Technology: general issues

This monograph covers all important issues of terminal ballistics in a comprehensive way combining experimental data, numerical simulations and analytical modeling.

This fascinating book examines some of the characteristics of technological/engineering models that are likely to be unfamiliar to those who are interested primarily in the history and philosophy of science and mathematics, and which differentiate technological models from scientific and mathematical ones.

Within the Smart Grid, the combination of automation equipment, communication technology and IT is crucial.

This Brief provides an up-to-date overview of smart surfactants and describes a broad spectrum of triggers that induce the formation of wormlike micelles or reversibly tune the morphology of surfactant aggregates from wormlike micelles to another state, or vice versa.

This book provides extensive information on organic-inorganic hybrid materials with controllable compositions and structures developed over the past few decades, including metal sulfonates, carboxylates, phosphonates, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), etc.

Amperometric sensors, biosensors included, particularly rely on suitable electrode materials.

This book reflects the current status of theoretical and experimental research of graphene based nanostructures, in particular quantum dots, at a level accessible to young researchers, graduate students, experimentalists and theorists.

The influence of size effects on the properties of nanostructures is subject of this book.

This book presents the important analytical technique of magnetic microscopy.

LaTeX is a free, automated state-of-the-art typesetting system.

This book presents the fabrication of optoelectronic nanodevices.

This book gives a comprehensive overview of graphene oxides (GO) from atomic structures and fundamental properties to technological applications.

This book is the first of its kind in presenting comprehensive technical issues and solutions for rapidly growing Green IT.

This textbook is aimed at engineering students who are likely to come across magnetics applications in their professional practice.

The book tries to briefly introduce the diverse literatures in the field of fractional order signal processing which is becoming an emerging topic among an interdisciplinary community of researchers.

Regenerative medicine demands new concepts and fabrication tools to improve our common knowledge about cell-cell and cell-environment interactions.

More than just coincidence connects a Tate & Lyle lawsuit and artificial sweetener to Jamaican-born Chemist Bert Fraser-Reid.

This book presents the various design methods of a state-feedback control law and of an observer.

Novel Optical Nanoprobes for Chemical and Biological Analysis starts with a brief introduction to several kinds of versatile nanomaterials with novel optical properties, such as gold/silver nanoparticles, quantum dots, upconversion nanoparticles and graphene.

In this second edition a new chapter has been added covering the buffeting theory in a finite element format.

This book presents the theory of periodic conjugate heat transfer in a detailed way.

Tensors and methods of differential geometry are very useful mathematical tools in many fields of modern physics and computational engineering including relativity physics, electrodynamics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), continuum mechanics, aero and vibroacoustics and cybernetics.

This book describes the implementation of autonomous control with multiagent technology.

The whole picture of Mathematical Modeling is systematically and thoroughly explained in this text for undergraduate and graduate students of mathematics, engineering, economics, finance, biology, chemistry, and physics.

This book gives an introduction to nanostructured materials and guides the reader through their different engineering applications.

Spatial reasoning and planning is a core constituent in robotics, graphics, computer-aided design, and geographic information systems.

In the last 50 years the world has been completely transformed through the use of IT.

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Size effect in structures has been taken into consideration over the last years.

The "e;Rudolf Mossbauer Story"e; recounts the history of the discovery of the "e;Mossbauer Effect"e; in 1958 by Rudolf Mossbauer as a graduate student of Heinz Maier-Leibnitz for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1961 when he was 32 years old.

Timing belts offer a broad range of innovative drivetrain solutions; they allow low-backlash operation in robot systems, they are widely used in automated processes and industrial handling involving highly dynamic start-up loads, they are low-maintenance solutions for continuous operation applications, and they can guarantee exact positioning at high operating speeds.

This book shows an update in the field of micro/nano fabrications techniques of two and three dimensional structures as well as ultimate three dimensional characterization methods from the atom range to the micro scale.

This research monograph summarizes solutions to reconfigurable fault-tolerant control problems for nonlinear dynamical systems that are based on the fault-hiding principle.

Nanotechnology in Civil Infrastructure is a state-of-the art reference source describing the latest developments in nano-engineering and nano-modification of construction materials to improve the bulk properties, development of sustainable, intelligent, and smart concrete materials through the integration of nanotechnology based self-sensing and self-powered materials and cyber infrastructure technologies, review of nanotechnology applications in pavement engineering, development of novel, cost-effective, high-performance and long-lasting concrete products and processes through nanotechnology-based innovative processing of cement and cement paste, and advanced nanoscience modeling, visualization, and measurement systems for characterizing and testing civil infrastructure materials at the nano-scale.

The innovation economy sets new standards for global business and requires efficient innovation management to plan, execute and evaluate innovation activities, establish innovative capability and coordinate resources and capacities for innovation on an intra- and inter-organizational level.

This is the second volume in a series of books on selected topics in Nanoscale Science and Technology based on lectures given at the well-known INFN schools of the same name.

This book focuses on the metallic Nano- and Micro-materials (NMMs) fabricated by physical techniques such as atomic diffusion.

The comprehensive reference and textbook serves as a timely, practical introduction to the principles of nanotribology and nanomechanics.

Die Hauptaufgabe eines Verkehrspiloten ist es, sein Flugzeug sicher von A nach B zu bringen.

The development of nanomaterials opens the possibility for new materials with outstanding properties compared to classical engineering materials.

Aviation networks play a critical role in the success of today's airlines and airports.

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This book focuses on the need to develop sustainable supply chains - economically, environmentally and socially.

The automotive industry faces constant pressure to reduce development costs and time while still increasing vehicle quality.

Modern Crystallography provides an encyclopedic exposition of the field in four volumes written by Russian scientists.

The origin ofPASRO (Trademark ofBIOMATIK GmbH, Freiburg, FRG) was a set of pro- cedures for performing arithmetic on geometric data types and for coordinate transforma- tion for study and teaching purposes, developed as a base for high level robot programming.

The central purpose of this book is to impart knowledge, skills and practical - plementation methods for the planning and operation of adaptable production - cilities and factories.

One major branch of enhancing the performance of evolutionary algorithms is the exploitation of linkage learning.