Download or read book Applied Mechanics written by L. C. Zhang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the proceedings of the Third Australasian Congress on Applied Mechanics (ACAM2002). The Congress was held to provide an international forum for researchers, industry practitioners, engineers and postgraduate scholars to exchange and disseminate knowledge and experience of the most recent advances with a focus on the behaviour of solids. Topics include: biomechanics; constitutive modelling; damage; fracture; fatigue; dynamics; impact; vibration; geo-mechanics; tribology; machining and more.