Industrial category: 6894 books
by Trevor Turpin
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Rivers are one of nature’s most vital energy sources, and their power can be efficiently harnessed through the construction of dams. But now dams have become a controversial engine in the race toward technological advancement, so much so that the World Commission on Dams convened in 1998 to debate...
John Wilkinson
King of the Ironmasters
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
From a farming background in Cumbria, John Wilkinson’s remarkable abilities and ambitions ensured his rise to pre-eminence among the gifted pioneers of the industrial revolution. His colleagues and friends were similarly talented characters, including James Watt, Josiah Wedgwood, Richard Crawshay...
by Megan E. Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Initially dominated by simple renditions of East Coast architecture, Milwaukee developed from three pioneer settlements, those of Solomon Juneau, Byron Kilbourn, and George Walker�three hubs from which three villages radiated outward into one city. Following the Civil War, Milwaukee�s growth at the...
by Chris Morris
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Born into poverty in the Scottish Border country in 1757, Thomas Telford rose to become a towering figure of the Industrial Revolution in Britain and the pre-eminent engineer of his day. Incorporating material from the author’s earlier book Thomas Telford’s Scotland, this new edition is a visual...
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...
Forging the Copper Collar
Arizona's Labor-Management War of 1901–1921
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Bisbee, Arizona...July 12, 1917...6:30 a.m....
Just after dawn, two thousand armed vigilantes took to the streets of this remote Arizona mining town to round up members and sympathizers of the radical Industrial Workers of the World. Before the morning was over, nearly twelve hundred alleged...
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,...
Inside the Workplace
Findings from the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Based on the primary analysis of the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS 2004), this is the fifth book in the series which began in 1980, and which is considered to be one of the most authoritative sources of information on employment relations in Great Britain. Interviews were conducted...
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....
The Oxford Handbook of Employment Relations
Comparative Employment Systems
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
There have been numerous accounts exploring the relationship between institutions and firm practices. However, much of this literature tends to be located into distinct theoretical-traditional 'silos', such as national business systems, social systems of production, regulation theory, or varieties...
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.