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Metaheuristics and Optimization in Civil Engineering
This timely book deals with a current topic, i.e. the applications of metaheuristic algorithms, with a primary focus on optimization problems in civil engineering. The first chapter offers a concise overview of different kinds of metaheuristic algorithms, explaining their advantages in solving complex engineering problems that cannot be effectively tackled by traditional methods, and citing the…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-26243-7
- Collation
- XI, 302
- Series Title
- Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technologies
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- -
Acoustic, Electromagnetic, Neutron Emissions from Fracture and Earthquakes
This book presents the relevant consequences of recently discovered and interdisciplinary phenomena, triggered by local mechanical instabilities. In particular, it looks at emissions from nano-scale mechanical instabilities such as fracture, turbulence, buckling and cavitation, focussing on vibrations at the TeraHertz frequency and Piezonuclear reactions. Future applications for this work could…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-16955-2
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- VIII, 264
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- -
- Call Number
- 621.43 ACO a
Time-Optimal Trajectory Planning for Redundant Robots
This master’s thesis presents a novel approach to finding trajectories with minimal end time for kinematically redundant manipulators. Emphasis is given to a general applicability of the developed method to industrial tasks such as gluing or welding. Minimum-time trajectories may yield economic advantages as a shorter trajectory duration results in a lower task cycle time. Whereas kinematical…
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- -
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- 978-3-658-12701-5
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- 35 b/w illustrations
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- -
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8th RILEM International Conference on Mechanisms of Cracking and Debonding in…
This book presents the latest advances in research to analyze mechanical damage and its detection in multilayer systems. The contents are linked to the Rilem TC241 - MCD scientific activities and the proceedings of the 8th RILEM International Conference on Mechanisms of Cracking and Debonding in Pavements (MCD2016). MCD2016 was hosted by Ifsttar and took place in Nantes, France, on June 7-9, 20…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-024-0867-6
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- -
- Series Title
- RILEM Bookseries
- Call Number
- 620.1 EIG e
Engineering Computation of Structures: The Finite Element Method
This book presents theories and the main useful techniques of the Finite Element Method (FEM), with an introduction to FEM and many case studies of its use in engineering practice. It supports engineers and students to solve primarily linear problems in mechanical engineering, with a main focus on static and dynamic structural problems. Readers of this text are encouraged to discover the pro…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-17710-6
- Collation
- XIII, 314
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- -
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Nonholonomic Mechanics and Control
This book explores some of the connections between control theory and geometric mechanics; that is, control theory is linked with a geometric view of classical mechanics in both its Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations and in particular with the theory of mechanical systems subject to motion constraints. The synthesis of the topic is appropriate as there is a particularly rich connection bet…
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- 2
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0939-6047
- Collation
- XXI, 565
- Series Title
- Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics
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- -
Theory and Practice of Gearing and Transmissions In Honor of Professor Faydo…
This book brings together papers from all spheres of mechanical engineering related to gears and transmissions, from fundamentals to advanced applications, from academic results in numerical and experimental research, to new approaches to gear design and aspects of their optimization synthesis and to the latest developments in manufacturing. Furthermore, this volume honours the work of Faydor L…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-19740-1
- Collation
- IX, 450
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- -
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Multiscale Modeling in Biomechanics and Mechanobiology
Presenting a state-of-the-art overview of theoretical and computational models that link characteristic biomechanical phenomena, this book provides guidelines and examples for creating multiscale models in representative systems and organisms. It develops the reader's understanding of and intuition for multiscale phenomena in biomechanics and mechanobiology, and introduces a mathematical framew…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-4471-6598-9
- Collation
- VIII, 286
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- -
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