This book introduces the core concepts of bloodstain pattern analysis that help to understand and make independent contributions to crime scenes accurately.
The topics discussed at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop "e;Nanotechnology in the Security Systems"e; included nanophysics, nanotechnology, nanomaterials, sensors, biosensors security systems, explosive detection.
This book addresses human factors research in energy, an emphasis on human factors applications in design, construction, and operation of nuclear, electrical power generation, and oil and gas assets.
This book offers unique insight on structural safety and reliability by combining computational methods that address multiphysics problems, involving multiple equations describing different physical phenomena and multiscale problems, involving discrete sub-problems that together describe important aspects of a system at multiple scales.
This book has been written by studying the knowledge management implementation at POWERGRID India, one of the largest power distribution companies in the world.
This book focuses on the practical aspects of particle size measurement: a major difference with existing books, which have a more theoretical approach.
This book analyses the relationships among product safety strategy and culture, concurrent engineering, new product development (NPD) processes and product safety performance.
This volume provides a systematic framework for energy suppliers, policy makers, academics, students, and all others interested in energy security, and analyzes key issues concerning energy, security and sustainability with the help of a wealth of data.
This book aims to cast light on all aspects of tunnel fires, based on experimental activities and theoretical and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses.
This book introduces design techniques developed to increase the safety of aircraft engines, and demonstrates how the application of stochastic methods can overcome problems in the accurate prediction of engine lift caused by manufacturing error.
This book presents recent results on fault diagnosis and condition monitoring of airborne electromechanical actuators, illustrating both algorithmic and hardware design solutions to enhance the reliability of onboard more electric aircraft.
Flash floods typically develop in a period a few hours or less and can arise from heavy rainfall and other causes, such as dam or flood defence breaches, and ice jam breaks.
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 offers a comprehensive guide to implementing a company-wide management system (CWMS), utilising up-to-date methodologies of lean-six sigma in order to achieve high levels of business excellence.
This brief provides a complete yet concise description of modern dive computers and their operations to date in one source with coupled applications for added understanding.
Quality control is a scientific means for conducting observations, tests, and inspections and thereby making decisions that improve the perfomance of industrial processes.
Exploring the concept of quality management from a new point of view, this book presents a holistic model of how consumers judge the quality of products.
This volume gives a broad overview of advanced technologies for detection and defence against chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) agents.
It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the inaugural World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM) being held at the Conrad Jupiters Hotel on the Gold Coast from July 11 to 14, 2006.
This book presents a comprehensive introduction to the field of structural vibration reduction control, but may also be used as a reference source for more advanced topics.
This book consists of two parts, the first of which focuses on combustible solids, and the second on the industrial position concerning these materials.
This contributed book focuses on major aspects of statistical quality control, shares insights into important new developments in the field, and adapts established statistical quality control methods for use in e.
A quarter of the century has elapsed since I gave my first course in structural reliability to graduate students at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
This book provides a detailed understanding of optimization methods as they are implemented in a variety of manufacturing, fabrication and machining processes.
This book discusses the emerging field of industrial neuroscience, and reports on the authors' cutting-edge findings in the evaluation of mental states, including mental workload, cognitive control and training of personnel involved either in the piloting of aircraft and helicopters, or in managing air traffic.
This book captures current trends and developments in the field of systems thinking and soft operations research which can be applied to solve today's problems of dynamic complexity and interdependency.
This book presents an innovative method to improve workers' health and prevent occupational accidents: the Change Laboratory, a method of formative intervention that enables the organization's participants to identify, with the help of facilitators, the historical and systemic origins of work processes anomalies (environmental problems, work safety and health, quality and productivity problems, problems related to labor relations, etc).
This book aims to cast light on all aspects of tunnel fires, based on experimental activities and theoretical and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses.
This book addresses the question of how system software should be designed to account for faults, and which fault tolerance features it should provide for highest reliability.
