensional composite structures using the finite element method (FEM). Once the basic philosophy of the method is understood, the reader may expand its application and modify the computer programs to suit particular needs.

Contact Mechanics studies the stress and strain states of bodies in contact; This book investigates a variety of contact problems: discrete contact of rough surfaces, the effect of imperfect elasticity and mechanical inhomogeneity of contacting bodies, models of friction and wear, changes in contact characteristics during the wear process, etc.

This textbook deals with optimization of dynamic systems. * Numerical Methods: Static Optimization: Numerical algorithms for the solution of static optimization problems are presented here.

The purpose of this monograph is to show how a compliant offshore structure in an ocean environment can be modeled in two and three di mensions.

Proceedings of the 3rd Contact Mechanics International Symposium, Praia da Consolacao, Peniche, Portugal, June 17-21, 2001

A body which is modelled as a continuous system will be governed by a partial differential equation in time and one or more spatial variables. In general, if some such spectral data is given, there can be no system, a unique system, or many systems, having these properties.

This textbook on models and modeling in mechanics introduces a new unifying approach to applied mechanics: through the concept of the open scheme, a step-by-step approach to modeling evolves.

This book presents a unified hierarchical formulation of theories for three-dimensional continua, two-dimensional shells, one-dimensional rods, and zero-dimensional points. It allows readers with varying backgrounds easy access to fundamental understanding of these powerful Cosserat theories.

We use the exact equations of elasticity or viscoelasticity for anisotropic bodies, and consider linear and non-linear problems in the framework of this continuum theory as well as in the framework of the piecewise homogeneous model.

The book discusses and evaluates the extensive previous research scattered throughout the literature in Eastern Europe and the West, presents numerous experimental studies, and sets new benchmarks for the analysis of polymer composites.