Exploring recent developments in continuum mechanics, Configurational Forces: Thermomechanics, Physics, Mathematics, and Numerics presents the general framework for configurational forces. It also cov
The explosion in computer modeling has created significant changes and challenges in the constitutive models of plasticity. Wu (vicil and environmental engineering, U. of Iowa) integrates continuum me
"Preface The book presents model-based control methods and techniques for nonlinear, specifically constrained, systems. It focuses on constructive control design methods with an emphasis on modeling c
