Battery life is a crucial issue on any portable device drawing power - from cell phones to something as big as a car. Of course, the larger the battery, the more it weighs. Structural batteries which ...

Structural dynamics testing offers capabilities for quasi-static and dynamic testing of small- and large-scale structural components and systems (e.g., large-scale concrete columns and frames) under ...

The analysis presented in Chapters 16 20 relies on elementary theory for the determination of stresses and displacements produced by axial loads, shear forces and bending moments and torsion. No ...