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Nonlinear Approaches in Engineering Applications - Energy, Vibrations, and Modern Applications

English · Hardback

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This book analyzes the updated principles and applications of nonlinear approaches to solve engineering and physics problems. The knowledge on nonlinearity and the comprehension of nonlinear approaches are inevitable to future engineers and scientists, making this an ideal book for engineers, engineering students, and researchers in engineering, physics, and mathematics. Chapters are of specific interest to readers who seek expertise in optimization, nonlinear analysis, mathematical modeling of complex forms, and non-classical engineering problems. The book covers methodologies and applications from diverse areas such as vehicle dynamics, surgery simulation, path planning, mobile robots, contact and scratch analysis at the micro and nano scale, sub-structuring techniques, ballistic projectiles, and many more.

List of contents

Section 1: Energy Applications.- Nonlinear Behaviour Diagnosis for Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine Blades Subjected to Inconstant Wind Excitations.- Concentrated solar power plants capacity factors: A review.- Section 2: Vibrations and Automotive Applications.- Vibration Analysis of Oscillators with Generalized Inertial and Geometrical Nonlinearities.- Quarter Car Suspension Model with Provision for Loss of Contact with The Road.- Friction Coefficient of Pneumatic Tires and Bitumen Roads.- Solutions for Path Planning using Spline Parameterization.- Section 3: Modern Engineering Applications.- Diagnosis of nonlinear stochastic dynamics of active slider in nanometer spacing.- Formation Control of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots using an Acoustic Sensor.- Nonlinear Size-dependent Instability of Hybrid FGM Nanoshells.- Section 4: Analytical-Numerical Analysis Applications.- An exact solution technique for impact oscillators.- A semi-analytical solution for bending of nonlinear magnetostrictive beams.- Limted Data Modelling Approaches for Engineering Applications.- Theoretical and Numerical Investigation of The Elastic-Plastic Behavior of Thick-walled Cylinders.- A Complex Variable Method to Predict an Aerodynamics of Arbitrary Shape Ballistic Projectiles.- Extension of substructuring technique in the nonlinear domain.- Index.

About the author

Liming Dai, PhD, is Professor and Program Chair of Industrial Systems Engineering at the University of Regina, Canada.

Reza N. Jazar, PhD, is Professor and Associate Dean of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering at the School of Engineering in RMIT University, Australia.

Summary

Explores the nonlinear approaches that open avenues to better, safer, cheaper, and more cost-effective consumption of power and raw materials
Exposes readers to a broad range of practical topics and approaches
Contains a strong emphasis on application, physical meaning, and the methodologies of the approaches discussed

Product details

Assisted by Limin Dai (Editor), Liming Dai (Editor), Reza N. Jazar (Editor), N Jazar (Editor), N Jazar (Editor)
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.12.2017
 
EAN 9783319694795
ISBN 978-3-31-969479-5
No. of pages 456
Dimensions 163 mm x 243 mm x 32 mm
Weight 875 g
Illustrations XXVI, 456 p. 257 illus., 170 illus. in color.
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries

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