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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.

  • Wireless Security: Know It All

    • 1st Edition
    • Praphul Chandra + 11 more
    • English
    The Newnes Know It All Series takes the best of what our authors have written to create hard-working desk references that will be an engineer's first port of call for key information, design techniques and rules of thumb. Guaranteed not to gather dust on a shelf!Communications engineers need to master a wide area of topics to excel. The Wireless Security Know It All covers every angle including Emerging Wireless Technologies and Security Issues, Wireless LAN and MAN Security, as well as Wireless Personal Area Networks.

  • ZigBee Wireless Networks and Transceivers

    • 1st Edition
    • Shahin Farahani
    • English
    ZigBee is a short-range wireless networking standard backed by such industry leaders as Motorola, Texas Instruments, Philips, Samsung, Siemens, Freescale, etc. It supports mesh networking, each node can transmit and receive data, offers high security and robustness, and is being rapidly adopted in industrial, control/monitoring, and medical applications. This book will explain the ZigBee protocol, discuss the design of ZigBee hardware, and describe how to design and implement ZigBee networks. The book has a dedicated website for the latest technical updates, ZigBee networking calculators, and additional materials. Dr. Farahani is a ZigBee system engineer for Freescale semiconductors Inc. The book comes with a dedicated website that contains additional resources and calculators: http://www.learnZigB...

  • Advances in Fire Retardant Materials

    • 1st Edition
    • A. Richard Horrocks + 1 more
    • English
    This important book provides a comprehensive account of the advances that have occurred in fire science in relation to a broad range of materials. The manufacture of fire retardant materials is an active area of research, the understanding of which can improve safety as well as the marketability of a product.The first part of the book reviews the advances that have occurred in improving the fire retardancy of specific materials, ranging from developments in phosphorus and halogen-free flame retardants to the use of nanocomposites as novel flame retardant systems. Key environmental issues are also addressed. The second group of chapters examines fire testing issues and regulations. A final group of chapters addresses the application of fire retardant materials in such areas as composites, automotive materials, military fabrics and aviation materials.With its distinguished editors and array of international contributors, this book is an essential reference for producers, manufacturers, retailers and all those wishing to improve fire retardancy in materials. It is also suitable for researchers in industry or academia.

  • Partial-Update Adaptive Signal Processing

    Design Analysis and Implementation
    • 1st Edition
    • Kutluyil DoÄŸançay
    • English
    Partial-update adaptive signal processing algorithms not only permit significant complexity reduction in adaptive filter implementations, but can also improve adaptive filter performance in telecommunications applications. This book gives state-of-the-art methods for the design and development of partial-update adaptive signal processing algorithms for use in systems development.Partial-... Adaptive Signal Processing provides a comprehensive coverage of key partial updating schemes, giving detailed information on the theory and applications of acoustic and network echo cancellation, channel equalization and multiuser detection. It also examines convergence and stability issues for partial update algorithms, providing detailed complexity analysis and a unifying treatment of partial-update techniques.Features:... Advanced analysis and design tools• Application examples illustrating the use of partial-update adaptive signal processing• MATLAB codes for developed algorithms This unique reference will be of interest to signal processing and communications engineers, researchers, R&D engineers and graduate students."This is a very systematic and methodical treatment of an adaptive signal processing topic, of particular significance in power limited applications such as in wireless communication systems and smart ad hoc sensor networks. I am very happy to have this book on my shelf, not to gather dust, but to be consulted and used in my own research and teaching activities" – Professor A. G. Constantinides, Imperial College, LondonAbout the author:Kutluyil Dogançay is an associate professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of South Australia. His research interests span statistical and adaptive signal processing and he serves as a consultant to defence and private industry. He was the Signal Processing and Communications Program Chair of IDC Conference 2007, and is currently chair of the IEEE South Australia Communications and Signal Processing Chapter.

  • Newnes Embedded Sensors ebook Collection

    • 1st Edition
    • Dogan Ibrahim + 4 more
    • English
    Most engineers rely on a small core of books that are specifically targeted to their job responsibilities. These dog-eared volumes are used daily and considered essential. But budgets and space commonly limit just how many books can be added to your core library. The Newnes Embedded Sensors Ebook Collection solves this problem. It contains five of our best-selling titles, providing the "next level" of reference you will need for a fraction of the price of the hard-copy books purchased separately. The CD contains the complete PDF versions of the following Newnes titles: Microcontroller-Base... Temperature Monitoring and Control (Ibrahim) 9780750655569Intelli... Sensor Design (Huddleston) 9780750677554Sensor Technology Handbook (Wilson) 9780750677295Hall Effect Sensors (Ramsden) 9780750679343Sensors and Transducers (Sinclair) 9780750649322

  • Newnes Analog Circuit Design ebook Collection

    • 1st Edition
    • Ron Mancini + 4 more
    • English
    Most engineers rely on a small core of books that are specifically targeted to their job responsibilities. These dog-eared volumes are used daily and considered essential. But budgets and space commonly limit just how many books can be added to your core library. The Newnes Analog Circuit Design ebook Collection solves this problem. It contains five of our best-selling titles, providing the "next level" of reference you will need for a fraction of the price of the hard-copy books purchased separately. The CD contains the complete PDF versions of the following Newnes titles: Op Amps for Everyone, 2e(Mancini) 9780750677011Trouble... Analog Circuits (Pease) 9780750694995Intuiti... Analog Circuit Design (Thompson) 9780750677868Baker's Dozen (Baker) 9780750678193Analog Circuit Techniques (Wilmshurst) 9780750660946

  • Fabric Testing

    • 1st Edition
    • Jinlian Hu
    • English
    The textile industry is becoming an increasingly competitive environment. Differentiating products by quality is particularly important. Testing can be performed both to improve product quality and achieve compliance to international, regional or retailer specific standards. Fabric testing provides a comprehensive review of the tests available for fabrics.The book begins with introductory chapters which discuss the scope, importance and statistical analysis of fabric testing. The book then reviews various types of fabric tests such as fabric composition testing, physical and mechanical tests, fabric chemical testing, how to test appearance, permeability, comfort and flammability, as well as dyeing and colouring tests and key issues in testing textile samples.With its distinguished editor and international team of contributors Fabric testing is a valuable resource for designers, technologists, quality inspectors and testing institutes in the textile industry. It is also relevant for academics and students within the textile field.

  • Structures and Fracture ebook Collection

    Ultimate CD
    • 1st Edition
    • Uwe Zerbst + 4 more
    • English
    Structures and Fracture ebook Collection contains 5 of our best-selling titles, providing the ultimate reference for every structural engineer’s library. Get access to over 3000 pages of reference material, at a fraction of the price of the hard-copy books. This CD contains the complete ebooks of the following 5 titles:Zerbst, Fitness-for-Service Fracture Assessment for Structures, 9780080449470 Giurgiutiu, Structural Health Monitoring, 9780120887606 Fahy, Sound & Structural Vibration 2nd Edition, 9780123736338 Yang, Stress, Strain and Structural Dynamics, 9780127877679 Ravi-Chandar, Dynamic Fracture , 9780080443522

  • Nuclear Energy ebook Collection

    Ultimate CD
    • 1st Edition
    • Gianni Petrangeli + 5 more
    • English
    Nuclear Energy ebook Collection contains 6 of our best-selling titles, providing the ultimate reference for every nuclear energy engineer’s library. Get access to over 3500 pages of reference material, at a fraction of the price of the hard-copy books. This CD contains the complete ebooks of the following 6 titles:Petrangeli, Nuclear Safety, 9780750667234 Murray, Nuclear Energy, 9780750671361 Bayliss, Nuclear Decommissioning, 9780750677448 Suppes, Sustainable Nuclear Power, 9780123706027 Lewis, Fundamentals of Nuclear Reactor Physics, 9780123706317 Kozima, The Science of the Cold Fusion Phenomenon, 9780080451107

  • Skin Aging Handbook

    An Integrated Approach to Biochemistry and Product Development
    • 1st Edition
    • Nava Dayan
    • English
    Anti-aging products are undergoing exceptional growth in the cosmetics industry far beyond that of general cosmetics. This book is the only available text that assembles the key pieces developers need to produce new breakthroughs for a growing market that demands quicker and more effective results. It also focuses much needed attention on the biochemical and clinical differences between Caucasian and other skin types.Beginning with detailed descriptions of the forces driving the anti-aging market, this unique book provides readers with all the tools necessary to further research, develop, market, and sell novel products. Recent discoveries on the molecular level and novel methods of skin aging assessment are detailed as well as the state of the rapidly changing global regulatory environment. The formulation approaches of major cosmetics companies are presented as are their techniques for measuring skin aging in vitro and in vivo, both on the molecular and clinical levels.

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