Mechanical engineering and materials Books

This book presents the peridynamic theory, which provides the capability for improved modeling of progressive failure in materials and structures, and paves the way for addressing multi-physics and multi-scale problems. The book provides students and...

The Ideal Final Result introduces the TRIZ Inventive Problem Solving Process in a way that allows readers to make immediate use of its most basic concepts. The Ideal Final Result reviews the basics of this left brained, but at the same time, very...

Fundamental Principles.- Problems in Plane Stress.- Axisymmetric and Related Problems.- Plastic Bending of Plates.- Plastic Analysis of Shells.- Plastic Anisotropy.- Plastic Buckling.- Dynamic Plasticity.- The Finite Element Method.

Featuring chapters on physics, structure, sound and design specifics, Technology of the Guitar also includes coverage of historical content, composition of strings and their effects on sound quality, and important designs. Additionally, author Mark...

Introduction.-Building a Nonlinear Rotary-wing Aircraft Model.- Stability Analysis for Rotary-wing Aircraft.- Altitude Control of Helicopters With Unknown Dynamics.- Altitude and Yaw Control of Helicopters With Uncertain Dynamics.- Attitude Control of...

Introduction.- NoC Basics.- Systems-on-Chip Testing.- NoC Reuse for SoC Modular Testing.- Advanced Approaches for NoC Reuse.- Test and Diagnosis of Routers.- Test and Diagnosis of Communication Channels.- Error Control Coding and Retransmission.- Error...

Structural topology optimization is a fast growing field that is finding numerous applications in automotive, aerospace and mechanical design processes. Homogenization is a mathematical theory with applications in several...

The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology impacts all areas of the control discipline. New theory, new...

The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology impacts all areas of the control discipline. New theory, new...

Constructive Nonlinear Control presents a broad repertoire of constructive nonlinear designs not available in other works by widening the class of systems and design tools. Several streams of nonlinear control theory are merged...

Introduction.- Multi-core and Many-core Processor Architectures.- State of the Art Multi-core Operating Systems.- The Fundamental Laws of Parallelism.- Fundamentals of Parallel Programming.- Debugging and Performance Analysis of Many-core Programs.-...

Part I: Trustworthy Embedded Systems.- Introduction: OpenComRTOS Role in a Unified Systems Engineering Methodology.- Requirements and Specifications for the OpenComRTOS Project.- Part II: Formal Modeling Fundamentals.- The Choice of TLA+/TLC: Comparing...

Introduction.- Solutions to Improve the Reliability of On-Chip Interconnects.- Networks-on-Chip (NoC).- Error Control Coding for On-Chip Interconnects.- Energy Efficient Error Control Implementation.- Combining Error Control Codes with Crosstalk...

Since register transfer level (RTL) design is less about being a bright engineer, and more about knowing the downstream implications of your work, this book explains the impact of design decisions taken that may give rise later in the product lifecycle...

Part I: Methodologies and Tools.- 1. The MULTICUBE Design Flow.- 2. M3-SCoPE: Performance Modeling of Multi-Processor Embedded Systems for Fast Design Space Exploration.- 3. Optimization Algorithms for Design Space Exploration of Embedded Systems.- 4...

This book describes the state-of-the-art in RF, analog, and mixed-signal circuit design for Software Defined Radio (SDR).  It synthesizes for analog/RF circuit designers the most important general design approaches to take...

This volume will define the direction of eddy-current technology in nondestructive evaluation (NDE) in the twenty-first century. It describes the natural marriage of the computer to eddy-current NDE, and its publication was encouraged by favorable...

This textbook is written for junior/senior undergraduate and first-year graduate students in the electrical and computer engineering departments.Using PSoC mixed-signal array design, the authors define the characteristics of embedd design, embedded...

Design and Use of Assistive Technology assesses major hurdles in the design and use of assistive technologies, while also providing guidelines and recommendations to improve these technologies. This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to solving...

Part I: HS/SW/ Building Blocks: Architecture, Methods, and Techniques.- 1. Memory Architecture and Management in an NoC Platform.- 2. Application-Specific Multi-Threaded Dynamic Memory Management.- 3. Power Management Architecture in McNoC.- 4. ASIP...

This scholarly text provides an introduction to the numerical methods used to model partial differential equations, with focus on atmospheric and oceanic flows. The book covers both the essentials of building a numerical model and the more sophisticated...

An Introduction to MPEG Digital Media.- MPEG Video Compression Basics.- MPEG Video Coding Advances.- MPEG Video Compression Future.- MPEG Image and Video Signature.- Audio Coding-The Beginning.- MPEG Audio Compression Advances.- MPEG Audio Compression...

A large-scale system is composed of several interconnected subsystems. For such a system it is often desired to have some form of decentralization in the control structure, since it is typically not realistic to assume that all output measurements can be...

Convective flow in the liquid phase is always present in a realistic process of freezing and melting and may significantly affect the dynamics and results of the process. The study of the interplay of growth and convection flow...

System-Level Design Techniques for Energy-Efficient Embedded Systems addresses the development and validation of co-synthesis techniques that allow an effective design of embedded systems with low energy dissipation. The book...

This volume introduces innovative power estimation and optimization methodologies to support the design of low power embedded systems based on high-performance VLIW microprocessors. A VLIW processor is a (generally) pipelined...

Chapter 1 Nanoelectromechanical Systems Chapter 2 NanoMEMS Physics: Quantum Wave-Particle Phenomena Chapter 3 NanoMEMS Physics: Quantum Wave Phenomena Chapter 4 NanoMEMS Applications: Circuits and Systems Chapter 5 NanoMEMS Applications: Photonics

Why Both Game Theory and Reliability Theory Are Important in Defending Infrastructure against Intelligent Attacks.- Game Theory Models of Intelligent Actors in Reliability Analysis: An Overview of the State of the Art.- Optimizing Defense Strategies for...

"Machining with Nanomaterials" focuses on the application of thin film nanostructures to the solution of machining problems. The solution to machining materials in an environmentally conscious manner is to use newly developed...

Power System Control: An Overview.- Real Power Compensation and Frequency Control.- Frequency Response Characteristics and Dynamic Performance.- PI-Based Frequency Control Design.- Frequency Regulation with Time Delays.- Multi-Objective Control-Based...

Section A.- to the Neutron.- Neutron Sources and Facilities.- Neutron Optics.- Neutron Detectors for Imaging.- Section B.- Neutron Radiography.- Neutron Tomography.- Mathematics of Neutron Imaging.- Neutron Phase Imaging.- Thermal Neutron Holography.-...

Adaptive Structural Systems with Piezoelectric Transducer Circuitry provides a comprehensive discussion on the integration of piezoelectric transducers with electrical circuitry for the development and enhancement of adaptive...

Modeling.- Analytical Models.- Models from Identification.- Model Reduction.- Wind Disturbance Models.- Control.- Preliminaries to Control.- PI and Feedforward Controllers.- LQG Controller.- H ? Controller.- Single Loop Control.- Non-Linear Control.- RF...

Carbon Nanotube and Fullerene Sensors.- Non-carbon Nanotubes: Hydrogen Sensors Based on TiO2.- Alternative Nanostructured Sensors: Nanowires, Nanobelts, and Novel Nanostructures.- Nanosensors: Controlling Transduction Mechanisms at the Nanoscale Using...

This is an introduction to molecular and atomistic modeling techniques applied to fracture and deformation of solids, focusing on a variety of brittle, ductile, geometrically confined and biological materials. The overview...

"Analytical System Dynamics: Modeling and Simulation" combines results from analytical mechanics and system dynamics to develop an approach to modeling constrained multidiscipline dynamic systems. This combination yields a...

Thermo-Mechanical Basics.- Constitutive Equations.- Shock Waves and Related Equations of State.- Hydrocodes.- Failure Models for Dynamic Loading Conditions.- Aspects of Advanced Dynamic Material Testing.

Preliminaries.- The Theory of Apportionment and Just-In-Time Sequences.- Minimization of Just-In-Time Sequence Deviation.- Optimality of Cyclic Sequences and the Oneness.- Bottleneck Minimization.- Competition-Free Instances, The Fraenkel's Conjecture,...

Just-in-time concept in manufacturing and computer systems.- Methodological background.- Common due date.- Individual due dates.- Algorithms for schedule balancing.

This book provides insight into the behavior and design of power distribution systems for high speed, high complexity integrated circuits. Also presented are criteria for estimating minimum required on-chip decoupling...

Feedback Control Theory.- Feedback Control Theory Continued.- State Variable Feedback Control Theory.- Electrical DC Servo Motors.- Stepping Servo Motors.- AC Servo Motors.- Electrohydraulic Servo Motors.- Actuators Based on Electro-Rheological Fluid.-...

Management in the Age of Risk.- Stochastic Management Approach.- Risk Chains and Balancing.- Stochastic Management Model.- Management Cycle Model.- Limit-Cycle Model.- Management with Sales Risk.- Service Versus Manufacturing Model.- Stream Risk...

Mechanical Properties of Materials.- Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics.- Delayed Fracture in Brittle Solids.- Statistics of Brittle Fracture.- Elastic Indentation Stress Fields.- Elastic Contact.- Hertzian Fracture.- Elastic-Plastic Indentation Stress...

Development and Applications of Late Transition Metal Bulk Metallic Glasses.- Atomistic Theory Of Metallic Liquids and Glasses.- Modeling: The Role Of Atomistic Simulations.- Evaluation Of Glass-Forming Ability.- Microstructure.- Deformation Behavior.-...

to Residual Stresses.- Elements of Measurement Using the Slitting Method.- Compliance Functions for Near-Surface Measurement: The Body Force Approach.- Compliance Functions for Through-Thickness Measurement: The LEFM Approach.- Compliance Functions for...

Sensor Design Guidelines.- Transduction Principles.- Growth and Synthesis of Nanostructured Thin Films.- Integrated Micromachining Technologies for Transducer Fabrication.- Applications of Functional Thin Films and Nanostructures in Gas Sensing.-...

to Polymer Composites.- Conventional Machining Operations.- Mechanics of Chip Formation.- Tool Materials and Tool Wear.- Conventional Machining of FRPs.- Nontraditional Machining of FRPs.- Health and Safety Aspects in Machining FRPs.