Focusing on the needs of students, Fundamentals of Fracture Mechanics offers an introduction to the discipline through careful editing and mindfulness toward the audience. The text reviews bedrock concepts, such as the theory of elasticity and continuum mechanics, while outlining essential topics related to fracture mechanics. Students are provided with practice exercises in a text designed to facilitate enjoyable learning. Drawing from over 20 years of teaching, the author provides practical and useful resources in the first comprehensive textbook for introductory fracture mechanics. Through careful treatment and organization, the author delivers a text helpful to professors and students new to the field of fracture mechanics.
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Mechanics
Mechanical Engineering
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Undergraduate

This book brings together the principles, equations, and applications of ultrasonic NDE, both traditional and modern, in a single, authoritative resource. It begins with the relevant fundamentals of mechanics, derives the basic equations of the mechanics of elastic wave propagation, and then, step-by-step, covers the advanced topics and applications of ultrasonic NDE that are at the forefront of today's research. These include engineering, biological, and clinical applications, such as structural health monitoring, the characterization of biological cells, and real-time blood flow measurement.
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Materials Science
Mechanics
Biomaterials - Materials Science
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Professional

Covering both classical and quantum models, nonlinear integrable systems are of considerable theoretical and practical interest, with applications over a wide range of topics, including water waves, pin models, nonlinear optics, correlated electron systems, plasma physics, and reaction-diffusion processes. Comprising one part on classical theories and applications and another on quantum aspects, Classical and Quantum Nonlinear Integrable Systems: Theory and Application reviews the advances made in nonlinear integrable systems, with emphasis on the underlying concepts rather than technical details. It forms an outstanding introductory textbook as well as a useful reference for specialists.
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Mathematical Physics
Quantum Mechanics
Reference
Professional

Introductory Finite Element Method examines both structural analysis and flow applications in a presentation designed for upper-level undergraduate and beginning graduate students, both within and outside of the engineering disciplines. It includes a chapter on variational calculus, clearly presented to show how the functionals for structural analysis and flow problems are formulated. The authors provide both one- and two-dimensional finite element codes and a wide range of examples and exercises. The exercises include some simpler ones to solve by hand calculation, alllowing readers to understand the theory and the details of formulating computer implementations.
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Fluid Mechanics
Mechanical Engineering
Textbook
Undergraduate

Covering a wide range of topics involving both research developments and applications, resulting from the 10th International Conferecne on Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG) held in January 2001 in Tucson, Arizona, USA. The theme of the conference was Fundamentals through Applications. The up-to-date research results and applications in this 2-volume work (> 1900 pages) should serve as a valuable source of information for those engaged in research, analysis and design, practical application, and education in the fields of geomechanics and geotechnical engineering.
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Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Geomechanics
Proceedings