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This invaluable treatise belongs to the cultural heritage of mechanics. It is an encyclopaedia of the classic and analytic approaches of continuum mechanics and of many domains of natural science. The book is unique also because an impressive number of methods and approaches it displays have been worked out by the author himself. In particular, this implies a full consistency of notation, ideas and mathematical apparatus which results in a unified approach to a broad class of problems. The book is of great interest for engineers who will find a lot of analytical formulae for very different problems covering nearly all aspects of the elastic behavior of materials. In particular, it fills the gap between the well-developed numerical methods and sophisticated methods of elasticity theory. It is also intended for researchers and students taking their first steps in continuum mechanics as it offers a carefully written and logically substantiated basis of both linear and nonlinear continuum mechanics.

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Despite the apparent activity in the field, the ever increasing rate of development of new engineering materials required to meet advanced technological needs poses fresh challenges in the field of constitutive modelling. The complex behaviour of such materials demands a closer interaction between numerical analysts and material scientists in order to produce thermodynamically consistent models which provide a response in keeping with fundamental micromechanical principles and experimental observations. This necessity for collaboration is further highlighted by the continuing remarkable developments in computer hardware which makes the numerical simulation of complex deformation responses increasingly possible. This book contains 14 invited contributions written by distinguished authors who participated in the VIII International Conference on Computational Plasticity held at CIMNE/UPC (www.cimne.com) from 5-8 September 2005, Barcelona, Spain. The meeting was one of the Thematic Conferences of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS, www.eccomas.org). The different chapters of this book present recent progress and future research directions in the field of computational plasticity. A common line of many contributions is that a stronger interaction between the phenomenological and micromechanical modelling of plasticity behaviour is apparent and the use of inverse identification techniques is also more prominent. The development of adaptive strategies for plasticity problems continues to be a challenging goal, while it is interesting to note the permanence of element modelling as a research issue. Industrial forming processes, geomechanics, steel and concrete structures form the core of the applications of the different numerical methods presented in the book.

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Fatigue and wear are the most damaging phenomena affecting machines since they result in some 90% of breakdowns. This tutorial book systematically develops a unified overview, named tribo-fatigue, which aims to address the complex wear-fatigue damages. Tribo-fatigue synthesizes aspects of three disciplines: mechanical fatigue, tribology, and reliability of mechanical systems. Tribo-fatigue opens new perspectives for increasing the durability of machines according to the most important criteria of their serviceability. Detailed damage measurement and wear-fatigue tests that enable engineers to design more durable and reliable systems are developed. The book is intended for advanced students, researchers and engineers.

Engineering. --- Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials. --- Tribology, Corrosion and Coatings. --- Machinery and Machine Elements. --- Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk. --- Materials. --- System safety. --- Chemistry, inorganic. --- Ingénierie --- Matériaux --- Sécurité des systèmes --- Fracture mechanics. --- Materials -- Fatigue -- Statistical methods. --- Materials -- Fatigue -- Testing -- Statistical methods. --- Tribology. --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Chemical & Materials Engineering --- Mechanical Engineering --- Materials Science --- Mechanical Engineering - General --- Applied Mathematics --- Mechanical wear. --- Scuffing --- Wear, Mechanical --- Wearing properties --- Continuum mechanics. --- Machinery. --- Quality control. --- Reliability. --- Industrial safety. --- Corrosion and anti-corrosives. --- Coatings. --- Friction --- Surfaces (Technology) --- Surface coatings --- Materials --- Coating processes --- Thin films --- Anti-corrosive paint --- Atmospheric corrosion --- Metal corrosion --- Metals --- Rust --- Rustless coatings --- Chemical inhibitors --- Chemistry, Technical --- Fouling --- Weathering --- Paint --- Protective coatings --- Waterproofing --- Industrial accidents --- Industries --- Job safety --- Occupational hazards, Prevention of --- Occupational health and safety --- Occupational safety and health --- Prevention of industrial accidents --- Prevention of occupational hazards --- Safety, Industrial --- Safety engineering --- Safety measures --- Safety of workers --- Accidents --- System safety --- Dependability --- Trustworthiness --- Conduct of life --- Factory management --- Industrial engineering --- Reliability (Engineering) --- Sampling (Statistics) --- Standardization --- Quality assurance --- Quality of products --- Machinery --- Machines --- Manufactures --- Power (Mechanics) --- Technology --- Mechanical engineering --- Motors --- Power transmission --- Mechanics of continua --- Elasticity --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Field theory (Physics) --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Corrosion --- Deterioration --- Surfaces --- Prevention --- Curious devices --- Strength of materials --- Tribology --- Hard materials --- Dynamic testing