Author: Michael E. McCormick
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009
ISBN: 0521859522, 9780521859523
Length: 580 pages
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Ocean Engineering Mechanics is designed to give an introduction to water waves and wave-structure interactions for fixed and floating bodies. Linear and nonlinear regular waves are thoroughly discussed, and the methods of determining the averaged properties of random waves are presented. With this foundation in wave mechanics, applications to engineering situations in the coastal zone are then presented. This introduction to the coastal engineering aspects of wave mechanics includes an introduction to shore protection. Covered within are also the basics of wave-structure interactions for situations involving ridged structures, compliant structures, and floating bodies in regular and random seas. The final chapters deal with the various analytical methods available for the engineering analyses of wave-induced forces and motions of floating and compliant structures in regular and random seas. An introduction to the soil-structure interactions is also included. The book can be used for both introductory and advanced courses in ocean engineering mechanics.
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Authors: Robert J. Asaro, Vlado A. Lubarda
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006
ISBN: 0521859794, 9780521859790
Length: 860 pages
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This book blends both innovative (large strain, strain rate, temperature, time dependent deformation and localized plastic deformation in crystalline solids, deformation of biological networks) and traditional (elastic theory of torsion, elastic beam and plate theories, contact mechanics) topics in a coherent theoretical framework. Extensive use of transform methods to generate solutions will make this book of interest to structural, mechanical, and aerospace engineers. Plasticity theories, micromechanics, crystal plasticity, and energetics of elastic systems are also covered, as well as an overall review of math and thermodynamics.
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Author: Maurice A. Biot
Hardcover: 601 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 1st edition (January 1, 1965)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471073105
ISBN-13: 9780471073109
Description:
This book embodies an approach to non-linear elasticity which marks a fundamental departure from classical and current trends.
The basic theory was first published between the years 1934 and 1940 in seven papers listed at the end of this Preface. In addition to a systematic treatment of the general theory and extensions to viscoelasticity, the book includes comprehensive new developments and applications, many of which are presented here for the first time.
The work is characterized by the use of cartesian concepts and of elementary mathematical methods that do not require a knowledge of the tensor calculus or other more specialized techniques. The explicit introduction of a local rotation field in the three-dimensional equations leads to a theory which separates the physics from the geometry and is equally valid for elastic and non-elastic materials, using either rectangular or curvilinear coordinates.
As this book demonstrates, the scope of problems solved by these new methods goes far beyond the results which it has been possible to obtain by the more elaborate and less general traditional approach. New insights, leading to many discoveries and a unified outlook have been brought into such widely diversified areas as rubber elasticity, internal gravity waves in a fluid and tectonic folding in geodynamics.
The theory provides rigorous and completely general equations governing the dynamics and stability of solids and fluids under initial stress in the context of small perturbations. It does not require that the medium be elastic or isotropic but is applicable to anisotropic, viscoelastic, or plastic media. No assumptions are introduced regarding the physical process by which the initial stress has been generated. The treatment of viscoelasticity, which constitutes a substantial portion of the book, incorporates some of the results established in a previous work on non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
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Dynamics of Smart Structures is a practical, concise and integrated text that provides an introduction to the fundamental principles of a field that has evolved over the recent years into an independent and identifiable subject area. Bringing together the concepts, techniques and systems associated with the dynamics and control of smart structures, it comprehensively reviews the differing smart materials that are employed in the development of the smart structures and covers several recent developments in the field of structural dynamics.
Dynamics of Smart Structures has been developed to complement the author's new interdisciplinary programme of study at Queen Mary, University of London that includes courses on emerging and new technologies such as biomimetic robotics, smart composite structures, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and their applications and prosthetic control systems. It includes chapters on smart materials and structures, transducers for smart structures, fundamentals of structural control, dynamics of continuous structures, dynamics of plates and plate-like structures, dynamics of piezoelectric media, mechanics of electro-actuated composite structures, dynamics of thermo-elastic media: shape memory alloys, and controller designs for flexible structures.
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Water Resources Systems Analysis
Authors: Mohammad Karamouz, Ferenc Szidarovzsky & Banafsheh Zaharaie
Publishers: Lewis Publishers
Year: 2003
Format: PDF High Quality
Language: English
ISBN: 1-56670-642-4
Pages: 608
Book Info:
In this book, applications of a systems approach to water resources planning and management are presented, and potential conflicts between various sectors and disciplines affected by the development projects are discussed. Water resources systems analysis involves modeling of quantity and quality aspects of surface water and groundwater. Understanding the principles of simulation, optimization techniques, and multiple-criterion decision making as well as engineering economics and time series analysis are prerequisites for water resources systems analysis (see Chapters 2 to 5). The book is written for graduate courses in water resources in civil, environmental, and agricultural engineering studies. The objective of each chapter has been to incorporate the latest developments in surface and groundwater systems optimization and modeling. The modeling techniques are discussed with some field applications.
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Energy Principles and Variational Methods in Applied Mechanics
Author: J. N. Reddy
Hardcover: 608 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (August 9, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 047117985X
ISBN-13: 978-0471179856
Book Description
This book covers the fundamental concepts of energy principles and variational methods and their function in the formulation and solution of problems of mechanics. It has been completely revised and updated to meet the increased application of these methods.
From the Back Cover
A systematic presentation of energy principles and variational methods
The increasing use of numerical and computational methods in engineering and applied sciences has shed new light on the importance of energy principles and variational methods. Energy Principles and Variational Methods in Applied Mechanics provides a systematic and practical introduction to the use of energy principles, traditional variational methods, and the finite element method to the solution of engineering problems involving bars, beams, torsion, plane elasticity, and plates.
Beginning with a review of the basic equations of mechanics and the concepts
of work, energy, and topics from variational calculus, this book presents
the virtual work and energy principles, energy methods of solid and structural mechanics, Hamilton’s principle for dynamical systems, and classical variational methods of approximation. A unified approach, more general than that found in most solid mechanics books, is used to introduce the finite element method. Also discussed are applications to beams and plates.
Complete with more than 200 illustrations and tables, Energy Principles and Variational Methods in Applied Mechanics, Second Edition is a valuable book for students of aerospace, civil, mechanical, and applied mechanics; and engineers in design and analysis groups in the aircraft, automobile, and civil engineering structures, as well as shipbuilding industries.
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An Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations (Cambridge University Press )
Author: James C. Robinson
Paperback: 414 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (February 9, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521533910
ISBN-13: 978-0521533911
Review
'The presentation is sensitive to the needs of students, with careful algebraic steps included in most cases. Appendices on basic required mathematical techniques are also included.' Mathematical Reviews
'The book is recommended as a textbook for one-term or one-semester course.' Zentralblatt MATH
'... will be useful to anybody wanting to teach or learn elements of ordinary differential equations in the beginnings of their mathematical studies.' European Mathematical Society Newsletter
'... it is written in a friendly and informal style and covers a wide and interesting collection of topics.' Contemporary Physics
'This is an excellent book which probably would have been most welcome to older students of differential equations had it existed and which will be of great value to those currently studying the subject.' The Mathematical Gazette
Book Description
This introduction to ordinary differential and difference equations is suited not only for mathematicians but for scientists and engineers as well. Exact solutions methods and qualitative approaches are covered, and many illustrative examples are included. Matlab is used to generate graphical representations of solutions. Numerous exercises are featured and proved solutions are available for teachers.
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Handbook of Exact Solutions for Ordinary Differential Equations, 2nd Edition
Author:Andrei Polyanin Valentin F. Zaitsev Andrei D. Polyanin
Hardcover: 816 pages
Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC; 2 edition (October 29, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1584882972
ISBN-13: 9781584882978
Review
…I have been reading the Polyanin books Handbook of Linear Partial Differential Equations for Engineers and Scientists and Handbook of Exact Solutions for Ordinary Differential Equations. I think these books are extraordinary, and are destined to become classics … CRC Press has provided an invaluable service to science and engineering by publishing these books.
- William Schiesser, Lehigh University
In summary, this is a very useful and easy-to-read handbook for anyone involved in ordinary differential equations...
- SIAM Review, 1997, on the first edition
This best-selling handbook ... is now in its second edition and has been substantially updated and improved ... book is highly recommended for mathematicians, scientists, and
engineers. It would be a useful edition to academic sci-tech libraries, including those that already have the first edition.
- Holly Flynn in E-STREAM
Book Description
Exact solutions of differential equations continue to play an important role in the understanding of many phenomena and processes throughout the natural sciences in that they can verify the correctness of or estimate errors in solutions reached by numerical, asymptotic, and approximate analytical methods. The new edition of this bestselling handbook now contains the exact solutions to more than 6200 ordinary differential equations. The authors have made significant enhancements to this edition, including:· An introductory chapter that describes exact, asymptotic, and approximate analytical methods for solving ordinary differential equations · The addition of solutions to more than 1200 nonlinear equations· An improved format that allows for an expanded table of contents that makes locating equations of interest more quickly and easily· Expansion of the supplement on special functionsThis handbook's focus on equations encountered in applications and on equations that appear simple but prove particularly difficult to integrate make it an indispensable addition to the arsenals of mathematicians, scientists, and engineers alike.
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The equations of motion in the dynamics of structures are ordinary differential equations.
Simply the seismic response of structures can be concluded into solving ordinary differential equations.
This book helps you get the mathematical knowledge of the subject. In conclusion, the
better you grasp ordinary differential equations, the better analysis of dynamics of structures you'll grasp.