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The purpose of the book is to review the fundamentals of displacement based methods, starting from engineering seismology, ...

This volume addresses the issue of uncertainty in civil engineering from design to construction. Failures do occur in practice. ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects, ...

Atomistic Modeling of Materials Failure is an introduction to molecular and atomistic modeling techniques applied to solid ...

Leading international researchers and practitioners of bifurcations and instabilities in geomechanics debate the developments ...

Collagen: Structure and Mechanics provides a cohesive introduction to collagen-rich tissues, such as tendon, bone, cornea ...

One the key aspects of this volume is to cut across the traditional taxonomy of disciplines in the study of alloys. Hence ...

This study has become increasingly important in algebraic geometry in every context where variational phenomena come into ...

This study has become increasingly important in algebraic geometry in every context where variational phenomena come into ...

It uses the advance core (the core of ground ahead of the face) as a structural tool for the long and short term stabilisation ...

This volume contains papers addressing different topics as deformation modelling applied to natural hazards, inverse gravimetric ...

This is the first book on rotational effects in earthquakes, a revolutionary concept in seismology. Existing models do no ...

The book offers a careful introduction to modern non-linear mechanics. The used mathematical tools, such as tensor algebra ...

The book presents in detail the used mathematical tools, such as tensor algebra and analysis. The general theory of mechanical ...

This book aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to the theory and applications of the mechanics of transversely isotropic ...

This is the first of two volumes introducing structural and continuum mechanics in a comprehensive and consistent way. The ...

The primary aim of this monograph is to present the current knowledge of brittle properties of rocks as determined in laboratory ...

The second edition of the book contains four new chapters in addition to the ten chapters of the first edition. The fourteen ...

This book forms an introduction to important aspects of shock-wave propagation in solid materials. Emphasis is on the regime ...

With the advent of the finite element method, our ability to compute has surpassed our ability to formulate theory. As a ...

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