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Transactions on Engineering Technologies
World Congress on Engineering 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
This volume contains fifty-one revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers participating in the international conference on Advances in Engineering Technologies and Physical Science (London, UK, 2-4 July, 2014), under the World Congress on Engineering 2014 (WCE 2014). Topics...
Advances in Human Factors and Sustainable Infrastructure
Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Human Factors and Sustainable Infrastructure, July 27-31, 2016, Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
This book deals with human factors research directed towards realizing and assessing sustainability in the built environment. It reports on advanced engineering methods for sustainable infrastructure design, as well as on assessments of the efficient methods and the social, environmental, and economic...
Design Management
The Essential Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Design Management is the essential handbook to all things design. As a discipline, design management is continually in motion; changing, responding and adapting to the dynamics of social and business transformation. As a business function, it combines project management, design, strategy and supply...
Information Materials
Smart Materials for Adaptive Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This book considers the potential of new, smart materials and their use in architecture. It begins with an overview of current global tendencies (technological, demographic, and socio-anthropological) and their relevance for architectural design. Expanding upon approaches for flexible design solutions...
Transactions on Engineering Technologies
International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
This volume contains a selection of revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers participating in the 25th International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS 2017) which was held in Hong Kong, 15-17 March, 2017. Topics covered include electrical engineering,...
Designing for Human Reliability
Human Factors Engineering in the Oil, Gas, and Process Industries
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
Industry underestimates the extent to which behaviour at work is influenced by the design of the working environment. Designing for Human Reliability argues that greater awareness of the contribution of design to human error can significantly enhance HSE performance and improve return on investment....
by Stan Yorke
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
In this book, Stan Yorke explains the history of the steam engine and the enormous variety of uses to which it was put. There are over 50 photographs, plus detailed diagrams. Steam engines with their hissing pistons, revolving wheels and smell of oil and coal smoke have an irresistible attraction...
Networked and Distributed Predictive Control
Methods and Nonlinear Process Network Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Networked and Distributed Predictive Control presents rigorous, yet practical, methods for the design of networked and distributed predictive control systems – the first book to do so. The design of model predictive control systems using Lyapunov-based techniques accounting for the influence of...
by Jian Zhang, Akshya Kumar Swain, Sing Kiong Nguang
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
This book introduces several observer-based methods, including:
• the sliding-mode observer
• the adaptive observer
• the unknown-input observer and
• the descriptor observer method
for the problem of fault detection, isolation and estimation, allowing readers...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2014
This book presents the challenges, the tools and the concepts for developing economically viable high speed civil transport aircraft under environmental constraints. Computational tools for aircraft design and optimization are outlined and application in an industrial environment is shown for new and innovative case studies.
Computational Kinematics
Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Computational Kinematics that was held at Futuroscope-Poitiers, France, in May 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
This is the proceedings of IFToMM CK 2017, the 7th International Workshop on Computational Kinematics that was held in Futuroscope-Poitiers, France in May 2017.
Topics treated include: kinematic design and synthesis, computational geometry in kinematics, motion analysis and synthesis, theory...
by Pratima Bajpai
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The book describes the pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass for biomass-to-biofuel conversion processes, which is an important step in increasing ethanol production for biofuels. It also highlights the main challenges and suggests possible ways to make these technologies feasible for the biofuel...
Polymers - Opportunities and Risks II
Sustainability, Product Design and Processing
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Since their first industrial use polymers have gained a tremendous success. The two volumes of "Polymers - Opportunities and Risks" elaborate on both their potentials and on the impact on the environment arising from their production and applications. Volume 11 "Polymers - Opportunities...
by Bill Cotter
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
In the late 1960s, Spokane's civic leaders were desperately looking for a way to revitalize a large section of downtown, especially a motley collection of little-used railroad lines and polluted industrial sites along the Spokane River. Their solution was to use the area for Expo '74, which was billed...