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The book offers a careful introduction to modern non-linear mechanics. The used mathematical tools, such as tensor algebra and analysis are given in detail. The general theory of mechanical behaviour is particularized for the broad and important classes of elasticity and plasticity. It is intended to bring the reader close to the fields of today's research activities. A list of notations and an index help the reader to find specific topics. The book is based on three decades of teaching experience in this field.

Elasticity --- Plasticity --- Deformations (Mechanics) --- Elastic solids --- Mechanics --- Rheology --- Strains and stresses --- Structural failures --- Cohesion --- Plastics --- Elastic properties --- Young's modulus --- Mathematical physics --- Matter --- Statics --- Strength of materials --- Properties --- Mechanics. --- Mechanics, Applied. --- Solid Mechanics. --- Applied mechanics --- Engineering, Mechanical --- Engineering mathematics --- Classical mechanics --- Newtonian mechanics --- Physics --- Dynamics --- Quantum theory --- ELASTICITE --- PLASTICITE --- Grandes déformations --- MECANIQUE

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The maintenance of systems in engineering is of increasing concern to managers and designers in all branches of engineering, whether they are producing high-quality products or designing highly-reliable systems. In recent decades, reliability theory has produced many innovations in maintenance policy. Maintenance Theory of Reliability is a survey of useful and practical maintenance models covering replacement, preventive maintenance and inspection. The book provides a detailed introduction to maintenance policies, updates the reader on the current status of the field and indicates future directions. The reader will learn the theory of maintenance and how to apply models in practice. The book will serve as an essential reference for graduate students and researchers in reliability theory and a useful guide for reliability engineers engaged in maintenance work. The Springer Series in Reliability Engineering publishes high-quality books in important areas of current theoretical research and development in reliability, and in areas that bridge the gap between theory and application in areas of interest to practitioners in industry, laboratories, business, and government. .

Reliability (Engineering) --- Engineering. --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Reliability of equipment --- Systems reliability --- Engineering --- Maintainability (Engineering) --- Probabilities --- Systems engineering --- Plant performance --- Safety factor in engineering --- Structural failures --- Engineering design. --- System safety. --- Industrial engineering. --- Engineering Design. --- Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk. --- Industrial and Production Engineering. --- Management engineering --- Simplification in industry --- Value analysis (Cost control) --- Safety, System --- Safety of systems --- Systems safety --- Accidents --- Industrial safety --- Design, Engineering --- Industrial design --- Strains and stresses --- Prevention --- Design --- Quality control. --- Reliability. --- Industrial safety. --- Production engineering. --- Manufacturing engineering --- Process engineering --- Industrial engineering --- Mechanical engineering --- 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 --- System safety --- Dependability --- Trustworthiness --- Conduct of life --- Factory management --- Sampling (Statistics) --- Standardization --- Quality assurance --- Quality of products

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This volume addresses the issue of uncertainty in civil engineering from design to construction. Failures do occur in practice. Attributing them to a residual system risk or a faulty execution of the project does not properly cover the range of causes. A closer scrutiny of the adopted design, the engineering model, the data, the soil-construction-interaction and the model assumptions is required. Usually, the uncertainties in initial and boundary conditions are abundant. Current engineering practice often leaves these issues aside, despite the fact that new scientific tools have been developed in the past decades that allow a rational description of uncertainties of all kinds, from model uncertainty to data uncertainty. It is the aim of this volume to have a critical look at current engineering risk concepts in order to raise awareness of uncertainty in numerical computations, shortcomings of a strictly probabilistic safety concept, geotechnical models of failure mechanisms and their implications for construction management, execution, and the juristic question of responsibility. In addition, a number of the new procedures for modelling uncertainty are explained. The book is a result of a collaborate effort of mathematicians, engineers and construction managers who met regularly in a post graduate seminar at the University of Innsbruck during the past years.

Civil engineering. --- Construction industry -- Risk management. --- Reliability (Engineering). --- Structural failures. --- Structural failures --- Construction industry --- Reliability (Engineering) --- Civil engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Chemical & Materials Engineering --- Mechanical Engineering --- Technology - General --- Industrial & Management Engineering --- Civil Engineering --- Materials Science --- Risk management --- Risk management. --- Reliability of equipment --- Systems reliability --- Collapse of structures --- Failures, Structural --- Engineering. --- Geotechnical engineering. --- Probabilities. --- Statistics. --- Mechanics. --- Mechanics, Applied. --- Quality control. --- Reliability. --- Industrial safety. --- Engineering geology. --- Engineering --- Foundations. --- Hydraulics. --- Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk. --- Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences. --- Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes. --- Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences. --- Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. --- Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics. --- Geology. --- Public works --- Maintainability (Engineering) --- Probabilities --- Systems engineering --- Plant performance --- Safety factor in engineering --- Deformations (Mechanics) --- Fracture mechanics --- Structural stability --- System safety. --- Distribution (Probability theory. --- Mechanics, applied. --- Hydraulic engineering. --- Engineering, Hydraulic --- Fluid mechanics --- Hydraulics --- Shore protection --- Applied mechanics --- Engineering, Mechanical --- Engineering mathematics --- Statistical analysis --- Statistical data --- Statistical methods --- Statistical science --- Mathematics --- Econometrics --- Distribution functions --- Frequency distribution --- Characteristic functions --- Safety, System --- Safety of systems --- Systems safety --- Accidents --- Industrial safety --- Prevention --- Statistics . --- Engineering—Geology. --- Flow of water --- Water --- Hydraulic engineering --- Jets --- Architecture --- Building --- Structural engineering --- Underground construction --- Caissons --- Earthwork --- Masonry --- Soil consolidation --- Soil mechanics --- Walls --- Geology, Economic --- Classical mechanics --- Newtonian mechanics --- Physics --- Dynamics --- Quantum theory --- Probability --- Statistical inference --- Combinations --- Chance --- Least squares --- Mathematical statistics --- Risk --- Engineering, Geotechnical --- Geotechnics --- Geotechnology --- Engineering geology --- 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 --- System safety --- Dependability --- Trustworthiness --- Conduct of life --- Factory management --- Industrial engineering --- Sampling (Statistics) --- Standardization --- Quality assurance --- Quality of products --- Flow --- Distribution --- Details --- Geology