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Chapter 7, eventually, deals with large engineering sytems under stochastic excitation and allows for the stochastic nature of the mechanical and geometrical properties.

The lectures cover the following important aspects of modern analysis of fatigue: methodology of stochastic modelling of fatigue, tools for characterization of random fatigue loads, physical and mechanical aspects of random fatigue, basic stochastic models for fatigue and the estimation of fatigue reliability of specific structural systems.

All materials contain numerous defects, such as microcracks, microvoids, inhomogeneities, dislocations, etc., which precede possible fracture. This volume contains some introductory material, aspects of fracture mechanics, the theory of crystal defects, computational micromechanics, and the heterogenization methodology.

Strives to give complete information about the main aspect of the stability behaviour of steel structures and their members. The volume presents a complete scientific background and establishes recommendations, procedures and formulae for practical design.

The first theme concerns the plastic buckling of structures in the spirit of Hill's classical approach. In brittle fracture or brittle damage, the evolution law of crack lengths or damage parameters is time-independent like in plasticity and leads to a similar mathematical description of the quasi-static evolution.

The volume presents a comprehensive overview of rotation effects on fluid behavior, emphasizing non-linear processes. There are few books on rotating fluids and this volume is, therefore, a welcome addition. It is the first volume which contains a unified view of turbulence in rotating fluids, instability and vortex dynamics.

The four chapters of this volume, written by prominent workers in the field of adaptive processing and linear prediction, address a variety of problems, ranging from adaptive source coding to autoregressive spectral estimation.

Shape and layout optimization represent some of the most useful but also most difficult classes of problems in structural design, which have been investigated in detail only during the last few years.

The aim of this volume is to present to researchers and engineers working on problems concerned with the mechanics of solids and structures, the current state of the development and application to procedures for assessing the reliability of a system.

A survey of the range of macroscopic behaviour that occurs at liquid boundaries, which indicates approaches to relevant continuum descriptions, demonstrates the application of continuum models to the solution of practical problems and describes experimental aspects.

Several applications are also described in detail, ranging from environment control, production planning, transportation planning. The book is of special interest to operations researchers, environment specialists, production planners, and transportation engineers.

This volume deals with the most modern and topical problems of bridge design. For what concerns the bridge typologies and the corresponding constructive problems, the emphasis is mostly on the ones still in an evolutionary phase, that is long span suspended/stayed bridges and cantilever built bridges with prefabricated segments.

Examines the nonlinear phenomena created when fractures develop in structural materials upon application of static, cyclic or dynamic external loads. The text recommends procedures for the manufacture of high performance materials with enhanced resistance to crack propagation.

The book is divided into two sections, "Geometries and Codes" and "Geometries and Cryptography". The first part covers such topics as Galois geometries, Steiner systems, Circle geometry and applications to algebraic coding theory.

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Advanced computational methods in nonlinear mechanics of solids and fluids are dealt with in this volume. Contributions consider large deformations of structures and solids, problems in nonlinear dynamics, aspects of earthquake analysis, coupled problems, convection-dominated phenomena, and compressible and incompressible viscous flows.

The concept of time and frequency representation of signals dates back to the first notation for music. From a mathematical viewpoint we can associate the time function to its Fourier transform. This book introduces a useful representation of signals simultaneously in time and frequency.

Traditional FEM and the more recent BEM underlie many engineering computational methods and corresponding software.

This volume aims at giving an updated account of the most relevant issues in the area of Flexible Manufacturing Systems with special emphasis to the problems of Simulation, Modelling, Planning, Scheduling, Economical Evaluation. Arbib, Lucertini, Nicolo: Optimization models for FMS; Buzacott: Flexible models of FMS, and Modelling FMS;

The main aspects of the course are random vibrations of discrete and continuous systems, analysis of nonlinear and parametric systems, stochastic modelling of fatigue damage, parameter estimation and identification with applications to vehicle road systems and process simulations by means of autoregressive models.

Discoveries of chaotic, unpredictable behaviour in physical deterministic systems has brought about new analytic and experimental techniques in dynamics.

This volume aims to describe the state of the art in specific application areas, such as estimation of eigenquantities. The lecture notes contain demonstrations of several methods and include a valuation by combining various kinds of experience.

Internationales Parkinson-Symposium, Berlin, 23. bis 25. Januar 1987