This book offers a comprehensive examination of shape control, vibration analysis, and buckling in piezolaminated composite plates. Using shear deformation theory in finite element methods, it delivers accurate calculations of deformation, frequencies, and buckling modes.
This book analyzes electromagnetic surface waves in microwave absorbing layers. Though these coatings have been used since WWII, their properties are not sufficiently studied. Demystifying a complex subject, this work is ideal for researchers, engineers, and students.
Can the spirit of “Wabi-Sabi” be seen through science? This book explores the Japanese tea ceremony and its utensils from the field of materials science. While tea master Rikyu Sen perfected his art, his contemporary Leonardo da Vinci was integrating art and science in Europe.
This book introduces gear drive fundamentals and the theoretical background of load capacity. It focuses on strength analyses for metal, sintered, and polymer gears, describing surface pitting, tooth root capacity, and fatigue design approaches with practical examples.
This book contains a selection of the best papers on power quality from 2003 to 2012. It provides an up-to-date reference for professional engineers, researchers, and postgraduate students interested in the state of the field.
This book covers the key principles, theories, and applications of information and communication technologies for academic and professional audiences. It explores network architecture, information theory, wireless communications, network security, and optimisation methods.
Developments in Management Science in Engineering 2018
This book identifies the main research categories of Management Science in Engineering (MSE), and evaluates and classifies each journal in this field. Developed by leading experts, it is of interest to scientists, researchers, practitioners, engineers, and students.
Unconventional Aeronautical Investigatory Methods
The 1972 crash of Alitalia flight AZ 112 killed 115 people and was blamed on pilot negligence. This book reveals the truth: the disaster was not an accident but a criminal act, a symptom of the geopolitical tensions gripping Italy and Europe in that decade.
The Baseline Mass Transfer Coefficient
This book presents a revolutionary achievement: the Standard Specific Baseline Mass Transfer Coefficient. It solves the long-standing inability to correlate mass transfer coefficients between tests, transforming the design and operation of water and wastewater aeration systems.
Improvement of the Structural Integrity of Ceramic Parts
This book presents novel techniques for ensuring the structural integrity of advanced ceramics. It details methods to control crack initiation and retardation in complex shapes, offering a vital resource for engineers and scientists developing new superhard materials.
Energy and Geopolitics, Volume 1
In an era of abundant energy, our greatest challenge is sustainable development. This book explains the fundamentals of energy and reviews all major sources: oil, gas, coal, nuclear, and renewables. It is an essential guide to the complex geopolitics of energy.
This book presents a tool for decision making under uncertainty in engineering design. It synthesizes game theory and quantum decision theory in a value driven design framework to address stakeholder preferences and capture human factors like risk, bias, and emotion.
Chen delivers a feasible framework for applying airborne Lidar data to urban research. In addition to providing a general introduction to the subject, this book explains a series of case studies to show how theoretical models can be employed to address practical urban issues.
Patents and Artificial Intelligence
Dochniak showcases the immense utility of AI, providing an easy-to-read summary of many of the approximately 150 patents with the phrase “artificial intelligence” in their titles which were granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office from 1987 to 2017.
Controllability of Dynamic Systems
This book explores the Green’s function method for controllability analysis in dynamic systems. Valid for both linear and nonlinear dynamics, the approach is shown with examples of sophisticated issues and extensive numerical analysis, revealing its advantages and drawbacks.
This book explores modern polymeric composites and their applications in information technologies, such as polarization holography, light electro-optical modulators, polarization sensitive gratings, and photovoltaic elements.
This easy-to-follow guide offers a state-of-the-art approach to optimization methods for academics and industrial engineers. It provides a comprehensive study with directly implementable Matlab code, suited to readers even without a programming background.
Planar Trusses
This book contains 73 schemes of trusses, with solutions for many not widely published. It identifies trusses with hidden dangerous properties and provides compact formulas for engineers and theorists to supplement numerical calculations, especially for complex structures.
This book focuses on developing direction dependent non-local approaches for modeling failure modes in multi-phase materials. It includes several numerical simulations with MATLAB codes to enhance the understanding of composite failure.
Learn the fundamentals of the Finite Element (FE) method in structural mechanics. This book teaches you to develop FE models, analyze systems statically and dynamically, and convert real-world problems into practical applications using the included MATLAB codes.
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