Modeling in Geomechanics Review

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(More customer reviews)The book contains 26 chapters written by some highly active researchers in the field from around the world --
1. Boundary Element and Coupled Methods in Geomechanics. (G. Beer)
2. Computational Strategies for Standard Soil Plasticity Models. (Borst and Groen)
3. An Asynchronous Parallel Algorithm for Consolidation Problems. (Wang, Matteazzi, Schrefler and Zienkiewicz)
4. Estimation of Material Parameters with Discontinuities for Elliptic Models. (L.W. White)
5. Constitutive and Numerical Modeling of Liquefaction. (Paster, Chan and Zienkiewicz)
6. Viscoplasticity of Geomaterials. (Cristescu and Cazacu)
7. Gradient and Cosserat Models: Theory and Computation.(Muhlhaus, Borst and Sluys)
8. Micromechanics of Granular Materials as Structured Media. (C.S. Chang)
9. Constitutive Modeling for Fluid-Saturated Porous Solid by the Asymptotic Homogenization Method. (Terada, Ito, Kikuchi)
10. Unified Disturbed State Concept and HiSS Plasticity Models. (G.W. Wathugala)
11. Laboratory Testing for the Validation of Constitutive Models. (A.S. Saada)
12. Nondestructive Testing Techniques for Material Characterization. (T. Kundu)
13. On the Mathematical Modeling of Certain Fundamental Elastostatic Contact Problems in Geomechanics. (A.P.S. Selvadurai)
14. Application of the Theory of Classical Plasticity to the Analysis of the Stress Distribution in Wedges of a Perfectly Frictional Material. (Booker and Zheng)
15. Limit Analysis of Foundation Systems with Offshore Applications. (J.D. Murff)
16. Modeling of Interfaces and Joints.(Drumm, Fishman and Zaman)
17. Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction During Seismic Events. (Muraleetharam, Wei and Mish)
18. Dynamics of Rigid Pavements Including Vehicle-Pavement Interaction Effects. (M. Zaman)
19. A Practical Modeling Technique for Assessing Potential Contaminant Impacts Due to Landfills. (Roweand Booker)
20. Finite Element Analysis of Free Surface Seepage Flows. (Cividini and Gioda)
21. Simulating Fully 3-D Hydraulic Fracturing. (Carter, Desroches, Ingraffea and Wawrzynek)
22. The Theory of Anisotropic Poroelasticity with Applications. (Abousleiman and Cui)
23. Modeling Fluid Flow and Rock Deformation in Fractured Porous Media. (M. Bai)
24. Models for Uncertainty and Its Propagation withApplications to Geomechanics. (R. Ghanem)
25. Natural Slopes in Slow Movement. (L. Vulliet)
26. Reliability and Stability of Slopes. (J.T. Christian)
Noteworthy is the chapter 10 on the Disturbed State Concept. The concept appears interesting. Recenly, Professor C.S. Desai has published a 700 page book on the concept --
"The Disturbed State Concept," CRC Press (2001).
I wish to congratulate the editors for putting together a fine volume.

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Modeling in Geomechanics Edited by Musharraf Zaman The University of Oklahoma, USA Giancarlo Gioda Politecnico di Milano, Italy John Booker University of Sydney, Australia Geomechanics is an interdisciplinary field involving the study of natural and man-made systems with emphasis on the mechanics of various interacting phenomena. It comprises numerous aspects of engineering and scientific disciplines, which share common bases in mathematics, mechanics and physics. In recent years, with the extraordinary growth of computing power and resources, progress in the generation of new theories and techniques for the analysis of geomechanics problems has far surpassed their actual use by practitioners. This has led to a gap between our ability to deal with complex, inter-disciplinary problems in geomechanics and the actual impact of these advances on engineering practice. This book contains contributions from an international group of accomplished researchers and practitioners from various branches of soil and rock engineering, and presents the latest theoretical developments and practical applications of modeling in geomechanics. Chapters are grouped into four main sections:* Computational procedures* Constitutive modeling and testing* Modeling and simulation* ApplicationsEfforts have been made to include recent developments and provide suggestions and examples as to how these can be applied in modeling actual engineering problems. Researchers, practitioners and students in geomechanics, mechanics of solids, soil and rock engineering will find this book an invaluable reference.

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Healthcare Informatics: Improving Efficiency and Productivity Review

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(More customer reviews)With a real need for "healthcare informatics", this is an excellent book and a must read...
"As a 20+ year healthcare IT professional working specifically on electronic health record (EHR) applications as well as the ongoing analysis of this data, I have come to realize the immense problems the healthcare industry is facing today because of the ongoing proliferation of data. With the seemingly endless stream of patient, doctor, healthcare provider, insurance company, and drug manufacture data, the industry has created a real void as well as an opportunity to tap into the huge data store in an attempt to bring real positive change regarding needed efficiencies to the industry. I have found that being able to frame this real life problem has been a challenge until reading Dr. Stephen Kudyba's excellent text "Healthcare Informatics: Improving Efficiency and Productivity".
I was amazed at how quickly and precisely Dr. Kudyba's text not only framed the problem but discussed possible solutions to tackling the problem as well as provided real life examples of applications and processes in use today which are addressing the problem head-on. He does a great job of going beyond theory to actual practice by identifying informatics applications that have been incorporated by healthcare organizations. Two examples in particular from the book which resonated with me was the example of an informatics project that turned a healthcare system's paper-based resources into digital assets as well as the example of the E-commerce self-service patient check-in application which was implemented at a New Jersey hospital. Honestly its one thing to discuss problems and propose possible solutions, but Dr Kudyba's book goes beyond that by identifying "real" solutions in use today.
Lastly, I found that this text serves as a groundbreaking, foundational textbook for a potential graduate course in healthcare data informatics. We cannot ignore the fact that informatics is at the heart of correcting many of the "ills" in healthcare, and because of this, Dr Kudyba's book is a must read!


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Mathematical Ideas, Modeling & Applications: Companion to Concrete Mathematics (Pure & Applied Mathematics), Vol. 2 Review

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(More customer reviews)If, like me, you stumbled upon this book thinking it was a companion to "Concrete Mathematics" (CM) by Graham, Knuth and Patashnik, you will be disappointed. I was interested in getting a book with more examples and problems to work with along the lines of CM. Since this book was published in 1973 and CM in 1989, I should have made the (lack of) connection. :-)
That said, this seems like a fine book; it arrived this afternoon and I have leafed through it. It's intended purpose is, like CM, to present the reader with concrete, i.e. non-abstract, methods for dealing with various mathematical topics. It does seem to cover some of the same topics as CM but in an entirely different way.
Once I've worked through the book a bit more, I'll revise this review.
To reiterate, if you're looking for a companion book to "Concrete Mathematics", this is not the book you are looking for.

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Compressor Surge and Rotating Stall: Modeling and Control (Advances in Industrial Control) Review

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(More customer reviews)Este libro representa un una muy importante referencia sobre el estado del arte en control por estabilización de las inestabilidades aerodinamicas en turbocompresores, dando gran enfasis a la implementación de una valvula acoplada cercanamente a la descarga del compresor, haciendo que su caracteristica de funcionamiento sea fisicamente modificada y asi extender la zona de operación estable del compresor.

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Experimental Statistical Designs and Analysis in Simulation Modeling Review

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(More customer reviews)This is the worst statistical book on the market. Christian is a highly overrated author and I heard that he doesn't even write most of his books. Don't pick this book up if your life depends on it.
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This unique book develops the application of experimental statistical designs and analysis to discrete-event simulation modeling. It takes a practical perspective and orients the reader with examples of the role of simulation in modeling a system. The stages and steps for applying simulation are discussed by focusing on the important role of statistics. Examples are given about how to design an experiment using techniques such as classical designs, group screening, polynomial decomposition, and Taguchi designs. Using the statistical techniques discussed, a sound simulation model can be built and adequately tested before implementation. The book also shows how simulation results can be generalized by discussing in full the growing emphasis on simulation metamodeling. Examples of this approach are presented to show that reliable and simple models could be easily obtained. Furthermore, such models are applied within a decision framework to optimize the system of interest. This expands the power of simulation from being purely descriptive of the system to being a prescriptive model. The reader is exposed to potential problems and how such problems may be harnessed. Although the book discusses statistical techniques, it is written so as to be comprehensible to anyone with a basic background in statistics. The book is a good resource for consultants and simulation practitioners; it can also be used as a textbook for classes in simulation.

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A Practical Guide to Analog Behavioral Modeling for IC System Design Review

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(More customer reviews)Although it provides a comparison of the different languages which you might use for modeling analog systems (Verilog-A, VHDL-AMS, spice, etc), this book is heavily oriented toward MAST. It has many examples, but all use MAST as the description language. As such, this book is likely to be of little or no use to someone using Verilog-A, spice, etc. If you use MAST, however, this book is probably all you'll ever need.

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Modeling, Verification and Exploration of Task-Level Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is -almost- worth it's price. I have used it in melding the implementation of hardware, software, HDL simulation and co-verification into a cohesive solution. Modeling can be an exercise in attaining perfection. In some dedicated modeling environments this is not the need. This book lays the path toward assuring the need for your specific design is properly addressed.

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The combination of VLSI process technology and real-timedigital signal processing (DSP) has brought a break-through ininformation technology. This rapid technical (r)evolution allows theintegration of ever more complex systems on a single chip. However,these technology and integration advances have not been matched by anincrease in design productivity, causing technology to leapfrog thedesign of integrated circuits (ICs). The success of these emerging`systems-on-a-chip' (SOC) can only be guaranteed by a systematic andformal design methodology, possibly automated in computer-aided design(CAD) tools, and effective re-use of existing intellectual property(IP). In this book, a contribution is made to the modeling, timingverification and analysis, and the automatic synthesis of integratedreal-time DSP systems. Existing literature in these three domains isextensively reviewed, making this book the first to give acomprehensive overview of existing techniques. The emphasis throughoutthe book is on the support and guaranteeing of the real-time aspectand constraints of these systems, which avoids time consuming designiterations and safeguards the ever shrinking time-to-market. The proposed `Multi-Thread Graph' (MTG) system model featurestwo-layers, unifying a (timed) Petri net and a control-data flowgraph. Its unique interface between both models offers the best of twoworlds and introduces an extra abstraction level hiding theoperation-level details which are unnecessary during global systemexploration. The formulated timing analysis and verification approachsupports the calculation of temporal separation between different MTGentities as well as realistic performance metrics for highlyconcurrent systems. The synthesis methodology focuses on managing thetask-level concurrency (i.e. task scheduling), as part of a proposedoverall system design meta flow. It emphasizes performance and timingaspects (`timeliness'), while minimizing processor cost overhead asdriven by high-level cost estimators. The approach is new in theabstraction level it employs, and in its optimal hybrid dynamic/staticscheduling policy which, driven by cost estimators, selects thescheduling policy for each behavior. At the low-level, RTOS synthesisgenerates an application-specific scheduler for the softwarecomponent. The proposed synthesis methodology (at the task-level) is asserted toyield most optimal results when employed before the hardware/softwarepartition is made. At this level, the distinction between these two isminimal, such that all steps in the design trajectory can be shared,thereby reducing the system cost significantly and allowing tightersatisfaction of timing/performance constraints.From the Foreword: This book is the first comprehensivetreatment of software, and more general, system, generation(synthesis) techniques based on formal models. It can be used as avery valuable reference to understand the development of the field ofembedded software design, and of system design and synthesis ingeneral. The book offers an invaluable help to researchers andpractitioners of the field of embedded system design. Prof. AlbertoSangiovanni-Vincentelli, Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Professor ofElectrical Engineering and Computer Science , University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, Chief Technology Advisor, Cadence DesignSystems.

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