Technology & Engineering - General

The propagation of ultrasonic guided waves in solids is an important area of scientific inquiry, primarily due to their practical applications for nondestructive characterization of materials, such as nondestructive inspection, quality assurance testing, structural health monitoring, and providing a material state awareness. This Special...

This Special Issue with 35 published articles shows the significance of the topic "Signal Processing and Analysis of Electrical Circuit". This topic has been gaining increasing attention in recent times. The presented articles can be categorized into four different areas: signal processing and analysis...

Dieses Buch basiert auf grundlegenden Techniken und jüngsten industriellen Erfahrungen und erörtert die zahlreichen Entwicklungen bei der Prozessintensivierung und -integration. Es konzentriert sich auf die Steigerung der Nachhaltigkeit über verschiedene übergreifende Themen wie nachhaltige Fertigung, energiesparende Technologien sowie Techniken zur Ressourcenschonung und Vermeidung von...

Researchers in chemistry, chemical engineering, pharmaceutical science, forensics, and environmental science make routine use of chemical analysis, but the information these researchers need is often scattered in different sources and difficult to access. The CRC Handbook of Basic Tables for Chemical Analysis: Data-Driven Methods...

Dr. Bill Fortney and Mark Meno have thoughtfully designed a book to provide aspiring engineering students the foundations for success - in school and beyond. With helpful guidance sprinkled throughout, they take you on a journey of instruction using inspirational stories and student impressions...

Common wisdom says that success breeds success, and indeed this is how most VCs pick startups, businesses select talent, and singles search for dates. In contrast, the evidence from science to startups shows that only repeated failure breeds success. In Disruption Games, MIT's Trond...

If you are interested in learning about artificial intelligence, machine learning and their potential consequences and how they will shape the world around us, then Artificial Intelligence Mastery: 4 Books in 1 in the right book for you.Although artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms...

We're living in a digital world. Most of our global economy is digital and the sheer volume of data is stupendous. It's 2020 and we're living in the future. Data Scientist is one of the hottest job on the market right now. Demand for...

Structural mechanics is an important field of engineering. The main goal of structural mechanics is to ensure that structures are safe and durable so that catastrophic situations can be prevented, which can otherwise cause loss of life, environmental pollution and financial losses. Depending on...

How did electricity enter everyday life in America? Using Muncie, Indiana--the Lynds' now iconic Middletown--as a touchstone, David Nye explores how electricity seeped into and redefined American culture. With an eye for telling details from archival sources and a broad understanding of cultural and...

Advances in materials are crucial to the development of sports equipment, from tennis rackets to skis to running shoes. Materials-driven improvements in equipment have helped athletes perform better, while enhancing safety and making sport more accessible and enjoyable. This book brings together a collection...

Engineering mathematics is a branch of applied mathematics where mathematical methods and techniques are implemented for solving problems related to the engineering and industry. It also represents a multidisciplinary approach where theoretical and practical aspects are deeply merged with the aim at obtaining optimized...

How does Google know what you want to type? How did humans first reach the moon? Could we ever have a supercomputer the size of a pinhead? In this thrilling numerical journey, Hugh Barker explores how mathematics has helped to build the technology of...

Regular calibration of existing measuring and testing devices is a binding requirement for most areas of the daily environment. This book guides you through the most important standard points of the many applicable standards and explains them with regard to their implementation in everyday...

Modern Stone-Cutting and Masonry - With special reference to the making of working drawings. First Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and...

This monograph contains fundamental physics breakthroughs that will change the course of science, and will likely be the most important physics book of the 21st century. It introduces several new key concepts that lead to precise quantitative results, and provides answers to many of...

Ideal for planning 3D Printer projects and any kind of three-dimensional designs, this isometric 3D graph paper notebook is printed with a grid of equilateral triangles. It is perfect for constructing any kind of three-dimensional designs including architecture, landscaping or sculpture. Is is also...

A guide to the fundamentals of applied gas chromatography and the process gas chromatograph, with practical procedures for design and troubleshooting This comprehensive resource provides the theory that underpins a full understanding of the fundamental techniques of gas chromatography and the process analyzer. Without...

The energy system is undergoing a fundamental transformation - from fossil to renewable energy, from central power plants to distributed, decentralised generation facilities such as rooftop solar panels or wind parks, from utilities to private residents as producers of energy, and from analogue to...

Robots and automatons in myth, in fiction, in movies and in reality have fascinated and frightened human beings for millennia from The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes to The Blade Runner and Terminator movies. Ideas about intelligent automated beings have appeared in novels by...

The Mathematics That Power Our World: How Is It Made? is an attempt to unveil the hidden mathematics behind the functioning of many of the devices we use on a daily basis. For the past years, discussions on the best approach in teaching and...

Author: Fuxiang HanISBN-10: 9814596973ISBN-13: 9789814596978Publisher: World Scientific Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/2025Pages: 400Format: Paperback

Author: Sanjay AkhauriISBN-10: 9385020331ISBN-13: 9789385020339Publisher: Zorba BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2015Pages: 268Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.61d

This book gives an overview of the technical development of the Nimbus-C motorcycle during the production period 1934-1959. It is a technical handbook as well as a reference book that can be used to study the Nimbus-C motorcycle in detail, to assess condition of...

Paleontologists and geologists are interested in the ages of fossils, rocks, and minerals, from which they deduce the ages of geologic strata in the Geologic Column. Scientists make use of radioactive dating methods, such as the radioactive decays of carbon 14, uranium 238, and...

This book introduces Industrial AI in multiple dimensions. Industrial AI is a systematic discipline which focuses on developing, validating and deploying various machine learning algorithms for industrial applications with sustainable performance. Combined with the state-of-the-art sensing, communication and big data analytics platforms, a systematic...

Energy Systems Engineering is one of the most exciting and fastest growing fields in engineering. Modeling and simulation plays a key role in Energy Systems Engineering because it is the primary basis on which energy system design, control, optimization, and analysis are based. This...

The Practical Distiller is a lively and informative guide to the methods and problems of distillation, as practised in early 19th Century America. Samuel McHarry's seminal work was written to encourage Americans to stop relying on imported liquors, and make more of their own....

Jim Armstrong started out following a similar path many others have walked, owning almost nothing and having expectations that matched. However, his life took a different turn--different enough that he felt compelled to tell his story of challenges leading to success. Wanting our children,...

The IT industry was transformed during the 2010 decade. Cloud-based business applications proliferated throughout most enterprises. Rules of engagement between IT and its business partners were redefined. Proprietary data centers came to be viewed as corporate liabilities instead of corporate assets. Information security and...

Philosophers increasingly engage in practical work with other disciplines and the world at large. This volume draws together the lessons learned from this work--including philosophers' contributions to scientific research projects, consultations on matters of policy, and expertise provided to government agencies and non-profits--on how...

Neural electrodes enable the recording and stimulation of bioelectrical activity in the nervous system. This technology provides neuroscientists with the means to probe the functionality of neural circuitry in both health and disease. In addition, neural electrodes can deliver therapeutic stimulation for the relief...

The ventilation system is an important element of tunnel safety, and may significantly affect investment and operating costs. In the present Road Tunnel Ventilation Compendium, comprehension of basic aspects of tunnel ventilation, in the context of general safety of road tunnels, should be advanced....

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy...

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy...

Changing social needs, upgrading of design standards, increasing in loading and deterioration has to an increasing need for assessment of existing masonry arch bridges. European Union directives requiring all highway bridges to have the capacity to carry 40 tonne vehicles have served to heighten...

This book is a comprehensive introductory presentation of the key research areas in the interdisciplinary fields of sonification and auditory display. Chapters are written by leading experts, providing a wide-ranging coverage of the central issues, and can be read from start to finish, or...

Innovation is a source of competitive advantage. In other words, firms may leverage innovation to generate rents, at least temporarily. And this is intended to be a self-sustained business model: part of the rent extracted from the market may be re-invested into new technological...

To maintain the efficiency and competitiveness of industrial products, it is important to rationalize manufacturing process with the aim to increase automation. Oftentimes this is achieved by the application of fluid systems, subdivided in hydraulik and pneumatic systems. With this book the author especially...

History of the sewing machine is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1872. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we...

The watchmakers and machinists hand book is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher...

New and Improved Wood Working Machinery - Illustrated Catalogue is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other...

This thesis evaluates the viability of ferroelectric Si: HfO2 and its derived FeFET application for non-volatile data storage. At the beginning, the ferroelectric effect is explained briefly such that the applications that make use of it can be understood. Afterwards, the latest findings on...

Thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) are ceramic coating systems developed to reduce the heat transfer from a hot medium to the coated parts. This technology can be used in automotive exhaust systems to reduce the heat transfer from the exhaust gases to the metal pipes....

Due to the Three Gorges Dam, China's Yangtze becomes a 600 kilometers long reservoir that submerges everything below. Therefore, more than 1.3 million people lose their houses, their arable land, as well as their personal belongings. The book in hand examines the socio-economic impact...

Designing a transformer is a time consuming.This Book describes step by step procedure for designing a distribution transformer. In this book a MATLAB program is developed which takes input data from user and calculate design parameters, electrical quantities and efficiency of a distribution transformer...

Graphene is a two-dimensional crystalline form of carbon that has attracted intensive focus from various research disciplines since the publication of a seminal paper in 2004 by Novoselov, Geim et al. Of particular interest is the use of graphene in sensors. By chemically modifying,...

Transportation of oil and gas by the Sea characterizes challenges from a safety viewpoint. In this type of transportation, different sizes of special tankers carrying oil and gas. The marine transportation of these scarce natural riches is involved with risks and hazards, which may...

Humans have always imagined better futures. From the desire to overcome death to the aspiration to dominion over the world, imaginations of the technological future reveal the commitments, values, and norms of those who construct them. Today, the human future is thrown into question...

Master's Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Engineering - Naval Engineering, Ocean Engineering, course: Electronics Systems Design, language: English, abstract: The existing underwater acoustic modems are designed for deep oceans and long range communication leading to immense consumption of power and high...