Mechanical engineering and materials

Manufacturing systems work with scarce resources in dynamic environments.

Many serious accidents have happened in the world where systems have been large-scale and complex, and have caused heavy damage and a social sense of instability.

Globalisation of the world's economy is leading to rapid change and uncertainties in society, politics and markets.

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

Variational and boundary integral equation techniques are two of the most useful methods for solving time-dependent problems described by systems of equations of the form 2 ?

Efficient assembly line design is a problem of industrial importance.

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Manufacture of components from powders often requires a compaction step; as in powder metallurgy, ceramic, hardmetal, magnet, pharmaceutical, refractory and other sectors to make anything from complex gears for cars to pills to dishwasher tablets.

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

Robust Control Design with MATLAB(R) helps you learn how to use well-developed robust control design methods in practical cases.

Development of environmentally friendly products gains an increasing - portance in science and in industry.

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), a new paradigm for product manufacturing, enables a company to manage its products all the way across their lifecycles in the most effective way.

Recent developments in constrained control and estimation have created a need for this comprehensive introduction to the underlying fundamental principles.

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Computational Mechanics of Composite Materials lays stress on the advantages of combining theoretical advancements in applied mathematics and mechanics with the probabilistic approach to experimental data in meeting the practical needs of engineers.

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.

A complete course in self-tuning control, beginning with a survey of adaptive control and the formulation of adaptive control problems.

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 1 2 31 The continual effort to improve performance in business processes attracts 4 increasing attention in research and industry alike.

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.

Demand for this book will be generated by the widespread use of PID in industry and because of the modern need for simple control systems to control a wider range of complex industrial processes and systems.

Interoperability: the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special effort from the user is a key issue in manufacturing and industrial enterprise generally.

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.

Taking a three-pronged approach - test engineering from traditional-test, design and manufacturing view-points - Integrated Circuit Test Engineering encapsulates the subject as it stands today.

From car manufacturing to production of niche products, welding is one of the most widespread and successful applications of industrial robotics.

"e;Advances in Design"e; examines recent advances and innovations in product design paradigms, methods, tools and applications.

Fuel cells are electrochemical devices that convert the energy of a fuel (such as hydrogen, natural gas or other hydrocarbon-based fuels) directly into electricity.

Over the past several years, significant advances have been made in developing the discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for applications in fluid flow and heat transfer.

Optoelectronic devices operating in the mid-infrared wavelength range offer applications in a variety of areas from environmental gas monitoring around oil rigs to the detection of narcotics.

This book discusses the different skin grafting methods, latest trends in graft designing, and its relationship with the burn injuries.

This book elucidates findings from an anthropological study that analyzes the patterns of Taiwan's Atayal tribe’s fabric in their ethnic dress codes.

This monograph is written based on the author's research on seismic assessment and retrofitting of corrosion-damaged reinforced concrete structures during the recent two decades.

This book presents a summary of the topic of supercooling during crystallization in condensed films.

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.

The book combines two interrelated lines of research.

This 2nd edition of the comprehensive resource on pharmaceutical analysis and analytical techniques builds upon the success of its first edition by incorporating updated methodologies, expanded content, and fresh insights into modern practices.

This is a book about biolubricants.

This book provides a complete analysis of molecular communications systems from the paradigm of TCP/IP network stack, and it exploits network theories (e.

This book presents cutting-edge developments and applications of aluminum alloys in the aerospace industry, offering  a detailed exploration of the material science and engineering innovations behind aluminum technologies.

This book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 4th International Conference on Biomass Utilization and Sustainable Energy 2024 (ICoBiomasSE 2024) organized by the Centre of Excellence for Biomass Utilization (COEBU), Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), held at Penang in MalaysiaThis book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 4th International Conference on Biomass Utilization and Sustainable Energy 2024 (ICoBiomasSE 2024) organized by the Centre of Excellence for Biomass Utilization (COEBU), Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), held at Penang in Malaysia from 2nd to 3rd of Sept.

This book presents the proceedings of the 5th International Conference of IFToMM ITALY (IFIT), held in Turin, Italy on September 11-13, 2024.

This book is the tenth of 15 related monographs, discusses product-cubic nonlinear systems with two crossing-linear and self-quadratic products vector fields and the dynamic behaviors and singularity are presented through the first integral manifolds.

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

Man-Machine-Environment System Engineering: Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on MMESE are an academic showcase of the best papers selected from more than 500 submissions, introducing readers to the top research topics and the latest developmental trends in the theory and application of MMESE.

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The book collects selected papers presented at the 8th International Conference on Aerospace System Science and Engineering (ICASSE 2024), organized by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and hosted by Zhengzhou University of Aeronautics, China.

This book is the fifth volume in the series devoted to gear engineering and computer-aided design, production, testing, and education.

Focusing on the research and development of the renowned two-dimensional nanomaterial, white graphene, also known as boron nitride (BN) nanosheets, this book covers a comprehensive range of topics.