Technological developments in composite materials, non-destructive testing, and signal processing as well as biomedical applications, have stimulated wide-ranging engineering investigations of heterogeneous, anisotropic media and surface waves of different types. Wave propagation in solids is now of considerable importance in a variety of applications. The book presents many of the key results in this field and interprets them from a unified engineering viewpoint. The conceptual importance and relevance for applications were the prevailing criteria in selecting the topics. Included are body...
Technological developments in composite materials, non-destructive testing, and signal processing as well as biomedical applications, have stimulated ...
The variational approach, including the direct method of finite elements, is one of the main tools of engineering analysis. However, it is difficult for college seniors as well as graduate students to appreciate. It is possible to make this subject easier to understand with the help of symbolic manipulation codes (SMC). The easiness with which these codes provide analytical results allow a student or researcher to focus on the ideas rather than on calculational difficulties. This book is the first one which systematically resorts to a symbolic computation code to present finite elements in...
The variational approach, including the direct method of finite elements, is one of the main tools of engineering analysis. However, it is difficult f...
