Technology: general issues

Wind Engineering is a compendium of papers from the Fifth International Conference on Wind Engineering held in Colorado, USA, on July 8-14, 1979.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) provides biennial assessments of the scientific and technical quality of the Army Research Laboratory (ARL).

This book presents recent trends in nanotechnology to manage agroforestry systems.

With adults over sixty becoming an ever-increasing proportion of the global population, the challenge of accommodating the needs, preferences, and abilities, of this heterogeneous population has increased.

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Presents Concepts That Can Be Used in Design, Processing, Testing, and Control of Composite MaterialsIntroduction to the Micromechanics of Composite Materials weaves together the basic concepts, mathematical fundamentals, and formulations of micromechanics into a systemic approach for understanding and modeling the effective material behavior of co

s book presents the proceeding of 6th International Conference on Advances in Manufacturing and Materials Engineering (ICAMME 2024), August 13–14, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Optimization problems are widespread in the mathematical modeling of real world systems and their applications arise in all branches of science, applied science and engineering.

This book reports on innovations and engineering achievements of industrial relevance, with a special emphasis on mechanical engineering developments applied to modeling, simulation, and design of mechanical systems, and synthesis of new materials for advanced manufacturing applications.

Since 1959, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has annually solicited the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene expert panels to evaluate the quality, effectiveness, and resource sufficiency of NIST's six measurement and standards laboratories.

This book examines the problems of causal determinism and limited completeness in systems theory.

Describes the theory, modeling, and design of tunable mm-wave circuits and systems using CMOS, RF MEMS, and microwave liquid crystals.

This book investigates the challenges being experienced in the traditional procurement methods for road infrastructure in developing countries and explores the features of Public Private Partnerships (PPP) as an alternative procurement method with the potential of achieving a more sustainable highway network in Nigeria and other developing countries of Africa.

Fusion Technology 1986, Volume 1 contains the proceedings of the 14th Symposium on Fusion Technology held in Avignon, France, on September 8-12, 1986.

Facial recognition technology is increasingly used for identity verification and identification, from aiding law enforcement investigations to identifying potential security threats at large venues.

O'Donnell's Drug Injury, Fifth Edition presents up-to-date information on adverse events caused by drugs via direct pharmacological action or indirectly through injury caused by impairment or an altered mental state.

In the original two editions of Engineering Ethics: Peace, Justice, and the Earth, a response of the engineering profession to the challenges of security, poverty and underdevelopment, environmental sustainability, and native cultures was described.

This book reports on advances in mechanical engineering, with a special emphasis on innovative design approaches, constructions and working processes, and on intelligent devices.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

Topology optimization is a digital method for designing objects in order to achieve the best structural performance, sometimes in combination with other physical requirements.

This book concentrates on trends and recent developments in nano- and microbial agents and their usage in waste minimization and pollution mitigation through review-style chapters.

In Virus Hybrids as Nanomaterials: Methods and Protocols expert researchers in the field detail many of the methods used to study virus for medial and nonmedical applications.

Drug Delivery Systems, Second Edition expands upon the previous edition with current, detailed methods and technologies to further study drug delivery.

This book discusses recent developments in fractional calculus and fractional differential equations in a very elaborative manner and is of interest to research scholars, academicians and scientists who want to enhance the knowledge in the context of new insights and mathematical ideas in fractional calculus and its emerging applications in various fields.

This book offers a timely snapshot of research in fractional calculus.

In the 21st century, commercial aviation has been transformed into a passenger-centric business in which the customer has assumed an ever more active role in managing their own journeys.

In Virus Hybrids as Nanomaterials: Methods and Protocols expert researchers in the field detail many of the methods used to study virus for medial and nonmedical applications.

This book suggests the development of single and multi-layer fractional-order neural networks that incorporate fractional-order activation functions derived using fractional-order derivatives.

This book focuses on ligand-protected gold clusters featuring their atomically precise compositions and unambiguous structures.

This book provides an in-depth exploration of process planning steps required for Directed Energy Deposition (DED) processes and their automation during the data preparation stage.

This book contains the second volume of selected papers from International Symposium for Production Research 2024, held on October 10-12, 2024, in Budva, Montenegro.

This book addresses technical issues and human factors mainly from the mechanical, chemical, electrical, metallurgical and civil engineering fields as these make significant contribution to the economy and progress of a nation.

This book provides a thorough introduction to the fundamental concepts and technologies of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems.

From AI ethics and cybersecurity to augmented realities, virtual interfaces, and much more, Futureshock provides an accessible introduction to the leading edge topics of today.

The emergence of nanotechnology has had a profound effect on almost every aspect of the 21st century's daily life.