Acta Mechanica. Supplementa – serie

These two volumes contain a collection of selected papers on a wide range of aspects of natural transport and re-sorting of sand and soil. Apart from one paper on avalanche and a small number in which sea waves are also an agent, the papers all deal exclusively with wind erosion. One paper reviews in depth the contributions to the literature of aeolian transport which have been published during the last five years. The purpose of the workshop from which these volumes derive was to discuss work carried out during these five years but not yet published. The collection of papers was reviewed in light of these discussions and can therefore be taken to be a particularly well informed statement about the subject as it stood in mid 1990. Several important field problem classes were examined as were several new observational techniques. This activity, together with widespread concern about soil degradation and desertification in wind transported soils, will probably attract many new workers to the field during the next decade. This summary of its present status will be extremely helpful to them.

The first of two volumes, this book contains a collection of selected papers on a wide range of aspects of the natural transport and resorting of sand and soil. Apart from one paper on avalanches and a small number in which sea waves are also an agent, the papers deal exclusively with wind erosion. This second volume reviews the contributions to the literature of aeolian transport which have been published during the last five years, concentrating on soil degradation and desertification. The purpose of the workshop from which these volumes are drawn was to discuss work carried out during these five years but which has not, as yet, been published. The books examine several important field problem classes and a number of new observational techniques. This book of proceedings on geography (geomorphology), agriculture, sedimentology, civil engineering and statistics is intended for research teams, graduate students, senior undergraduates in some subjects, design teams and researchers.

On December 2-5, 1991, a Symposium on Thermal Stresses, Dynamics and Stability honoring Professor Bruno A. Boley on the occasion of his 65th birthday was held in Atlanta, Georgia during the Winter Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The papers presented during the Symposium by some of Professor Boley's former students and colleagues cover those areas of applied mechanics where most of his contributions have been made over the years. These papers have been written in tribute to Professor Boley's distinguished scientific career and out of genuine affection and respect for him. The present volume consists of those Symposium papers that belong to the areas of Dynamics and Stability and constitute recent advances in the field. A special issue of the Journal of Thermal Stresses has been reserved for publication of the Symposium papers on Thermal Stresses, under the editorship of Professor R. B. Hetnarski. The present volume begins with a biographical sketch and bibliography of Professor Boley, along with a list of his doctoral students. Thirteen papers on dynamics and stability follow. The first four papers deal with wave propagation and vibration studies in solids and structures. The next two papers study wave propagation in fluids, while the seventh paper is concerned with the dynamic response of random media. Two papers dealing with structural vibrations exhibiting instability and one dealing with dynamic buckling delamination are presented next. The last three papers are concerned with instability in solids and structures.