Fluid Film Lubrication: Theory and Design

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Fluid film bearings are among the best devices for overcoming friction and eliminating wear. They are machine elements and, together with shafts, gears, and cams, constitute the building blocks engineers use in the design and construction of mechanical devices. This book offers a systematic treatment of the fundamentals of fluid film lubrication and fluid film bearings. The introduction places fluid film bearings within the broader context of tribology, a subject that encompasses friction, lubrication, and wear. The early chapters provide a thorough discussion of classical tribological theory. The remainder of the book is devoted to more advanced topics of inertia, thermal and turbulence effects, lubrication of counterformal contacts, and non-Newtonian lubricants. Also included are developing areas, such as lubrication with emulsions. Graduate and senior undergraduate students, researchers, and practising engineers will appreciate this clear, thorough discussion of fluid film lubrication and fluid film bearings.

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IUTAM-IASS Symposium on Deployable Structures: Theory and Applications (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications)

IUTAM-IASS Symposium on Deployable Structures: Theory and Applications (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications) Review

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This collection presents 49 contributions by engineers, architects, biologists, and applied mathematicians interested in deployable structures. Aerospace structures are currently at the leading edge, and this is reflected by a larger number of contributions covering the full spectrum of concepts, simulations, testing, and working systems.

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Digital Control Systems Implementation Techniques: Advances in Theory and Applications

Digital Control Systems Implementation Techniques: Advances in Theory and Applications Review

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Praise for Previous Volumes "This book will be a useful reference to control engineers and researchers. The papers contained cover well the recent advances in the field of modern control theory". -IEEE GROUP CORRESPONDANCE "This book will help all those researchers who valiantly try to keep abreast of what is new in the theory and practice of optimal control". -CONTROL

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Thermal Stresses -- Advanced Theory and Applications (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications)

Thermal Stresses -- Advanced Theory and Applications (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications) Review

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This text on Thermal Stresses covers linear and non-linear problems and offers a chapter on Creep Analysis due to Thermal Stresses. It also contains numerous applications, solved problems in the text, and problems at the end of each chapter.

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Non-Classical Problems in the Theory of Elastic Stability

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When a structure is put under an increasing compressive load, it becomes unstable and buckling occurs. This important work discusses stability analysis and buckling problems and offers practical tools for dealing with uncertainties that exist in real systems. The techniques are based on two complementary theories that are developed in the text: the probabilistic theory of stability and "anti-optimization," a theory that is valid when the necessary information for probabilistic analysis is absent, that is, when only scant data are available. Design engineers, researchers, and graduate students in aerospace, mechanical, marine, and civil engineering concerned with issues of structural integrity will find this book a useful reference source.

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Innovative Conceptual Design: Theory and Application of Parameter Analysis

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Conceptual design, along with need identification and analysis, make up the initial stage of the design process. Conceptual design encompasses the generation of concepts and their integration into system-level solutions, leading to a relatively detailed design. This innovative text is devoted to the crucial initial design stage and focuses on parameter analysis. This methodology helps identify critical issues, or parameters, of the design and proposes configuration-specific solutions. The authors present real-world case studies. The book will appeal to engineering students, as well as to practicing engineers, architects, and product development managers.

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IUTAM-IASS Symposium on Deployable Structures: Theory and Applications (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications)

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This collection presents 49 contributions by engineers, architects, biologists, and applied mathematicians interested in deployable structures. Aerospace structures are currently at the leading edge, and this is reflected by a larger number of contributions covering the full spectrum of concepts, simulations, testing, and working systems.

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Unified Strength Theory and Its Applications

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This book provides a new Unified Strength Theory and describes its applications. The Unified Strength Theory is a system of yield and failure criteria of materials under complex stresses. It covers the entire range of convex failure criteria, from lower bound (Tresca yield criteria and Mohr-Coulomb failure criteria) to upper bound (twin-shear failure criteria). It also includes the non-convex yield and non-convex failure criteria. A series of new failure criteria and previous failure and yield criteria can be deduced from the Unified Strength Theory. The work presented in this book is unprecedented in the field of strength theory. It is useful for students in understanding the strength theory, for engineers to correctly use it and for researchers to choose an appropriate failure criteria in studying the strenth of materials and structures. An experimental verification, engineering applications, a detailed historical review and more than 1000 references are provided.

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Dynamical Systems and Control (Stability and Control: Theory, Methods and Applications)

Dynamical Systems and Control (Stability and Control: Theory, Methods and Applications) Review

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The 11th International Workshop on Dynamics and Control brought together scientists and engineers from diverse fields and gave them a venue to develop a greater understanding of this discipline and how it relates to many areas in science, engineering, economics, and biology. The event gave researchers an opportunity to investigate ideas and techniques from outside their own fields of expertise, enabling a cross-pollination of dynamics and control perspectives. Now there is a book that documents the major presentations of the workshop, providing a foundation for further research.

The range and diversity of papers in Dynamical Systems and Control demonstrate the remarkable reach of the subject. All of these contributed papers shed light on a multiplicity of physical, biological, and economic phenomena through lines of reasoning that originate and grow from this discipline.

The editors divide the book into three parts. The first covers fundamental advances in dynamics, dynamical systems, and control. These papers represent ideas that can be applied to several areas of interest. The second part deals with new and innovative techniques and their application to a variety of interesting problems, from the control of cars and robots, to the dynamics of ships and suspension bridges, and the determination of optimal spacecraft trajectories. The third section relates to social, economic, and biological issues. It reveals the wealth of understanding that can be obtained through a dynamics and control approach to issues such as epidemics, economic games, neo-cortical synchronization, and human posture control.

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Digital Control Systems Implementation Techniques, Volume 70: Advances in Theory and Applications (Control and Dynamic Systems)

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Praise for Previous Volumes
"This book will be a useful reference to control engineers and researchers. The papers contained cover well the recent advances in the field of modern control theory."
-IEEE GROUP CORRESPONDANCE
"This book will help all those researchers who valiantly try to keep abreast of what is new in the theory and practice of optimal control."
-CONTROL

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