Astronautics

This monograph describes the findings of spaceflight research related to spatial orientation, sensorimotor coordination and mental function.

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 details aluminum alloys with special focus on the aluminum silicon (Al-Si) systems - that are the most abundant alloys second only to steel.

This book focuses on the application of classical combustion theory to ignition and flame propagation in solid-solid and gas-solid systems.

This textbook provides readers with a good working knowledge of adaptive control theory through applications.

This book contributes to the field of hybrid technology, describing the current state of knowledge concerning the hybrid material concept of laminated metallic and composite sheets for primary aeronautical structural applications.

This edited volume includes thoroughly collected on sensing and control for autonomous vehicles.

This book offers an introduction to numerical optimization methods in structural design.

This book tells the story of the Space Shuttle in its many different roles as orbital launch platform, orbital workshop, and science and technology laboratory.

Rotating Machinery, Hybrid Testing, Vibro-Acoustics & Laser Vibrometry, Volume 8: Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017, the eighth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This volume addresses challenges and solutions in transport and mobility of people and goods with respect to environment, safety, security and socio-economics issues, exploring advanced computational research work and the latest innovations in transport.

This book is based on the findings, conclusions and recommendations of the Global Space Governance study commissioned by the 2014 Montreal Declaration that called upon civil society, academics, governments, the private sector, and other stakeholders to undertake an international interdisciplinary study.

Shock & Vibration, Aircraft/Aerospace and Energy Harvesting, Volume 9:  Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017, the ninth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book offers the first complete account of more than sixty years of international research on In-Flight Simulation and related development of electronic and electro-optic flight control system technologies ("e;Fly-by-Wire"e; and "e;Fly-by-Light"e;).

This book takes the reader on a journey through the history of extremely ambitious, large and complex space missions that never happened.

The book presents a unified and well-developed approach to the dynamics of angular motions of rigid bodies subjected to perturbation torques of different physical nature.

This book explores the once popular idea of 'Flexible Path' in terms of Mars, a strategy that would focus on a manned orbital mission to Mars's moons rather than the more risky, expensive and time-consuming trip to land humans on the Martian surface.

This book includes a selection of 30 reviewed and enhanced manuscripts published during the 14th SpaceOps Conference held in May 2016 in Daejeon, South Korea.

This book examines the mysterious and the well-studied debris in Earth's crowded neighborhood.

Resulting from the authors' deep research into these two pre-Shuttle astronaut groups, many intriguing and untold stories behind the selection process are revealed in the book.

This book explores the outcomes on flow control research activities carried out within the framework of two EU-funded projects focused on training-through-research of Marie Sklodowska-Curie doctoral students.

How could the newly authorized space shuttle help in the U.

The book provides a detailed approach to the physics, fluid dynamics, modeling, experimentation and numerical simulation of cavitation phenomena, with special emphasis on cavitation-induced instabilities and their implications on the design and operation of high performance turbopumps and hydraulic turbines.

The book focuses especially on the application of SHM technology to thin walled structural systems made from carbon fiber reinforced plastics.

This volume contains selected and expanded contributions presented at the 3rd Symposium on Space Optical Instruments and Applications in Beijing, China June 28 - 29, 2016.

This book systematizes recent research work on variable-structure control.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction into the SPES XT modeling framework.

This book acts as a manual for the ancient methods of navigating by the stars, which continue to provide the sailor or pilot with a timeless means of determining location.

This brief presents several aspects of flight dynamics, which are usually omitted or briefly mentioned in textbooks, in a concise, self-contained, and rigorous manner.

This brief presents a concise description of the existing spaceport market, the technologies being tested and developed at them, and the private companies that are making them possible.

This book presents firsthand insights into strategies and approaches for the commercial aerospace supply chain in response to the numerous changes that airlines, aircraft OEMs and their suppliers have experienced over the past few decades.

This book covers the parameterization of entry capsules, including Apollo capsules and planetary probes, and winged entry vehicles such as the Space Shuttle and lifting bodies.

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This book presents papers surrounding the extensive discussions that took place from the 'Variational Analysis and Aerospace Engineering' workshop held at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture in 2015.

This book is a self-contained collection of recent research findings providing a comprehensive and systematic unified framework for both analysis and synthesis for singularly perturbed systems.

This book introduces the methods for predicting the future behavior of a system's health and the remaining useful life to determine an appropriate maintenance schedule.

This book dissects the hype and hubris of the Mars One venture.

This book covers the possible manned mission to Mars first discussed in the 1950s and still a topic of much debate, addressing historic and future plans to visit the Red Planet.

This classically styled, chilling murder mystery about an expedition under the ice of Jupiter's ocean moon Europa, backed up by the latest scientific findings on this icy satellite.

This Handbook presents a complete and rigorous overview of the fundamentals, methods and applications of the multidisciplinary field of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), providing an exhaustive, one-stop reference work and a state-of-the-art description of GNSS as a key technology for science and society at large.

This book gives insight into the mechanism of the immune system and the influence of the environment on earth.

This book approaches the design of active vibration control systems from the perspective of today's ideas of computer control.

This volume provides a snapshot of the current and future trends in turbulence research across a range of disciplines.

The creation and utilization of the International Space Station (ISS) is a milestone in space exploration.

Canada's space efforts from its origins towards the end of the Second World War through to its participation in the ISS today are revealed in full in this complete and carefully researched history.

This book captures the most exciting advances in the harnessing of space as a global resource.

This book addresses the complex technical challenges presented by remote space mining in terms of robotics, remote power systems, space transport, IT and communications systems, and more.

Written by a former Aerodynamics Officer on the space shuttle program, this book provides a complete overview of the "e;new"e; U.

This expansive reference on the use of clean energy technologies in the aviation industry focuses on tools and solutions for maximizing the energy efficiency of aircrafts, airports, and other auxiliary components of air transit.

This textbook provides details of the derivation of Lagrange's planetary equations and of the closely related Gauss's variational equations, thereby covering a sorely needed topic in existing literature.