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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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    • Fundamentals of Metal-Matrix Composites

      • 1st Edition
      • October 22, 2013
      • Subra Suresh
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      `Metal-Matrix Composites' are being used or considered for use in a variety of applications in the automotive, aerospace and sporting goods industries. This book contains sixteen chapters, all written by leading experts in the filed, which focus on the processing, microstructure and characterization, mechanics and micromechanics of deformation, mechanics and micromechanics of damage and fracture, and practical applications of a wide variety of metal composites.A particularly noteworthy feature of this authoritative volume is its collection of state-of-the-art reviews of the relationships among processing, microstructural evolution, micromechanics of deformation and overall mechanical response.

    • Engineering Geology and Geotechnics

      • 1st Edition
      • October 22, 2013
      • F. G. Bell
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Engineering Geology and Geotechnics discusses engineering survey methods. The book is comprised of 12 chapters that cover several concerns in engineering, such as building foundations, slopes, and construction materials. Chapter 1 covers site investigation, while Chapter 2 tackles geophysical exploration. Chapter 3 deals with slope and open excavation, while Chapter 4 discusses subsurface excavation. Foundation for buildings, reservoir, and dams and dam sites are also covered in the book. A chapter then tackles hydrogeology and underground water supply. The text also encompasses river and beach engineering. The last two chapters cover engineering seismology and construction materials. This book will be of great use to researchers, practitioners, and students of engineering.

    • Combustion and Mass Transfer

      • 1st Edition
      • October 22, 2013
      • D Brian Spalding
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Combustion and Mass Transfer: A Textbook with Multiple-Choice Exercises for Engineering Students is a 20-chapter lecture text that covers various aspects of combustion and mass transfer. Each of the 20 chapters is provided with a set partly analytical and multiple-choice tutorial exercises, designed to assist the student to understand the material of the lectures. The opening chapters deal with the importance of combustion and mass transfer processes. The succeeding chapters survey the concepts and principles of droplet vaporization, droplet combustion, liquid-propellant rocket, and laminar and turbulent jet. These topics are followed by discussions of laminar and turbulent diffusion flame, kinetically-influenc... phenomena, chemical kinetics, and spontaneous ignition. The remaining chapters consider the basic concepts of stirred reactor, flame stabilization, laminar flame propagation, spark ignition, and coal-particle combustion. This book is intended for undergraduate mechanical engineering students.

    • Advances in Factories of the Future, CIM and Robotics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 16
      • October 22, 2013
      • M. Cotsaftis + 1 more
      • English
      • eBook
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      Productivity enhancement is a major concern for all manufacturing enterprises. Productivity enhancement can be achieved in many ways and many facets of its problems have been investigated over the last decades. A number of methods, tools and technologies have emerged to efficiently increase productivity and rationalize management of manufacturing enterprises. International experts from both academia and industry share their experiences in this collection of articles, contributing to the latest advances in the many facets of productivity enhancement in manufacturing enterprises. Themes and visions are detailed on factories of the future, new management approaches, manufacturing system integration and manufacturing information systems. These technical areas can be grouped into four major sections: Factories of the future; Techniques and tools for automated manufacturing; Robotics; and Industrial applications. The papers illustrate a pattern of valuable and interesting approaches to the fascinating problem of designing a new generation of robots with high enough performance capabilities to be used in an industrial context.

    • The Characteristics of Mechanical Engineering Systems

      • 1st Edition
      • October 22, 2013
      • R. Holmes
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      The Characteristics of Mechanical Engineering Systems focuses on the characteristics that must be considered when designing a mechanical engineering system. Mechanical systems are presented on the basis of component input-output relationships, paying particular attention to lumped-parameter problems and the interrelationships between lumped components or ""black-boxes"" in an engineering system. Electric motors and generators are treated in an elementary manner, and the principles involved are explained as far as possible from physical and qualitative reasoning. This book is comprised of five chapters and begins with an introduction to the engineering system and how it works, citing a number of examples such as internal combustion engines, electric generators, and power converters in series. The discussion then turns to power conversion, with emphasis on general forms of converter output characteristic, demand characteristic, and efficiency characteristic. Power transmission is also considered, along with dynamic performance and energy storage. The final chapter examines the linear dynamics of mechanical systems and covers topics such as small excursion dynamics, integral control, and sinusoidal disturbance. Examples of control systems are given. This monograph should be of interest to mechanical engineers.

    • Introduction to Variational Methods in Control Engineering

      • 1st Edition
      • September 24, 2013
      • A. R. M. Noton
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Introduction to Variational Methods in Control Engineering focuses on the design of automatic controls. The monograph first discusses the application of classical calculus of variations, including a generalization of the Euler-Lagrange equations, limitation of classical variational calculus, and solution of the control problem. The book also describes dynamic programming. Topics include the limitations of dynamic programming; general formulation of dynamic programming; and application to linear multivariable digital control systems. The text also underscores the continuous form of dynamic programming; Pontryagin's principle; and the two-point boundary problem. The book also touches on inaccessible state variables. Topics include the optimum realizable control law; observed data and vector spaces; design of the optimum estimator; and extension to the continuous systems. The book also presents a summary of potential applications, including complex control systems and on-line computer control. The text is recommended to readers and students wanting to explore the design of automatic controls.

    • Safety Culture

      • 1st Edition
      • August 7, 2013
      • James Roughton + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 1 2 3 9 7 2 1 7 0
      Current safety and risk management guidelines necessitate that organizations develop and formally manage their understanding and knowledge of the standards and protocols of risk management. The impact of communication and human performance on the identification and control of hazards and associated risk must be addressed in a structured manner. This core reference provides a complete guide to creating a comprehensive and effective safety culture. Safety Culture is a reference for safety and risk professionals and a training text for corporate-based learners and students at university level. The book will keep safety and risk management professionals up-to-date and will provide the tools needed to develop consistent and effective organizational safety protocols.

    • Extrusion

      • 2nd Edition
      • September 21, 2013
      • Harold F. Giles Jr + 2 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      The second edition of Extrusion is designed to aid operators, engineers, and managers in extrusion processing in quickly answering practical day-to-day questions. The first part of the book provides the fundamental principles, for operators and engineers, of polymeric materials extrusion processing in single and twin screw extruders. The next section covers advanced topics including troubleshooting, auxiliary equipment, and coextrusion for operators, engineers, and managers. The final part provides applications case studies in key areas for engineers such as compounding, blown film, extrusion blow molding, coating, foam, and reprocessing. This practical guide to extrusion brings together both equipment and materials processing aspects. It covers basic and advanced topics, for reference and training, in thermoplastics processing in the extruder. Detailed reference data are provided on such important operating conditions as temperatures, start-up procedures, shear rates, pressure drops, and safety.

    • Elements of Loadbearing Brickwork

      • 1st Edition
      • October 22, 2013
      • David Lenczner
      • D. J. Silverleaf + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • Hardback
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      Elements of Loadbearing Brickwork focuses on the developments in brickwork design and construction. Organized into seven chapters, this book first discusses the manufacture and properties of bricks. Subsequent chapters describe the properties of mortars and brickwork; design of brickwork members; reinforced brickwork; and composite action of loadbearing walls under wind loads. The last chapter presents the development in brickwork technology. This book will be valuable for students of structural engineering, building and architecture.

    • Friction Wear Lubrication

      • 1st Edition
      • October 2, 2013
      • I V Kragelsky
      • English
      • eBook
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      Friction, Wear, Lubrication, Volume 1 is a handbook of tribology that deals with friction, wear, and lubrication. Topics covered include contact of solids; coefficients of external friction and preliminary displacement; wear rate; and calculation of tribological joints for wear. The choice of materials for rubbing parts is also considered, along with metals for rubbing components and metallic anti-friction materials. Comprised of 10 chapters, this volume begins by focusing on the calculation of the characteristics of a contact with the use of statistical methods that make it possible to describe the deformation of a certain averaged surface peak and account for the laws of distribution of surface peaks and waves. The reader is then introduced to calculations of the coefficients of external friction and preliminary displacement, wear rate, and tribological joints for wear. Subsequent chapters deal with the choice of materials for rubbing parts; metals for rubbing components; metallic anti-friction materials; manufacturing methods for improving the wear resistance of materials and tribological joints; and lubricants and additives. The book concludes with an analysis of the thermal stability of boundary lubrication films and solid lubricant films. This monograph will be of interest to engineers, metallurgists, tribologists, and materials scientists.

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