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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.

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    • Safety, Reliability and Applications of Emerging Intelligent Control Technologies

      • 1st Edition
      • June 28, 2014
      • T.S. Ng + 1 more
      • English
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      Increasingly, over the last few years, intelligent controllers have been incorporated into control systems. Presently, the numbers and types of intelligent controllers that contain variations of fuzzy logic, neural network, genetic algorithms or some other forms of knowledge based reasoning technology are dramatically rising. However, considering the stability of the system, when such controllers are included it is difficult to analyse and predict system behaviour under unexpected conditions. Leading researchers and industrial practitioners were able to discuss and evaluate current development and future research directions at the first IFAC International Workshop on safety, reliability and applications on emerging intelligent control technology. This publication contains the papers, covering a wide range of topics, presented at the workshop.

    • Engineering Materials 2

      • 1st Edition
      • June 28, 2014
      • Michael F. Ashby + 1 more
      • English
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      Provides a thorough explanation of the basic properties of materials; of how these can be controlled by processing; of how materials are formed, joined and finished; and of the chain of reasoning that leads to a successful choice of material for a particular application. The materials covered are grouped into four classes: metals, ceramics, polymers and composites. Each class is studied in turn, identifying the families of materials in the class, the microstructural features, the processes or treatments used to obtain a particular structure and their design applications. The text is supplemented by practical case studies and example problems with answers, and a valuable programmed learning course on phase diagrams.

    • Model Answers in Ordinary National Certificate Mathematics for Engineers

      • 1st Edition
      • June 28, 2014
      • D. W. Hilder + 1 more
      • C. W. Schofield
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Model Answers in Ordinary National Certificate Mathematics for Engineers presents a series of model answers that include all the topics covered by the many different syllabuses in Mathematics for the Ordinary National Certificate in Engineering. This book is composed 16 chapters; each chapter contains Worked Examples, Hinted Examples, and Further Examples. The opening chapters tackle the topics of logarithms, transformation and evaluation formula, progressions, binomial expansions, and algebraic equations. The succeeding chapters explore the topics of determination of laws, mensuration, equations and identities in trigonometry, solutions of triangles in trigonometry, and graphical solutions. The remaining chapters provides model answers for rates of change; maxima and minima; integration; areas, volume, centroids, and second moments of area; and Simpson’s rule. This book is directed towards mathematicians, and mathematics teachers and students.

    • Readings in Computer Vision

      • 1st Edition
      • June 28, 2014
      • Martin A. Fischler + 1 more
      • English
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      The field of computer vision combines techniques from physics, mathematics, psychology, artificial intelligence, and computer science to examine how machines might construct meaningful descriptions of their surrounding environment. The editors of this volume, prominent researchers and leaders of the SRI International AI Center Perception Group, have selected sixty papers, most published since 1980, with the viewpoint that computer vision is concerned with solving seven basic problems:Reconstruct... 3D scenes from 2D imagesDecomposing images into their component partsRecognizing and assigning labels to scene objectsDeducing and describing relations among scene objectsDetermining the nature of computer architectures that can support the visual functionRepresenting abstractions in the world of computer memoryMatching stored descriptions to image representationEach chapter of this volume addresses one of these problems through an introductory discussion, which identifies major ideas and summarizes approaches, and through reprints of key research papers. Two appendices on crucial assumptions in image interpretation and on parallel architectures for vision applications, a glossary of technical terms, and a comprehensive bibliography and index complete the volume.

    • Production Software That Works

      • 1st Edition
      • June 28, 2014
      • Ann Courtright + 2 more
      • English
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      This useful reference addresses the key tasks that are integral to realtime software development in manufacturing plants: managing the design of the system, setting up and coordinating a development organization, and implementing tools for successfulcompletion and management. Both new and experienced project managers will discover how to use concurrent methodologies to create realtime systems in half the time it usually takes.

    • VLSI Implementations for Image Communications

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 2
      • June 28, 2014
      • P. Pirsch
      • English
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      The past few years have seen a rapid growth in image processing and image communication technologies. New video services and multimedia applications are continuously being designed. Essential for all these applications are image and video compression techniques. The purpose of this book is to report on recent advances in VLSI architectures and their implementation for video signal processing applications with emphasis on video coding for bit rate reduction.Efficient VLSI implementation for video signal processing spans a broad range of disciplines involving algorithms, architectures, circuits, and systems. Recent progress in VLSI architectures and implementations has resulted in the reduction in cost and size of video signal processing equipment and has made video applications more practical.The topics covered in this volume demonstrate the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of VLSI implementation of video signal processing applications, involving interactions between algorithms, VLSI architectures, circuit techniques, semiconductor technologies and CAD for microelectronics.

    • Progress in Fracture Mechanics

      • 1st Edition
      • June 28, 2014
      • G. C. Sih + 1 more
      • English
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      Progress in Fracture Mechanics: Fracture Mechanics Research and Technological Activities of Nations around the World is a collection of papers that presents the contemporary state of fracture mechanics research in different countries. This collection arises from the need to access various fracture mechanics materials in one publication, since fracture mechanics varies in parameters, methods of testing, and jargons. This text will be of great use to students, researchers, and practitioners of materials science.

    • Theory of Beams

      • 2nd Edition
      • June 28, 2014
      • T. IwiÅ„ski
      • B.G. Neal
      • English
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      Theory of Beams: The Application of the Laplace Transformation Method to Engineering Problems, Second Enlarged Edition emphasizes the method used than the broad coverage of all the significant cases that may be met in engineering practice. The content of this edition is mostly the topics presented in the first edition, but are roughly doubled. This edition is divided into four chapters, wherein most of the modifications made are included in the fourth chapter. The first chapter provides an introduction of the study, followed by discussions on theory of beams. Then, specific topics on the transform of the load function; beams with transverse and axial loading; beams and free beam on elastic foundations and non-homogeneous elastic foundations; and simple beam with terminal forces and couples resting on an elastic foundation are examined. This book ends with a table presenting transforms and functions. This text will be of interest to mathematicians and engineers, as well as mathematics and engineering students.

    • Adaptive Systems in Control and Signal Processing 1983

      • 1st Edition
      • June 28, 2014
      • I. D. Landau + 2 more
      • English
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      Adaptive Systems in Control and Signal Processing 1983 is a compendium of papers presented at the International Federation of Automatic Control in San Francisco on June 20-22, 1983. One paper addresses the results through comparative alternative algorithms in adaptive control of linear time invariant and time varying systems. Another paper presents a method in computer simulation of a wide range of stable plants to achieve an alternative approach in designing an adaptive control system. The book also compares the stability and the sensitivity approach involving the design of model-reference adaptive systems. The authors involved explain that the sensitivity concept determines the "dynamic speed of adaptation," while the stability concept focuses on finding a linear compensator for any deviant signal. One paper proposes an indirect adaptive control algorithm for MIMO square full rank minimum phase systems, while another paper discusses the application of the discrete time multivariable adaptive control system, to non-minimum phase plants with an unknown dead time. This book can prove valuable to engineers and researchers of electrical, computer, and mechanical engineering. It can also be helpful for technicians and students dealing with automatic control and telecontrol.

    • Propagation of Radio Waves at Frequencies below 300 Kc/s

      • 1st Edition
      • June 28, 2014
      • W. T. Blackband
      • English
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      Propagation of Radio Waves at Frequencies Below 300 KC/S covers the proceedings of the Seventh Meeting at the AGARD Ionospheric Research Committee, held in Munich, Germany on September 17-21, 1962. This book is organized into eight parts encompassing 32 chapters. The first parts deal with research studies concerning the electron density distribution and some properties of the lower ionosphere, as well as the effect of D-layer irregularities on radio wave propagation. The next parts explore the low frequency propagation in the lower ionosphere, the measurement of oblique incidence, and the statistical frequency spectrum of radio noise below 300 kc/s. The remaining chapters discuss the diurnal changes, the statistical prediction, the mode theory, and the propagation of very and extremely low frequency radio waves in the ionosphere. These chapters also examine the Earth resonance. This book will prove useful to astronomers, astrophysicists, and space scientists.

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