Based on the authors’ highly successful text Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics, A Brief Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, 5th Edition is a streamlined text, covering the basic concepts and principles of fluid mechanics in a modern style.

A User′s Manual to the PMBOK Guide is a professional standard is a technical document and has never been intended to be user friendly. To make this complex guide more accessible, Cyndi Stackpole, who was project manager of the development of the PMBOK Guide itself, takes the next logical step in writing a true user′s manual to the standard.

Reliability Testing is expensive and engineers and managers require new techniques and equipment to rapidly determine the reasons of product degradation and failure as well as to design products that do not fail.

With its discussion of strategies for modeling complex materials using new numerical techniques, mainly those based on the finite element method, this monograph covers a range of topics including computational plasticity, multi–scale formulations, optimization and parameter identification, damage mechanics and nonlinear finite elements.