The Engineering Approach to Winter Sports presents the state-of-the-art research in the field of winter sports in a harmonized and comprehensive way for a diverse audience of engineers, equipment and facilities designers, and materials scientists.
This book comprises an edited version of the Proceedings of the 2nd Interna- tional Conference on Applications of Supercomputers in Engineering which took place at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA during August 1991.
This book looks at how the physical environment of work shapes organizational behaviour, demonstrating that our physical surroundings at work can have a big influence on employee productivity, performance and wellbeing.
A collection of works authored by leading scientists from the US and Russia, Human-Computer Interaction and Operators' Performance: Optimizing Work Design with Activity Theory describes applied and systemic-structural activity theory as it is used to study human-computer interaction, aviation, design, and training.
This edited book provides a platform to discuss the state-of-the-art developments associated with traditional and advanced single-/multi-objective criteria optimization methods for addressing problems of performance enhancement of the products and systems design.
This volume contains the basic concepts of modern robotics, basic definitions, systematics of robots in industry, service, medicine and underwater activity.
Nanoscience and nanotechnology, the application of the research-based nanoscale science, have changed significantly over the last three and a half decades.
Dieses Buch fokussiert die Entwicklung von variantenreichen Produkten mithilfe modularer Produktstrukturen und adressiert so die Komplexitätsreduktion aus Sicht der Produktentwicklung.
Multidisciplinary Design Optimization in Computational Mechanics This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the mathematical and algorithmic methods for the Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) of complex mechanical systems such as aircraft or car engines.
This fully updated handbook covers every aspect of ergonomics and human psychology for product designersWritten by experts in the field, this thoroughly revised guide offers complete coverage of the latest trends and advances in ergonomics and psychology and explains their practical applications in the design of today s products.
It appears that we live in an age of disasters: the mighty Missis- sippi and Missouri flood millions of acres, earthquakes hit Tokyo and California, airplanes crash due to mechanical failure and the seemingly ever increasing wind speeds make the storms more and more frightening.
Since the establishment of the CAAD futures Foundation in 1985 CAAD experts from all over the world meet every two years to present and at the same time document the state of art of research in Computer Aided Architectural Design.
Modelling for Business Improvement contains the proceedings of the First International Conference on Process Modelling and Process Management (MMEP 2010) held in Cambridge, England, in March 2010.
Just Culture and the Criminalisation of Air Accidents equips the reader with the tools to understand the meaning of criminalisation in the civil aviation industry.
Engineering Science is a comprehensive textbook suitable for all vocational and pre-degree courses in engineering, being fully in line with the latest vocational courses at Level 2 and leading into Level 3.
Based on recent research, this book discusses physical ergonomics, which is concerned with human anatomical, anthropometric, physiological and biomechanical characteristics as they relate to physical activity.
The development of effective and usable software for spatial computing platforms like virtual reality (VR) requires an understanding of how these devices create new possibilities (and new perils) when it comes to interactions between humans and computers.
Dieses Werk für die Gestaltung des HSC-Fräsprozesses und dafür notwendiger Komponenten für stäubende Werkstoffe stellt eine praxisgerechte Vorgehensweise dar.
This book reports on the state of the art in physical ergonomics and addresses the design of products, processes, services, and work systems to ensure they are productive, safe, and enjoyable for people to use.
While its importance is widely recognized, the theoretical basis and practical applications of Activity Theory have not yet been firmly established in the field of human factors and ergonomics, experimental, and work psychology.
First published two decades ago, the first edition of Handbook of Control Room Design and Ergonomics: A Perspective for the Future became a benchmark for the field.
More and more the most traditional and typical applied ergonomics issues of the activities related to sea shipping, vehicle driving, and flying are required to deal with some emerging topics related to the growing automatism and manning reduction, the ICT's advances and pervasiveness, and the new demographic and social phenomena, such as aging or multiculturalism.
Pre-Accident Investigations: Better Questions - An Applied Approach to Operational Learning challenges safety and reliability professionals to get better answers by asking better questions.
This book compiles cutting-edge research and innovative practices in the field of naval architecture and marine engineering, presented during the IV Iberoamerican Congress of Naval Engineering and 27th Pan-American Congress of Naval Engineering, Maritime Transportation and Port Engineering (COPINAVAL).
Intelligent technical systems, which combine mechanical, electrical and software engineering with control engineering and advanced mathematics, go far beyond the state of the art in mechatronics and open up fascinating perspectives.
Because of the sheer size and scope of the plastics industry, the title Developments in Plastics Technology now covers an incredibly wide range of subjects or topics.
This book will show you how to approach the design covering everything from the circuit specification to the final design acceptance, including what support you can expect, sizing, timing analysis, power and packaging, various simulations, design verification, and design submission.
This book brings several original contributions to research and practical applications in the field of mass customization from the designer, manufacturer, and customer perspectives respectively.
This book deals with research in open challenges in Management Engineering in the 21st century, as well as selected opportunities and solutions to remedy them.
