Security and fire alarm systems

The book provides a concise description of the physical processes and mathematical models for explosions and formation of blast waves from explosions.

This book on electrostatic discharge phenomena is essentially a translation and update ofa Swedish edition from 1992.

This book focuses on the introduction of new and modern maintenance management frameworks of assets in the electricity & gas network sector and more specifically, on electricity networks for distribution.

Managing safety of diverse systems requires decision-making under uncertainties and risks.

The book emphasizes a contemporary view on the role of higher level fusion in designing crisis management systems, and provide the formal foundations, architecture and implementation strategies required for building dynamic current and future situational pictures, challenges of, and the state of the art computational approaches to designing such processes.

This book focuses on combustion simulations and optical diagnostics techniques, which are currently used in internal combustion engines.

Das Buch vermittelt die Grundlagen der Instandhaltung sowie Aspekte zur Schädigungstheorie.

This book introduces readers to the latest findings on disaster robotics.

Best-of-the-best guidelines for handling low voltage wiringThe A-Z reference on designing, installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting modern security and fire alarm systems is now fully up-to-date in a new edition.

This monograph is devoted to full-scale geoecological risk assessment in gas industry impacted polar areas and the relevant risk management options using innovative nature-like biogeochemical technologies.

Quality is not a fixed or universal property of software; it depends on the context and goals of its stakeholders.

Reliability and Safety of Complex Technical Systems and Processes offers a comprehensive approach to the analysis, identification, evaluation, prediction and optimization of complex technical systems operation, reliability and safety.

The book provides readers with a snapshot of recent research and industrial trends in field of industrial acoustics and vibration.

This book broadens readers' understanding of proactive condition monitoring of low- speed machines in heavy industries.

For over 200 years, practitioners have been developing parametric families of probability distributions for data analysis.

This book examines technical aspects of industrial espionage and its impact in modern companies, organizations, and individuals while emphasizing the importance of intellectual property in the information era.

This book discusses various challenges and solutions in the fields of operation, control, design, monitoring and protection of microgrids, and facilitates the integration of renewable energy and distribution systems through localization of generation, storage and consumption.

This textbook introduces the topics and theories of process control step-by-step in increasing complexity, making the learning of detailed techniques and algorithms easier.

This book gathers recent research in security and privacy to discuss, evaluate, and improve the novel approaches of data protection in IoT and edge and fog computing.

This book aims to present a state-of-the-art survey of theories and methods of reliability, maintenance, and warranty with emphasis on multi-unit systems, and to reflect current hot topics: imperfect maintenance, economic dependence, opportunistic maintenance, quasi-renewal processes, warranty with maintenance and economic dependency, and software testing and maintenance.

This book discusses some of the strategic lines in front of the trends related to the new challenges of global security in this new century: some rather universal problems (migration,  terrorism, cyberspace, conflict resolutions techniques in prisons, economic intelligence), as well as more military ones (new conflicts: new world stage, new weapons, new military doctrines, mass destruction weapons and nuclear arms control, outer space and ocean depths), without forgetting some global and conceptual topics (disintegration is driving insecurity, searching for quality in international affairs, shield of security culture through data protection, information society and the protective influence of security culture).

This book gathers selected, extended and revised papers presented at the 5th Iberian-Latin American Congress on Fire Safety, CILASCI 5, held on 15-17 July 2019, in Porto, Portugal.

Focusing on the theory and applications of point processes, Point Processes for Reliability Analysis naturally combines classical results on the basic and advanced properties of point processes with recent theoretical findings of the authors.

This book introduces a number of new sampling plans, such as time truncated life tests, skip sampling plans, resubmitted plans, mixed sampling plans, sampling plans based on the process capability index and plans for big data, which can be used for testing and inspecting products, from the raw-materials stage to the final product, in every industry using statistical process control techniques.

Das Buch behandelt die physikalischen und die gerätetechnischen Grundlagen des Verfahrens, die Schwächung von Strahlen, die zur Verwendung kommenden Filme und Folien sowie die Gerätetechnik.

This book introduces a new notion of replacement in maintenance and reliability theory.

This book provides information on the advances in blanching and its effect on food.

With our highly connected and interdependent world, the growing threat of infectious diseases and public health crisis has shed light on the requirement for global efforts to manage and combat highly pathogenic infectious diseases and other public health crisis on an unprecedented level.

This book describes the latest molecular insights needed to understand the chemical and biological (CB) agents and their associated biotechnologies.

This Dictionary of Weighing Terms is a comprehensive practical guide to the terminology of weighing for all users of weighing instruments in industry and science.

"e;This is the second in a series of three volumes of proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference (PBNC 2022) which was held by Chinese Nuclear Society.

This book highlights the design, use and structure of blockchain systems and decentralized ledger technologies (B/DLT) for use in the construction industry.

This book delivers insights into how social science and technology might aid new advancements in managing the complexity inherent within national and international security landscape.

This authoritative volume presents a comprehensive guide to the evaluation and design of networked systems with improved disaster resilience.

Cybersecurity has become a critical area to focus after recent hack attacks to key infrastructure and personal systems.

This book gathers papers presented at the 11th international scientific conference "e;Transbaltica: Transportation Science and Technology"e;, held on May 2-3, 2019 at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania.

This is the first book to articulate resilience-based public policy for a constantly changing, complex, and uncertain risk society.

"e;Integrated Risk Governance: Science Plan and Case Studies of Large-scale Disasters"e; is the first book in the IHDP-Integrated Risk Governance Project Series.

This book presents a compilation of selected papers from the Fourth International Symposium on Software Reliability, Industrial Safety, Cyber Security and Physical Protection of Nuclear Power Plant, held in August 2019 in Guiyang, China.

Recent Advances in Maintenance and Infrastructure Management is a collection of papers highlighting the state of the art in maintenance of large structures and management of infrastructures.

This book delivers insights into how social science and technology might aid new advancements in managing the complexity inherent within national and international security landscape.

Wideband Radar focuses on system theories and signal processing techniques for wideband radar systems.

This book presents a unique collection of contributions from some of the foremost scholars in the field of risk and reliability analysis.

This is the first textbook to address quantified risk assessment (QRA) as specifically applied to offshore installations and operations.

The pilot-less drones, smart bombs and other high-tech weapons on display in recent conflicts are all the outcome of weapons research.

This volume explores the interpersonal, organizational, and technological enablers and barriers to information and intelligence sharing in multinational and multiagency military, humanitarian, and counterterrorism operations.