Woodhead Publishing imprint: 1344 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
The increased use of polymer matrix composites in structural applications has led to the growing need for a very high level of quality control and testing of products to ensure and monitor performance over time. Non-destructive evaluation (NDE) of polymer matrix composites explores a range of NDE...
Repair of Polymer Composites
Methodology, Techniques, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2018
Repair of Polymer Composites: Methodology, Techniques, and Challenges discusses fundamental issues related to the repair of composites and their suitability in various industrial sectors, such as aerospace, automotive, marine and construction, etc. The repair of composites is complex and requires...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Service life estimation is an area of growing importance in civil engineering both for determining the remaining service life of civil engineering structures and for designing new structural systems with well-defined periods of functionality. Service life estimation and extension of civil engineering...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
MEMS for automotive and aerospace applications reviews the use of Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) in developing solutions to the unique challenges presented by the automotive and aerospace industries.
Part one explores MEMS for a variety of automotive applications. The role of MEMS...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
With the upsurge in terrorism in recent years and the possibility of accidental blast threats, there is growing interest in manufacturing blast ‘hardened’ structures and retrofitting blast mitigation materials to existing structures. Composites provide the ideal material for blast protection as...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) in Aerospace Structures provides readers with the spectacular progress that has taken place over the last twenty years with respect to the area of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM). The widespread adoption of SHM could both significantly improve safety and reduce...
Smart Sensors and MEMS
Intelligent Sensing Devices and Microsystems for Industrial Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Smart Sensors and MEMS: Intelligent Devices and Microsystems for Industrial Applications, Second Edition highlights new, important developments in the field, including the latest on magnetic sensors, temperature sensors and microreaction chambers. The book outlines the industrial applications for...
Modelling and Simulation of Integrated Systems in Engineering
Issues of Methodology, Quality, Testing and Application
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
This book places particular emphasis on issues of model quality and ideas of model testing and validation. Mathematical and computer-based models provide a foundation for explaining complex behaviour, decision-making, engineering design and for real-time simulators for research and training. Many...
Bird Strike
An Experimental, Theoretical and Numerical Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2015
Bird strikes are one of the most dangerous threats to civil and military flight safety: between 1960 and 2014, they were responsible for the destruction of approximately 150 civil aircraft and the deaths of 271 people.
Bird Strike presents a summary of the damage imposed on the aviation industries...
Coal Combustion Products (CCPs)
Characteristics, Utilization and Beneficiation
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
Coal Combustion Products (CCPs): Their Nature, Utilization and Beneficiation is a valuable resource for engineers and scientists from the coal, cement, concrete, and construction industries seeking an in-depth guide to the characteristics, utilization, beneficiation, and environmental impacts of coal...
Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Technology
Principles, Performance and Operations
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
High temperature solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology is a promising power generation option that features high electrical efficiency and low emissions of environmentally polluting gases such as CO2, NOox and SOx. It is ideal for distributed stationary power generation applications where both high-efficiency...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
The response of concrete under tensile loading is crucial for most applications because concrete is much weaker in tension than in compression. Understanding the response mechanisms of concrete under tensile conditions is therefore key to understanding and using concrete in structural applications....
Gasification for Synthetic Fuel Production
Fundamentals, Processes and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Gasification involves the conversion of carbon sources without combustion to syngas, which can be used as a fuel itself or further processed to synthetic fuels. The technology provides a potentially more efficient means of energy generation than direct combustion. This book provides an overview of...
Developments and Innovation in Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Capture and Storage Technology
Carbon Dioxide (Co2) Storage and Utilisation
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and storage (CCS) is the one advanced technology that conventional power generation cannot do without. CCS technology reduces the carbon footprint of power plants by capturing, and storing the CO2 emissions from burning fossil-fuels and biomass. This volume provides a...