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.

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Materials Informatics

1st Edition
December 1, 2025
Krishna Rajan
English
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Materials Informatics: Molecules, Crystals and Beyond discusses the role of information science in aiding the discovery and interpretation of multiscale relationships that are critical for materials discovery, design, and optimization. The book covers key challenges in applying information science methods to materials science, including the multidimensional nature of structure-property relationships, data sparsity, and the nature and sources of uncertainty, along with a brief overview of the algorithmic tools used for unsupervised and supervised learning.Building on these topics, chapters then cover the development of physics/chemistry informed data representations of structure and properties, the application of machine learning for structure and property prediction and screening for targeted properties, and the utilization of techniques such a graphics recognition, natural language processing, and statistically driven visualization tools in deciphering processing-structure... relationships in materials.

Innovations In Advanced Materials and Manufacturing

1st Edition
December 1, 2025
Mohammad Nasr Esfahani + 1 more
English
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Innovations In Advanced Materials and Manufacturing provides insights into the mechanics, characteristics, behavior, application, and manufacturing of advanced materials such as nanowires, 2D materials, biomaterials, smart materials, and more. The book discusses the materials themselves, with chapters dedicated to the mechanics and electronic and magnetic properties of nanomaterials, photonic, and phononic materials and devices, 2D magnetic materials, smart materials and coatings, metamaterials, and microdevices and sensors. Other sections cover manufacturing technologies and methods of previously discussed materials, outlining manufacturing techniques for additive manufacturing of metallic lattice structures, biomedical alloys, shape memory alloys, multifunctional polymer composites, nanocomposite structures, ceramics, and batteries.

Artificial Intelligence for Computational Fluid Dynamics

1st Edition
December 1, 2025
Kamarul Arifin Ahmad + 2 more
English
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Artificial Intelligence for Computational Fluid Dynamics serves as a comprehensive reference guide, providing up-to-date information on the utilization of high-performance computing and artificial intelligence (AI) in computational fluid dynamics (CFD). It caters to the needs of students and researchers, offering a single, comprehensive document encompassing machine learning, deep learning, neural networking, and their significance within the realm of CFD. The content not only covers the current state of the field but also provides insights into future research directions, emphasizing the importance of ongoing research and development. Additionally, the book introduces various scientific tools and software commonly employed in AI-based CFD applications. The newly amended CFD vision for 2030 receives specific attention, ensuring alignment with the latest advancements and industry trends. The editors and authors of this book are esteemed researchers with extensive experience in both teaching and research, establishing their expertise in the field.

Corrosion Resistance and Prevention for Sustainable Automotive Manufacturing

1st Edition
December 1, 2025
Ashish Kumar + 1 more
English
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Corrosion Resistance and Prevention for Sustainable Automotive Manufacturing is an essential resource for readers in academia and industry aiming to stay current with advancements in automotive materials, coatings, and treatments designed to combat corrosion and extend vehicle life. This book consolidates the latest research, industry best practices, and real-world examples, offering an in-depth understanding of the science behind corrosion prevention. It explores pioneering solutions and strategies addressing the demand for reduced environmental impact in production processes and final products. In addition to addressing corrosion resistance, the book provides insights from leading experts in automotive engineering and materials science.It covers sustainable manufacturing practices, innovative treatments, and coating methodologies, making it an indispensable guide for professionals and researchers dedicated to advancing the automotive sector.

Understanding Satellite Navigation

2nd Edition
December 1, 2025
Rajat Acharya
English
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Understanding Satellite Navigation, 2nd Edition explains the basic principles of satellite navigation technology with the bare minimum of mathematics and without complex equations. It helps you to conceptualize the underlying theory from first principles, building up your knowledge gradually using practical demonstrations and worked examples. A full range of MATLAB simulations is used to visualize concepts and solve problems, allowing you to see what happens to signals and systems with different configurations. Implementation and applications are discussed, along with some special topics such as Space Weather, Kalman Filter and Ionosphere.

Condition Monitoring and Structural Health Monitoring of Infrastructure Systems

1st Edition
December 1, 2025
Vistasp M. Karbhari + 1 more
English
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Condition Monitoring and Structural Health Monitoring of Infrastructure Systems presents important developments in this field whilst focusing on specific areas such as bridges, buildings, industrial facilities, dams and hydraulic structures, pipelines, and power generation/transmiss... systems, to provide the reader with a focused insight into CM/SHM in these areas. The book provides both details of the technologies and applications with a focus on infrastructure components and systems. Given its specific focus on areas of infrastructure it will help researchers, designers, and practitioners in assessing the current state-of-the-art and in the identification of problems/challenges as well as to provide a focus of the “how to” so that they can get ahead in their research/application... It will assist the researcher, practitioner, and engineer in solving the issues of assessment and design which are critically needed as well as those of diagnosis and prognosis of the condition of a structure/system moving away from the inefficient time-based inspection system to a more efficient condition-based one. Written for a wide variety of audience, this book will cover different technologies, sensors, and analysis methods with a view towards application to ensure that the reader gets an integrated overview and in-depth knowledge of the subject.

Advances in Sustainable Masonry Bricks and Blocks

1st Edition
December 1, 2025
Fernando Pacheco-Torgal + 1 more
English
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Advances in Sustainable Masonry Bricks and Blocks: Design Optimization, Incorporation of Bio-based Materials and Industrial Waste Valorization is a comprehensive reference resource that addresses the latest advancements and innovations in this field. This book explores novel sustainable masonry innovations in design optimization, bio-based materials, and industrial waste valorization. Part I investigates novel structural strategies—topologic... interlocking blocks modeled and fabricated in UHPC with an MCDM framework for reusability, a PRISMA-guided review of hygrothermal performance in insulated composite masonry, and a self-sensing brick system enabling continuous structural health monitoring. Part II delves into bio-reinforcements: Juncus-fiber–stabili... compressed earth blocks, fiber-reinforced soil units, glycoprotein stabilizers inspired by termite mounds, lime-hemp and sugarcane bagasse insulation for CEB walls, waste-glass–infused clay bricks, and rice-husk-ash geopolymer blocks. Part III valorizes community and industrial by-products—paper, plastics, bagasse ash, marble and stone dust, coal ash—into fired and unfired masonry, and applies geopolymers to stabilize earth materials. Across experimental research, systematic reviews, full-scale testing, and case studies, it advances durable, high-performance bricks and blocks with reduced environmental impact.

Adaptive Backstepping Consensus Control for Nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems

1st Edition
December 1, 2025
Lin Zhao + 1 more
English
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Adaptive Backstepping Consensus Control for Nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems: Command Filtered Backstepping offers a new design solution for students, researchers, and engineers working on distributed cooperative control problems for nonlinear multi-agent systems. The book is structured around six key topics, focusing on command filtered backstepping-based distributed adaptive consensus control. By combining command filtered backstepping techniques with adaptive control, fuzzy logic systems, neural networks, and other control approaches, the book investigates and proposes control schemes for the consensus control problem of nonlinear multi-agent systems. Readers will gain a comprehensive understanding of consensus control based on adaptive command filtered backstepping technology.

Event-Driven State Estimation for Stochastic Networked Systems

1st Edition
December 1, 2025
Cong Huang + 2 more
English
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Event-Driven State Estimation for Stochastic Networked Systems offers a comprehensive and clear explanation of recent developments in event-based state estimation for stochastic systems within limited communication networks, bringing together existing and emerging concepts. It provides a series of the latest results in, including but not limited to, recursive state estimation, fusion estimation, and state and fault estimation. The book provides practitioner readers with practical tools for the analysis and design of stochastic systems under limited communication networks, capturing recent advances in theory, technological aspects and real-world applications of advanced event-based state estimation methodologies. Realistic research problems are addressed in each chapter, with numerical and simulation results provided to reflect engineering practice, while demonstrating the main focus of the developed estimation approaches. The book is an advanced-level resource presented in an accessible manner, appealing to senior students as a core reference and to researchers and practitioners alike

Textile- and Fiber-Based Triboelectric Nanogenerators

1st Edition
November 12, 2025
Shahid Ul Islam + 4 more
English
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Textile- and Fiber-Based Triboelectric Nanogenerators: Advances and Perspectives presents the latest developments in triboelectric nanogenerators, covering current achievements and applications, as well as potential future applications. The book identifies the key drawbacks to these devices and then proposes solutions in a systematic way. It presents a guide for material scientists, electrical and chemical engineers, and industry practitioners on the current state-of-the- art of this multidisciplinary research area, while also opening up important new avenues of research for the industry to further develop smart textile-based energy harvesting devices.Readers will find comprehensive coverage of all types of textile- and fiber-based triboelectric nanogenerators for application in wearable technologies and self-powered electronics. It also outlines the unique advantages of triboelectric nanogenerators, their design considerations and guidelines, and the key challenges in translating them from the lab into real-world applications, with a particular focus on applications in the fields of sensing, structural health monitoring, and energy harvesting.

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