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by Peter R. N. Childs, BSc.(Hons), D.Phil
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Mechanical Design Engineering Handbook is a straight-talking and forward-thinking reference covering the design, specification, selection, use and integration of machine elements fundamental to a wide range of engineering applications.
Develop or refresh your mechanical design skills in the...
by Cyril E. Black, Louis Dupree, Elizabeth Endicott-West
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Inner Asia - in premodern times the little-known land of nomads and semi-nomads - has moved to the world's front page in the 20th century as the complex struggles for the future of Afghanistan, Soviet Central Asia, Tibet and other territories make clear. But because Inner Asia as a whole is divided...
The Pesticide Problem
An Economic Approach to Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
The widespread use of chemicals to control pests has resulted in adverse effects for both wildlife and humans. Originally published in 1967, this title seeks to clearly explain the key issues for understanding public policy in the pesticide problem. Authors Headley and Lewis provide simple clarification...
Fuzzy Social Choice Models
Explaining the Government Formation Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
This book explores the extent to which fuzzy set logic can overcome some of the shortcomings of public choice theory, particularly its inability to provide adequate predictive power in empirical studies. Especially in the case of social preferences, public choice theory has failed to produce the set...
Experimentation in Software Engineering
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
It is my belief that software engineers not only need to know software engineering methods and processes, but that they also should know how to assess them. Conse quently, I have taught principles of experimentation and empirical studies as part of the software engineering curriculum. Until now,...
Compact Heat Exchangers
Analysis, Design and Optimization using FEM and CFD Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
A comprehensive source of generalized design data for most widely used fin surfaces in CHEs
Compact Heat Exchanger Analysis, Design and Optimization: FEM and CFD Approach brings new concepts of design data generation numerically (which is more cost effective than generic design data) and can...
Managing Creativity
A Systems Thinking Journey
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
For over a century, creativity has unfolded as a valuable field of knowledge. Emerging from disciplines like psychology, management and education, the field of creativity is making strides in others including the arts and engineering. Research and education in this field helped it establish an identity...
Homogeneous Catalysts
Activity - Stability - Deactivation
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
This first book to illuminate this important aspect of chemical synthesis improves the lifetime of catalysts, thus reducing material and saving energy, costs and waste.
The international panel of expert authors describes the studies that have been conducted concerning the way homogeneous catalysts...
Virtual Space
Spatiality in Virtual Inhabited 3D Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Containing the edited research papers resulting from an ambitious, cross-disciplinary research project, this volume examines the spatiality of virtual inhabited 3D worlds - virtual reality and cyberspace. (Three other volumes look at Interaction, Staging and Methodology.) It is about the communication...
Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics 2000
Trends and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2001
Parallel CFD 2000, the Twelfth in an International series of meetings featuring computational fluid dynamics research on parallel computers, was held May 22-25, 2000 in Trondheim, Norway.
Following the trend of the past conferences, areas such as numerical schemes and algorithms, tools and environments,...
by Jordan Hensley, Stanley N. Katz, Bruce A. Kimball
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
In The Economics of Higher Education in the United States, editors Thomas Adam and A. Burcu Bayram have assembled five essays, adapted from the fifty-second annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture Series, that focus on the increasing cost of college—a topic that causes great anxiety among students,...
Concentrating Solar Power and Desalination Plants
Engineering and Economics of Coupling Multi-Effect Distillation and Solar Plants
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
This book provides a detailed examination of how two key concerns in many communities across the globe- power and water- can be simultaneously addressed through the coupling of Concentrating Solar Power and Desalination (CSP+D) plants. It undertakes a technological and economic evaluation of the integration...
Structural Performance of Masonry Elements
Mortar Coating Layers Influence
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
This book discusses the main mechanical features of masonry buildings and the peculiarities that affect their structural behaviour. It also examines technical information regarding accidents that have occurred in recent years in the Metropolitan Region of Recife, along with the historical records...
by Fernando A.N. Silva, Bernardo Horowitz, João M.P.Q. Delgado
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
This book offers a new calculation procedure of the structural behavior of grouped layout of silos, easy to use and with satisfactory responses.
Groups of reinforced concrete silos are structures commonly used in the food industry, where it is usually necessary to separate the storage of different...