Biomimetic Robotic Artificial Muscles

• Author(s): Kwang Jin Kim, Hyouk Ryeol Choi, Xiaobo Tan, David Pugal

• Categories: Technology & Engineering

• Type: Book
• -
• Published: 2013-03-26
• -
• Publisher: World Scientific

Biomimetic Robotic Artificial Muscles presents a comprehensive up-to-date overview of several types of electroactive materials with a view of using them as biomimetic artificial muscles. The purpose of the book is to provide a focused, in-depth, yet self-contained treatment of recent advances made in several promising EAP materials. In particular, ionic polymer-metal composites, conjugated polymers, and dielectric elastomers are considered. Manufacturing, physical characterization, modeling, and control of the materials are presented. Namely, the book adopts a systems perspective to integrate recent developments in material processing, actuator design, control-oriented modeling, and device a...

Advances in Micromechanics of Granular Materials

• Author(s): H.H. Shen, M. Satake, M. Mehrabadi, C.S. Chang, Caroline Campbell

• Categories: Technology & Engineering

• Type: Book
• -
• Published: 2013-10-22
• -
• Publisher: Elsevier

The 45 papers presented in this volume all share the common goal of constructing continuum models based on the micro behaviours of granular materials. Computer simulations continue to provide observations to aid modelling, while new experimental works begin to show promise for increased understanding in this area. Theoretical studies have extended into transitions between the rapid and quasi-static regimes and the fluid and solid mixture flows. Exciting new topics discussed in this volume include: concepts of a measure for randomness in quasi-static granular materials, which is analogous to the granular temperature in a rapid flow; scaling effects in granular media and their implications in both physical and computer simulations; instability; and boundary effects on heterogeneous behavior in simple flow configurations, which are posing new challenges for mathematical modelling. The volume will prove indispensable reading for researchers interested in the current developments in the fundamental aspects of mechanics of granular materials.

Analytic Methods in Geomechanics

• Author(s): Kam-tim Chau

• Categories: Science

• Type: Book
• -
• Published: 2018-10-08
• -
• Publisher: CRC Press

A multidisciplinary field, encompassing both geophysics and civil engineering, geomechanics deals with the deformation and failure process in geomaterials such as soil and rock. Although powerful numerical tools have been developed, analytical solutions still play an important role in solving practical problems in this area. Analytic Methods in Geomechanics provides a much-needed text on mathematical theory in geomechanics, beneficial for readers of varied backgrounds entering this field. Written for scientists and engineers who have had some exposure to engineering mathematics and strength of materials, the text covers major topics in tensor analysis, 2-D elasticity, and 3-D elasticity, pla...

Micromechanics of Composite Materials

• Author(s): George Dvorak

• Categories: Science

• Type: Book
• -
• Published: 2012-12-09
• -
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

This book presents a broad exposition of analytical and numerical methods for modeling composite materials, laminates, polycrystals and other heterogeneous solids, with emphasis on connections between material properties and responses on several length scales, ranging from the nano and microscales to the macroscale. Many new results and methods developed by the author are incorporated into the rich fabric of the subject, which has developed from the work of many researchers over the last 50 years. Among the new results, the book offers an extensive analysis of internal and interface stresses caused by eigenstrains, such as thermal, transformation and inelastic strains in the constituents, wh...

Handbook of Materials Behavior Models, Three-Volume Set

• Author(s): Jean LeMaitre

• Categories: Technology & Engineering

• Type: Book
• -
• Published: 2001-10-29
• -
• Publisher: Academic Press

This first of a kind reference/handbook deals with nonlinear models and properties of material. In the study the behavior of materials' phenomena no unique laws exist. Therefore, researchers often turn to models to determine the properties of materials. This will be the first book to bring together such a comprehensive collection of these models. The Handbook deals with all solid materials, and is organized first by phenomena. Most of the materials models presented in an applications-oriented fashion, less descriptive and more practitioner-geared, making it useful in the daily working activities of professionals. The Handbook is divided into three volumes. Volume I, Deformation of Materials,...