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Books in Physical sciences and engineering

  • Textile Surface Engineering

    Techniques, Applications, and Future Directions
    • 1st Edition
    • Robert Mather
    • English
    Textile Surface Engineering: Techniques, Applications, and Future Directions highlights the wide range of approaches available for modifying textile surfaces while also considering textile surface modification strategies for a variety of textile applications and discussing the actual practical benefits arising from these strategies. The book concludes with outline discussions of emerging trends and potential future developments in the field of surface modified textiles. Readers will find this to be an updated critique of the practical benefits of textile surface modifications and the improvements that they can bestow on textile products.Textiles possess an enormous range of diverse applications. The diversity of these applications requires an astonishing range of textile properties, and it is widely recognized that the structure and geometry of textile fibers and the types of fabric constructed from them are key factors. Important additional factors, however, are the nature of the fiber surface and the nature of the surface of the constructed fabric. These surfaces can often be modified to provide much improved performance in the application for which the fabric is intended.

  • Polymer-Based Hybrid Composites

    Emerging Trends and Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Senthil Muthu Kumar Thiagamani + 4 more
    • English
    Polymer-Based Hybrid Composites: Emerging Trends and Applications presents the latest advances in this important field. The book emphasizes the hybridization of reinforcing phases in terms of precisely optimizing the properties of these materials. A wide range of fibers and matrices are discussed, along with key challenges from basic principles to applications. The book will be a valuable reference resource for academic and industrial researchers, materials scientists and engineers, manufacturers, and other professionals working in the development of polymer-based hybrid composites for a broad range of different applications.

  • Geological History of Earth's Climate

    • 1st Edition
    • F.P. Agterberg + 1 more
    • English
    Geologic History of the Earth’s Climate offers an exhaustive examination of Earth's climate oscillations across the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras. Through advanced mathematical modeling techniques and spectral analysis, it dissects the statistical attributes of meteorological phenomena across geological time boundaries from the Anthropocene to the Quaternary epoch. Central to the book's theory is the Pareto-lognormal distribution, a heavy-tailed frequency distribution that sheds light on the profound impact of greenhouse gas concentrations on an evolving Earth and the impact of these changes on our planet’s dynamics. Geologic History of the Earth’s Climate serves as an indispensable resource for scientists and researcher, providing mathematical approaches to unraveling the intricacies of Earth's climatic past, geological history, dynamics.

  • The Fauna of Australia’s Tropical Savanna Biome

    Biodiversity, Biogeography, and Conservation
    • 1st Edition
    • Alan Andersen + 1 more
    • English
    The Fauna of Australia's Tropical Savanna Biome: Biodiversity, Biogeography and Conservation considers the full range of vegetation types and freshwater systems that occur within the dominant savanna matrix in Australia's monsoonal tropics. Edited by renowned experts of tropical ecology, it provides descriptions of diversity, taxonomic, functional composition and endemism, and ecological and biogeographical questions of wide interest. Chapters explore how diversity and composition vary among different habitats in a savanna landscape and along the savanna rainfall gradient. The book also considers how distinctive savanna fauna is within Australia and compared with tropical savannas elsewhere in the world. The book considers the unique biogeographic and evolutionary history of this highly diverse and distinctive biome, building on a rich foundation of knowledge accrued over decades of research on many aspects of the region's biodiversity, conservation values, and challenges. This is an indispensable resource for students and researchers studying tropical biodiversity, as well as conservationists and land managers of Australia's tropical savanna biome and those found across the globe.

  • Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for 6G

    Wireless Power Transfer and Enhanced Communications
    • 1st Edition
    • Zhengyu Zhu + 3 more
    • English
    Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for 6G: Wireless Power Transfer and Enhanced Communications provides a comprehensive understanding of how intelligent reflecting surface will shape the future of 6G wireless communication. The book addresses key challenges in enhancing signal propagation, improving energy efficiency, and ensuring secure communication in complex 6G environments. By covering breakthrough technologies such as hybrid-field communication, wireless energy harvesting, and physical layer security, this book equips readers with practical solutions for overcoming the limitations of current systems and achieving sustainable, high-performance 6G networks.

  • Understanding Faults

    Detecting, Dating, and Modeling
    • 2nd Edition
    • David Tanner + 1 more
    • English
    Understanding Faults: Detecting, Dating, and Modeling, Second Edition reveals the dynamic world of faults and earthquakes. The book offers a single resource for analyzing faults for a variety of applications, from hazard detection and earthquake processes to geophysical exploration. Chapters explore the intricate processes of fault detection, utilizing various methods to identify and characterize faults in different settings. Numerical modeling techniques are employed to simulate fault behavior and seismic activity, providing insights into fault dynamics and earthquake mechanisms. The book also closely examines faulting in laboratory settings, allowing for controlled experiments to study fault growth and behavior under controlled conditions.The dating of fault movement sheds light on the timing and history of fault activity, providing crucial information for understanding seismic hazards and tectonic processes. Additionally, fault sealing mechanisms and their implications are examined, revealing how faults evolve and interact with their surrounding environment. By examining faults from multiple angles, including geological, geophysical, and energy perspectives, the book provides a comprehensive understanding of fault systems and their significance in various domains.

  • Full-Stack Web Development from the Ground Up

    Principles, Practices, and Technologies
    • 1st Edition
    • Christopher D Hundhausen
    • English
    Full-Stack Development from the Ground Up: Principles, Practices, and Technologies addresses the growing need for a comprehensive upper-division computer science textbook that provides in-depth treatment of full-stack web development using the modern web development technologies that students are likely to encounter in industry. Professional full-stack web developers who are capable of developing both the front-end user interfaces and back-end databases and services for dynamic websites are in high demand. The book begins by laying a foundation in HTML, CSS and JavaScript—the building blocks of client-side web development.It then explores one particular web development stack in detail: MERN, which stands for MongoDB, Express.js, React.js and Node.js. Together, these four technologies provide powerful support for full-stack web development in a single programming language—JavaScript. The crucial final step in the web development process is deploying apps to a server, so users can interact with them. This book simplifies deployment by focusing on just one web deployment environment: Amazon Web Services (AWS), and only those AWS tools that are absolutely necessary to deploy MERN applications.

  • Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography Additive Manufacturing

    Fundamentals, Applications, and Trends
    • 1st Edition
    • Ignazio Roppolo
    • English
    Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography Additive Manufacturing: Fundamentals, Applications, and Trends overviews these cutting-edge 3D-printing techniques, the materials they can produce, and applications for these techniques and materials. Sections cover the fundamentals, with chapters discussing the core principles of vat photopolymerization, related technological requirements, the characteristics of digital light processing (DLP) and stereolithography (SL) compared to other light-induced methods, as well as the chemistry and materials used, including how to formulate a resin. Section two covers applications, such as design for structural applications, as well as DLP and SL use in dentistry, soft robotics, sensors, biomedicine, microfluidics, catalysis and chemical engineering, and more.The book concludes with a section discussing current trends and future directions for the technology, with chapters analyzing sustainable materials, including efforts to substitute synthetic materials with bio-based ones, vitrimers, controlled polymers, and 4D printing and DLP and SL in hybrid AM.

  • Artificial Intelligence and Data Science in Electric Vehicle Technology and Infrastructure

    • 1st Edition
    • V. Subramaniyaswamy + 3 more
    • English
    Artificial Intelligence and Data Science in Electric Vehicle Technology and Infrastructure offers a comprehensive exploration of how AI and data science are revolutionizing the electric vehicle (EV) industry. It guides readers through the basic concepts of EV technology and explains how machine learning and blockchain optimize battery management, predictive maintenance, and secure fault detection. The book highlights cutting-edge techniques like sensor fusion and computer vision for autonomous driving, alongside real-time analytics and edge computing for low-latency AI applications. It also covers intelligent charging infrastructure, route optimization, and renewable energy integration and shares insights into cybersecurity, business models, and demand forecasting, complemented by practical case studies.This book is a useful resource for researchers, scientists, advanced students, software engineers, data scientists, R&D professionals, and other industrial personnel working at the intersection of computer science, electrical engineering, artificial intelligence, data science, and machine learning with an interest in advancing AI and ML applications in electric vehicle technologies.

  • Advances in Ocular Biomaterials and Delivery Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • Katelyn Swindle-Reilly + 1 more
    • English
    Advances in Ocular Biomaterials and Delivery Systems provides a focused look at key ocular biomaterials and the latest advances in drug and gene delivery for ophthalmic applications, covering their use in ocular implants, medical devices, and targeted delivery systems. The benefits and challenges of select biomaterials are assessed, including hydrogels, nanoemulsions, and polymers, aiding materials selection for improved outcomes. Practical applications are detailed, such as the use of nanoformulations, contact lenses, corneal implants, and intravitreal injections, as well as the development of eye drops and other formulations targeting the anterior and posterior chambers, such as the cornea, retina, and optic nerve.With a clear emphasis on translating research into clinical practice, this book is essential for those working on the forefront of novel biomaterials for vision care and ocular disease therapy.

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