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Mechanics for a New Mellennium Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Chicago, Illinois, USA 27 August Ớ<U+001c> 2 September 2000 /

The 20th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mech- ics, ICTAM 2000, took place August 27 Ớ<U+001c> September 2, 2000, in the c- ference facilities of the Chicago Marriott Downtown on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The Congress was invited by the US National Academy...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Aref, Hassan. (Editor), Phillips, James W. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
Subjects:
Engineering.
Mathematical models.
Mechanics.
Mechanical engineering.
Civil engineering.
Materials science.
Mechanical Engineering.
Civil Engineering.
Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.
Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics.
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Table of Contents:
  • New Perspectives on Crack and Fault Dynamics
  • A Survey of and Evaluation Methodology for Fiber Composite Material Failure Theories
  • Damage Mechanics of Metal-matrix Composites: Various Levels of Approach
  • Metallic Foams: Structure, Properties, and Applications
  • Linear Viscoelasticity of Concentrated Emulsions
  • Aluminum: Approaching the New Millennium
  • Electromagnetic Phenomena in Steel Continuous Casting
  • Rail Vehicle Dynamics for the 21st Century
  • Fundamentals of the Lateral Dynamics of Road Vehicles
  • A Mechatronics Approach to Advanced Vehicle Control Design
  • Mixing: Kinetics and Geometry
  • Statistical Approach to the Mechanical Behavior of Granular Media
  • Damage Analysis and Prevention in Composite Materials
  • Electromagnetic Phenomena in Crystal Growth
  • Software Tools: From Multibody System Analysis to Vehicle System Dynamics
  • Granular Segregation in Collisional Shearing Flows
  • Nonlinear Composites and Microstructure Evolution
  • Hard Problems with Soft Materials: The Mechanics of Foams
  • Magnetohydrodynamic Damped Buoyancy-driven Convection
  • Adaptive, Nonlinear, and Learning Techniques for the Control of Vehicle Ride Dynamics
  • Recent Advances in Turbulent Mixing
  • Kinetic and Continuum Descriptions of Granular Flows
  • Stationary Waves in Elasto-plastic and Visco-elasto-plastic Bodies
  • Hierarchical Model- and Discretization-error Estimation of Elasto-plastic Structures
  • Laminar Boundary-layer Theory: A 20th Century Paradox?
  • Plasticity in the 21st Century
  • Heart Simulation by an Immersed Boundary Method with Formal Second-order Accuracy and Reduced Numerical Viscosity
  • Vortical Structure of Turbulence
  • Probabilistic Methods in Earthquake Engineering
  • Effective, Equivalent, and Apparent Properties of Heterogeneous Media
  • Diffusion-controlled Combustion
  • Nanomechanics and Micromechanics of Thin Films, Graded Coatings, and Mechanical/Nonmechanical Systems
  • Optimum Design of Microelectromechanical Systems
  • Local and Global Perspectives in Fluid Dynamics
  • Closing Ceremony.

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