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The Engineering and Technology portfolio includes comprehensive overviews of all major research and practical developments in aerospace and automotive engineering, civil and environmental engineering, mechanical and industrial engineering, materials engineering, electrical engineering, communications engineering, and more. In-depth coverage, innovative state-of-the-art approaches, and real-world case studies provide valuable, actionable insights for researchers, applied engineers and students. The content in Elsevier's Engineering and Technology books program addresses core issues in industry and society, such as sustainability, the circular economy, AI, and automation.

    • Principles of Modern Grinding Technology

      • 3rd Edition
      • January 1, 2026
      • W. Brian Rowe + 1 more
      • English
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      Structured as a comprehensive teaching aid, the third edition of Principles of Modern Grinding Technology caters to a wide range of professionals and students, including application engineers, manufacturing engineers, technicians, researchers, teachers, and students. It expertly guides the reader through every aspect of the grinding process, incorporating the latest advancements in high-speed grinding, cost reduction techniques, vibration troubleshooting, and productivity optimization. Moreover, it demonstrates how to simultaneously enhance grinding precision, improve result quality, and increase output. The third edition represents an expanded and revised version, encompassing cutting-edge developments such as ultra-precision grinding. It offers thorough analyses of the factors influencing grinding behavior and showcases practical applications through numerous worked examples. The book extensively references leading research to substantiate the advancements in the field. Advanced grinding exemplifies the core principles of manufacturing science. It initially introduces the fundamentals of material removal by grinding, followed by an in-depth examination of grinding tools and their preparation. This book delves into the intricacies of grinding mechanics, including thermal performance and quality-related concerns. Finally, it explores practical grinding applications while considering economic factors to highlight worthwhile investments and potential cost reductions. In this edition, several new chapters have been added to enhance the book's relevance and coverage. These include discussions on real contact in grinding, grinding energy, thermal damage, grinding machine developments, vibrations in grinding, and grinding process control.
    • Fundamentals of Laser-Based Powder Bed Fusion of Polymers

      • 1st Edition
      • March 1, 2026
      • Eujin Pei + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Fundamentals of Laser-Based Powder Bed Fusion of Polymers addresses the design principles, materials, process monitoring, powder characteristics, microstructure, mechanical properties, post-processing, nondestructive testing, and more of polymers produced by laser-based powder bed fusion (LBPBF) additive manufacturing. Industrial applications and case studies are included throughout, as is insight on the testing, certification, and qualification of parts. The book starts with a section covering the fundamentals of the process and the materials used, with the second section discussing design for LBPBF of polymers including guidance on data management, process chains, and software and tools used. The third section provides insight on raw materials and feedstock, looking at how polymeric materials are selected, designed, and modified for use. Material characterization and powder management workflow are also covered. The fourth section of the book looks at the production process, including post-processing, process monitoring, prototyping vs. serialized production, and qualified production considerations. The book concludes with a section on part quality considerations, discussing measurement, industry certification and qualification, and more.
    • Control Surface Freeplay

      • 1st Edition
      • April 1, 2026
      • Jeet Panchal + 1 more
      • English
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      Determining what values of freeplay are acceptable is a crucial question to the aviation industry. Current airworthiness regulations are extremely strict, particularly for all-moveable control surfaces, necessitating frequent and very expensive maintenance, even for new aircraft. Coming up with a way to rigorously calculate maximum safe freeplay limits allows commercial airlines and private air transport companies to be compliant with safety standards, but also to budget accurately from a financial standpoint.Control Surface Freeplay: Mathematical Modeling, Analysis, and Computation takes a one-stop-shop approach that will allow readers to thoroughly understand the problem by first equipping them with the necessary engineering concepts and mathematical tools to then proceed to find the appropriate solution by using state-of-the-art computing technologies. Classical freeplay problems are explored in a palatable and carefully crafted manner to reinforce modeling techniques and methods of analysis to obtain important and meaningful results. Finally, recent advances and new trends in the field are provided for the interested readers.This comprehensive work provides a useful reference to both new and experienced industry practitioners and academics who wish to find the key information they need from a single source.
    • Mechatronics and Data Acquisition Systems

      • 1st Edition
      • January 1, 2026
      • Hassan Elahi + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Mechatronics and Data Acquisition Systems provides the fundamental knowledge of mechatronics engineering and its applications in control engineering, instrumentation engineering and multidisciplinary practice. The book explores recent advancements in mechatronics technologies and the state-of-the-art research on the design, fabrication, and characterization techniques for the development of electromechanical systems i.e., sensors, actuators, and transducers. It also delves into the operational aspects of these systems and multidisciplinary approaches with monitoring devices. This is a complete and useful reference tool for engineers, researchers, and students.Whilst exploring recent advancements, this title addresses the key challenges that affect the creation of mechatronics systems and explores future pathways, such as Artificial Intelligence for acquiring and analyzing data.
    • Building Information Modeling for Renovation and Refurbishment

      • 1st Edition
      • February 2, 2026
      • Timo Hartmann + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Building Information Modeling or BIM has been widely applied to new construction projects, but is less used to used to support renovation activities. Building Information Modeling for Renovation and Refurbishment: A Practical Guide addresses that issue and provides a practical guide centered around well-defined use cases of applying BIM to demonstration projects.The authors have worked on the European Union’s Horizon 2020 funded BIM-Speed project where they developed more than 20 such use cases with demonstrative implementations on real-world renovation projects. The use cases were also formalized as standard BuildingSmart International use cases.The book provides a more accessible and general description of a selected number of the most important of these use cases for renovation practitioners. Additionally, the book will discuss requirements for information management and BIM implementation planning for renovation projects to allow for the seamless implementation of use cases on projects.
    • Autonomous Vehicle Safety Solutions

      • 1st Edition
      • January 1, 2026
      • Aparna Kumari
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Autonomous Vehicle Safety Solutions: Foundations, Technologies, and Prospects for the Future addresses the dynamically evolving state of the art that traverses and brings together automotive engineering, electronics engineering, and computer science. Its technical overview of smart vehicles' capabilities, propelled by headway in artificial intelligence and sensor technologies, enables in-depth understanding of the safety-assurance complexities that guide their design and operation.The comprehensive volume distinguishes itself for its treatment of several exciting, emerging opportunities and trends, including machine learning algorithms, V2X connectivity, and cybersecurity. Up-to-date applications are featured through practical examples and expert insights, bringing additional value to a discourse which underscores the critical need for ongoing safety advancements and adaptability in the fast-moving context of autonomous driving systems, with their related implications on sustainability and society as a whole.The outcome is a cornerstone resource for academia and industry alike that encourages further transformative, interdisciplinary investigations to bring safety solutions to maturity and subsequent rigorous testing for validation standards to be defined, thus realizing, in a future not distant from now, a scenario where self-driving vehicles can co-exist seamlessly with traditional modes of transportation and also integrate reliably, efficiently, and without risks within the larger infrastructure.
    • Heterostructured Metals

      • 1st Edition
      • April 1, 2026
      • Amit Misra + 1 more
      • English
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      Heterostructured Metals: Processing, Interfaces, Defect Structures and Deformation Mechanisms provides a comprehensive study of defect structures and deformation mechanisms in interphase boundary-dominated nano and hetero structured metallic systems with examples and perspectives on future research directions and technological applications in this topical area.This book covers the fundamental descriptions of the atomic structures, thermodynamics and kinetics of defect-interface interactions and the relationships between mechanical behavior and interfacial defect structures. It also provides examples of a broad range of model and engineering alloy systems covering cubic and non-cubic crystal structures. The state-of-the-art atomistic and meso-scale computational methods, experimental nanomechanical and in situ characterization of deformation mechanisms and material syntheses using physical vapor deposition, melt and deformation processing are described.
    • Biomechanics of the Heart

      • 1st Edition
      • January 1, 2026
      • Peter Bovendeerd + 3 more
      • English
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      Biomechanics of the Heart: From Model to Patient provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the modelling and assessment of the heart’s biomechanics. It addresses topics such as the physiology of normal and diseased hearts, cardiovascular imaging, modelling of myocardial tissue in the passive and active states, as well as state-of-the-art approaches for patient specific modelling of the heart’s mechanical function. This is augmented by case studies and examples of the exploitation of models for computer-aided diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of heart diseases. Readers are introduced to modelling of the heart’s anatomical and muscular structure, a review of imaging techniques to analyze the geometry, content and dynamics of the heart, as well as an in-depth look at the biomechanical properties of normal and diseased hearts. Chapters also cover modelling cardiac passive and contractile mechanics, biomechanical finite element simulations of the heart, patient-specific modeling of the heart and circulatory system, as well as the exploitation of models for computer-aided diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of heart diseases.
    • Advanced Mechanics of Solids and Structures

      • 1st Edition
      • January 1, 2026
      • Dimitrios G. Pavlou
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Advanced Mechanics of Solids and Structures provides the classic methods that are essential for a wider audience, but also the advanced techniques based on mechanical behavior, material characterization and anisotropic elasticity with applications to composite materials.This title provides deep insight on important topics, such as the theory of beams with composite cross sections, slender beams, plates on elastic foundation, Airy’s stress functions, contact stresses and the elastic stability of a variety of structural members.Mathematical tools, along with advanced methods of integral transforms are provided so the reader can follow along and apply learning.Therefore, not only is this an essential resource for BSc, MSc, PhD level students, but also a practical guide for researchers, consultants and industrial engineers in the field of mechanical, civil, and structural engineering.
    • Resilient Integrated Space Information Network

      • 1st Edition
      • January 1, 2026
      • Jianjun Zhang + 4 more
      • English
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      Resilient Integrated Space Information Network: A Space-based Network for Communication Transmission, Spatiotemporal Measurement and Cross-Domain provides readers with expert proposals for top-level architecture design ideas and key technologies for future large-scale, complex space network systems. The book clarifies technical issues and challenges encountered in the development and deployment of large-scale spatial network systems. Presents readers with a detailed analysis of the current status and trends in the field. Basic theory and advanced technology of the deployment and application of communication satellite constellations are described in detail, providing readers with an important reference for theoretical research and engineering practice. The book provides readers technical support for the future construction and implementation of global satellite information networks, greatly enhancing the technological strength of innovation and beyond development in the space field