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This richly illustrated book recounts various search operations on the pyramid of Cheops. It details how the gravity inverse problem was used in the attempt to locate this historical monument.

This book offers a unified approach to vibrations of elastic systems as applied to MEMS devices, mechanical components and civil structures. Applications include atomic force microscopes, energy harvesters and carbon nanotubes.

This book has been rigorously re-written and updated for its second edition to offer the latest findings in the mechanical behaviour of materials. Includes chapter-end exercises, and many explanatory diagrams and electron-microscope photographs.

Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Paris, France, 22-25 April 1997

Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Smart Structures and Structronic Systems, held in Magdeburg, Germany, 26-29 September 2000

Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Abisko National Park, Kiruna, Sweden, July 31-August 4, 2000

Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Monticello, IL, USA, 26-30 August 2002

Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Aalborg, Denmark, 22--25 August 1994

This collection of papers is a state of the art presentation of theories and methods related to the problem of the behaviour of mechanical structures under variable loads beyond their elastic limit In particular, the problems of shakedown, ratchetting, transient and asymptotic cyclic states are addressed.

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computational Kinematics held in Sophia Antipolis, France, September 4--6, 1995

Advances in Structural Optimization presents the techniques for a wide set of applications, ranging from the problems of size and shape optimization (historically the first to be studied) to topology and material optimization.

Research into and development of high-precision systems, microelectromechanical systems, distributed sensors/actuators, smart structural systems, high-precision controls, etc.

The purpose of this book is to present, describe and demonstrate the use of numerical methods in solving crack problems in fracture mechanics.

1 Preliminary Concepts A cam mechanism is a mechanical system consisting of three basic components: a driving element, called the cam;

Proceedings of an International Workshop on Progress and Advances in Structural Engineering and Mechanics, University of Brescia, Italy, September 1991

Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Hanoi, Vietnam from 2-5 March 1999

Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Paris, France, 22-25 April 1997

The desire to understand the mechanics of elastic and plastic solids, new materials and the stability, reliability and dynamic behaviour of structures and their components under extreme environmental conditions has dominated research in structural engineering for many decades.

This book contains contributions from various authors on different important topics related with probabilistic methods used for the design of structures. Initially several of the papers were prepared for advanced courses on structural reliability or on probabilistic methods for structural design.

Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 21-26 April 1996

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of nonlinear multi-modal structural vibration problems, and shows how vibration suppression can be applied to such systems by considering a sample set of relevant control techniques.

This book examines analytical and numerical methods for modeling composite materials, laminates, polycrystals and other heterogeneous solids, focused on connections between material properties and responses ranging from nanoscale to micro to macroscale.

This book focuses on the nonlinear behavior of thin-wall shells (single- and multilayered with delamination areas) under various uniform and non-uniform loadings, using a numerical approach to analyze branching points and to build bifurcation paths.

This book deals with the dynamics of discrete and continuous mechanical systems; seismic excitation; random vibration (including fatigue); rotor dynamics; vibration isolation and dynamic vibration absorbers; the last chapter introduces active vibration control.

Articles in this book examine various materials and how to determine directly the limit state of a structure, in the sense of limit analysis and shakedown analysis.

This book covers all basic areas of mechanical engineering, such as fluid mechanics, heat conduction, beams and elasticity with detailed derivations for the mass, stiffness and force matrices.

Volume II of this work examines fracture mechanics and damage, contact mechanics, friction and wear, linking active mechanisms on the microscopic scale with the laws of macroscopic behaviour. Includes numerous explanatory diagrams and illustrations.

This volume showcases recent advances in modeling impact-induced failure, focusing on the dynamic response of a variety of composite and sandwich structures to the forces generated by crashes and explosions, including rare data for full-scale explosive tests.

Opening with a derivation of kinematically nonlinear 3-D continuum mechanics for solids, this book uses virtual work to derive the simpler, kinematically linear 3-D theory and to offer a foundation for consistent theories of kinematic nonlinearity and linearity.

This volume is concerned with the basic problems of the theory of thermoelasticity for three models of continuous bodies: materials with voids, micropolar solids and nonsimple bodies. Beginning with the basic laws of thermodynamics, the theory of thermoelastic materials with voids is treated.