Composite materials are increasingly used in aerospace, underwater, and automotive structures. They provide unique advantages over their metallic counterparts, but also create complex challenges to analysts and designers. Practical Analysis of Composite Laminates presents a summary of the equations governing composite laminates and provides practical methods for analyzing most common types of composite structural elements. Experimental results for several types of structures are included, and theoretical and experimental correlations are discussed. The last chapter is devoted to practical analysis using Designing Advanced Composites (DAC), a PC-based software on the subject. This comprehensive text can be used for a graduate course in mechanical engineering, and as a valuable reference for professionals in the field.
The main purpose of this book is to present the most important advances and changes that are taking place in the field of automotive engineering, which experts estimate will be substantially different in 20 years from the way it is conceived. This study explores some of the most relevant aspects of the promising future of automotive engineering, among which are intelligent vehicles, ultralight materials, safety and crashworthiness, new manufacturing techniques, highly efficient engines, gas emissions, ecology or the transfer of aeronautical technology.
Illustrating the important aspects of tensor calculus, and highlighting its most practical features, Physical Components of Tensors presents an authoritative and complete explanation of tensor calculus that is based on transformations of bases of vector spaces rather than on transformations of coordinates. Written with graduate students, professors, and researchers in the areas of elasticity and shell theories in mind, this text focuses on the physical and nonholonomic components of tensors and applies them to the theories. It establishes a theory of physical and anholonomic components of tensors and applies the theory of dimensional analysis to tensors and (anholonomic) connections. This theory shows the relationship and compatibility among several existing definitions of physical components of tensors when referred to nonorthogonal coordinates. The book assumes a basic knowledge of linear algebra and elementary calculus, but revisits these subjects and introduces the mathematical backgrounds for the theory in the first three chapters. In addition, all field equations are also given in physical components as well. Comprised of five chapters, this noteworthy text: Deals with the basic concepts of linear algebra, introducing the vector spaces and the further structures imposed on them by the notions of inner products, norms, and metrics Focuses on the main algebraic operations for vectors and tensors and also on the notions of duality, tensor products, and component representation of tensors Presents the classical tensor calculus that functions as the advanced prerequisite for the development of subsequent chapters Provides the theory of physical and anholonomic components of tensors by associating them to the spaces of linear transformations and of tensor products and advances two applications of this theory Physical Components of Tensors contains a comprehensive account of tensor calculus, and is an essential reference for graduate students or engineers concerned with solid and structural mechanics.
Shells, plates and beams have always appeared as fundamental components for civil, mechanical, aerospace and naval engineering. The increase in the use of these structures in different engineering practices justify the present international meeting where researches from every part of the globe can share and discuss the recent advancements regarding the use of standard structural components within advanced applications such as buckling, vibrations, repair, reinforcements, concrete, composite laminated materials and more recent metamaterials. In particular, the computational and experimental methods for shells, plates, beams and arches are the general topics of this conference. The importance of the present topics is justified also by the number of journal papers and technical notes that have been published extensively over the last seventy years in international scientific journals of different engineering fields. This Conference is suitable as a reference for engineers and scientists working in the professional field, in the industry and the academia and it gives the possibility to share recent advancements in different engineering practices to the outside world. This book aims to collect selected plenary and keynote lectures of this International Conference.
This two volume set is a complete guide to the diagnosis and treatment of paediatric skin conditions. With its first edition having published more than 33 years ago, this reference is renowned amongst clinicians practising in the field of paediatric dermatology. The fifth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to provide all the latest techniques and therapeutic advances for daily practice. More than 2000 clinical and histologic pictures, the majority new to this edition, illustrate all the skin conditions described in the comprehensive text covering 2500 pages, across the two volumes. Detailed references offer suggestions for further reading. Divided into 22 sections, the book begins with an introduction to basic science and discussion on diagnosis in paediatric dermatology. The following chapters cover a multitude of conditions, from genetic diseases, eczema, and pigmentary disorders, to vascular anomalies, tumours and cysts, skin infections, and many more. The book concludes with a section on the principles of treatment. A complete section is dedicated to neonatal disorders. The book is edited by Madrid-based Antonio Torrelo, with contributions from numerous other experts in the field. The previous edition (9780723435402) published in 2010.
Composite materials are increasingly used in aerospace, underwater, and automotive structures. They provide unique advantages over their metallic counterparts, but also create complex challenges to analysts and designers. Practical Analysis of Composite Laminates presents a summary of the equations governing composite laminates and provides practical methods for analyzing most common types of composite structural elements. Experimental results for several types of structures are included, and theoretical and experimental correlations are discussed. The last chapter is devoted to practical analysis using Designing Advanced Composites (DAC), a PC-based software on the subject. This comprehensive text can be used for a graduate course in mechanical engineering, and as a valuable reference for professionals in the field.
The main purpose of this book is to present the most important advances and changes that are taking place in the field of automotive engineering, which experts estimate will be substantially different in 20 years from the way it is conceived. This study explores some of the most relevant aspects of the promising future of automotive engineering, among which are intelligent vehicles, ultralight materials, safety and crashworthiness, new manufacturing techniques, highly efficient engines, gas emissions, ecology or the transfer of aeronautical technology.
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