Other technologies and applied sciences

The book sheds new lights on the evolution of Russian space activities with a focus on their strategy of international cooperation.

This book presents a comprehensive topical overview on soil dynamics and foundation modeling in offshore and earthquake engineering.

This SpringerBrief explores the technological, economic, physiological, and psychological comparisons between a journey to the Moon versus a journey to Mars, taking into consideration the national and international perspectives at play.

This book presents a concise description of the acoustics of ocean sediment acoustics, including the latest developments that address the discrepancies between theoretical models and experimental measurements.

Nonlinear Structures & Systems, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 40th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2022, the first volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book presents how to apply recent machine learning (deep learning) methods for the task of speech quality prediction.

This book reports on the design and development of a system that assists remote pilots during the landing procedure.

This SpringerBrief discusses the determination and classification of the ambient temperature corrosion and stress corrosion properties of aerospace structural alloys, with emphasis on (1) aluminium alloys, modern (3rd generation) aluminium-lithium alloys, stainless steels and titanium alloys and (2) some of the issues involved.

This volume collects the papers from the World Conference on Acoustic Emission 2015 (WCAE-2015) in Hawaii.

This book summarizes the early successes, drawbacks and accomplishments in cell biology and cell biotechnology achieved by the latest projects performed on the International Space Station ISS.

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

This book is devoted to studies of unsteady heat and mass exchange processes taking into account thermochemical destruction of thermal protective materials, research of transpiration cooling systems, thermal protection of composite materials exposed to low-energy disturbances, as well as the numerical solution of heat and mass transfer of the exchange.

This book presents selected contributions to the Pan-American Congress of Naval Engineering, Maritime Transport and Port Engineering (COPINAVAL), which is in its twenty-fifth edition and has become a reference event for the global maritime and port sector, attracting more and more participants from different countries.

This book provides a concise and up-to-date overview of environmental noise control issues, utilizing specific case studies from India to help explore noise mapping and monitoring, impact analysis, and policy, among other relevant topics.

This book reports a comprehensive study on the Industry 4.

This book gives a concise and comprehensive overview of non-cooperative target tracking, fusion and control.

This book offers a comprehensive look at materials science topics in aerospace, air vehicle structures and manufacturing methods for aerospace products, examining recent trends and new technological developments.

In his latest book, space scientist, futurist, and educator Joseph N.

This book covers the full range of Doppler echocardiography in infants and children, documenting the wide variety of potential findings with the aid of a wealth of high quality images.

This graduate and advanced undergraduate textbook systematically addresses all core topics in physical and engineering acoustics.

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.

2022 marks the 45th anniversary of the Voyager probe launches.

This book is the sixth edition.

This textbook on Fundamentals of Gas Dynamics will help students with a background in mechanical and/or aerospace engineering and practicing engineers working in the areas of aerospace propulsion and gas dynamics by providing a rigorous examination of most practical engineering problems.

This volume of the series SpringerBriefs in Space Life Sciences describes findings from space and accompanying ground research related to spatial orientation, posture and locomotion, cognition and psychomotor function.

This highly informative book offers a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of propulsion.

This book presents recent research works related to blast resistant buildings, green roofs and sustainability, retrofit interventions with C-FRP fibers, analysis of cracking in pile cap foundation by delayed ettringite formation and acoustic performance in buildings.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis and explanation of the legal regime with regard to deep sea mining.

This book serves as a guide to developing and designing the right sound to enhance a product's identity, its use, its affordance and its acceptance by consumers.

This book presents selected papers from the 2nd Workshop on "e;Durability of Composites in a Marine Environment"e;, which was held in Brest, France in August 2016.

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

Following on from Part 1, which was highly acclaimed by the space community, this peer-viewed book provides detailed insights into how space and popular culture intersect across a broad spectrum of areas, including cinema, music, art, arcade games, cartoons, comics, and advertisements.

This book presents recent research works related to salt attack and corrosion in concrete structures, durability and service life in concrete, non-destructive techniques applied to reinforced concrete structures and acoustic performance of buildings.

This book proposes some novel approaches for finding unmanned aerial vehicle trajectories to reach targets with unknown location in minimum time.

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.

Rotating Machinery, Optical Methods & Scanning LDV Methods, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 40th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2022, the sixth volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book presents a step-by-step methodology for the design of ramjet engines.

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.

The book describes currently applied and newly developed advanced numerical methods for wave-induced ship motions and loads.

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

This book introduces the theory of structural dynamics, with focus on civil engineering structures.

The problems it addresses include emotion representation, annotation of music excerpts, feature extraction, and machine learning.

The Magnesium Technology Symposium, the event on which this collection is based, is one of the largest yearly gatherings of magnesium specialists in the world.

Residual Stress, Thermomechanics & Infrared Imaging, Hybrid Techniques and Inverse Problems, Volume 7 of the Proceedings of the 2018 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the seventh volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

The second edition of this superbly illustrated book equips practitioners with all the information that they will require in order to perform echocardiography appropriately and to interpret findings correctly.

What happens with something becomes someone?

This book focuses on advanced methods for the structural and thermal analysis of deepwater pipelines and risers.

This book summarizes what is currently known about gravity sensing and response mechanisms in microorganisms, fungi, lower and higher plants; starting from the historical eye-opening experiments from the 19th century up to today's extremely rapid advancing cellular, molecular and biotechnological research.