Technology: general issues

Machining dynamics are vital to the performance of machine tools and machining processes in manufacturing.

Rapid and unprecedented population ageing poses a serious social and economic challenge across the developed world.

Semiconductor spintronics is expected to lead to a new generation of transistors, lasers and integrated magnetic sensors that can be used to create ultra-low power, high speed memory, logic and photonic devices.

"e;Automatic Autocorrelation and Spectral Analysis"e; gives random data a language to communicate the information they contain objectively.

This book traces the development of a personal research programme over a period of many years.

Computer software reliability has never been so important.

Flexible mechanical systems experience undesirable vibration in response to environmental and operational forces.

Make and test projects are used as introductory design experiences in almost every engineering educational institution world wide.

This book is a sequel to The Practice of Machine Design, and The Practice of Machine Design, Book 3 - Learning from Failure.

Many processes and systems manifest an increasing integration of mechanical and electronic components with information processing capacity.

Purchasers of manufactured goods need assurance that they will perform well over their expected life.

A common sense of time among the elements of a distributed measurement and control system allows the use of new techniques in solving problems with complex synchronization requirements or arising from the interaction of many sensors and actuators.

Many real systems are composed of multi-state components with different performance levels and several failure modes.

Since the last century, the postulational method and an abstract point of view have played a vital role in the development of modern mathematics.

Decision-making Support Systems (DMSS) are computer-based systems that support individual or organisational decision-making processes.

Many serious accidents have happened in the world where systems have been large-scale and complex, and have caused heavy damage and a social sense of instability.

Switched linear systems have enjoyed a particular growth in interest since the 1990s.

Globalisation of the world's economy is leading to rapid change and uncertainties in society, politics and markets.

The topics of control engineering and signal processing continue to flourish and develop.

Efficient assembly line design is a problem of industrial importance.

Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale focuses on perceptions ofconsonance and dissonance, and how these are dependent on timbre.

Focussing on the manipulation and representation of geometrical objects, this book explores the application of geometry to computer graphics and computer-aided design (CAD).

Development of environmentally friendly products gains an increasing - portance in science and in industry.

Composite decisions consist of subdecisions and correspond to a composite system.

Every day we experience the annoyance of having to queue.

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), a new paradigm for product manufacturing, enables a company to manage its products all the way across their lifecycles in the most effective way.

Recent developments in constrained control and estimation have created a need for this comprehensive introduction to the underlying fundamental principles.

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Parametric cost estimating, when properly used, is a powerful and cost effective technique.

New manufacturing technologies have made possible the integration of entire systems on a single chip.

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 1 2 31 The continual effort to improve performance in business processes attracts 4 increasing attention in research and industry alike.

This book aims to present a state-of-the-art survey of theories and methods of reliability, maintenance, and warranty with emphasis on multi-unit systems, and to reflect current hot topics: imperfect maintenance, economic dependence, opportunistic maintenance, quasi-renewal processes, warranty with maintenance and economic dependency, and software testing and maintenance.

Engineering design must be carefully planned and systematically executed.

"e;Acrobat(R) and PDF for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction"e; is a practical guide focusing on the applications of PDF in the solution of "e;engineering"e; problems which may arise in various disciplines from architecture to construction.

engineers into a single volume whilst concentrating on two important research control design problems: autopilots with rudder-roll stabilization and fin and combined rudder-fin stabilization.

Perturbations of Positive Semigroups with Applications is a self-contained introduction to semigroup theory with emphasis on positive semigroups on Banach lattices and perturbation techniques.

Many current texts in the area are just cookbooks and, as a result, students do not know why they perform the methods they are taught, or why the methods work.

It is said that six sigma methods are vital to survive, let alone thrive, in today's competitive markets, but what are these methods and how or when do we use them?

In recent decades, a comprehensive new framework for the theory and design of control systems has emerged.

"e;Advances in Design"e; examines recent advances and innovations in product design paradigms, methods, tools and applications.

Optoelectronic devices operating in the mid-infrared wavelength range offer applications in a variety of areas from environmental gas monitoring around oil rigs to the detection of narcotics.

This book presents an in-depth review of the recent interdisciplinary studies that have shed light on the mechanisms of the creation, energy transfer, and measurement of the dressed photon.

This book provides new insight and a better understanding of nanotechnology in mitigating crop biotic stresses.

Multibody Mechanics and Visualization is designed to appeal to computer-savvy students who will acquire significant skills in mathematical and physical modelling of mechanical systems in the process of producing attractive computer simulations and animations.

This book introduces a novel approach to designing and analyzing beneficial nonlinearity, which plays a crucial role in engineering systems and cannot be overlooked in structural design, dynamic response analysis, and parameter selection.

This book introduces the mathematical foundations of distributionally robust optimization (DRO) for decision-making problems with ambiguous uncertainties and applies them to tackle the critical challenge of energy storage sizing in renewable-integrated power systems, providing readers with an efficient and reliable approach to analyze and design real-world energy systems with uncertainties.

This book is the tenth of 15 related monographs, discusses product-cubic nonlinear systems with two crossing-linear and self-quadratic products vector fields and the dynamic behaviors and singularity are presented through the first integral manifolds.