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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.

  • Bilingual Guide to Business and Professional Correspondence: German-English

    Pergamon International Library of Science, Technology, Engineering and Social Studies
    • 1st Edition
    • Joseph Harvard
    • English
    Bilingual Guide to Business and Professional Correspondence: German-English presents a selection of sentences and phrases that are essential for writing business letters. The book is comprised of nine chapters; each chapter addresses a specific aspect of business communications. The text first presents the lay-out of a German business letters, and then proceeds to tackling the contents of a business letter. The subsequent chapters deal with various concerns in business communications, such monetary concerns, legal matters, business transactions, applications, and business relations. The book will be of great use to individuals who work at corporate settings.

  • Automatic Control in Aerospace 1989

    Selected Papers from the IFAC Symposium, Tsukuba, Japan, 17-21 July 1989
    • 1st Edition
    • T. Nishimura
    • English
    The papers presented at the Symposium covered the areas in aerospace technology where automatic control plays a vital role. These included navigation and guidance, space robotics, flight management systems and satellite orbital control systems. The information provided reflects the recent developments and technical advances in the application of automatic control in space technology.

  • Advanced Control of Chemical Processes (ADCHEM'91)

    Selected Papers from the IFAC Symposium, Toulouse, France, 14-16 October 1991
    • 1st Edition
    • K. Najim + 1 more
    • English
    This volume contains 40 papers which describe the recent developments in advanced control of chemical processes and related industries. The topics of adaptive control, model-based control and neural networks are covered by 3 survey papers. New adaptive, statistical, model-based control and artificial intelligence techniques and their applications are detailed in several papers. The problem of implementation of control algorithms on a digital computer is also considered.

  • Advances in Control Education 1994

    • 1st Edition
    • A. Ichikawa + 1 more
    • English
    The implementation of effective control systems can help to achieve a wide range of benefits, not least in terms of real cost-savings. Education plays a vital role in ensuring continued success and its importance is well recognized by IFAC with a specifically designated technical committee in this area. This invaluable publication brings together the results of international research and experience in the latest control education techniques, as presented at the most recent symposium. Information on course curricula is presented, as well as teachware, including software and laboratory experimental appparatus.

  • 24 Worked Engineering Drawing Examples

    Volume 1
    • 1st Edition
    • A. J. Jones + 1 more
    • English
    Twenty-Four Worked Engineering Drawing Examples, Volume One presents 24 drawing examples that the author has compiled and given to part-time students of Engineering Drawing. Each drawing embodies a problem to be solved, which is accompanied by a solution. Every solution is carefully presented to assist engineering students in understanding and learning how to solve mathematical and theoretical problems commonly faced by engineers. This compilation will be invaluable to teachers and students of Engineering Drawing and related courses.

  • Control Aspects of Prosthetics and Orthotics

    Proceedings of the IFAC Symposium, Ohio, USA, 7-9 May 1982
    • 1st Edition
    • R. M. Campbell
    • English
    Control Aspects of Prosthetics and Orthotics covers the proceedings of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Symposium that tackles issues relating to the control systems of prosthetics and orthotics device. The book organizes topics according to the sessions of the symposium. Session 1 deals with the functional muscle and nerve simulation, while Session 2 discusses the man-machine mechanical and information interface. The third session covers sensory replacement and artificial organs, while the fourth session tackles instrumentation, medical devices, and clinical procedures. The last session discusses robotics and mechanics. The text will be of great interest to physicians, physical therapists, orthotists, and prosthetists, whose line of work involves prosthetics and orthotics systems.

  • Dynamics and Control of Chemical Reactors, Distillation Columns and Batch Processes (DYCORD+ '92)

    Selected Papers from the 3rd IFAC Symposium, Maryland, USA, 26-29 April 1992
    • 1st Edition
    • J.G. Balchen + 3 more
    • English
    In addition to the three main themes: chemical reactors, distillation columns, and batch processes this volume also addresses some of the new trends in dynamics and control methodology such as model based predictive control, new methods for identification of dynamic models, nonlinear control theory and the application of neural networks to identification and control. Provides a useful reference source of the major advances in the field.

  • General Studies

    A First Handbook for Technical Students
    • 1st Edition
    • Ian J. Finch
    • D. F. Bratchell + 1 more
    • English
    General Studies: A First Handbook for Technical Students deals with liberal, general, social and English studies. This handbook narrates the author's reminiscences of childhood in a large Welsh industrial town at the beginning of the Great War, about his grandpa, his first day in school, and the time when he takes his eleven plus test. At Technical College, he studies mathematics, Workshop Technology, and attends further studies to become a qualified technician. He explains how not to get lost in a library and recommends some books that are well worth reading. He finds a job when he reaches 15 years of age as an apprentice at the Pirelli plant at Burton. In his job, he becomes aware of the possibilities of accidents and discusses the major responsibilities an employer has toward his employees. He also explains what effective communication is, and how to use technical description and explanations. He writes about the impact of the ""goggle box"" or television, the miracle of newspaper publishing, as well as the problems of the younger generation. General readers who like autobiography with a mixture of humor and personal philosophies will find this book entertaining.

  • Heat Flow Below 100°K and Its Technical Applications

    Proceedings of the International Institute of Refrigeration Commission 1, Grenoble, 1965
    • 1st Edition
    • Sam Stuart
    • English
    Heat Flow below 100°K and Its Technical Applications covers the proceedings of the International Institute of Refrigeration. This release serves the purpose of compiling supplementary materials to the published report by Committee 3, entitled Protection against Ionizing Radiation from External Sources. This text is a compilation of 12 appendices that comprise information for employing the recommendations of ICRP Publication 15. These appendices relate to the sources of external radiation encountered in medical, dental, and veterinary radiology, as well as in industry and research. Some of the information included are on the collision stopping power of charged particles; interpolated values of quality factor; and quality factor as a function of charged particle energy. This compendium then presents materials on conversion factors, neutron sources and shielding, and range-energy curves. The last two materials cover the shielding for beta sources and X-ray and gamma-ray shielding. This compilation will cater those interested in the technical applications of heat flow, as well as to those who have read the ICRP Publication 15 and in need of supplementary materials.

  • Applications of Nonlinear Programming to Optimization and Control

    Proceedings of the 4th IFAC Workshop, San Francisco, USA, 20-21 June 1983
    • 1st Edition
    • H. E. Rauch
    • English
    Applications of Nonlinear Programming to Optimization and Control is a collection of papers presented at the Fourth International Federation of Automatic Control Workshop by the same title, held in San Francisco, California on June 20-21, 1983. This workshop aims to exchange information on the applications of optimization and nonlinear programming techniques to real-life control problems, to investigate ideas that arise from these exchanges, and to look for advances in nonlinear programming that are useful in solving control problems. This book is divided into 16 chapters. It covers a wide range of related topics, starting with computer-aided-desig... of practical control systems, continuing through advanced work on quasi-Newton methods and gradient restoration algorithms. Other chapters provide specific examples, which apply these methods to representative problems. The remaining chapters present examples, including trajectory optimization, optimal design of a structure for a satellite, identification of hovercraft characteristics, determination of optimal electricity generation, and optimal automatic transmission for road vehicles. This book is of value to computer scientists and mathematicians.

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