This monograph presents the latest developments and applications of computational tools related to the biosciences and medical engineering. Computational tools such as the finite element methods, computer-aided design and optimization as well as visualization techniques such as computed axial tomography open completely new research fields with a closer joining of the engineering and bio/medical area. Nevertheless, there are still hurdles since both directions are based on quite different ways of education. Often even the "language" is sometimes different from discipline to discipline. This...

This new Springer publication, part of its highly respected series of Major Reference Works, will be the definitive reference on adhesion. User-friendly yet comprehensive, it is a valuable aid to scientists and engineers in a host of separate disciplines.

This book offers a snapshot of recent developments in improving the properties and performance of engineering materials and structures. It discusses modeling properties related to classical mechanical, thermal, electrical and optical fields as well as those related to surface-specific quantities (e.g.

This Encyclopedia covers the entire science of continuum mechanics including the mechanics of materials and fluids. The encyclopedia comprises mathematical definitions for continuum mechanical modeling, fundamental physical concepts, mechanical modeling methodology, numerical approaches and many fundamental applications.

This book offers a brief introduction to the general-purpose finite element program MSC Marc, focusing on providing simple examples, often single-element problems, which can easily be related to the theory that is discussed in finite element lectures.

This book discusses the expertise, skills, and techniques needed for the development of new materials and technologies. For example, modern joining technologies can be used to fabricate new compound or composite materials, even those formed from dissimilar component materials.

Here, much emphasis is placed on the theory of holomorphic functions, which facilitate the understanding of the role that the theory of functions of a complex variable plays in mathematical physics, especially in the modeling of plane problems.

Presenting a complex methodology in an easily understandable but mathematically correct fashion, this book reviews finite element methods using exclusively one-dimensional elements. Advanced topics include plasticity and the mechanics of composite materials.

This volume demonstrates the use of FORTRAN for numerical computing in the context of the finite element method. Thus, this volume gives a simple introduction to programming of elasto-plastic material behavior, which is, for example, the prerequisite for implementing new constitutive laws into a commercial finite element program.