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Books in Engineering and technology

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.

  • Instruction to Statistical Pattern Recognition

    • 1st Edition
    • January 1, 1972
    • Keinosuke Fukunaga
    • English
    Introduction to Statistical Pattern Recognition introduces the reader to statistical pattern recognition, with emphasis on statistical decision and estimation. Pattern recognition problems are discussed in terms of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Comprised of 11 chapters, this book opens with an overview of the formulation of pattern recognition problems. The next chapter is devoted to linear algebra, with particular reference to the properties of random variables and vectors. Hypothesis testing and parameter estimation are then discussed, along with error probability estimation and linear classifiers. The following chapters focus on successive approaches where the classifier is adaptively adjusted each time one sample is observed; feature selection and linear mapping for one distribution and multidistributions; and problems of nonlinear mapping. The final chapter describes a clustering algorithm and considers criteria for both parametric and nonparametric clustering. This monograph will serve as a text for the introductory courses of pattern recognition as well as a reference book for practitioners in the fields of mathematics and statistics.

  • DC Motors, Speed Controls, Servo Systems

    An Engineering Handbook
    • 3rd Edition
    • January 1, 1972
    • Sam Stuart
    • English
    DC Motors, Speed Controls, Servo Systems: An Engineering Handbook is an engineering handbook on all aspects of direct current motors, speed controls, and servo systems. Topics covered range from motor equations and transfer function to power dissipation in DC motors, along with velocity control. Applications of DC motors, speed controls, and servo systems are also discussed. Comprised of seven chapters, this book begins with an introduction to relevant terminology, symbols, and systems of units, followed by a detailed account of DC motors and generators. The thermal characteristics of DC motors are considered, together with motor characteristics and temperature. Subsequent chapters deal with unidirectional speed controls, speed controllers, and amplifiers; servo theory and servo components; and applications of servo systems. The book also describes brushless DC motors before concluding with a presentation of Electro-Craft Corp.'s products such as DC servomotors, moving coil motors, special hybrid motors, and servo systems for engineering education. This monograph is intended for professional engineers and engineering undergraduates.

  • Economic Dynamics: Methods and Models

    • 1st Edition
    • January 1, 1971
    • G Gandolfo
    • English
    Economic Dynamics: Methods and Models aims to give a simple but comprehensive treatment of mathematical methods used in economic dynamics and show how they are utilized to build and to analyze dynamic models. The text also focuses on methods, and every mathematical technique introduced is followed by its application to selected models. The book is divided into three different parts. Part I: Different Equations discusses general principles; first-order, second-order, higher-order equations; simultaneous systems; and their economic applications. Part II: Differential Equations also discusses the same areas as those in Part I, but instead features differential equations, as what the section name suggests. Part III: More Advanced Material covers comparative statistics and the comparative principle; stability of equilibrium and Liapunov's second method; and linear mixed differential and difference equations, as well as its other related topics. The text is recommended for mathematicians and economists who have an idea on advanced mathematics and would like to know more about its applications in economics.

  • General Engineering Science in SI Units

    The Commonwealth and International Library: Mechanical Engineering Division
    • 1st Edition
    • January 1, 1971
    • G. W. Marr
    • N. Hiller
    • English
    General Engineering Science in SI Units is an introduction to the theories and applications of engineering ideas and is intended to meet the requirement of the Engineering Science syllabus of the General Course in Engineering. The book discusses topics on engineering units and quantities in SI units; concurrent and parallel forces; electricity and electric circuit theory; elastic properties of materials; friction work and energy; and matter, molecules and atoms. Students of engineering will find the book invaluable.

  • Stochastic Processes and Filtering Theory

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 64
    • January 31, 1970
    • Andrew H. Jazwinski
    • English
    This book presents a unified treatment of linear and nonlinear filtering theory for engineers, with sufficient emphasis on applications to enable the reader to use the theory. The need for this book is twofold. First, although linear estimation theory is relatively well known, it is largely scattered in the journal literature and has not been collected in a single source. Second, available literature on the continuous nonlinear theory is quite esoteric and controversial, and thus inaccessible to engineers uninitiated in measure theory and stochastic differential equations. Furthermore, it is not clear from the available literature whether the nonlinear theory can be applied to practical engineering problems. In attempting to fill the stated needs, the author has retained as much mathematical rigor as he felt was consistent with the prime objective—to explain the theory to engineers. Thus, the author has avoided measure theory in this book by using mean square convergence, on the premise that everyone knows how to average. As a result, the author only requires of the reader background in advanced calculus, theory of ordinary differential equations, and matrix analysis.

  • Mathematics for Engineering, Technology and Computing Science

    The Commonwealth and International Library: Electrical Engineering Division
    • 1st Edition
    • January 1, 1970
    • Hedley G. Martin
    • N. Hiller
    • English
    Mathematics for Engineering, Technology and Computing Science provides information pertinent to a variety of topics including linear algebra, ordinary differential equations, and vector analysis. This book discusses line and multiple integrals. Organized into eight chapters, this book begins with an overview of the methods for solving sets of simultaneous linear equations. This text then explores the various techniques for solving the more common types of differential equations. Other chapters consider the methods of solution by series that require certain operations to be performed on power series, such as addition, differentiation, and possibly multiplication. This book discusses as well the important information needed about a given differential equation. The final chapter deals with the analysis and solution of various problems that arise in physics and engineering, as well as in abstract fields. This book is a valuable resource for engineers and mathematicians.

  • Picture Processing and Psychopictorics

    • 1st Edition
    • January 1, 1970
    • B.S. Lipkin
    • English
    Picture Processing and Psychopictorics explores the selected aspects of perception and picture processing involving variables that are relevant to psychopictoric research. This book is organized into four parts encompassing 18 chapters. The first three parts cover the three classes of psychophysical variables, namely, contrast and border, shape and geometry, and texture. These parts also deal with the factors that influence the detection of objects in complex images. The discussion then shifts to the role of these factors in perception, as well as the computer analysis and manipulation of images with respect to these factors. The fourth part describes the programming systems for online experimental design and image manipulation. This work will be of great value to psychologists concerned with determining how the human extracts information from visual stimuli and to computer scientist concerned with developing programs and equipment to extract similar information from images.

  • An Introduction to the Theory of Microwave Circuits

    • 1st Edition
    • January 1, 1969
    • K. Kurokawa
    • English

  • A Discrete-Time Approach for system Analysis

    • 1st Edition
    • January 1, 1969
    • Michel Cuenod
    • English
    A Discrete-Time Approach for System Analysis is a five-chapter text that considers the underlying principles and application of a discrete-time approach to system analysis. Chapter 1 presents several different unit functions that are used in practice and describes how to obtain a closed form for the sequence of unit functions by using the E- and the z-transforms. This chapter also compares some aspects of spectral analysis and impulse analysis, and finally, discusses some aspects of interpolation between sampled data of the functions by impulse analysis techniques. Chapter 2 provides the functional operations using the sequences of unit functions, namely, addition, subtraction, multiplication, convolution, deconvolution, integration, and differentiation. Chapter 3 examines linear, time-varying, nonlinear and partial differential equations, and the use of the discrete time approach to solve these equations. Chapters 4 and 5 discuss several applications of impulse analysis to control problems, basically, system analysis and identification. This book is particularly useful to engineers with an introduction to some techniques for finding solutions of certain time-invariant, time-varying, and nonlinear differential equations arising in physical systems.

  • Landslides And Their Control

    Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
    • 1st Edition
    • January 1, 1969
    • Quido Zaruba
    • English
    Landslides and Their Control provides information on slope stability; the origin of slope movements; and methods on how they are investigated, controlled, and prevented. The book covers topics such as soil and rock mechanics; the influence of ground water on landslides; as well as other factors that produce sliding movement. The book also includes the different types of landslides as well as examples from different territories; its investigation, interpretation of stability, and stability analysis; and corrective measures involved. The monograph is recommended for geologists who would like to know more about the nature of landslides and how they can be prevented, especially those who work in service for the government.

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