Mechanical engineering and materials

This book presents the result of an innovative challenge, to create a systematic literature overview driven by machine-generated content.

This book covers the latest advancements and applications of nonlinear dynamics in various fields of science and engineering, presenting a curated selection of peer-reviewed contributions at the 2nd International Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications (ICNDA 2024) at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT).

This book provides a model description for the electromagnetic response of topological nodal semimetals and summarizes recent experimental findings in these systems.

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This book presents current research, recent advances, and emerging technologies on sustainable development issues in materials and energy.

The book is about the application of nanotechnology in the field of medicine, with a focus on diagnosis and therapy.

This book introduces computing and programming with undergraduate engineering students in mind.

This book presents current research, recent advances, and emerging technologies on sustainable development issues in materials and energy.

This handbook, now as second edition, continues to comprehensively cover the cutting-edge trends and techniques essential for the integration of nondestructive evaluation (NDE) into the changing face of the modern industrial landscape.

This volume addresses the convergence of three technologies that emerged in the early 21st century: Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), the Internet of Things (IoT), and Digital Twins.

This proceedings volume presents new scientific works of the research workers and experts in the field of Wood Science & Fire.

This book comprehensively presents an unconventional quantum criticality caused by valence fluctuations, which offers theoretical understanding of unconventional Fermi-liquid properties in cerium- and ytterbium-based heavy fermion metals including CeCu2(Si,Ge)2 and CeRhIn5 under pressure, and quasicrystal -YbAlB4 and Yb15Al34Au51.

This book highlights the integration of eco-friendly infrastructure, innovative materials, and advanced technologies to build sustainability and resilience in both urban and rural environments.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations and applications in the field of condition monitoring, damage assessment and maintenance engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the UNIfied Conference of DAMAS (International Conference on Damage Assessment of Structures), IncoME  (International Conference on Maintenance Engineering) and TEPEN (The Efficiency and Performance Engineering) Conferences, held in Huddersfield, UK on August 29 - September 1, 2023.

Nanochitosan-Based Enhancement of Fisheries and Aquaculture: Aligning with Sustainable Development Goal 14 - Life Below Water is an indispensable guide for envisioning an ecologically balanced and prosperous future for aquatic resource management.

Nanochitosan-Based Enhancement of Fisheries and Aquaculture: Aligning with Sustainable Development Goal 14 - Life Below Water is an indispensable guide for envisioning an ecologically balanced and prosperous future for aquatic resource management.

This book provides a clear and concise understanding of the principles and applications of HVACR using a rigorous, yet, easy to follow presentation.

This book provides a clear and concise understanding of the principles and applications of HVACR using a rigorous, yet, easy to follow presentation.

This edited collection deals with the structure-property relationships and biomedical applications of carboxymethyl chitosan derivatives in different fields.

Control of Robot Manipulators in Joint Space addresses robot control in depth, treating a range of model-based controllers in detail: proportional derivative; proportional integral derivative; computed torque and some adaptive variants.

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The age of nanotechnology is upon us.

Although nonlinear control is traditionally an area of interest in process systems engineering which is of great practical importance, many process engineers have difficulty with the paradigms and results of modern nonlinear control theory because they lack the mathematical background usually associated with such methods or because of their computational difficulty and small-scale applicability in the general case.

Corrosion is generally described as "e;an attack on a metallic material by reaction with it's environment"e;.

Multivariable Control Systems focuses on control design with continual references to the practical aspects of implementation.

Despite the numerous competitive advantages of one-of-a-kind production (OKP), the low efficiency and high costs associated with OKP companies threaten to push their business opportunities into the hands of cheaper overseas suppliers.

Robust control mechanisms customarily require knowledge of the system's describing equations which may be of the high order differential type.

Active Braking Control Design for Road Vehicles focuses on two main brake system technologies: hydraulically-activated brakes with on-off dynamics and electromechanical brakes, tailored to brake-by-wire control.

Rapid One-of-a-kind Product Development discusses research in the development of new enabling technologies for small and medium companies.

Fractional-order Systems and Controls details the use of fractional calculus in the description and modeling of systems, and in a range of control design and practical applications.

FEM updating allows FEMs to be tuned better to reflect measured data.

For experiments, dimensional analysis enables the design, checks the validity, orders the procedure and synthesises the data.

Geometric tolerances are changing the way we design and manufacture industrial products.

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

Enterprise Interoperability is the ability of an enterprise or organisation to work with other enterprises or organisations without special effort.

Precision Nanometrology describes the new field of precision nanometrology, which plays an important part in nanoscale manufacturing of semiconductors, optical elements, precision parts and similar items.

Enterprise Networks and Logistics for Agile Manufacturing presents a focused collection of quality chapters on state-of-the-art research efforts in the areas of enterprise networks and logistics, as well as their practical applications towards agile manufacturing.

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

Digital factory is a comprehensive approach providing methodologies, models and tools that support manufacturing enterprises in the rearrangement of their organizational structures to deal with expected changes in manufacturing processes and markets.

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 .

Fatigue has long been recognized as a mechanism that can provoke catastrophic material failure in structural applications and researchers are now turning to the development of prediction tools in order to reduce the cost of determining design criteria for any new material.

Mine Safety combines detailed information on safety in mining with methods and mathematics that can be used to preserve human life.

Dry Clutch Control for Automated Manual Transmission Vehiclesanalyses the control of a part of the powertrain which has a key role in ride comfort during standing-start and gear-shifting manoeuvres.

The informal style of Laser Material Processing (4th Edition) will guide you smoothly from the basics of laser physics to the detailed treatment of all the major materials processing techniques for which lasers are now essential.

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.

Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Networked Manufacturing Enterprises Management addresses prominent concepts and applications of AI technologies in the management of networked manufacturing enterprises.