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This collection focuses on all aspects of science and technology
related to friction stir welding and processing.
This book gathers outstanding papers on numerical modeling in
Mechanical Engineering (Volume 2) as part of the proceedings of the
1st International Conference on Numerical Modeling in Engineering
(NME 2018), which was held in Ghent, Belgium. The overall objective
of the conference was to bring together international scientists
and engineers in academia and industry from fields related to
advanced numerical techniques, such as the finite element method
(FEM), boundary element method (BEM), isogeometric analysis (IGA),
etc., and their applications to a wide range of engineering
disciplines. This book addresses various industrial engineering
applications of numerical simulations to Mechanical and Materials
Engineering, including: Aerospace applications, Acoustic analysis,
Biomechanical applications, Contact problems and wear, Heat
transfer analysis, Vibration and dynamics, Transient analysis,
Nonlinear analysis, Composite materials, Polymers, Metal alloys,
Fracture mechanics, Fatigue of materials, Creep behavior, Phase
transformation, and Crystal plasticity.
The integration of electronic engineering, mechanical engineering,
control and computer engineering - Mechatronics - lies at the heart
of the innumerable gadgets, processes and technology without which
modern life would seem impossible. From auto-focus cameras to car
engine management systems, and from state-of-the-art robots to the
humble washing machine, Mechatronics has a hand in them all.
This collection provides researchers and industry professionals
with complete guidance on the synthesis, analysis, design,
monitoring, and control of metals, materials, and metallurgical
processes and phenomena. Along with the fundamentals, it covers
modeling of diverse phenomena in processes involving iron, steel,
non-ferrous metals, and composites. It also goes on to examine
second phase particles in metals, novel sensors for
hostile-environment materials processes, online sampling and
analysis techniques, and models for real-time process control and
quality monitoring systems.
A groundbreaking text book that presents a collaborative approach
to design methods that tap into a range of disciplines In recent
years, the number of complex problems to be solved by engineers has
multiplied exponentially. Transdisciplinary Engineering Design
Process outlines a collaborative approach to the engineering design
process that includes input from planners, economists, politicians,
physicists, biologists, domain experts, and others that represent a
wide variety of disciplines. As the author explains, by including
other disciplines to have a voice, the process goes beyond
traditional interdisciplinary design to a more productive and
creative transdisciplinary process. The transdisciplinary approach
to engineering outlined leads to greater innovation through a
collaboration of transdis-ciplinary knowledge, reaching beyond the
borders of their own subject area to conduct "useful" research that
benefits society. The author--a noted expert in the field--argues
that by adopting transdisciplinary research to solving complex,
large-scale engineering problems it produces more innovative and
improved results. This important guide: Takes a holistic approach
to solving complex engineering design challenges Includes a wealth
of topics such as modeling and simulation, optimization,
reliability, statistical decisions, ethics and project management
Contains a description of a complex transdisciplinary design
process that is clear and logical Offers an overview of the key
trends in modern design engineering Integrates transdisciplinary
knowledge and tools to prepare students for the future of jobs
Written for members of the academy as well as industry leaders,
Transdisciplinary Engineering Design Process is an essential
resource that offers a new perspective on the design process that
invites in a wide variety of collaborative partners.
Adaptive control has been one of the main problems studied in
control theory. The subject is well understood, yet it has a very
active research frontier. This book focuses on a specific subclass
of adaptive control, namely, learning-based adaptive control. As
systems evolve during time or are exposed to unstructured
environments, it is expected that some of their characteristics may
change. This book offers a new perspective about how to deal with
these variations. By merging together Model-Free and Model-Based
learning algorithms, the author demonstrates, using a number of
mechatronic examples, how the learning process can be shortened and
optimal control performance can be reached and maintained.
This book offers valuable insights and provides effective tools
useful for imagining, creating, and promoting novel and challenging
developments in structural mechanics. It addresses a wide range of
topics, such as mechanics and geotechnics, vibration and damping,
damage and friction, experimental methods, and advanced structural
materials. It also discusses analytical, experimental and numerical
findings, focusing on theoretical and practical issues and
innovations in the field. Collecting some of the latest results
from the Lagrange Laboratory, a European scientific research group,
mainly consisting of Italian and French engineers, mechanicians and
mathematicians, the book presents the most recent example of the
long-term scientific cooperation between well-established French
and Italian Mechanics, Mathematics and Engineering Schools. It is a
valuable resource for postgraduate students, researchers and
practitioners dealing with theoretical and practical issues in
structural engineering.
Frontiers in Civil and Hydraulic Engineering focuses on the
research of architecture and hydraulic engineering in civil
engineering. The proceedings feature the most cutting-edge research
directions and achievements related to civil and hydraulic
engineering. Subjects in the proceedings including: * Engineering
Structure * Intelligent Building * Structural Seismic Resistance *
Monitoring and Testing * Hydraulic Engineering * Engineering
Facility The works of this proceedings can promote development of
civil and hydraulic engineering, resource sharing, flexibility and
high efficiency. Thereby, promote scientific information
interchange between scholars from the top universities, research
centers and high-tech enterprises working all around the world.
This comprehensive book offers a clear account of the theory and
applications of advanced metal forming. It provides a detailed
discussion of specific forming processes, such as deep drawing,
rolling, bending extrusion and stamping. The author highlights
recent developments of metal forming technologies and explains
sound, new and powerful expert system techniques for solving
advanced engineering problems in metal forming. In addition, the
basics of expert systems, their importance and applications to
metal forming processes, computer-aided analysis of metalworking
processes, formability analysis, mathematical modeling and case
studies of individual processes are presented.
Refrigeration Equipment is a clear, practical guide to the
installation, testing and servicing of industrial and domestic
refrigeration equipment. Refrigeration technicians, who are poorly
provided with good reference material, will welcome the author's
hands-on approach. Other readers will include trainees on in-plant
industry courses, building service engineers and maintenance staff
in the frozen food industry, supermarkets, hotels and hospitals. It
also provides a text from NVQs (C&G 6007) and other vocational
courses). This revised edition has been updated throughout, and
includes a new section on the topical subject of alternative
refrigerants and, for the first time, a chapter on the principles
of air conditioning.
This book presents the most recent advances in the research of
machines and mechanisms. It collects 54 reviewed papers presented
at the XII International Conference on the Theory of Machines and
mechanisms (TMM 2016) held in Liberec, Czech Republic, September
6-8, 2016. This volume offers an international selection of the
most important new results and developments, grouped in six
different parts, representing a well-balanced overview, and
spanning the general theory of machines and mechanisms, through
analysis and synthesis of planar and spatial mechanisms, linkages
and cams, robots and manipulators, dynamics of machines and
mechanisms, rotor dynamics, computational mechanics, vibration and
noise in machines, optimization of mechanisms and machines,
mechanisms of textile machines, mechatronics to the control and
monitoring systems of machines. This conference is traditionally
organised every four year under the auspices of the international
organisation IFToMM and the Czech Society for Mechanics.
The evolution of soft computing applications has offered a
multitude of methodologies and techniques that are useful in
facilitating new ways to address practical and real scenarios in a
variety of fields. In particular, these concepts have created
significant developments in the engineering field. Soft Computing
Techniques and Applications in Mechanical Engineering is a pivotal
reference source for the latest research findings on a
comprehensive range of soft computing techniques applied in various
fields of mechanical engineering. Featuring extensive coverage on
relevant areas such as thermodynamics, fuzzy computing, and
computational intelligence, this publication is an ideal resource
for students, engineers, research scientists, and academicians
involved in soft computing techniques and applications in
mechanical engineering areas.
Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) is a relatively new research area
which describes the methods and approaches used to supply
quantitative descriptions of the effects of uncertainty,
variability and errors in simulation problems and models. It is
rapidly becoming a field of increasing importance, with many
real-world applications within statistics, mathematics, probability
and engineering, but also within the natural sciences. Literature
on the topic has up until now been largely based on polynomial
chaos, which raises difficulties when considering different types
of approximation and does not lead to a unified presentation of the
methods. Moreover, this description does not consider either
deterministic problems or infinite dimensional ones. This book
gives a unified, practical and comprehensive presentation of the
main techniques used for the characterization of the effect of
uncertainty on numerical models and on their exploitation in
numerical problems. In particular, applications to linear and
nonlinear systems of equations, differential equations,
optimization and reliability are presented. Applications of
stochastic methods to deal with deterministic numerical problems
are also discussed. Matlab (R) illustrates the implementation of
these methods and makes the book suitable as a textbook and for
self-study.
Pneumatic Conveying Design Guide, 3rd Edition is divided into three
essential parts, system and components, system design, and system
operation, providing both essential foundational knowledge and
practical information to help users understand, design, and build
suitable systems. All aspects of the pneumatic conveying system are
covered, including the type of materials used, conveying distance,
system constraints, including feeding and discharging, health and
safety requirements, and the need for continuous or batch
conveying. This new edition also covers information on the other
conveying systems available and compares them to this method. The
existing content is brought up-to-date and the references are
expanded and updated. This guide is an almost encyclopedic coverage
of pneumatic conveying and as such is an essential text for both
designers and users of pneumatic conveying systems. Each aspect of
the subject is discussed from basic principles to support those new
to, or learning about, this versatile technique.
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