Engineering: general

This invaluable volume consists of five articles covering a wide range of topics in coastal engineering.

This volume presents recent research in reliability and quality theory and its applications by many leading experts in the field.

Soft computing has been presented not only with the theoretical developments but also with a large variety of realistic applications to consumer products and industrial systems.

This book is the first one devoted to high-dimensional (or large-scale) diffusion stochastic processes (DSPs) with nonlinear coefficients.

This volume is a compilation of 50 articles representing the scientific and technical advances in various aspects of system dynamics, instrumentation, measurement techniques, and control.

This book introduces a new approach, denoted RMM, for an empirical modeling of a response variation, relating to both systematic variation and random variation.

Creativity is playing an ever more important role in the success or failure of organizations in the global competitive economy.

This book introduces the latest methods for the controlled growth of nanomaterial systems.

The necessity of expertise for tackling the complicated and multidisciplinary issues of safety and risk has slowly permeated into all engineering applications so that risk analysis and management has gained a relevant role, both as a tool in support of plant design and as an indispensable means for emergency planning in accidental situations.

This second volume is a compilation of 43 articles representing the scientific and technical advances in various aspects of system dynamics, instrumentation, measurement techniques, simulation and controls, which would serve as an important resource in the field.

This book provides valuable insight and critical appraisal of key areas of intelligent transport systems (ITS) for land transport in Europe.

Efficient management of product information is vital for manufacturing enterprises in this information age.

Ad hoc and ubiquitous computing technologies have received extensive attention in both the academia and industry with the explosive growth of wireless communication devices.

This book captures the perspectives on international engineering education of fellows from nine member academies of the Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences (CAETS).

This book presents the latest findings on network theory and agent-based modeling of economic and financial phenomena.

This book helps close the gap in how organizations think about and implement Toyota's continuous improvement methods and management system.

Questions of values, ontologies, ethics, aesthetics, discourse, origins, language, literature, and meaning do not lend themselves readily, or traditionally, to equations, probabilities, and models.

Successful coastal and ocean engineering projects rely on practical experience with technical tools and knowledge available to the engineer.

This volume contains revised and extended research articles by prominent researchers.

This comprehensive book is the first of its kind to take scientists and engineers beyond simply getting a patent granted.

This book is based on the research papers presented during The Institute of Industrial Engineers Asian Conference 2013 held at Taipei in July 2013.

The present wave of interest in quantum foundations is caused by the tremendous development of quantum information science and its applications to quantum computing and quantum communication.

This book introduces chemical engineering students to key concepts, strategies, and evaluation methods in sustainable process engineering.

Fracture and Fatigue Characterisation of Cortical Bone Tissue is a key guide to bone fracture and fatigue, focusing on quasi-static and fatigue-fracture characterisation of cortical bone tissue.

The self-learning ability of machine learning algorithms makes the investigations more accurate and accommodates all the complex requirements.

Eschewing a more theoretical approach, Portfolio Optimization shows how the mathematical tools of linear algebra and optimization can quickly and clearly formulate important ideas on the subject.

This first-of-a-kind volume provides a snapshot of existing science communication policy and practice in India across different S&T sectors, and offers solutions to building effective communication.

This book concentrates on both understanding and development of nanocrystalline materials.

This book on nanodiamonds is the first of its kind.

This book systematically reviews world Internet development over the past 50 years, and comprehensively discusses the great contributions it has made to economic and social advances.

This book systematically summarizes China Internet development over the past 25 years, highlighting its strong impact on China's economy and society, and discussing the Chinese people's transition from beneficiaries and participants to builders, contributors and joint maintainers of cyberspace development.

This book helps quench the quest of knowledge of academicians, researchers, and others interested in developing a complete and critical understanding of consumer happiness.

This book discusses the journey of Dr.

This book contains selected papers of the International Conference on Industrial Economics Systems and Industrial Security Engineering (IEIS 2020), which is co-organized by Beijing Jiaotong University, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, in July 25-28 2020.

This book provides an overview of recycled polyesters, which are an important sustainable raw material in textile production.

The solutions to problems in the two-volume text Linear Networks and Systems: Algorithms and Computer-Aided Implementations are presented in this manual.

Two large international conferences on Advances in Engineering Sciences were held in Hong Kong, March 16-18, 2016, under the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS 2016), and in London, UK, 29 June - 1 July, 2016, under the World Congress on Engineering (WCE 2016) respectively.

Two large international conferences on Advances in Engineering Sciences were held in Hong Kong, March 18-20, 2015, under the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS 2015), and in London, UK, 1-3 July, 2015, under the World Congress on Engineering (WCE 2015) respectively.

A general neural-network-based connectionist model, called Fuzzy Neural Network (FNN), is proposed in this book for the realization of a fuzzy logic control and decision system.

The book develops a cross-disciplinary approach to the phenomenon of linear and nonlinear wave propagation in piezoelectric crystals.

A valuable introduction to the fundamentals of continuous and discrete time signal processing, this book is intended for the reader with little or no background in this subject.

This is a textbook designed to provide analytical background material in the area of Engineering Electromagnetic Fields for the senior level undergraduate and preparatory level graduate electrical engineering students.

The two fundamental premises of the original edition have been adhered to, namely: To obtain a real understanding of "e;mechanics of materials"e; we must go back to the beginnings of the fields i.

The purposes of the text are: To introduce the engineer to the very important discipline in applied mathematics-tensor methods as well as to show the fundamental unity of the different fields in continuum mechanics-with the unifying material formed by the matrix-tensor theory and to present to the engineer modern engineering problems.

Safety has become very important because each year a vast number of people die due to workplace and other accidents.

This book covers water waves, surf zone hydrodynamics, tides in oceans and estuaries, storm surges, estuarine mixing, basic sediment transport, coastal morphodynamics and coastal groundwater dynamics.

This text addresses a number of technical skills in mathematics, physics, and specific areas of nuclear engineering that will prepare the student for optimum performance in any nuclear engineering or medical physics curriculum.

This book provides readers an understanding of the implementation of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) for international construction operations.

This book aims to provide knowledge on how infrastructure is planned and built in a typical developing country, and what key variables are there in the system limiting the efficient use of public investments in infrastructure.

This book covers the elements involved in achieving sustainability in textiles and Clothing sector.