Product Description: Smart structures have the ability to assess their present state, determine a set of actions that can be undertaken in order to improve their behaviour, and carry out the necessary actions to achieve this. The contributors to this book address all or some of these issues as well as the development of new materials...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)