Mechanical engineering

Micromechanisms of Fracture and Fatigue forms the culmination of 20 years of research in the field of fatigue and fracture.

Small Wind Turbines provides a thorough grounding in analysing, designing, building, and installing a small wind turbine.

The automation of visual inspection is becoming more and more important in modern industry as a consistent, reliable means of judging the quality of raw materials and manufactured goods .

Geometry of Single-Point Turning Tools and Drills outlines clear objectives of cutting tool geometry selection and optimization, using multiple examples to provide a thorough explanation.

Nonlinear Control of Vehicles and Robots develops a unified approach to the dynamic modeling of robots in terrestrial, aerial and marine environments.

Diamond has a unique combination of properties, such as the highest hardness and thermal conductivity among any known material, high electrical resistivity, a large optical band gap and a high transmission, good resistance to chemical erosion, low adhesion and friction, and extremely low thermal expansion coefficient.

Hard machining is a relatively recent technology that can be defined as a machining operation, using tools with geometrically defined cutting edges, of a work piece that has hardness values typically in the 45-70HRc range.

Programming Finite Elements in Java(TM) teaches the reader how to programme the algorithms of the finite element method (FEM) in Java(TM).

"e;Surface Integrity in Machining"e; describes the fundamentals and recent advances in the study of surface integrity in machining processes.

Lamb waves are guided waves that propagate in thin plate or shell structures.

Most ocean vessels are underactuated but control of their motion in the real ocean environment is essential.

In a world suffering from an ageing population and declining birth rate, service robotics and mechatronics have an increasingly vital role to play in maintaining a safe and sustainable environment for everyone.

"e;Design Rules for Actuators in Active Mechanical Systems"e; deals with the formulation of model-based design rules to be used in the conception of optimized mechatronic and adaptronic systems.

Machine tools are the main production factor for many industrial applications in many important sectors.

Computer Numerical Control (CNC) controllers are high value-added products counting for over 30% of the price of machine tools.

Microbiologically-influenced corrosion (MIC) is one of the greatest mysteries of corrosion science and engineering, due to the complexities resulting from the involvement of living things such as bacteria.

Engineering solutions and financial decisions are intimately tied together.

Solid Particle Erosion: Occurrence, Prediction and Control collects together the work of more than 130 industrially-supported research projects conducted over 50 years on erosion at the Tallinn Technical University, Estonia (now the Tallinn University of Technology), much of which is previously unpublished in English.

Machining is one of the most important manufacturing processes.

It is a well acknowledged fact that virtually all of our modern-day components and assemblies rely to some extent on machining operations in their manufacturing process.

"e;Design for Environmental Sustainability"e; is a technical and operative contribution to the United Nations "e;Decade on Education for Sustainable Development"e; (2005-2014), aiding the development of a new generation of designers, responsible and able in the task of designing environmentally sustainable products.

Manufacturing has been one of the key areas that support and influence a nation's economy since the 18th century.

Solar irradiation is the fundamental initiator of all sources of renewable energy.

Collected here are 112 papers concerned with all manner of new directions in manufacturing systems given at the 41st CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems.

This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the 1st International Conference on Sustainability and Emerging Technologies for Smart Manufacturing (SETSM 2024) held on 27-28 April at Hanoi in Vietnam.

Safety is an important issue today.

Despite the wide availability of several comprehensive series in materials sciences and metallurgy, it is difficult to find grouped properties either on metals and alloys, traditional and advanced ceramics, refractories, polymers and elastomers, composites, m- erals and rocks, soils, woods, cement, and building materials in a single-volume source book.

The classic text on robot manipulators now covers visual control, motion planning and mobile robots too!

Modelling is an activity that is found in every domain of research and science, and takes place even when we are not aware of it.

Presented here are 88 refereed papers given at the 35th MATADOR Conference held at the National University of Taiwan in Taipei, Taiwan in July 2007.

Modelling, Monitoring and Diagnostic Techniques for Fluid Power Systems covers the background theory of fluid power and indicates the range of concepts needed for a modern approach to condition monitoring and fault diagnosis.

Machining dynamics are vital to the performance of machine tools and machining processes in manufacturing.

Wave propagation is an exciting ?

The transition to lead-free solders seems to be a foregone conclusion with Japan and Europe leading the way.

The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering.

Flexible mechanical systems experience undesirable vibration in response to environmental and operational forces.

Make and test projects are used as introductory design experiences in almost every engineering educational institution world wide.

Recently, there have been significant developments in robust control of time-delay systems.

Many processes and systems manifest an increasing integration of mechanical and electronic components with information processing capacity.

Process Modelling for Control concentrates on the modelling steps underlying a successful control design, answering questions like:How should I carry out the identification of my process to obtain a good model?

The approach to plasticity theory developed here is firmly rooted in thermodynamics.

The topics of control engineering and signal processing continue to flourish and develop.

This book is written based upon VEE Pro Version 6.

Engineering litigation is rarely about who is right or who has been wronged.

Recognising the benefits of improved control, the second edition of Autotuning of PID Controllers provides simple yet effective methods for improving PID controller performance.

Receding Horizon Control (RHC) introduces the essentials of a successful feedback strategy that has emerged in many industrial fields.

Actuator saturation is probably the most frequent nonlinearity encountered in control applications and causes "e;controller"e; windup and "e;plant"e; windup calling for distinct remedies.

Engineering design must be carefully planned and systematically executed.

engineers into a single volume whilst concentrating on two important research control design problems: autopilots with rudder-roll stabilization and fin and combined rudder-fin stabilization.

Multibody Mechanics and Visualization is designed to appeal to computer-savvy students who will acquire significant skills in mathematical and physical modelling of mechanical systems in the process of producing attractive computer simulations and animations.