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Going far beyond the standard texts, this book extensively covers boundary integral equation (BIE) formulations and the boundary element method (BEM). The first section introduces BIE formulations for potential and elasticity problems, following the modern regularization approach - the fundamental starting point for research in this field. Secondly, a clear description of BIE formulations for wave and elastodynamics problems, in both time and frequency domains is presented. Finally, recent research in the field, related to variational integral formulations, use of geometrical symmetry, shape sensitivity and fracture mechanics is summarised. Within the text a broad range of application areas, industrial as well as research related, are examined. These include: - elasticity and small-strain elastoplasticity
- time-domain and frequency-domain scalar and elastic waves
- fracture mechanics
Including an extensive bibliography, this text will be of considerable value and interest to graduate students, researchers and lecturers in engineering mechanics, applied maths and physics, as well as industrial practitioners working within these areas.
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Sinful Desires
Iris James, M. Bonnet, Miranda May
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Discovery Miles 7 150
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With the end of the Cold War, will the space race become a
cooperative venture? This book, which tells the story of the
European Space Agency, shows how such a cooperative enterprise has
worked over the past three decades and how it might apply to future
space science.
Linking fifteen European nations, the European Space Agency
offers a working model of scientific, technological, and political
cooperation on an international scale. Roger M. Bonnet and Vittorio
Manno give us an insiders' view of the agency--its beginnings as
the European Space Research Organization, its development in the
face of early difficulties, and its daily operations. Covering
thirty years, this account traces the evolution of ESAs programs,
facilities, and capabilities and the establishment of its
scientific, technological, industrial, and political policies and
objectives. With an eye to future global space activities, the
authors detail ESA's relationships with its own member states and
with other countries, particularly the United States. The history
of cooperation between ESA and NASA as exemplified by two specific
projects--Ulysses and the international space station--highlights
the difficulties of associating different decisionmaking bodies and
political systems.
Illustrated with pictures and diagrams, enlivened with
anecdotes involving key world players in space science, this book
provides a rich blend of factual information and personal
recollection, history and interpretation. A timely contribution to
the study of the politics of science and technology, it points the
way to future international cooperation.
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