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    • Future Modern Distribution Networks Resilience

      • 1st Edition
      • February 23, 2024
      • Seyed Mohammad Taghi Gharibzahedi + 6 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Future Modern Distribution Networks Resilience: From Passive Operation to Strategic Active Paradigms examines the combined impact of low-probability and high-impact events on modern distribution systems’ resilience. Using practical guidance, the book provides comprehensive approaches for improving energy systems’ resilience by utilizing infrastructure and operational strategies. Divided into three parts, Part One provides a conceptual introduction and review of power system resilience, including topics such as risk and vulnerability assessment in power systems, resilience metrics, and power systems operation and planning. Part Two discusses modelling of vulnerability and resilience evaluation indices and cost-benefit analysis.Part Three reviews infrastructure and operational strategies to improve power system resilience, including robust grid hardening strategies, mobile energy storage and electric vehicles, and networked microgrids and renewable energy resources. With a strong focus on economic results and cost-effectives, this book is a practical reference for students, researchers, and engineers interested in power engineering, energy systems, and renewable energy.

    • Railway Noise and Vibration

      • 2nd Edition
      • February 23, 2024
      • David Thompson
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Railway Noise and Vibration: Mechanisms, Modelling, and Means of Control, 2nd Edition provides a complete overview of the state of the art in rail noise and vibration theory and modelling.This book describes each source of noise and vibration, such as rolling noise, curve squeal, bridge noise, aerodynamic noise, ground vibration and ground-borne noise, and vehicle interior noise in a systematic way, covering relevant theoretical modelling approaches and their practical implementation, with extensive examples of noise control technology applied at source.Noise and vibration are key obstacles to further development of railway networks worldwide for high-speed intercity traffic, freight and suburban metros and light-rail systems. With noise problems all too often dealt with inefficiently due to a lack of understanding of the problem, this new edition is an invaluable reference for all those working with noise and vibration from railways, whether in industry, consultancy, or academic research.

    • Stimuli-responsive Actuating Materials for Micro-robotics

      • 1st Edition
      • February 23, 2024
      • Kenneth K. W. Kwan + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Stimuli-responsive Actuating Materials for Micro-robotics examines the latest stimuli-responsive actuating materials with high potential for applications in microrobotics. The material science, functionalities, performance, and synthesis of these materials are reviewed. Then, the common enabling technologies for material and signal integration such as 3/4D printing and interface engineering, and chemo-mechanics modeling of the materials are discussed. Finally, there is a chapter that looks at the prospects of materials for micro-robotics, including case studies for specific applications such as self-folding origami robots and robots for micro-surgery. This book is suitable for researchers and practitioners working in the subject areas of materials science and engineering.

    • Nanomaterials in Biomass Conversion

      • 1st Edition
      • February 23, 2024
      • Komal Rizwan + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Nanomaterials in Biomass Conversion: Advances and Applications for Bioenergy, Biofuels and Biobased Products critically reviews basic principles and advances in nanotechnology for the production of biofuels and bioenergy. Sections explain the fundamentals of nanomaterials, their properties, characterization, and basic processes for synthesis while also reviewing various methods and technologies for the conversion of biomass to bioenergy, biofuels, and value-added products using nanomaterials. This includes homogeneous and heterogeneous nano-catalytic systems, nano-photocatalytic conversion, nanomaterial-assiste... anaerobic digestion, nanoparticles-immobi... enzymes conversion, the production of biogas, volatile fatty acids, value-added products, and in carbon capture and conversion to sustainable energy products, and much more.Final sections address technoeconomics and financial viability in the context of the circular economy, risk related to toxicology, stability, and environmental impacts, and consider the various challenges and future opportunities of biomass conversion through nanomaterials.

    • Metabolomics in Health and Disease Biology

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 104
      • February 23, 2024
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Metabolomics in Health and Disease Biology, Volume 104 covers this rapidly emerging field that aims for metabolic phenotyping and understanding the blueprint of metabolic pathways under various health and disease conditions by comprehensive analysis of metabolites. Chapters in this new release include Metabolomics approaches: Biomarkers to Disease mechanisms, Metabolomics in sleep disorders, Metabolomics in predicting the hallmark of Cancer Metabolism, Spectroscopic based rapid metabolic fingerprinting approaches for Cancer diagnosis, Lipidomics in assessing the health of osteoarthritis, Metabolomics Applications in Type 2 Diabetes mellitus, Metabolomics of Diabetic retinopathy, Metabolomics in Neurodegenerative disorders- Parkinson's disease, and Metabolomic of Neurodegenerative disorder: Alzheimer's Disease.

    • Handbook of Emerging Materials for Sustainable Energy

      • 1st Edition
      • February 22, 2024
      • Naveen V. Kulkarni + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Handbook of Emerging Materials for Sustainable Energy provides a comprehensive accounting on the fundamentals, current developments, challenges and future prospects of emerging materials for the development of sustainable energy. Each chapter addresses a distinct and important area within the energy field and includes comprehensive data to support the materials being presented. Sections cover Batteries, Capacitors and Supercapacitors, Fuel cells, Thermoelectrics, Novel illumination sources and techniques, Photovoltaics & Solar cells, Alternative energy sources, hydrogen as an energy source, including hydrogen production and fuel generation, the use of Biofuels and Carbon dioxide. The book concludes with three chapters related to advanced materials under development for energy conservation and environmental protection, including theories, methodologies and simulations established for advanced materials.

    • Geophysical Data Analysis and Inverse Theory with MATLAB® and Python

      • 5th Edition
      • February 22, 2024
      • William Menke
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Geophysical Data Analysis and Inverse Theory with MATLAB or Python, Fifth Edition is a revised and expanded introduction to inverse theory and tomography as it is practiced by geophysicists. The book demonstrates the methods needed to analyze a broad spectrum of geophysical datasets, with special attention given to those methods that generate images of the earth. Data analysis can be a mathematically complex activity, but the treatment in this volume is carefully designed to emphasize those mathematical techniques that readers will find the most familiar and to systematically introduce less-familiar ones. A series of "crib sheets" offer step-by-step summaries of methods presented.Utilizing problems and case studies, along with MATLAB and Python computer code and summaries of methods, the book provides professional geophysicists, students, data scientists and engineers in geophysics with the tools necessary to understand and apply mathematical techniques and inverse theory.

    • Understanding the Tensile Properties of Concrete

      • 2nd Edition
      • February 22, 2024
      • Jaap Weerheijm
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Understanding the Tensile Properties of Concrete: In Statistics and Dynamics, Second Edition summarizes recent research on this important subject. After an introduction to concrete, the book is divided into two distinct parts. Part One starts with a summary chapter on the most important parameters that affect the tensile response of concrete. Chapters show how multiscale modeling is used to relate concrete composition to tensile properties. Part Two focuses on dynamic response and starts with an introduction to the different regimes of dynamic loading, ranging from low frequency loading by wind or earthquakes to extreme dynamic conditions due to explosions and ballistic impacts.Following chapters review dynamic testing techniques and devices that deal with the various regimes of dynamic loading. Later chapters highlight the dynamic behavior of concrete from different viewpoints, and the book ends with a chapter on practical examples of how detailed knowledge on tensile properties is used by engineers in structural applications. Drawing on the work of some of the leading experts in the field, the book is fully updated and will be a valuable reference for civil and structural engineers as well as those researching this important material.

    • Aging and Durability of FRP Composites and Nanocomposites

      • 1st Edition
      • February 21, 2024
      • Arya Uthaman + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Aging and Durability of FRP Composites and Nanocomposites focuses on the latest developments in durability and long-term aging studies of composite materials, especially those used in civil and structural engineering applications. The book will be a valuable reference resource for materials scientists and engineers who want to learn more about the long-term service life and durability behavior of composites under different environmental conditions. The usage of composites is a broad and growing area of scientific research, especially in developed and developing countries. These materials are used in a broad range of applications in both structural and civil engineering sectors. In many of these applications, FRPs are exposed to one or more environmental influences, so they need to be designed to meet durability requirements to withstand even the harshest of environments.

    • Introduction to Solid State Chemistry

      • 1st Edition
      • February 21, 2024
      • James E. House
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Introduction to Solid State Chemistry provides a strong background to the structures of solids, along with the factors that determine this structure. The content presented stresses the transformations of solids, both in physical forms and chemical composition. In so doing, topics such as phase transitions, sintering, reactions of coordination compounds, and photovoltaic compounds are described, with kinetics and mechanisms of solid state reactions also covered. This book provides the chemistry of solids, structures of solids, the behavior of solids under applied stresses, the types of reactions that solids undergo, and the phenomenological aspects of reactions in solids.Kinetics of reactions in solids is very seldom covered in current literature and an understanding of the mechanisms of reactions in solids is necessary for many applications. James E. House provides a balanced treatment of structure, dynamics, and behavior of solids at a level commensurate with upper-level undergraduates or beginning graduate students who wish to obtain an introduction and overview to solid state chemistry.

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