Books in the Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics series

This book provides an overview of the experimental characterization of materials and their numerical modeling, as well as the development of new computational methods for virtual design.

This book discusses the recent advances in aircraft design methodologies. The book particularly highlights the advances in "high fidelity" CFD-CSM coupling, describing the latest experimental research to validate the numerical fluid-structure interaction analysis methodologies resulting from the EU-funded RBF4AERO and RIBES projects.

This book provides essential insights into recent developments in fundamental geotechnical engineering research.

Analysis is made of errors for global (resistance, sinkage, trim and self-propulsion) and local flow (wave elevations, mean velocities and turbulence) variables, including standard deviations for global variables.

This book provides an overview of direct methods such as limit and shakedown analysis, which are intended to do away with the need for cumbersome step-by-step calculations and determine the loading limits of mechanical structures under monotone, cyclic or variable loading with unknown loading history.

This book discusses the recent advances in aircraft design methodologies. The book particularly highlights the advances in "high fidelity" CFD-CSM coupling, describing the latest experimental research to validate the numerical fluid-structure interaction analysis methodologies resulting from the EU-funded RBF4AERO and RIBES projects.

The first part presents a general description of Anisotropic Elasticity theories while the second part focuses on the polar formalism: the theoretical bases and results are completely developed along with applications to design problems of laminated anisotropic structures.

This book describes mathematical techniques for integral transforms in a detailed but concise manner. Further, an exact closed form Green's function for torsional waves is presented, as well as an application technique of the complex integral, which includes the square root function and an application technique of the complex integral.

This book develops mathematical methods and algorithms that lead to efficient and high performance computational techniques to solve simulation based optimization problems in real-life applications.

This application-driven primer for students and non-specialists has been course-tested at graduate level and explains how to use the spectral method to tackle the issues encountered in modeling fluid flow in closed geometries with heat or mass transfer.

This book offers models and numerical solution strategies for analyzing the coupled response of materials with tailored dielectric properties by direct simulation using standard laptop/desktop equipment. Covers coupled systems, homogenization theory and more.

Fracture Mechanics presents the fundamentals of fracture research and engineering practice. Class-tested at Cornell, this book is designed for students, researchers and practitioners interested in understanding, and contributing, to a diverse and vital field of knowledge.

This book serves as the standard textbook on elastoplasticity for students, engineers and researchers in applied mechanics. It explains physical concepts in elastoplasticity in detail and offers formulations and derivations/transformations for all equations.

In this, its second corrected printing, Zohdi and Wriggers' illuminating text presents a comprehensive introduction to the subject. This volume is ideal for researchers and engineers, and can be used in a first-year course for graduate students with an interest in the computational micromechanical analysis of new materials.

The book can be used as a textbook for graduate students concentrating on structural mechanics, or as a reference book for engineers and researchers in the fields of engineering mechanics, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, and aerospace engineering.

This book is interdisciplinary in character and combines the knowledge of me chanics and chemical engineering with the aim of presenting a more exhaustive analysis ofthe phenomena occurring in wet materials during drying.

This volume describes the fundamentals and techniques necessary for Lamb-wave-based damage identification. This damage assessment method offers efficient structural failure detection which lowers maintenance costs and increases safety benefits.

This book presents a practical review of numerical tools applied to structural dynamic analysis of moving inertial loads. The material offered here enables readers to work with complex structures such as frames, grids, shells and three-dimensional objects.

This book provides an overview of the experimental characterization of materials and their numerical modeling, as well as the development of new computational methods for virtual design.

This book provides essential insights into recent developments in fundamental geotechnical engineering research.

This book provides readers with a detailed insight into diverse and exciting recent developments in computational solid mechanics, documenting new perspectives and horizons. It is hoped that by providing a "taste" of the field of computational mechanics, the book will promote its popularity among the mechanics and physics communities.

This book provides recent developments and improvements in the modeling as well as application examples and is a complementary work to the previous Lecture Notes Vols. 77 and 80. It summarizes the fundamental work from scientists dealing with the development of constitutive models for soils, especially cyclic loading with special attention to the numerical implementation. In this volume the neo-hypoplasticity and the ISA (intergranular strain anisotropy) model in their extended version are presented. Furthermore, new contact elements with non-linear constitutive material laws and examples for their applications are given.Comparisons between the experimental and the numerical results show the effectiveness and the drawbacks and provide a useful and comprehensive pool for all the constitutive model developers and scientists in geotechnical engineering, who like to prove the soundness of new approaches.

Modern computational techniques, such as the Finite Element Method, have, since their development several decades ago, successfully exploited continuum theories for numerous applications in science and technology.

This book examines in detail the entire process involved in implementing geotechnical projects, from a well-defined initial stress and deformation state, to the completion of the installation process. The individual chapters provide the fundamental knowledge needed to effectively improve soil-structure interaction models.

Contact mechanics is an active research area with deep theoretical and numerical roots. The study of complementarity problems, variational -, quasivariational- and hemivariational inequalities arising in contact mechanics and beyond is a hot topic for interdisciplinary research and cooperation.

"Mechanics, Models and Methods in Civil Engineering" collects leading papers dealing with actual Civil Engineering problems.