Technical design

Understanding workplace health and safety can be a minefield and considering how the human can be placed at the heart of it adds another level of complexity to task that already has many factors.

Designing and controlling complex shapes like porous volumes and rough surfaces is a challenge.

A captain must be able not only to fly the aircraft, but also to manage it, manage the crew, and above all, manage his or her resources.

The purpose of this book is to avail students of the many different reasons and back-stories equated with the advent of interaction design and its effect on our world.

In this unique book, Sidney Dekker tackles a largely unexplored dilemma.

The aim of the book is to be a reference book in automotive technology, as far as automotive chassis (i.

A comprehensive resource, this handbook covers consumer product research, case study, and application.

This simple and manageable guide to user interface design is written for the professional in industry working on product development and the decision process.

This book focuses on augmented reality (AR) technology, which uses the real environment to superimpose virtual elements.

Industrial Safety and Health for Administrative Services constitutes a much-needed source for the identification and prevention of most of the injuries and illnesses occurring in the financial and information sectors.

Current economic difficulties and the challenge of competing in the world market have necessitated a rethinking of American approaches to the utilization of people in organizations.

This book summarizes strategies, methods, algorithms, frameworks and systems for the fault-tolerant design and control of automated vehicles and processes.

This book is concerned with two intimately related topics of metaphysics: the identity of entities and the foundations of classification.

This book has evolved from a course on Mechanics of Robots that the author has thought for over a dozen years at the University of Cassino at Cassino, Italy.

Military robots and other, potentially autonomous robotic systems such as unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) could soon be introduced to the battlefield.

Written by two well-respected experts in the field, The Finite Element Method for Boundary Value Problems: Mathematics and Computations bridges the gap between applied mathematics and application-oriented computational studies using FEM.

Clinical psychologist and former intelligence officer Eric D.

This book presents select papers from the International Conference on Mechanical Engineering (INCOM 2024), describing recent advances in materials, manufacturing, and design of mechanical components.

High speed catamaran and multihull high speed marine vessel have become very popular in the last two decades.

Maritime Accident and Incident Investigation covers a wide range of topics relating to maritime-orientated organisational hazards and risks, as well as root cause analyses and techniques for analysing evidence.

Mechanical Engineering Design, Third Edition strikes a balance between theory and application, and prepares students for more advanced study or professional practice.

Organizational Cognition is a collection of chapters written by scholars from around the world.

This is the only book on the market that has been conceived and deliberately written as a one-semester text on basic electric circuit theory.

Vehicles are intrinsically linked to our lives.

Driver Reactions to Automated Vehicles focuses on the design and evaluation of the handover to and from driver and the automobile.

Patients are increasingly encouraged to take an active role in managing their health and health care.

AI in and for Africa: A Humanistic Perspective explores the convoluted intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) with Africa's unique socio-economic realities.

This book presents a comprehensive and broad-spectrum picture of the state-of-the-art research, development, and commercial prospective of various discoveries conducted in the real world of functional and smart materials.

The clothing industry employs 25 million people globally contributing to many livelihoods and the prosperity of communities, to women's independence, and the establishment of significant infrastructures in poorer countries.

This book presents select proceedings of the 6th International and 21st National Conference on Machines and Mechanism (iNaCoMM 2023) which covers the broad areas of solid mechanics and design covering the latest advancements in the fields of machines and mechanisms.

Due to the requirements of automatic system design, and new needs for the training of complex tasks, Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA) has been used with increasing frequency in recent years by the airline industry and air traffic control community.

Sport is an integral part of society, playing a key role in human health and well-being, and cultural, political and economic development.

For the past decade, the rapid development of the ergonomics disciplines as well as the fast growing economy in the Asian region have been attracting the attention of the international ergonomics community.

In today's rapidly changing workplace, safety and loss prevention professionals cannot always "e;go by the book"e; for the answers to new and unique problems and issues.

Computer Architectures is a collection of multidisciplinary historical works unearthing sites, concepts, and concerns that catalyzed the cross-contamination of computers and architecture in the mid-20th century.

Although speech is the most natural form of communication between humans, most people find using speech to communicate with machines anything but natural.

Analyze and Solve Real-World Machine Design Problems Using SI UnitsMechanical Design of Machine Components, Second Edition: SI Version strikes a balance between method and theory, and fills a void in the world of design.

The BeginningAutoCAD(R) 2018 Exercise Workbook is designed for classroom instruction and self-study alike, and is now suitable for both inch and metric users to accommodate readers around the world.

What is "e;misinformation"e;?

Military capability is delivered operationally at a team and collective level, be it a unit as small as a squad or section, or as large as a maritime task group.

The book describes state-of-the-art product service systems, and provides a framework to categorize the knowledge surrounding these systems.

Principles of Emergency Management: Hazard Specific Issues and Mitigation offers preparedness and mitigation recommendations for advanced emergency planning.

Winner of the "e;Outstanding Academic Title"e; recognition by Choice for the 2020 OAT Awards.

Tribology is an unfamiliar term for many, but is experienced by all.

The potential of software applications to solve an array of office and administrative problems is increasing faster than the ability of users to exploit it.

Despite intense research on decision-making in action, we still know little about when decision-makers rely on deliberate vs.

This book outlines the new concept of user engineering and covers the diversity of users, along with the business process that includes the design and the user's experience processes.

In an era of profound environmental and geopolitical uncertainty, Designing through Planetary Breakdown offers fresh perspectives on design's evolving role in the face of planetary change.

This book aims to bring to the reader an overview of different applications of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) based on more than 20 years of experience working on these interfaces.

The IAVSD Symposium is the leading international conference in the field of ground vehicle dynamics, bringing together scientists and engineers from academia and industry.