Mechanics of moving materials (Q368778)

This book describes new ways of formulating and solving problems of mechanics of moving materials. The authors examine the dynamics of travelling elastic strings, membranes, panels and plates. They also study the mechanical stability of axially moving elastic panels, out-of-plane dynamics and stability of isotropic and orthotropic traveling elastic and visco-elastic materials, fracture and fatigue of moving materials and optimization problems. The book contains 8 chapters, namely: (1) Introduction; (2) Traveling strings, beams, panels, membranes and plates; (3) Stability analysis; (4) Non-homogeneous tension profile; (5) Traveling panels made of viscoelastic material; (6) Traveling panels interacting with external flow; (7) Fracture and fatigue of traveling plates and (8) Some optimization problems. References are included at the end of each chapter. Some of the results presented are new, and some appeared earlier only in specialized journals or in conference proceedings. The list of symbols used is given at the beginning of the book. The text is easy to read and understand because the material is presented in a systematic manner. Researchers and specialists in solid mechanics and industrial mathematics will find the monograph interesting and useful.