Mechanical category: 2199 books
by Robert E. Melchers, Andre T. Beck
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Structural Reliability Analysis and Prediction, Third Edition is a textbook which addresses the important issue of predicting the safety of structures at the design stage and also the safety of existing, perhaps deteriorating structures. Attention is focused on the development and definition of limit...
by Michael T. Todinov
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2006
This book has been written with the intention to fill two big gaps in the reliability and risk literature: the risk-based reliability analysis as a powerful alternative to the traditional reliability analysis and the generic principles for reducing technical risk.
An important theme in the...
Robustness Development and Reliability Growth
Value Adding Strategies for New Products and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
This book integrates key tools and processes into a comprehensive program for developing more robust and reliable technology-based products. Drawing on their extensive product development experience, the authors present a complete process for ensuring product performance throughout the entire lifecycle,...
Understanding Viscoelasticity
Basics of Rheology
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
In this book, the necessary background for understanding viscoelasticity is covered; both the continuum and microstructure approaches to modelling viscoelastic materials are discussed, since neither approach alone is sufficient.
by Frank B. Watts
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
Control of engineering documentation, sometimes called Configuration Management (CM) especially in the defense industries, remains critical to world-class manufacturing survival. The 3rd edition of this popular engineering documentation handbook improves upon one of the best blueprints for efficient...
New Product Development Essentials: Hands-on Help for Small Manufacturers and Smart Technical People
New Product Development Essentials: Hands-on Help for Small Manufacturers and Smart Technical People
No Nonsence Manuals, #2
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
This book is aimed at those who wish to develop new or existing products and get them to market quickly. Ordinary practicing engineers are crying out for easy to apply engineering product development advice. How do you take the mystique out of it, keep it simple and ready to implement?
The...
by Muthusamy Lakshmanan, Dharmapuri Vijayan Senthilkumar
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Synchronization of chaotic systems, a patently nonlinear phenomenon, has emerged as a highly active interdisciplinary research topic at the interface of physics, biology, applied mathematics and engineering sciences. In this connection, time-delay systems described by delay differential equations...
Advanced H∞ Control
Towards Nonsmooth Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
This compact monograph is focused on disturbance attenuation in nonsmooth dynamic systems, developing an H**∞ approach in the nonsmooth setting. Similar to the standard nonlinear H**∞ approach, the proposed nonsmooth design guarantees both the internal asymptotic stability of a nominal closed-loop...
Positive Systems
Theory and Applications (POSTA 2016) Rome, Italy, September 14-16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
This book presents high-quality original contributions on positive systems, including topics such as: monotone dynamical systems in mathematical biology and game theory; mathematical developments for networked systems in biology, chemistry and the social sciences; linear and nonlinear positive operators;...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
At the dawn of the 21st century, computational stochastic dynamics is an emerging research frontier. This book focuses on advanced computational methods and software tools which can highly assist in tackling complex problems in stochastic dynamic/seismic analysis and design of structures. The book...
History of Virtual Work Laws
A History of Mechanics Prospective
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
The book presents a history of classical mechanics by focusing on issues of equilibrium. The historical point of view adopted here restricts attention to cases where the effectiveness of forces is assessed on the basis of the virtual motion of their points of application. For completeness, hints of...
Five Decades of Tackling Models for Stiff Fluid Dynamics Problems
A Scientific Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Rationality - as opposed to 'ad-hoc' - and asymptotics - to emphasize the fact that perturbative methods are at the core of the theory - are the two main concepts associated with the Rational Asymptotic Modeling (RAM) approach in fluid dynamics when the goal is to specifically provide useful models...
Verifying Calculations - Forty Years On
An Overview of Classical Verification Techniques for FEM Simulations
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
This work provides an overview of a posteriori error assessment techniques for Finite Element (FE) based numerical models. These tools aim at estimating and controlling the discretization error in scientific computational models, being the basis for the numerical verification of the FE solutions....
by Hongli Dong, Zidong Wang, Huijun Gao
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
In the context of systems and control, incomplete information refers to a dynamical system in which knowledge about the system states is limited due to the difficulties in modelling complexity in a quantitative way. The well-known types of incomplete information include parameter uncertainties and...