Books by Alberto Carpinteri

The book explores the two opposite natural trends of composite systems: (i) order and structure emerging from heterogeneity and randomness, and (ii) instability and chaos arising from simple nonlinear rules.

A complete, unified treatment of the fundamental themes of structural mechanics, from the traditonal to the most advanced. This postgraduate and reference text covers the mechanics of linear elastic solids, theory of beam systems and phenomena of structural failure.