Technology: general issues

This book discusses the architecture, functioning, and biomechanics of the human body, its bones, joints, muscles, tendons, and ligaments.

Advanced Finite Element Method in Structural Engineering systematically introduces the research work on the Finite Element Method (FEM), which was completed by Prof.

Electrical drives play an important part as electromechanical energy converters in transportation, materials handling and most production processes.

In today's world, smart cards play an increasingly important role in everyday life.

Das Buch analysiert die zentrale Rolle des Medien-, Telekommunikations- und IT-Sektors als Antriebsfaktoren auf dem Weg in eine digitale Wirtschaft: der Internet-Ökonomie.

This investigation is an outgrowth of my doctoral dissertation at Princeton University.

Temperate buildings are comfortable, safer and more productive places to work.

Computational Intelligence: Principles, Techniques and Applications presents both theories and applications of computational intelligence in a clear, precise and highly comprehensive style.

Discrete H Optimization is concerned with the study of H optimization for digital signal processing and discrete-time control systems.

DLP denotes a dynamic-linear modeling and optimization approach to computational decision support for resource planning problems that arise, typically, within the natural resource sciences and the disciplines of operations research and operational engineering.

Das Buch analysiert die zentrale Rolle von Medien, Telekommunikation und Informationstechnologie als Antriebsfaktoren auf dem Weg in eine digitale Wirtschaft: der Internet-Ökonomie.

The authors give a detailed summary about the fundamentals and the historical background of digital communication.

Whether it is nuclear power, geo-engineering or genetically modified foods, the development of new technologies can be fraught with complex ethical challenges and political controversy which defy simple resolution.

This dissertation contributes to the understanding of fundamental issues in the highly interdisciplinary field of colloidal science.

Today it appears that we understand more about the universe than about our interconnected socio-economic world.

This thesis focuses on the controlled synthesis of Pt-Ni bimetallic nanoparticles and the study of their catalytic properties.

This thesis studies the general heat conduction law, irreversible thermodynamics and the size effect of thermal conductivity exhibited in nanosystems from the perspective of recently developed thermomass theory.

This PhD thesis presents the latest research findings on nanofluid wetting kinetics, which has wide applications in nano/microscale processes and devices.

This book explains the operating principles of atomic force microscopy and scanning tunneling microscopy.

Der Einsatz unterschiedlicher Ein- und Ausgabegeräte (Scanner, Monitore, Druckmaschine, etc.

A lot of time and money is invested in collaborative research and development projects at universities, research institutes and companies.

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Computational Fluid Dynamics: An Introduction grew out of a von Karman Institute (VKI) Lecture Series by the same title ?

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Publication of this book is a special event.

Trade in counterfeit goods has developed into a substantial threat to many industries.

Evolution is Nature's design process.

The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction to the theories and techniques of multi-sensor data fusion.

Emulsions occur either as end products or during the processing of products in a huge range of areas including the food, agrochemical, pharmaceuticals, paints and oil industries.

Symmetry exists in realms from crystals to patterns, in external shapes of living or non-living objects, as well as in the fundamental particles and the physical laws that govern them.

Introduction and handbook to high- power laser-matter interaction, laser generated plasma, nonlinear waves, particle acceleration, nonlinear optics, nonlinear dynamics, radiation transport.

The present book covers the transport properties of superconductor/two dimensional electron gas Josephson junctions.

Recent advances in semiconductor technology have made it possible to fabricate microcavity structures in which both photon fields and electron-hole pairs (or excitons) are confined in a small volume comparable to their wavelength.

Data Assimilation comprehensively covers data assimilation and inverse methods, including both traditional state estimation and parameter estimation.

This book provides an introduction to discrete dynamical systems - a framework of analysis that is commonly used in the fields of biology, demography, ecology, economics, engineering, finance, and physics.

Many practical control problems are dominated by characteristics such as state, input and operational constraints, alternations between different operating regimes, and the interaction of continuous-time and discrete event systems.

Flow Control and Optimization is increasingly incorporated in the design of engineering devices ranging from aircraft and space vehicles to micro?

Einstein's Enigma or Black Holes in My Bubble Bath is a humourous and informal rendition of the story of gravitation theory from the early historic origins to the latest developments in astrophysics, focusing on Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity and black-hole physics.

A new approach is presented for modelling multi-body systems, which constitutes a substantial enhancement of the Rigid Finite Element method.

While usual presentations of physical theories emphasize the notion of physical quantity, this book shows that there is much to gain when introducing the notion of physical quality.

This book is an introduction to modern numerical methods in engineering.

The teaching of solid state physics essentially concerns focusing on crystals and their properties.

This reference work and graduate level textbook considers a wide range of models and methods for analyzing and forecasting multiple time series.