Numerical Analysis and Its Applications

Numerical Analysis and Its Applications
Author: Lubin Vulkov
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 628
Release: 1997-02-26
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540625988

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Numerical Analysis and Its Applications, WNAA'96, held in Rousse, Bulgaria, in June 1996. The 57 revised full papers presented were carefully selected and reviewed for inclusion in the volume; also included are 14 invited presentations. All in all, the book offers a wealth of new results and methods of numerical analysis applicable in computational science, particularly in computational physics and chemistry. The volume reflects that the cooperation of computer scientists, mathematicians and scientists provides new numerical tools for computational scientists and, at the same time, stimulates numerical analysis.

Bridge Safety, Maintenance, Management, Life-Cycle, Resilience and Sustainability

Bridge Safety, Maintenance, Management, Life-Cycle, Resilience and Sustainability
Author: Joan Ramon Casas
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 2646
Release: 2022-06-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1000798739

Bridge Safety, Maintenance, Management, Life-Cycle, Resilience and Sustainability contains lectures and papers presented at the Eleventh International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management (IABMAS 2022, Barcelona, Spain, 11–15 July, 2022). This e-book contains the full papers of 322 contributions presented at IABMAS 2022, including the T.Y. Lin Lecture, 4 Keynote Lectures, and 317 technical papers from 36 countries all around the world. The contributions deal with the state-of-the-art as well as emerging concepts and innovative applications related to the main aspects of safety, maintenance, management, life-cycle, resilience, sustainability and technological innovations of bridges. Major topics include: advanced bridge design, construction and maintenance approaches, safety, reliability and risk evaluation, life-cycle management, life-cycle, resilience, sustainability, standardization, analytical models, bridge management systems, service life prediction, structural health monitoring, non-destructive testing and field testing, robustness and redundancy, durability enhancement, repair and rehabilitation, fatigue and corrosion, extreme loads, needs of bridge owners, whole life costing and investment for the future, financial planning and application of information and computer technology, big data analysis and artificial intelligence for bridges, among others. This volume provides both an up-to-date overview of the field of bridge engineering and significant contributions to the process of making more rational decisions on bridge safety, maintenance, management, life-cycle, resilience and sustainability of bridges for the purpose of enhancing the welfare of society. The volume serves as a valuable reference to all concerned with and/or involved in bridge structure and infrastructure systems, including students, researchers and practitioners from all areas of bridge engineering.

Membrane Biomechanics

Membrane Biomechanics
Author:
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2020-10-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0128210222

Membrane Biomechanics, Volume 86, the latest release in the Current Topics in Membranes series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on Lipid bilayers: phase behavior and mechanics, Molecular mechanisms of cell membrane structure modification by omega-3 fatty acids, Mechanical properties of magnetoliposomes, Mechanosensitive ion channels and membrane tension, From cell membrane to the nuclear membrane through modulation of cytoskeleton, Endothelial stiffness in dyslipidemia and aging, Vascular smooth muscle stiffness in aging and vascular disease, Mechanobiology of macrovesicle release and activation, Interplay of membrane cholesterol and substrate on vascular smooth muscle mechanics, and more. - Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors - Presents the latest release in the Current Topics in Membranes series - Includes the latest information on Membrane Biomechanics

Recent Developments in Domain Decomposition Methods

Recent Developments in Domain Decomposition Methods
Author: Luca F. Pavarino
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642561187

The main goal of this book is to provide an overview of some of the most recent developments in the field of Domain Decomposition Methods. Domain decomposition relates to the construction of preconditioners for the large algebraic systems of equations which often arise in applications, by solving smaller instances of the same problem. It also relates to the construction of approximation methods built from different discretizations in different subdomains. The resulting methods are among the most successful parallel solvers for many large scale problems in computational science and engineering. The papers in this collection reflect some of the most active research areas in domain decomposition such as novel FETI, Neumann-Neumann, overlapping Schwarz and Mortar methods.

Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence
Author: Hepu Deng
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 755
Release: 2009-10-26
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642052525

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence, AICI 2009, held in Shanghai, China, on November 7-8, 2009. The 79 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 1203 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on support vector machine, rough set theory, particle swarm optimization, neural computation, intelligent agents and systems, information security, immune computation, genetic algorithms, fuzzy computation, biological computing, applications of computational intelligence, ant colony algorithm, robotics, pattern recognition, neural networks, natural language processing, machine vision, machine learning, logic reasoning and theorem-proving, knowledge representation and acquisition, intelligent signal processing, intelligent scheduling, intelligent information retrieval, intelligent information fusion, intelligent image processing, heuristic searching methods, fuzzy logic and soft computing, distributed AI and agents, data mining and knowledge discovering, applications of artificial intelligence, and others.

Tsunami

Tsunami
Author: S. Mambretti
Publisher: WIT Press
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2013
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 184564770X

A tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the sudden displacement of a large volume of a body of water, typically an ocean. This book, comprising seven chapters, examines this important topic.