Instruments and instrumentation

This introductory textbook on engineering system instrumentation emphasizes sensors, transducers, actuators, and devices for component interconnection.

Human Activity and Behavior Analysis relates to the field of vision and sensor-based human action or activity and behavior analysis and recognition.

As the only comprehensive text focusing on metal shaping processes, which are still the most widely used processes in the manufacture of products and structures, Metal Shaping Processes carefully presents the fundamentals of metal shaping processes with their relevant applications.

This book adopts a systematic view of the control systems in cyber-physical systems including the security control of the optimal control system, security control of the non-cooperative game system, quantify the impact of the Denial-of-Service attacks on the optimal control system, and the adaptive security control of the networked control systems.

This book covers the history of 'Big Ben', the great clock and bells at Westminster, from the origins of Westminster as the seat of government right up to the celebrations of the Great Clock's 150th anniversary in 2009.

Microfabricated resonators play an essential role in a variety of applications, including mass sensing, timing reference applications, and filtering applications.

This book concentrates on improving the prediction of a vehicle's future trajectory, particularly on non-straight paths.

Mechanical Properties of Steel HardnessCarbon SteelsAlloy SteelsStainless SteelsTool SteelsCutting Tools Materials High Speed SteelsCemented CarbidesCermetsCeramicsPolycrystalline Cubic Boron Nitride (PCBN)Machining Recommendations Depth of Cut and Feed RateCutting Speeds for Carbon SteelsCutting Speeds for Alloy SteelsCutting Speeds for Stainless SteelsCutting Speeds for Tool SteelsMachining Power Metal Removal RateUnit Power and Power ConstantCalculating Required Machining PowerAppendix 1: Hardness ConversionAppendix 2: Carbon SteelsAppendix 3: Alloy SteelsAppendix 4: Stainless SteelsAppendix 5: Tool SteelsMachining is one of the most important manufacturing processes, which remove unwanted material in the form of chips from a workpiece.

Software Engineering for Automotive Systems: Principles and Applications discusses developments in the field of software engineering for automotive systems.

This book offers a timely and comprehensive snapshot of research and developments in the fields of dynamic systems and control engineering.

Design of Guidance and Control Systems for Tactical Missiles presents a modern, comprehensive study of the latest design methods for tactical missile guidance and control.

Electronic Noses and Olfaction 2000 reflects the state of progress toward the development and application of electronic instruments called electronic noses (e-noses).

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering Research and Development (ICRAMERD 21).

Mechanical engineers involved with flow mechanics have long needed an authoritative reference that delves into all the essentials required for experimentation in fluids, a resource that can provide fundamental review, as well as the details necessary for experimentation on everything from household appliances to hi-tech rockets.

Advanced Engineering Mathematics with Mathematica(R) presents advanced analytical solution methods that are used to solve boundary-value problems in engineering and integrates these methods with Mathematica(R) procedures.

This book covers the main special functions that are available on the two most popular calculators, the Texas Instruments TI-55 and the Hewlett-Packard HP-33E.

This book reports on cutting-edge research and developments focusing on  integrating intelligent functionalities into materials, components, systems and products.

The military, the research community, emergency services, and industrial environments all rely on ad hoc mobile wireless networks because of their simple infrastructure and minimal central administration.

With a focus on designing and verifying CMOS analog integrated circuits, the book reviews design techniques for mixed-signal building blocks, such as Nyquist and oversampling data converters, and circuits for signal generation, synthesis, and recovery.

This text provides an introduction to the important physics underpinning current technologies, highlighting key concepts in areas that include linear and rotational motion, energy, work, power, heat, temperature, fluids, waves, and magnetism.

Optical Imaging Devices: New Technologies and Applications delivers a comprehensive introduction to optical imaging and sensing, from devices to system-level applications.

The Instrument and Automation Engineers' Handbook (IAEH) is the #1 process automation handbook in the world.

As one of the pioneers of "e;Piezoelectric Actuators"e;, I have contributed to the commercialization of various products for over 45 years, including million-selling devices, micro-ultrasonic motors for smart-phone camera modules by Samsung Electromechanics, piezoelectric transformers for backlight inverters by Apple laptops, multilayer PZT actuators for diesel injection valves by Denso Corporation, and piezoelectric energy harvesting modules for Programable Air-Burst Munition by the US Army.

This book fills a gap in existing literature by providing a comprehensive academic perspective on industrial alarm systems, offering systematic methodologies, practical techniques, and visual analytic tools for engineers to improve system performance and design.

Building on the unfolding and expanding embeddedness of digital technologies in all aspects of life, Interactive Sports Technologies: Performance, Participation, Safety focuses on the intersection of body movement, physical awareness, engineering, design, software, and hardware to capture emerging trends for enhancing sports and athletic activities.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest advances in the production of low carbon chemicals and biofuels from renewable feedstock, including pilot, demo, and commercial-scale technologies.

Impedance Spectroscopy is a powerful measurement method used in many application fields such as electro chemistry, material science, biology and medicine, semiconductor industry and sensors.

Presenting a mathematical basis for obtaining valid data, and basic concepts inmeasurement and instrumentation, this authoritative text is ideal for a one-semester concurrent or independent lecture/laboratory course.

Recognizing the need for improved control measures in the manufacturing process of highly sensitized semiconductor technology, this practical reference provides in-depth and advanced treatment on the origins, procedures, and disposal of a variety of contaminants.

This book presents in a clear, didactic, and straightforward manner, the concepts, tools and technical terminology needed to understand metrological issues in industry and laboratories.

This book reports on innovations and engineering achievements of industrial relevance, with a special emphasis on industrial engineering developments aimed at improving the quality of processes and products in the context of a sustainable economy.

Weighing in on the growth of innovative technologies, the adoption of new standards, and the lack of educational development as it relates to current and emerging applications, the third edition of Introduction to Instrumentation and Measurements uses the authors' 40 years of teaching experience to expound on the theory, science, and art of modern instrumentation and measurements (I&M).

This book uses numerous in-depth explanations, diagrams, calculations, and tables to provide an intensive overview of modern control theory and control system design.

A multidisciplinary reference of engineering measurement tools, techniques, and applications Volume 2 "e;When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science.

This book presents select peer-reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Futuristic Advancements in Materials, Manufacturing, and Thermal Sciences (ICFAMMT 2022).

This ready reference surveys the discipline of standards and standardization, defining common terms, clarifying descriptions, describing how standards could be used to restrain trade, and explaining how international trade is stimulated by the due process provisions of standards writing organizations.

This book covers the fundamental aspects and the application of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), with emphasis on a step-by-step procedure for mechanistic analysis of data.

This book introduces the state-of-the-art understanding on domain-informed machine learning (DIML) for advanced manufacturing.

Human Activity and Behavior Analysis relates to the field of vision and sensor-based human action or activity and behavior analysis and recognition.

Elaborating on the concept of context awareness, this book presents up-to-date research and novel framework designs for context-aware mobile sensing.

Human Activity and Behavior Analysis relates to the field of vision and sensor-based human action or activity and behavior analysis and recognition.

This book offers a collection of original peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 10th International Congress on Design and Modeling of Mechanical Systems (CMSM'2023), held on December 18-20, 2023, in Hammamet, Tunisia.

Handbook of Optical Design, Third Edition covers the fundamental principles of geometric optics and their application to lens design in one volume.

This book provides an updated description of the most relevant types of highly nonlinear fibers.

Why is knowledge of soil stress and deformation state important for off-road locomotion?

The latest methods for increasing process efficiency, production rate, and quality.