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This volume contains papers presented in the third international symposium titled Fatigue of Materials: Advances and Emergences in Understanding held during the Materials Science and Technology 2014 meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, in October 2014. The book contains contributions from engineers, technologists, and scientists from academia, research laboratories, and industries. The 19 papers are divided into five topical areas: Session 1: Aluminum Alloys Session 2: Ferrous Materials I Session 3: Ferrous Materials II Session 4: Composite Materials Sess

Materials --- Alloys --- Nonferrous alloys --- Metallic alloys --- Metallic composites --- Metals --- Phase rule and equilibrium --- Amalgamation --- Microalloying --- Fatigue of materials --- Fatigue testing --- Fracture mechanics --- Strains and stresses --- Strength of materials --- Structural failures --- Vibration --- Fatigue. --- Thermomechanical properties. --- Dynamic testing --- Testing

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Reliability of Large and Complex Systems, previously titled Reliability of Large Systems, is an innovative guide to the current state and reliability of large and complex systems. In addition to revised and updated content on the complexity and safety of large and complex mechanisms, this new edition looks at the reliability of nanosystems, a key research topic in nanotechnology science. The author discusses the importance of safety investigation of critical infrastructures that have aged or have been exposed to varying operational conditions. This reference provides an

Large scale systems. --- Nanosystems. --- Systems engineering. --- System safety --- System theory --- Engineering --- System analysis --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Industrial & Management Engineering --- Operations Research --- Asymptotic theory --- Safety measures --- Reliability (Engineering) --- Large scale systems --- Evaluation. --- Systems, Large scale --- Engineering systems --- Reliability of equipment --- Systems reliability --- Maintainability (Engineering) --- Probabilities --- Systems engineering --- Plant performance --- Safety factor in engineering --- Structural failures --- System engineering --- Industrial engineering --- Design and construction

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Software reliability is one of the most important characteristics of software product quality. Its measurement and management technologies during the software product life cycle are essential to produce and maintain quality/reliable software systems. Part 1 of this book introduces several aspects of software reliability modeling and its applications. Hazard rate and nonhomogeneous Poisson process (NHPP) models are investigated particularly for quantitative software reliability assessment. Further, imperfect debugging and software availability models are discussed with reference to incorporating practical factors of dynamic software behavior. Three software management problems are presented as application technologies of software reliability models: the optimal software release problem, the statistical testing-progress control, and the optimal testing-effort allocation problem. Part 2 of the book describes several recent developments in software reliability modeling and their applications as quantitative techniques for software quality/reliability measurement and assessment. The discussion includes a quality engineering analysis of human factors affecting software reliability during the design review phase, which is the upper stream of software development, as well as software reliability growth models based on stochastic differential equations and discrete calculus during the testing phase, which is the lower stream. The final part of the book provides an illustration of quality-oriented software management analysis by applying the multivariate analysis method and the existing software reliability growth models to actual process monitoring data.

Computer software --- Reliability (Engineering) --- Reliability. --- Computer software -- Quality control. --- Computer software -- Testing. --- Statistics. --- Software engineering. --- Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences. --- Statistics and Computing/Statistics Programs. --- Software Engineering. --- Reliability of equipment --- Systems reliability --- Engineering --- Maintainability (Engineering) --- Probabilities --- Systems engineering --- Plant performance --- Safety factor in engineering --- Structural failures --- Mathematical statistics. --- Computer software engineering --- Mathematics --- Statistical inference --- Statistics, Mathematical --- Statistics --- Sampling (Statistics) --- Statistical analysis --- Statistical data --- Statistical methods --- Statistical science --- Econometrics --- Statistics .

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This volume is the first of the new series Advances in Dynamics and Delays. It offers the latest advances in the research of analyzing and controlling dynamical systems with delays, which arise in many real-world problems. The contributions in this series are a collection across various disciplines, encompassing engineering, physics, biology, and economics, and some are extensions of those presented at the IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) conferences since 2011. The series is categorized in five parts covering the main themes of the contributions: · Stability Analysis and Control Design · Networks and Graphs · Time Delay and Sampled-Data Systems · Computational and Software Tools · Applications This volume will become a good reference point for researchers and PhD students in the field of delay systems, and for those willing to learn more about the field, and it will also be a resource for control engineers, who will find innovative control methodologies for relevant applications, from both theory and numerical analysis perspectives.

Reliability (Engineering) --- System design. --- Design, System --- Systems design --- Reliability of equipment --- Systems reliability --- Engineering. --- Statistical physics. --- Computational intelligence. --- Control engineering. --- Control. --- Computational Intelligence. --- Nonlinear Dynamics. --- Control engineering --- Control equipment --- Control theory --- Engineering instruments --- Automation --- Programmable controllers --- Intelligence, Computational --- Artificial intelligence --- Soft computing --- Physics --- Mathematical statistics --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Statistical methods --- Electronic data processing --- System analysis --- Engineering --- Maintainability (Engineering) --- Probabilities --- Systems engineering --- Plant performance --- Safety factor in engineering --- Structural failures --- Control and Systems Theory. --- Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory. --- Time delay systems.

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Knowing the safety factor for limit states such as plastic collapse, low cycle fatigue or ratcheting is always a major design consideration for civil and mechanical engineering structures that are subjected to loads. Direct methods of limit or shakedown analysis that proceed to directly find the limit states offer a better alternative than exact time-stepping calculations as, on one hand, an exact loading history is scarcely known, and on the other they are much less time-consuming. This book presents the state of the art on various topics concerning these methods, such as theoretical advances in limit and shakedown analysis, the development of relevant algorithms and computational procedures, sophisticated modeling of inelastic material behavior like hardening, non-associated flow rules, material damage and fatigue, contact and friction, homogenization and composites.

Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Civil Engineering --- Deformations (Mechanics) --- Strength of materials. --- Architectural engineering --- Engineering, Architectural --- Materials, Strength of --- Resistance of materials --- Engineering. --- Computational intelligence. --- Mechanics. --- Mechanics, Applied. --- Civil engineering. --- Structural materials. --- Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. --- Structural Materials. --- Civil Engineering. --- Computational Intelligence. --- Architectural materials --- Architecture --- Building --- Building supplies --- Buildings --- Construction materials --- Structural materials --- Materials --- Engineering --- Public works --- Applied mechanics --- Engineering, Mechanical --- Engineering mathematics --- Classical mechanics --- Newtonian mechanics --- Physics --- Dynamics --- Quantum theory --- Intelligence, Computational --- Artificial intelligence --- Soft computing --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Building materials --- Flexure --- Mechanics --- Testing --- Elasticity --- Graphic statics --- Strains and stresses --- Elastic solids --- Rheology --- Structural failures --- Mechanics, applied. --- Materials. --- Engineering materials --- Industrial materials --- Engineering design --- Manufacturing processes --- Plastic analysis (Engineering) --- Mathematical models.