Advances in Applied Mechanics

by Stéphane P.A. Bordas, Daniel S. Balint

Overview

Advances in Applied Mechanics draws together recent, significant advances in various topics in applied mechanics. Published since 1948, the book aims to provide authoritative review articles on topics in the mechanical sciences. The book will be of great interest to scientists and engineers working in the various branches of mechanics, but will also be beneficial to professionals who use the results of investigations in mechanics in various applications, such as aerospace, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, and nuclear engineering.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128021286
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	12/04/2015
Series:	Advances in Applied Mechanics , #48
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Stéphane is a multi-disciplinary computational and data science researcher, educator, mentor and coach. He was trained as an engineer and applied mathematician who has been teaching and researching in computational sciences since year 1999, in various capacities. He has been in the top 1% most cited in his field, worldwide since year 2015 (ISI Clarivate).

Stéphane leads the Legato Team (legato-team.eu), a multi-disciplinary team of about 30 researchers of a dozen nationalities. He is focusing on bringing the rigour of mathematics to bring intuition into the behaviour of complex systems. In particular, he pioneered new approaches to guarantee the quality of surgical simulation devices.

The philosophy that he has been following is to create methodologies which translate across discipline boundaries. For example, the methodological backbone of his PhD thesis supports applications in fracture mechanics, nanoscale heterogeneities, biofilm growth, cancer growth, astrocytic metabolism and many others. Recently, his team has become involved, through the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of Luxembourg in the nascent field of Computational Archaeology.

Currently, one of the main focus points of his Team is to bring machine learning tools to bear on mathematical models of physical phenomena. In particular, his group develops adaptive data assimilation, model selection and discretisation optimisation schemes for the deformation of soft matter under large deformation with applications to surgical simulations and robotics. His team has been applying such ideas to programmable matter, multi-scale material modelling, wind energy harvesting, chemical engineering process optimisation, among others.

Stéphane has taught over 5,000 students directly and given short courses and research seminars reaching thousands of attendees. He has extensive experience in one-to-one tutoring, mentoring and coaching across various disciplines. He has directly worked with over four hundred collaborators and over fifty different companies, worldwide, as an R&D consultant. Stéphane and his students and collaborators received multiple international prizes for their research and mentorship. He has raised over 28 million euros in research funding from the private and public sector alike. He is Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, and recipient of the 2022 Eugenio Beltrami Senior Scientist Prize. He is Editor in Chief of Advances in Applied Mechanics, Executive Editor of Data-Centric Engineering, and Subject Editor for Applied Mathematical Modelling.

Daniel S. Balint, Imperial College London, UK

Table of Contents

1. Asymptotic Theory for Rayleigh and Rayleigh-Type Waves Julius Kaplunov and Danila A. Prikazchikov

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Provides didactic, authoritative reviews in theoretical, applied, computational and experimental mechanics

Editorial Reviews

Authoritative 'state of the art' reviews written by outstanding contributors on the most recent advances in the applied mechanics field.

Journal of the Franklin Institute

This is another in the long line of excellent volumes containing reviews or surveys of active research areas in applied mechanics.

Applied Mechanics Reviews

...one is made to realize once again what a remarkably sound idea the publication of this series of volumes has been.

Nature

Praise for the Series
"Authoritative 'state of the art' reviews written by outstanding contributors on the most recent advances in the applied mechanics field."
—JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE
"Reading through this latest collection of essays on topics in applied mechanics, one is made to realize once again what a remarkably sound idea the publication of this series of volumes has been."
—NATURE
"This is another in the long line of excellent volumes containing reviews or surveys of active research areas in applied mechanics."
—APPLIED MECHANICS REVIEWS