Technical category: 2066 books

Collating more than 150 interviews, Independence Days traces the story of the UK independent record label boom from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s, a period which saw a new generation of independent spirits take up the baton and revolutionize the course of popular music. The era's most celebrated...

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...

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...

This book treats modeling and simulation in a simple way, that builds on the existing knowledge and intuition of students. They will learn how to build a model and solve it using Excel. Most chemical engineering students feel a shiver down the spine when they see a set of complex mathematical...

Welding and joining techniques play an essential role in both the manufacture and in-service repair of aerospace structures and components, and these techniques become more advanced as new, complex materials are developed. Welding and joining of aerospace materials provides an in-depth review of different...

An instructive reference that will help control researchers and engineers, interested in a variety of industrial processes, to take advantage of a powerful tuning method for the ever-popular PID control paradigm. This monograph presents explicit PID tuning rules for linear control loops regardless...

Industrial Process Identification and Control Design is devoted to advanced identification and control methods for the operation of continuous-time processes both with and without time delay, in industrial and chemical engineering practice. The simple and practical step- or relay-feedback test is...

Domino Effects in the Process Industries discusses state-of-the-art theories, conceptual models, insights and practical issues surrounding large-scale knock-on accidents—so-called domino effects—in the chemical and process industries. The book treats such extremely low-frequency phenomena from...

Guaranteeing a high system performance over a wide operating range is an important issue surrounding the design of automatic control systems with successively increasing complexity. As a key technology in the search for a solution, advanced fault detection and identification (FDI) is receiving considerable...

The Intelligent Systems Series comprises titles that present state-of-the-art knowledge and the latest advances in intelligent systems. Its scope includes theoretical studies, design methods, and real-world implementations and applications. Flexible manipulators play a critical role in applications...

Science Technology and Innovation in Uganda is part of the World Bank Studies series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Banks ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion.This study presents a unique methodology to view science technology and innovation (STI) in developing...

Properly  applied  transportability  engineering  is  essential  to  the  deployment  of  military equipment. An item of equipment is of little value if it cannot be transported rapidly and efficiently to where it is needed. This publication is a guide...

This rapid action revision, Department of the Army Pamphlet DA PAM 385-64 Ammunition and Explosives Safety Standards Rapid Action Revision (RAR): 10 October 2013, prescribes Army policy on ammunition and explosives (also referred to as military munitions) safety standards.  It implements the...

A concise Plain English pocket guide to passing the UK Car Driving Test, written by a working Driving Instructor with 18 years of teaching experience. Available in print from bookshops, or online retailers. ISBN 9780956501707