1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910299957303321

Autore

Barber J.R

Titolo

Contact Mechanics / / by J.R. Barber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-70939-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (585 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, , 0925-0042 ; ; 250

Disciplina

519

Soggetti

Mechanics

Mechanics, Applied

Applied mathematics

Engineering mathematics

Mechanical engineering

Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

Applications of Mathematics

Mechanical Engineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Kinematics of Contact -- 2 Three-Dimensional Frictionless Elastic Problems -- 3 Hertzian Contact -- 4 More General Problems for the Half Space -- 5 Axisymmetric Contact Problems -- 6 Two-Dimensional Frictionless Contact Problems -- 7 Tangential Loading -- 8 Friction Laws -- 9 Frictional Problems Involving Half Spaces -- 10 Asymptotic Methods -- 11 Receding Contact -- 12 Adhesive Forces -- 13 Beams, Plates, Membranes and Shells -- 14 Layered Bodies -- 15 Indentation Problems -- 16 Contact of Rough Surfaces -- 17 Thermoelastic Contact -- 18 Rolling and Sliding Contact -- 19 Elastodynamic Contact Problems -- 20 Impact -- 21 Appendices -- A Potential Function Solutions for Elasticity Problems -- B Integrals over Elliptical Domains -- C Cauchy Singular Integral Equations -- D Dundurs Bimaterial Constants -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book describes the solution of contact problems with an emphasis on idealized (mainly linear) elastic problems that can be treated with elementary analytical methods. General physical and mathematical



features of these solutions are highlighted. Topics covered include the contact of rough surfaces and problems involving adhesive (e.g. van der Waals) forces. The author is a well-known researcher in the subject with hands-on experience of the topics covered and a reputation for lucid explanations. The target readership for the book includes researchers who encounter contact problems but whose primary focus is not contact mechanics. Coverage is also suitable for a graduate course in contact mechanics and end-of-chapter problems are included.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910493743203321

Titolo

Fugitive Knowledge : The Loss and Preservation of Knowledge in Cultural Contact Zones / / Andreas Beer, Gesa Mackenthun

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Münster, : Waxmann, 2015

ISBN

9783830982814

383098281X

Edizione

[1st, New ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship ; 8

Soggetti

Amerika

Tibet

Indien

Brasilien

Baltikum

Afrika

Kulturkontakt

Wissensgeschichte

Wissensarchiv

Kolonialismus

Imperialismus

Postcolonial Studies

Epochenübergreifend

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Sommario/riassunto

Encounters between cultures are also encounters between knowledge systems. This volume brings together a number of case studies that explore how some knowledge in cultural contact zones becomes transient, evanescent, and ephemeral. The essays examine various aspects of cultural, especially colonial, epistemic exchanges, placing special emphasis on the fate of those knowledges that are not easily appropriated by or translated from one cultural sphere into another and thus remain at the margins of cross-cultural exchanges. In addition, the imposition of colonial power is unthinkable without the strategic deployment and use of knowledge; most colonial states, including those of Germany in the Baltic and in West Africa, were knowledge-acquiring machines – yet, acquisition always includes rejection, detainment and subjugation of recalcitrant epistemes.  Bringing together insights from various scholarly disciplines, including literary studies, history, historical anthropology, and political science, the essays in this volume investigate how different or unfamiliar knowledge was, and in some cases still is, disarticulated by being belittled, discredited, and demonized. But they also show the strategies of resilience deployed by subjugated and subaltern people: the ways in which certain materials have escaped the coloniality of knowledge – how fragments and shards of other epistemologies remain inscribed in the polyphony and fuzziness of intercultural documents and archives.