FULL BOOK

– Chapter 1. Introduction to the Direct Problem: Materials, Technologies, and Discrete Modeling

Part I – Technologies, Structural Integrity & Material Modeling

• • Chapter 2. Technologies and Materials Issues Related to Naval and Ocean Engineering
  • Chapter 3. New Advances in Thermoplastic Commingled Composites: Processing and Molecular Dynamics
  • Chapter 4. The Influence of Weaving Patterns on the Effective Mechanical Response of Reinforced Composites – A Study Through Homogenization
  • Chapter 5. Auxetic Structures: Parametric Optimization, Additive Manufacturing, and Applications
  • Chapter 6. Additive Manufacturing of Ti-Alloys for Aerospace, Naval and Offshore Applications
  • Chapter 7. Review of Low Cycle Fatigue: Issues in Naval and Offshore Engineering
  • Chapter 8. Modeling of Damage in Turbine Blades for Large Deformations
  • Chapter 9. Stresses on Expansion Joints Used in Penetrations
  • Chapter 10. Leak-Before-Break Technology for Piping in Nuclear Industry
  • Chapter 11. Fatigue Control in Angra Nuclear Power Plants
  • Chapter 12. On the use of Modal Test Data in Inverse Problems: Fundamentals and Applications
  • Chapter 13. Application of Deep Learning Techniques for the Impedance-based SHM to the Oil & Gas
    Chapter 14. Noise, Vibration, and Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS) of Aircraft Dynamic Components
  • Chapter 15. On Vibration Analysis and Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS) of Dynamic Components of Helicopters
  • Chapter 16. Model-Based Parameter Identification for Helicopter Main Rotor Balancing and Tracking Using Once-per-Revolution Vibration Data

Part II – Discrete Modeling: Finite Element, Boundary Element, Meshfree Methods

• • Chapter 17. Finite Element Method for Structural Integrity Problems
  • Chapter 18. An Application of Finite Element Method and Sensitivity Analysis in Structural Dynamics
  • Chapter 19. The Boundary Element Method for Potential Problems
  • Chapter 20. The Boundary Element Method for Structural Problems
  • Chapter 21. The Boundary Element Method for Damage Modeling
  • Chapter 22. Application of Roving Mass Technique Associated with Wavelet Transform to Structural Damage Detection and Localization
  • Chapter 23. Local Mesh Free Methods in Linear Elasticity and Fracture Mechanics
  • Chapter 24. Meshless smoothed point interpolation methods for damage modelling
  • Chapter 25. A New Non-Iterative Reconstruction Method for Solving a Class of Inverse Problems