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Mechanics of the 21st Century

Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Warsaw, Poland, 15-21 August 2004

  • Presents a snapshot view of the state-of-the-art in the field of contemporary mechanics

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Table of contents (27 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-lxxiii
  2. Interplay between Air and Water

    • Leen van Wijngaarden
    Pages 1-16
  3. Stochastic Dynamics of Engineering Systems

    • Kazimierz Sobczyk
    Pages 19-60
  4. Near-Critical Point Hydrodynamics and Microgravity

    • Daniel A. Beysens
    Pages 117-130
  5. Flaw Tolerant Nanostructures of Biological Materials

    • Huajian Gao, Baohua Ji, Markus J. Buehler, Haimin Yao
    Pages 131-138
  6. Transport and Mixing in the Atmosphere

    • Peter H. Haynes
    Pages 139-152
  7. Variational and Multiscale Methods in Turbulence

    • Thomas J. R. Hughes, Victor M. Calo, Guglielmo Scovazzi
    Pages 153-163
  8. Mechanics of Thin Film Structures

    • Henrik Myhre Jensen
    Pages 165-171
  9. Nonlinear Dynamics in Ocean Engineering

    • Edwin J. Kreuzer, Wolfgang M. Sichermann
    Pages 173-185
  10. Turbulence and Large-Eddy Simulations

    • Marcel R. Lesieur
    Pages 203-215
  11. Nano Mechanical Analysis of IFM Force Profiles on Self-Assembled Monolayers

    • Mingji Wang, Kenneth M. Liechti, Vibha Srinivasan, John M. White, Peter J. Rossky
    Pages 217-228
  12. Mechanics of Rubberlike Solids

    • Ray W. Ogden
    Pages 263-274
  13. On the Damping of a Piezoelectric Truss

    • Andre Preumont
    Pages 287-301

Editors and Affiliations

  • Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Witold Gutkowski, Tomasz A. Kowalewski

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