Virtual Distortion Method

Jan Holnicki-Szulc

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Engineering | nr. 65
• Virtual distortions are incompatible deIormations imposed on structures (e. g., by nonhomogeneous heating or by local imperIections) causing a compati... Lees meer

Vibrations of Engineering Structures

C A Brebbia, H Tottenham, G B Warburton, J M Wilson, R R Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Engineering | nr. 10
• The increasing size and complexity of new structural forces in engineering have made it necessary for designers to be aware of their dynamic behaviour... Lees meer

Optimum Design of Structures

Lahbib Chibani

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Engineering | nr. 50
• This volume constitutes an important addition in our "Lecture Notes in Engineering" Series. The search for optimal structural shapes is at the fourtda... Lees meer

Engineering Optimization in Design Processes

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Engineering | nr. 63
• These proceedings contain the texts of 37 contributions presented at the International Conference on Engineering Optimization in an Industrial Environ... Lees meer

Difference Equations from Differential Equations

Wilbert J Lick

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Engineering | nr. 41
• In computational mechanics, the first and quite often the most difficult part of a problem is the correct formulation of the problem. This is usually ... Lees meer

The Boundary Integral Equatio Method in Axisymmetric Stress Analysis Problems

Adib A Bakr

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Engineering | nr. 14
• The Boundary Integral Equation (BIE) or the Boundary Element Method is now well established as an efficient and accurate numerical technique for engin... Lees meer

Numerical Simulation of Fluid Flow and Heat/Mass Transfer Processes

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Engineering | nr. 18
• Computational fluid flow is not an easy subject. Not only is the mathematical representation of physico-chemical hydrodynamics complex, but the accura... Lees meer

Shape Design Sensitivity Analysis and Optimization Using the Boundary Element Method

Zhiye Zhao

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Engineering | nr. 62
• This book investigates the various aspects of shape optimization of two- dimensional continuum structures, including shape design sensitivity analysis... Lees meer

Computational Tensor Analysis of Shell Structures

Steve Naomis, Paul C M Lau

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Engineering | nr. 58
• This book presents a method which is capable of evaluating the deformation characteristics of thin shell structures A free vibration analysis is chose... Lees meer

An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Integrated Circuit Floorplanning

Marwan A Jabri

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Engineering | nr. 66
• In 1984, while I was following his postgraduate course on VLSI design, my supervisor Dr. David Skellern, asked me if I was interested in investigating... Lees meer

Turbulent Reactive Flows

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Engineering | nr. 40
• Turbulent reactive flows are of common occurrance in combustion engineering, chemical reactor technology and various types of engines producing power ... Lees meer

Frontiers in Experimental Fluid Mechanics

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Engineering | nr. 46
• Dynamical systems theory and flow control are two research areas of great current interest. These and other special situations are among the topics co... Lees meer

Boundary Element Method in Geomechanics

W S Venturini

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Engineering | nr. 4
• Numerical techniques for solving many problems in continuum mechanics have experienced a tremendous growth in the last twenty years due to the develop... Lees meer

The Complex Variable Boundary Element Method

T V Hromadka

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Engineering | nr. 9
• The Complex Variable Boundary Element Method or CVBEM is a generalization of the Cauchy integral formula into a boundary integral equation method or B... Lees meer

Finite Rotations in Structural Mechanics

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Engineering | nr. 19
• The deformation near a material particle of the classical continuum is produced by successive superposition of a rigid-body translation, a pure stretc... Lees meer

Simulation of Large State Variations in Steam Power Plants

Richard Dolezal

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Engineering | nr. 30
• The present simulation method has been developed at the Institute for Power Technology and Steam Generation (IVD) of the University of Stuttgart. It i... Lees meer

Boundary Integral Equation Analyses of Singular, Potential, and Biharmonic Problems

D B Ingham, M A Kelmanson

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Engineering | nr. 7
• Harmonic and biharmonic boundary value problems (BVP) arising in physical situations in fluid mechanics are, in general, intractable by analytic techn... Lees meer

Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems '88

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Engineering | nr. 48
• The Proceedings contain 30 papers presented at the 2nd Working Conference on "Relia.bility and Optimization of Structural Systems," London, UK, Septem... Lees meer

The Boundary Element Method for Groundwater Flow

Erwin K Bruch

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Engineering | nr. 70
• In this book the application of the boundary element method to the solution of the Laplace equation is examined. This equation is of fundamental impor... Lees meer

Free Piston Stirling Engines

Graham Walker, J R Senft

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Engineering | nr. 12
• DEFINITION AND NOMENCLATURE A Stirling engine is a mechanical device which operates on a closed regenerative thermodynamic cycle with cyclic compressi... Lees meer

Coupled Boundary and Finite Element Methods for the Solution of the Dynamic Fluid-Structure Interaction Problem

Siamak Amini, Paul J Harris, David T Wilton

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Engineering | nr. 77
• This text considers the problem of the dynamic fluid-structure interaction between a finite elastic structure and the acoustic field in an unbounded f... Lees meer

Refined Dynamical Theories of Beams, Plates and Shells and Their Applications

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Engineering | nr. 28
• As is known, classical theories of vibration of the most fre- quently encountered structural elements (e. g., beams, plates and shells) disregard the ... Lees meer

Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems '91

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Engineering | nr. 76
• This proceedings volume contains 38 papers presented at the 4th Working Conference on "Rel- iability- and Optimization of Structural Systems", held at... Lees meer

Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems '90

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Engineering | nr. 61
• This proceedings volume contains 33 papers presented at the 3rd Working Conference on "Rel iability and Optimization of Structural Systems," held at t... Lees meer