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Books in Mechanical engineering

The Mechanical Engineering portfolio showcases expertise in thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, machine design, and manufacturing processes. It combines authoritative research with practical insights to advance efficient and reliable mechanical systems. Emphasizing sustainability, automation, and AI integration, the portfolio addresses modern engineering challenges with both rigor and innovation.

  • Advances in Heat Transfer

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 61
    • English
    Advances in Heat Transfer, Volume 61 provides a comprehensive overview of the latest developments, emerging trends, and innovative research in the field of heat transfer. Covering both fundamental concepts and practical applications, this volume brings together contributions from leading experts addressing topics such as conduction, convection, radiation, phase change, and multi-phase flows.

  • Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Bone

    From Model to Patient
    • 1st Edition
    • Luis Cardoso + 2 more
    • English
    Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Bone: From Model to Patient provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the modelling and assessment of bone biomechanics. It addresses topics such as biosubstitutes and bone implants from the point of view of design, properties, computational modeling, and choice of biomaterials. It concentrates on the biomechanics and mechanobiology modeling approaches of bone, including biological models, multiphysical approaches, surface and volumetric growth models, and bone fluid flow models. This is augmented by case studies and examples of models for computer-aided diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of bone diseases. Readers are introduced to bone physiology, adaptation, and disease, including cellular aspects at the root of bone mechanotransduction and leading to bone growth and remodeling, and management of diseases. Chapters also cover the mechanical, multiphysical multiscale properties of bone and constitutive laws including bone viscoelasticity, poroelasticity, bone damage, fatigue and fracture, as well as measurement techniques of bone properties.

  • An Introduction to the Finite Element Method with the Variational Approach

    • 1st Edition
    • Prakash Mahadeo Dixit + 1 more
    • English
    An Introduction to the Finite Element Method with the Variational Approach offers a comprehensive solution to the gaps often found in introductory texts on the Finite Element Method (FEM). The book provides a thorough introduction to the fundamental principles of linear and time-independent FEM within the variational framework. It meticulously covers the derivation of 1-D FEM equations based on variational functionals, encompassing both linear and higher-order elements, and shape functions driven by convergence criteria. Furthermore, it explores 1-D numerical integration, outlines coding procedures, and provides insights into handling material nonlinearity and time-dependent scenarios.Expanding into 2-D problems, the book offers derivations of 2-D FEM equations tailored to diverse engineering disciplines, including Steady-State Heat Conduction, Solid Mechanics (covering torsion, plane strain/axisymmetric cases, and the bending, stability, and vibrations of thin plates), as well as Fluid Mechanics (addressing incompressible inviscid and viscous fluids). It includes detailed discussions on element continuity, numerical integration techniques, and even includes 2-D codes for selected problems. The book concludes by delving into recent advancements in FEM, with a specific focus on applications in machine learning and isogeometric analysis.

  • Fatigue Damage in Metals

    Numerical Methods-Based Approaches
    • 1st Edition
    • Anghel-Vasile Cernescu + 1 more
    • English
    Fatigue Damage in Metals provides readers with detailed and easy-to-implement simulation and modelling techniques for predicting, analysing, and mitigating the effects of fatigue damage in metallic materials. The book includes techniques for analysing variable load spectra, modelling and predicting the cyclic behaviour of materials, as well as fatigue damage operators, criteria, and methods specific to different case studies. The book addresses variable amplitude loadings, yield surfaces-based models for cyclic plasticity simulation, fatigue crack imitation based on CDM approaches, S-N curve estimation, and more. New criteria and numerical techniques for analysing the fatigue crack initiation are included, as are raw data, algorithms, and codes that can be put into immediate use.

  • Solid State Physics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 77
    • English
    Solid State Physics, Volume 77, the latest release in this serial that highlights new advances in the field, presents interesting chapters written by an international board of authors, with this new release focusing on new breakthroughs in the field. Updates in this release include Electronic, optical, and transport properties of semiconducting systems with diminishing dimensions: From spin to spintronics.

  • Digital Twins of Advanced Materials Processing

    • 1st Edition
    • Tarasankar DebRoy + 1 more
    • English
    Digital twins represent an emerging technology of immense potential across various industries. Their significance is particularly pronounced within Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing paradigms, which strive to elevate efficiency and quality through seamless digital integration. By amassing and scrutinizing extensive data streams, digital twins empower data-centric decision-making—a pivotal asset in contemporary industry. Digital Twins of Advanced Materials Processing bridges the gap in comprehensive resources concerning advanced materials processing, a domain characterized by rapid evolution. It provides pragmatic remedies and real-world case studies, catering to tangible implementation needs. Moreover, digital twins hold the capacity to amplify efficiency and innovation within materials processing—a perspective deeply explored within this book, rendering it invaluable for professionals, researchers, and students alike. The prospects of employing digital twins in materials processing span diverse horizons: refining materials innovation, streamlining processes, enabling data-driven maintenance, enhancing product quality, and unearthing insights rooted in data. The book also undertakes the challenge of addressing key issues encompassing data amalgamation and integrity, model validation and calibration, software and data safeguarding, scalability, and cost considerations.

  • Innovations In Advanced Materials and Manufacturing

    • 1st Edition
    • Mohammad Nasr Esfahani + 1 more
    • English
    Innovations In Advanced Materials and Manufacturing provides insights into the mechanics, characteristics, behavior, application, and manufacturing of advanced materials such as nanowires, 2D materials, biomaterials, smart materials, and more. The book discusses the materials themselves, with chapters dedicated to the mechanics and electronic and magnetic properties of nanomaterials, photonic, and phononic materials and devices, 2D magnetic materials, smart materials and coatings, metamaterials, and microdevices and sensors. Other sections cover manufacturing technologies and methods of previously discussed materials, outlining manufacturing techniques for additive manufacturing of metallic lattice structures, biomedical alloys, shape memory alloys, multifunctional polymer composites, nanocomposite structures, ceramics, and batteries.

  • Fundamentals of Extrusion-Based Aluminum Welding and Additive Manufacturing

    A Step-by-Step Guide
    • 1st Edition
    • Øystein Grong
    • English
    Fundamentals of Extrusion-Based Aluminum Welding and Additive Manufacturing explores the potential of extrusion-based aluminum welding and additive manufacturing (AM) in an industrial context, in light of how age-hardened Al–Mg–Si alloys respond to conventional fusion welding and friction stir welding (FSW). The primary focus is on the hybrid metal extrusion and bonding (HYB) process, which employs continuous rotary extrusion to achieve metallurgical bonding between different metals and alloys in the solid state with the addition of aluminum filler metal. Thanks to its versatility and flexibility, the HYB process can be applied to a wide range of operations, including butt, fillet, and lap welding, as well as plate surfacing, multimaterial welding, and AM.The chapters are organized in a manner that makes the HYB technology easily accessible to professionals in both academia and industry who are already familiar with FSW. Detailed information is provided on the design and operation of the PinPoint extruder, representing the core outcome of the HYB development project. To help readers with diverse backgrounds understand and engage with the topics covered, the learning process is enhanced by integrating relevant physically based models into specially designed case studies throughout the text.

  • Reliability Assessment of Flow Networks and Industrial Systems

    Bridging Theory and Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Amit Kumar + 2 more
    • English
    Reliability Assessment of Flow Networks and Industrial Systems: Bridging Theory and Applications explores real-life flow networks and industrial systems, employing various methods, including both exact and approximation techniques, to assess the reliability of these systems. Through numerous examples, the book explains algorithms, ensuring readers gain a deep understanding of the discussed approaches. The complexity results for these algorithms are computed and compared with alternative methods. Furthermore, the book presents experimental results tied to specific methods, providing a comprehensive and practical understanding throughout.

  • Mechanics of Materials

    An Introduction to the Mechanics of Elastic and Plastic Deformation of Solids and Structural Materials
    • 4th Edition
    • Vadim Silberschmidt + 1 more
    • English
    Mechanics of Materials: An Introduction to the Mechanics of Elastic and Plastic Deformation of Solids and Structural Materials, 4th Edition covers the behaviors of materials and structures under various loads, the ways in which they react to applied forces, the resulting deflections, and the stresses and strains that need to be considered when designing a mechanical component. It begins with an introduction to the concepts of stress, strain, shear force, and bending moments, then progresses to an examination of bending, shear, and torsion in elements such as beams, cylinders, shells, and springs. A simple treatment of complex stress and strain leads to a study of the theories of elastic failure and an introduction to the experimental methods of stress and strain analysis. Building on those fundamentals, the book then extends the scope of the materials covered into more complex areas such as unsymmetrical bending, loading and deflection of struts, rings, discs, cylinder plates, diaphragms, and thin walled sections. The finite element method, and more advanced topics such as contact and residual stresses, stress concentrations, fatigue, and creep and fracture are also covered. Each chapter contains a summary of the essential formulae developed in the chapter, as well as a large number of worked examples which progress in level of difficulty. Additionally, each chapter concludes with an extensive selection of problems for solving by the reader.

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