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Der zunehmende Gebrauch zusammengesetzter Materialien hat eine Reihe nichtlinearer Probleme aufgebracht, die in diesem Werk eingehend behandelt werden.
List of contents
PREFACE xv
1 INTRODUCTION 1
2 ELASTlClTY 65
3 STRINGS AND CABLES 111
4 BEAMS 171
5 DYNAMICS OF BEAMS 267
6 SURFACE ANALYSIS 355
7 PLATES 371
8 DYNAMlCS OF PLATES 469
9 SHELLS 559
BIBLIOGRAPHY 654
SUBJECT INDEX 732
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ALI H. NAYFEH received his BS in engineering science and his MS and PhD in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University. He holds honorary doctorates from Marine Technical University, Russia, Technical University of Munich, Germany, and Politechnika Szczecinska, Poland. He is currently University Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Virginia Tech. He is the Editor of the Wiley Series in Nonlinear Science and Editor in Chief of Nonlinear Dynamics and the Journal of Vibration and Control.
PERNGJIN FRANK PAI received his PhD in engineering mechanics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is the C. W. LaPierre Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His research concentrates on highly flexible deployable/inflatable structures, structural damage detection, and nonlinear finite elements (www.missouri.edu/~maepai).
