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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.

  • Multilingual Glossary of Automatic Control Technology

    English-French-German-Russian-Italian-Spanish-Japanese-Chinese
    • 1st Edition
    • March 7, 1995
    • H.A. Prime + 1 more
    • English
    This extensive work is the first dictionary in the field of automatic control to cover the technical terms of the field in these eight languages. It will certainly prove itself a valuable aid to all control engineers and systems scientists and will undoubtedly become the recognized standard for the technical terms in this field.Engineers and scientists will also find it a great help when writing research papers for publication in English language journals and preparing oral presentations at scientific conferences. This unique dictionary contains over 1600 terms covering the entire field of control and automation, derived from the technical committees of IFAC (the International Federation of Automatic Control) and the conferences that it organizes.To facilitate its use in all eight languages the dictionary is divided into two main sections. Firstly, the 1600 technical terms are arranged alphabetically in English with their equivalents in the other languages listed along the page. The second section consists of alphabetical listings in the other seven languages with each term numbered to correspond with the English term in the first section. The Chinese, Japanese and Russian entries all appear in their own alphabet and with roman transliterations to permit wider use.Published by Pergamon in collaboration with IFAC, the International Federation of Automatic Control.
  • Materials Processing Defects

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 43
    • February 24, 1995
    • M. Predeleanu + 1 more
    • English
    The technological field of defects, and more appropriately, avoidance of them, is very current in perhaps all sectors of the manufacturing industry. This is particularly important to reduce/minimize waste everywhere to address lean production procedures. The recent advances in finite plasticity and visioplasticity, damage modelling, instability theories, fracture modelling, computer numerical techniques and process simulation etc. offer new approaches and tools for defect prediction, analyses and guidelines for designing components to be manufactured by traditional and emerging process technologies.This volume contains contributions from well known researchers and experts in the field presenting an up-to-date overview of advances in this area. Subjects covered include: micro- and macro-scale observation of defects; localization and instability analysis; damage modelling and fracture criteria; defect prediction methods; design considerations to avoid defects.
  • Flexible Manufacturing Systems: Recent Developments

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 23
    • February 9, 1995
    • A. Raouf + 1 more
    • English
    Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) involve substituting machines capable of performing a wide and redefinable variety of tasks for machines dedicated to the performance of specific tasks. FMS can also be programmed to handle new products, thus extending the machines' life cycles. Thus they represent a change from "standardized goods produced by customized machines" to "customized goods produced by standardized machines". This volume contains new and updated material in this field, and will be of great interest to researchers, managers and students concerned with problems related to flexible manufacturing systems.
  • Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 90
    • February 6, 1995
    • English
  • The Integrated Circuit Hobbyist's Handbook

    • 1st Edition
    • February 1, 1995
    • Thomas R. Powers
    • English
    Here are just a few of the applications you'll find:a terrific selection of amplifiers, including high-performance audio types and summing and difference amplifiers used in analog computation filters, including low pass, high pass, bandpass, and clippers bus transceivers and bus buffers for interfacing digital circuits audio compressors and expanders for speech processing counters ranging from a simple "divide by 2" circuit to advanced divide by 120 and automatic recycling versions magnitude and equality comparators for digital "words" FSK modulators and decoders a wide selection of oscillators, include sine, square, and sawtooth waveform output designs voltage regulator and voltage level detectors and a collection of fun applications like LED flashers, fluid level detectors, and even an ultrasonic ranging system
  • Mechanics of Geomaterial Interfaces

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 42
    • January 30, 1995
    • A.P.S. Selvadurai + 1 more
    • English
    The subject of geomaterial interfaces recognizes the important influences of the interface behaviour on the performance of interfaces involving cementaceous materials such as concrete and steel, ice-structure interfaces, concrete-rock interfaces and interfaces encountered in soil reinforcement. During the past two decades, the subject of geomaterial interfaces has attracted the concerted attention of scientists and engineers both in geomechanics and applied mechanics. These efforts have been largely due to the observation that the conventional idealizations of the behaviour of interfaces between materials by frictionless contact, bonded contact, Coulomb friction or finite friction tend to omit many interesting and important influences of special relevance to geomaterials. The significant manner in which non-linear effects, dilatancy, contact degradation, hardening and softening, etc., can influence the behaviour of the interface is borne out by experimental evidence. As a result, in many instances, the response of the interface can be the governing criterion in the performance of a geomechanics problem.The primary objective of this volume is to provide a documentation of recent advances in the area of geomaterial interfaces. The volume consists of subject groupings which cover ice-structure, soil-structure and steel-concrete interfaces, mechanics of rock and concrete joints and interfaces in discrete systems.
  • PC-based Instrumentation and Control

    • 2nd Edition
    • January 16, 1995
    • Mike Tooley
    • English
    In this established text Mike Tooley explains how to design and implement control systems using easily sourced components and tried and tested circuits. Representative software routines in a variety of languages (including 8086 assembler, BASIC and C) are included.
  • Phase Diagrams in Advanced Ceramics

    • 1st Edition
    • January 4, 1995
    • Allen M. Alper
    • English
    The investigation of multi-component complex systems composed of oxides, nitrides, and carbides has intensified in the last few years. Phase Diagrams in Advanced Ceramics reviews some of the recent advances inthe understanding of these composite systems, providing insight into how phase diagrams can be utilized in the fabrication of whiskers and ceramic-matrix whisker-reinforced ceramics. Phase relations and sintering information is reviewed for transparent polycrystalline oxides. Phase diagrams are discussed to predict alkali oxide corrosion of alumino-silicate references.
  • Telecommunications

    Present Status and Future Trends
    • 1st Edition
    • January 1, 1995
    • Robert F. Linfield
    • English
    Telecommunications Present Status and Future
  • Satellite Communications Systems and Technology

    • 1st Edition
    • January 1, 1995
    • Bozzano G Luisa
    • English
    Satellite Communications Systems and Technology