Shell Structures: Theory and Applications Volume 4

Shell Structures: Theory and Applications Volume 4
Author: Wojciech Pietraszkiewicz
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2017-10-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 135168048X

Shells are basic structural elements of modern technology and everyday life. Examples of shell structures in technology include automobile bodies, water and oil tanks, pipelines, silos, wind turbine towers, and nanotubes. Nature is full of living shells such as leaves of trees, blooming flowers, seashells, cell membranes or wings of insects. In the human body arteries, the eye shell, the diaphragm, the skin and the pericardium are all shells as well. Shell Structures: Theory and Applications, Volume 4 contains 132 contributions presented at the 11th Conference on Shell Structures: Theory and Applications (Gdansk, Poland, 11-13 October 2017). The papers reflect a wide spectrum of scientific and engineering problems from theoretical modelling through strength, stability and dynamic behaviour, numerical analyses, biomechanic applications up to engineering design of shell structures. Shell Structures: Theory and Applications, Volume 4 will be of interest to academics, researchers, designers and engineers dealing with modelling and analyses of shell structures. It may also provide supplementary reading to graduate students in Civil, Mechanical, Naval and Aerospace Engineering.

Smart Structures: From Concepts To Applications

Smart Structures: From Concepts To Applications
Author: Amr M Baz
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 616
Release: 2024-08-16
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1800614144

This book presents a comprehensive coverage of smart structures, from the basic concepts to a wide spectrum of critical applications, including piezoelectric-based sensors, actuators, and self-sensing actuators. Throughout the book, attempts have been made to develop electrical analogies of the structural/piezoelectric interactions.The book is organized into seven chapters. The first three chapters cover the basic concepts of structural dynamics, control, piezoelectric actuators, and piezoelectric sensors. The following four chapters cover a wide range of important applications in active vibration control, passive shunted piezoelectric networks, comprehensive piezoelectric energy harvesting technology, and piezoelectric-based periodic and metamaterial structures. Every chapter concludes with several problems.

Shell Structures: Theory and Applications

Shell Structures: Theory and Applications
Author: Wojciech Pietraszkiewicz
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2013-09-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1482229080

Shells are basic structural elements of modern technology and everyday life. Examples are automobile bodies, water and oil tanks, pipelines, aircraft fuselages, nanotubes, graphene sheets or beer cans. Also nature is full of living shells such as leaves of trees, blooming flowers, seashells, cell membranes, the double helix of DNA or wings of insec

Maxwell’s Equations in Periodic Structures

Maxwell’s Equations in Periodic Structures
Author: Gang Bao
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2021-11-22
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9811600619

This book addresses recent developments in mathematical analysis and computational methods for solving direct and inverse problems for Maxwell’s equations in periodic structures. The fundamental importance of the fields is clear, since they are related to technology with significant applications in optics and electromagnetics. The book provides both introductory materials and in-depth discussion to the areas in diffractive optics that offer rich and challenging mathematical problems. It is also intended to convey up-to-date results to students and researchers in applied and computational mathematics, and engineering disciplines as well.

Shell Structures: Theory and Applications (Vol. 2)

Shell Structures: Theory and Applications (Vol. 2)
Author: Wojciech Pietraszkiewicz
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 686
Release: 2009-09-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1439859191

Shell Structures. Theory and Applications, Volume 2 contains 77 contributions from over 17 countries, reflecting a wide spectrum of scientific and engineering problems of shell structures. The papers are divided into six broad groups: 1. General lectures; 2. Theoretical modeling; 3. Stability; 4. Dynamics; 5. Numerical analysis; 6. Engineering

Electromagnetic Wave Propagation, Radiation, and Scattering

Electromagnetic Wave Propagation, Radiation, and Scattering
Author: Akira Ishimaru
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 1045
Release: 2017-08-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1119079535

One of the most methodical treatments of electromagnetic wave propagation, radiation, and scattering—including new applications and ideas Presented in two parts, this book takes an analytical approach on the subject and emphasizes new ideas and applications used today. Part one covers fundamentals of electromagnetic wave propagation, radiation, and scattering. It provides ample end-of-chapter problems and offers a 90-page solution manual to help readers check and comprehend their work. The second part of the book explores up-to-date applications of electromagnetic waves—including radiometry, geophysical remote sensing and imaging, and biomedical and signal processing applications. Written by a world renowned authority in the field of electromagnetic research, this new edition of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation, Radiation, and Scattering: From Fundamentals to Applications presents detailed applications with useful appendices, including mathematical formulas, Airy function, Abel’s equation, Hilbert transform, and Riemann surfaces. The book also features newly revised material that focuses on the following topics: Statistical wave theories—which have been extensively applied to topics such as geophysical remote sensing, bio-electromagnetics, bio-optics, and bio-ultrasound imaging Integration of several distinct yet related disciplines, such as statistical wave theories, communications, signal processing, and time reversal imaging New phenomena of multiple scattering, such as coherent scattering and memory effects Multiphysics applications that combine theories for different physical phenomena, such as seismic coda waves, stochastic wave theory, heat diffusion, and temperature rise in biological and other media Metamaterials and solitons in optical fibers, nonlinear phenomena, and porous media Primarily a textbook for graduate courses in electrical engineering, Electromagnetic Wave Propagation, Radiation, and Scattering is also ideal for graduate students in bioengineering, geophysics, ocean engineering, and geophysical remote sensing. The book is also a useful reference for engineers and scientists working in fields such as geophysical remote sensing, bio–medical engineering in optics and ultrasound, and new materials and integration with signal processing.

Phonons - Recent Advances, New Perspectives and Applications

Phonons - Recent Advances, New Perspectives and Applications
Author: Jie Deng
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2024-11-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 183769589X

This book presents the latest advancements in the study of phonons and acoustic metamaterials. Chapters address such topics as modeling theories aimed at characterizing coupled modes and dispersion curves, acoustic radiation, nonlinear phenomena, thermodynamics, antiferromagnets, acoustic black holes, and track structures. The book compiles significant contributions from esteemed international researchers, offering an excellent survey of new perspectives on phonons.

Electromagnetic Theory and Applications for Photonic Crystals

Electromagnetic Theory and Applications for Photonic Crystals
Author: Kiyotoshi Yasumoto
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2018-10-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1351836994

Photonic technology promises much faster computing, massive parallel processing, and an evolutionary step in the digital age. The search continues for devices that will enable this paradigm, and these devices will be based on photonic crystals. Modeling is a key process in developing crystals with the desired characteristics and performance, and Electromagnetic Theory and Applications for Photonic Crystals provides the electromagnetic-theoretical models that can be effectively applied to modeling photonic crystals and related optical devices. The book supplies eight self-contained chapters that detail various analytical, numerical, and computational approaches to the modeling of scattering and guiding problems. For each model, the chapter begins with a brief introduction, detailed formulations of periodic structures and photonic crystals, and practical applications to photonic crystal devices. Expert contributors discuss the scattering matrix method, multipole theory of scattering and propagation, model of layered periodic arrays for photonic crystals, the multiple multipole program, the mode-matching method for periodic metallic structures, the method of lines, the finite-difference frequency-domain technique, and the finite-difference time-domain technique. Based on original research and application efforts, Electromagnetic Theory and Applications for Photonic Crystals supplies a broad array of practical tools for analyzing and designing devices that will form the basis for a new age in computing.

Advanced Electromagnetism: Foundations: Theory And Applications

Advanced Electromagnetism: Foundations: Theory And Applications
Author: Terence William Barrett
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 807
Release: 1995-11-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9814501085

Advanced Electromagnetism: Foundations, Theory and Applications treats what is conventionally called electromagnetism or Maxwell's theory within the context of gauge theory or Yang-Mills theory. A major theme of this book is that fields are not stand-alone entities but are defined by their boundary conditions. The book has practical relevance to efficient antenna design, the understanding of forces and stresses in high energy pulses, ring laser gyros, high speed computer logic elements, efficient transfer of power, parametric conversion, and many other devices and systems. Conventional electromagnetism is shown to be an underdeveloped, rather than a completely developed, field of endeavor, with major challenges in development still to be met.