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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.

  • Advances in Applied Mechanics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 15
    • English

  • Advances in Applied Mechanics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 14
    • English

  • Principles and Applications of Tribology

    International Series in Materials Science and Technology
    • 1st Edition
    • Desmond F. Moore
    • D. W. Hopkins
    • English
    International Series on Materials Science and Technology, Volume 14: Principles and Applications of Tribology focuses on the principles, methodologies, approaches, and applications of tribology. The publication first ponders on surface topography and friction of metals. Discussions focus on vacuum conditions, effects of sliding speed, hardening of metals, surface contaminants, metal transfer, elastic contact in metals, basic mechanism of friction, junction growth, photogrammetry, texture measurement, outflow meter, surface prints, and actual contact between surfaces. The text then elaborates on friction of elastomers and various materials and hydrodynamic and boundary lubrication. Topics include wettability and contact angle, adsorption of lubricants, molecular structure of boundary lubricants, boundary lubrication of metals, velocity distribution, hydrostatic lubrication, friction and wear of diamond, and viscoelasticity. The manuscript also examines bearing design, transportation and locomotion, and automotive applications. The publication is a vital source of information for researchers interested in tribology.

  • Speech Recognition

    Invited Papers Presented at the 1974 IEEE Symposium
    • 1st Edition
    • D.R. Reddy
    • English
    Speech Recognition: Invited Papers Presented at the 1974 IEEE Symposium discusses several topics, including speech recognition systems, systems organization, acoustic-phonetics, parameter extraction, as well as syntax and semantics. Organized into five parts encompassing 20 chapters, this compilation of papers starts with an overview of the basic structure of speech understanding systems. This text then discusses the practical applications of automatic speech recognition in several areas, including quality control inspection, automated material handling, direct communication with computers, and inventory taking and control. Other chapters consider the operational methods for applying higher level of information to decode the acoustic ambiguities encountered when recognizing larger vocabularies and continuous speech. The final chapter deals with stochastic modeling, which is a valuable and versatile procedure for automatic speech analysis. This book is a valuable resource for scientists and researchers in the fields of artificial intelligence, acoustic-phonetics, linguistics, and computer architecture.

  • Watson’s Textile Design and Colour

    Elementary Weaves and Figured Fabrics
    • 7th Edition
    • Z Grosicki
    • English
    Watson’s textile design and colour: Elementary weaves and figured fabrics was first published in 1912 and has been revised several times by the original author and a number of other well respected textile experts. This edition revised by Z Grosicki has been rewritten, reorganised and new approaches have been added to allow a clear understanding of the nature of woven structures. Watson’s textile design and colour is a comprehensive treatise on simple woven cloth construction and design.

  • Electronic Methods

    • 2nd Edition
    • E. Bleuler + 1 more
    • English

  • Transform Techniques for Probability Modeling

    • 1st Edition
    • Walter C. Giffin
    • J. William Schmidt
    • English

  • Error Coding for Arithmetic Processors

    • 1st Edition
    • T.R.N. Rao
    • English
    Error Coding for Arithmetic Processors provides an understanding of arithmetically invariant codes as a primary technique of fault-tolerant computing by discussing the progress in arithmetic coding theory. The book provides an introduction to arithmetic error code, single-error detection, and long-distance codes. It also discusses algebraic structures, linear congruences, and residues. Organized into eight chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the mathematical background in number theory, algebra, and error control techniques. It then explains the basic mathematical models on a register and its number representation system. The reader is also introduced to arithmetic processors, as well as to error control techniques. The text also explores the functional units of a digital computer, including control unit, arithmetic processor, memory unit, program unit, and input/output unit. Students in advanced undergraduate or graduate level courses, researchers, and readers who are interested in applicable knowledge on arithmetic codes will find this book extremely useful.

  • Bioelectric Recording Techniques

    Receptor and Effector Processes
    • 1st Edition
    • Richard F. Thompson + 1 more
    • English

  • Advances in Applied Mechanics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 13
    • English

  • Structural Steelwork Calculations and Detailing

    • 1st Edition
    • T. J. MacGinley
    • English

  • Dynamic Aspects of Host-Parasite Relationships

    • 1st Edition
    • Avivah Zuckermar
    • English

  • Bioelectric Recording Techniques

    Cellular Processes and Brain Potentials
    • 1st Edition
    • Richard F. Thompson + 1 more
    • English

  • Advances in Applied Mechanics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 12
    • English

  • Advances in Applied Mechanics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 11
    • English

  • DC Motors, Speed Controls, Servo Systems

    An Engineering Handbook
    • 3rd Edition
    • 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.

  • Instruction to Statistical Pattern Recognition

    • 1st Edition
    • 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.

  • Economic Dynamics: Methods and Models

    • 1st Edition
    • 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.

  • Ship Stability Notes & Examples

    • 1st Edition
    • X. Kemp + 1 more
    • English

  • General Engineering Science in SI Units

    The Commonwealth and International Library: Mechanical Engineering Division
    • 1st Edition
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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.

  • A Discrete-Time Approach for system Analysis

    • 1st Edition
    • 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.

  • An Introduction to the Theory of Microwave Circuits

    • 1st Edition
    • K. Kurokawa
    • English

  • Landslides And Their Control

    Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
    • 1st Edition
    • 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.

  • D. C. Amplifiers

    • 1st Edition
    • Bohumil Mirtes
    • E. W. Firth
    • English

  • Thermophysical Properties of Water Substance

    Students' Tables in SI Units
    • 1st Edition
    • Jeffrey Cooper + 1 more
    • English

  • Experimental Chemotherapy V5

    • 1st Edition
    • R Schnitzer
    • English

  • Advances in Applied Mechanics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 9
    • English

  • Advances in Applied Mechanics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 10
    • English

  • Electron Dynamics of Diode Regions

    • 1st Edition
    • Charles K. Birdsall
    • English
    Electron Dynamics of Diode Regions describes the model construction and analysis of motion of charged particles of diode regions in time-varying fields. The models analyzed are simplified versions of parts of practical devices, primarily active microwave devices, tubes, and semiconductor amplifiers, while the most striking results obtained are due to electron inertia and space-charge effects in terms of laboratory observable. This book is composed of seven chapters, and begins with an introduction to the general concepts of time dependent flow, including induced current, the techniques of linearization, calculating variational transit time, and obtaining equivalent circuits. The following chapters present the classical linear analysis, which includes the space-charge effects, with several applications. These chapters also explore the existence of a maximum stable current in a space-charge limited diode. The discussion then shifts to the basics of high velocity, klystron, gap with nonuniform field distributions, and the application of the multicavity klystron. This text further covers the analysis and examples of crossed-field gaps. The final chapters deal with the fundamentals of velocity and current distributions obtained from common electron emitters, with some attempt to show how the multivelocity streams evolve into single-velocity equivalents needed for the methods of earlier chapters. Results of applying the Lagrangian starting analysis to semiconductor diode regions, necessarily from a new equation of motion, are also provided. This book is intended for graduate courses, seminars, and research studies.

  • Semiconductor Circuits

    Theory, Design and Experiment
    • 1st Edition
    • J. R. Abrahams + 1 more
    • N. Hiller
    • English
    Semiconductor Circuits: Theory, Design and Experiment details the information that are essential in designing and modifying circuits involving transistors and related semiconductor devices. The main concern of the book is the practical aspects of designing transistor circuits. The title first covers the physical theory of semiconductors, which includes the production of pn junctions, and the characteristics and equivalent circuits of transistors. Next, the selection covers the design of circuits, such as oscillator circuits, pulse circuits, and computing circuits. The last part of the text deals with experiment with semiconductors. The book will be of great use to students of electrical engineering.

  • Advances in Materials

    Proceedings of a Symposium Organised by the North Western Branch of the Institution of Chemical Engineers Held at Manchester, 6–9 April, 1964
    • 1st Edition
    • P. A. Rottenburg
    • English
    Advances in Materials is a record of the proceedings of the symposium on Advances in Materials, held in Manchester College of Science and Technology, Manchester, England in April 1964. The papers collected survey the developments in materials science and technology. The limitations imposed by materials on the progress of modern technology and developments to meet the increasingly exacting requirements of industry are examined. The topics discussed include the challenges to materials science in the chemical industry; progress in materials, designs, and fabrication techniques in the power generation industry; the nature of glass; and effects of temperature and environment on the mechanical behavior of metals. Materials scientists and engineers will find the book a god source of information.

  • Advances in Applied Mechanics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 8
    • English

  • Environmental Testing Techniques for Electronics and Materials

    International Series of Monographs on Electronics and Instrumentation, Vol. 15
    • 1st Edition
    • Geoffrey W. A. Dummer + 1 more
    • D. W. Fry + 1 more
    • English
    Environmental Testing Techniques for Electronics and Materials focuses on environmental testing that is vital in evaluating the performance of electronic equipment, components, and materials. This book discusses the climatic environments and world-wide operations of equipment in hot, cold, and humid areas of the earth as underdeveloped countries use more and more electronics and associated equipment. The environmental evaluation of products in exporting, which is an essential preliminary to successful sales in third world countries are also described. This text likewise describes considerable experiences obtained in the military fields of vibration, shock, and satellite environments. This publication is valuable to specialists and individuals engaged in the design, development, and production of professional and military equipment.

  • Advances in Applied Mechanics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 7
    • English

  • Specialized Cells

    Biochemistry, Physiology, Morphology
    • 1st Edition
    • Jean Brachet + 1 more
    • English

  • Advances in Applied Mechanics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 6
    • English

  • Advances in Applied Mechanics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 5
    • English

  • Advances in Applied Mechanics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 4
    • English

  • Advances in Applied Mechanics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 3
    • English

  • Advances in Applied Mechanics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 2
    • English

  • Advances in Applied Mechanics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 1
    • English

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