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The 16thInternational Symposium on MEMS and Nanotechnology, Volume 5 of the Proceedings of the 2015SEM Annual Conference& Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the fifth volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important...
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Springer
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2015-10-30
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Huge earthquakes and tsunamis have caused serious damage to important structures such as civil infrastructure elements, buildings and power plants around the globe. To quantitatively evaluate such damage processes and to design effective prevention and mitigation...
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Springer
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2015-10-26
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Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1 represents the first of nine volumes of technical papers presented at the Society for Experimental Mechanics SEM 15th International Congress & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, held at Costa Mesa, California,...
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Springer
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2015-10-23
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The book presents a series of concise papers by researchers specialized in various fields of continuum and computational mechanics and of material science.The focus is on principles and strategies for multiscale modeling and simulation of complex heterogeneous...
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Springer
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2015-10-17
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This book provides an in-depth description of the fundamental tribological aspects of cold and hot sheet rollings. The author describes new developments in the rolling processes, the rolling oils, the rolling rolls and the structural materials resulting from sheet...
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Springer
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2015-10-05
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This work identifies the characteristics of racket design parameters that influence racket performance. It presents the finite element analysis of several designs of badminton rackets and compares them to experimental results for validation. Designing a racket requires...
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Springer
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2015-09-02
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This book presents a comprehensive and unifying approach to articular contact mechanics with an emphasis on frictionless contact interaction of thin cartilage layers. The first part of the book (Chapters 1–4) reviews the results of asymptotic analysis of the...
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Springer
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2015-06-15
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Recently, a new research stimulus has derived from the observation that soft structures, such as biological systems, but also rubber and gel, may work in a post critical regime, where elastic elements are subject to extreme deformations, though still exhibiting...
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Springer
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2015-06-05
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This volume presents a collection of contributions on materials modeling, which were written to celebrate the 65th birthday of Prof. Nobutada Ohno. The book follows Prof. Ohno’s scientific topics, starting with creep damage problems and ending with homogenization...
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Springer
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2015-06-03
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The book is targeted at engineers, university lecturers, postgraduates, and final year undergraduate students involved in computational modelling and experimental and theoretical analysis of the high-temperature behavior of engineering structures. It will also be of...
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Springer
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2015-05-30
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With China becoming a major force in steel research and development, this book highlights the work of a group from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, led by the first four authors. This group has the ideal knowledge base for writing this updated book on heat-resistant...
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Springer
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2015-05-27
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This SpringerBrief presents information on a wide variety of hazards and the damage potential caused by installation of a photovoltaic (PV) system. The current installation practices for PV systems on roofs create electrical, fire, structural, and weather-related...
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Springer
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2015-05-22
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The book is focused on constitutive description of mechanical behaviour of engineering materials: both conventional (polycrystalline homogeneous isotropic or anisotropic metallic materials) and non-conventional (heterogeneous multicomponent anisotropic composite...
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Springer
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2015-05-09
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This short monograph presents an analysis and design methodology for shape memory alloy (SMA) components such as wires, beams, and springs for different applications. The solid-solid, diffusionless phase transformations in thermally responsive SMA allows them to...
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Springer
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2015-05-08
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This research monograph discusses novel approaches to geometric continuum mechanics and introduces beams as constraint continuous bodies. In the coordinate free and metric independent geometric formulation of continuum mechanics as well as for beam theories, the...
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Springer
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2015-03-19
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This encyclopedia presents an all-embracing collection of analytical surface classes. It provides concise definitions and description for more than 500 surfaces and categorizes them in 38 classes of analytical surfaces. All classes are cross references to the original...
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Springer
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2015-02-25
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This book lays down the foundation on the mechanics and design of auxetic solids and structures, solids that possess negative Poisson’s ratio. It will benefit two groups of readers: (a) industry practitioners, such as product and structural designers, who need to...
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Springer
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2014-12-27
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This book describes the properties of single polymer molecules and polymeric materials and the methods how to characterize them. Molar masses, molar mass distributions and branching structure are discussed in detail. These properties are decisive for a deeper...
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Springer
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2014-11-18
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Anhand von ausführlich durchgerechneten Anwendungsbeispielen stellt Jörg Wauer Forschungsergebnisse zum Thema Mehrfeldsysteme mit Oberflächen- und Volumenkopplung prägnant dar und liefert so einen Einblick auf interdisziplinäre dynamische Systeme der Physik mit...
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Springer Vieweg
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2014-11-11
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During the last years computational methods lead to new approaches that can be applied within medical practice. Based on the tremendous advances in medical imaging and high-performance computing, virtual testing is able to help in medical decision processes or implant...
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Springer
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2014-11-05
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