Recent Advances in Mechanics Engineering

Abstract

The world community is experiencing plenty of construction activities for infrastructure including High rise buildings, airports, stadiums, rails, bridges, low cost housing for the poor and so on. Besides this, the engineers are working on interdisplinary areas of automotive, naval and especially aerospace engineering. The global research community is working towards new materials including smart and nanocomposites, its characterization and utilization of new materials and product development for specific applications. The advances in digital computers with their enormous computing speed, core memory capacity has changed the outlook of the structural analysis. This also caused the evolution and advancement of various numerical methods such as Finite element method (FEM), meshless methods for solution of static, dynamic and stability analysis of one dimensional beams and frames to multi-dimensional plates and shells. The advances in experimental mechanics give an insight to the actual behavior of structure. The various advances in mechanics engineering are discussed in this study.