Product Description: This unique volume presents the latest developments in the field of advanced woven and braided textile composites, with particular emphasis on computational approaches (finite elements, meshfree). Advanced textile composites such as woven, braided, knitted and stitched fabrics are increasingly being used as structural materials in industrial applications due to their efficiency at reinforcing more directions within a single layer and their ability to conform to surfaces with complex curvatures...read more

Product Description: The purpose of this book is to present, describe and demonstrate the use of numerical methods in solving crack problems in fracture mechanics. The text concentrates, to a large extent, on the application of the Boundary Element Method (BEM) to fracture mechanics, although an up-to-date account of recent advances in other numerical methods such as the Finite Element Method is also presented...read more

Product Description: This book presents contributions from researchers in 21 countries, and is based upon a forum meeting which promoted the exchange of the latest experimental and theoretical research results on structural integrity, durability and failure analysis; with the emphasis being placed on fracture and damage mechanics...read more

Product Description: This book provides an in-depth treatment of the study of the stability of engineering structures. Contributions from internationally recognized leaders in the field ensure a wide coverage of engineering disciplines in which structural stability is of importance, in particular the analytical and numerical modelling of structural stability applied to aeronautical, civil, marine and offshore structures...read more

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Product Description: The last two decades have seen considerable changes in the way fractures, including dynamic fractures, have been analysed. Conventional fracture mechanics approaches have slowly given way to more sophisticated and predictive ones including cohesive zone or traction-separation models...read more

Product Description: The boundary element method (BEM) is a modern numerical technique, which has enjoyed increasing popularity over the last two decades, and is now an established alternative to traditional computational methods of engineering analysis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The boundary element method (BEM) is a modern numerical technique, which has enjoyed increasing popularity over the last two decades, and is now an established alternative to traditional computational methods of engineering analysis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Thermal and mechanical fatigue leads to initiation and growth of cracks in many structures such as pressure vessels, nuclear reactors, high temperature engines, electronic packaging and dental materials. This book brings together state-of-the-art contributions from leading researchers in the field...read more

Product Description: Classical numerical methods such as Boundary Element Methods (BEM) have now evolved to a mature state and can provide accurate and reliable predictions in such areas as stress analysis, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics. This maturity, coupled with increasing computer power, means that engineers are now able to tackle simulations of complex character...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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The Boundary Element Method (BEM) is now widely regarded as the most accurate numerical tool for the analysis of crack problems in linear elastic fracture mechanics. This "crack growth" software utilizes the BEM and and removes the task of remeshing as the crack propagates, which is one of the drawbacks of finite element software. Furthermore, it evaluates accurate stress intensity factors for which the BEM is renowned. The software uses the established criterion for crack propagation and evaluates residual strength as well as fatigue life calculations. In addition to the basic capabilities of the standard code, this module can be used to solve problems involving panels with broken or intact stiffeners continuously or discretely attached to the sheet. It is possible to take the flexibility of the connection into account as well as to simulate its partial failure. The module also provides a multiple crack propagation facility which can be used for stiffened and unstiffened structures.

Product Description: This book consists of the edited versions of the papers presented at the Second International Conference on Computational Methods in Contact Mechanics, which was held in Ferrara, Italy, July 11-13, 1995. The importance of contact mechanics to engineering design has long been recognized...read more

Product Description: The Boundary Element Method (BEM) is now widely regarded as the most accurate numerical tool for the analysis of crack problems in linear elastic fracture mechanics. This "crack growth" software utilizes the BEM and and removes the task of remeshing as the crack propagates, which is one of the drawbacks of finite element software...read more

Product Description: This book is based on a collection of contributions by leading researchers in the field of concrete technology. It provides readers with detailed descriptions of the latest computational techniques developed by researchers worldwide for analyzing concrete structures. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: During the last decade, there has been a significant increase in research activity in the area of crack growth in rocks. This book contains papers written by a number of well-established scientists, bringing together the latest theoretical, computational and experimental research in the field...read more

The Boundary Element Method (BEM) is now widely regarded as the most accurate numerical tool for the analysis of crack problems in linear elastic fracture mechanics. This "crack growth" software utilizes the BEM and and removes the task of remeshing as the crack propagates, which is one of the drawbacks of finite element software. Furthermore, it evaluates accurate stress intensity factors for which the BEM is renowned. The software uses the established criterion for crack propagation and evaluates residual strength as well as fatigue life calculations. In addition to the basic crack growth analysis capabilities of the standard code, this module permits the solution of problems subjected to thermal loadings. The thermoelastic code utilizes the J-integral technique to evaluate stress intensity factors for mixed-mode crack problems and can be used for problems with thermal and/or mechanical loading conditions for cracked and uncracked problems. The code will also evaluate temperatures or flux and displacement or stresses at boundary or internal points. The module can be used to simulate crack growth due to combined thermal and fatigue loadings.

Product Description: Thin walled plate structures are used widely throughout engineering practice in the design of aircraft, spacecraft and ground structures. Studying their behavior when subjected to different loadings is thus important. This book presents boundary element formulations for linear and non-linear problems in plate bending, providing readers with a detailed formulation and implementation of the Boundary Element Method for plate bending analysis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book consists of the edited versions of the papers presented at the Third International Conference on Computational Methods in Contact Mechanics, which was held in Madrid, Spain, July 1-3, 1997. It identifies the developments in computer technology and computational methods which have enabled engineers to solve many complex practical contact problems, both accurately and efficiently...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This software program allows the use of boundary element methods in the analysis of problems in fracture mechanics. The package includes the book, "Numerical Fracture Mechanics", by M.H. Aliabadi and D.P. Rooke, as well as a general theoretical guide and a self-study guide to the BEASY-Crack Growth code with several sessions on how to run representative examples...read more