Fatigue of structures and materials covers a wide scope of different topics.
The purpose of the present book is to explain these topics, to indicate
how they can be analyzed, and how this can contribute to the designing
of fatigue resistant structures and to prevent structural fatigue problems in
service.
The future of high-performance computing (HPC) lies with large distributed parallel systems with three levels of parallelism, thousands of nodes containing MIMD* groups of SIMD* processors. For the past 50 years, the clock cycle of single processors has decreased steadily and the cost of each processor has decreased. Most applications would...
The effective field approach to a phase transition, used by Pierre Weiss at
the beginning of this century to describe theoretically ferromagnetic transitions
in iron, nickel, and cobalt, is the second oldest (surpassed in this
respect only by Van der Waals theory of liquid-vapor transitions) and certainly
the simplest approach...
Let me begin by making an observation that the authors are too humble to make for
themselves: This book will change your life. But more on that in a moment. First I’m
going to do something prototypically YouTubian: I’m going to talk about myself.
In the summer of 2001, after 15 years of developing graphical user interfaces and
graphics-intensive applications, I read a best-selling book about implementing
web applications by someone I did not know—Jason Hunter—but whom, unbeknownst
to me, would soon become a good friend on the No Fluff Just Stuff
(NFJS) tour....
This introduction to numerical analysis was written for students in mathematics,
the physical sciences, and engineering, at the upper undergraduate to beginning
graduate level. Prerequisites for using the text are elementary calculus, linear
algebra, and an introduction to differential equations. The student's level of...
Presentations matter. There can be a great deal hanging on them and
rarely, if one fails to work, do you get a second chance. A poor presentation
can blight a plan, a proposal, a reputation – even a career. But
making a good one is not easy, as a quotation from Sir George Jessel
makes clear: ‘The...
One of the difficulties I had when trying to learn Node.js was how to get started.
The references that I found either dealed with quasi-academic topics such as datagrams
and event emitters, or else myopically focused on a topic without regard for
the big picture. This book takes you through the complete process of...
Once upon a time, there was a general manager in a downtown high-rise
who had the final say over all new hires at her location. Although she realized
how critical it was to identify and hire the best and the brightest talent
for her firm, she really didn’t like interviewing all that much. First, she felt
fairly...
This text began as notes for a course in statistical computing for second year actuarial and statistical students at the University of Western Ontario. Both authors are interested in statistical computing, both as support for our other research and for its own sake. However, we have found that our students were not learning the right sort of...
Corporate Financial Accounting and Reporting is a comprehensive accounting textbook directed at those using financial reports. Its aim is to help current and future managers gain a thorough understanding of companies' published reports and is unique in the fact that it covers all three years of a traditional financial accounting course....
