Transport technology and trades

In 2014, Rosetta became the first mission to orbit a comet and to deploy a lander onto its surface.

This monograph adresses the challenge of the environmental assessment of leightweight electric vehicles.

This book presents the selected proceedings of the (third) fourth Vehicle and Automotive Engineering conference, reflecting the outcomes of theoretical and practical studies and outlining future development trends in a broad field of automotive research.

Sensors and Instrumentation, Aircraft/Aerospace and Energy Harvesting, Volume 7:  Proceedings of the 39th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2021, the seventh volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book offers timely insights into research on numerical and experimental fluid mechanics and aerodynamics, mainly for (but not limited to) aerospace applications.

This book provides an insight into the design, modeling, control, and application of multiphase hybrid permanent magnet machines for electrified powertrains in electric and hybrid electric vehicles.

This book offers a comprehensive and practice-oriented guide to risk management, with a special emphasis on the physical and environmental risks related to the operations of railway systems.

Stratospheric balloons are powerful tools used to study the Earth and its atmosphere, as well as the greater cosmos beyond.

This book is intended for students and engineers who design and develop liquid-propellant rocket engines, offering them a guide to the theory and practice alike.

This book reports on cutting-edge research and advances in the field of intelligent vehicle systems.

The book sheds new lights on the evolution of Russian space activities with a focus on their strategy of international cooperation.

This book offers a concise, yet comprehensive introduction to the engineering and other principles behind passenger cruise ships.

This SpringerBrief explores the technological, economic, physiological, and psychological comparisons between a journey to the Moon versus a journey to Mars, taking into consideration the national and international perspectives at play.

Nonlinear Structures & Systems, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 40th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2022, the first volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book reports on the design and development of a system that assists remote pilots during the landing procedure.

This SpringerBrief discusses the determination and classification of the ambient temperature corrosion and stress corrosion properties of aerospace structural alloys, with emphasis on (1) aluminium alloys, modern (3rd generation) aluminium-lithium alloys, stainless steels and titanium alloys and (2) some of the issues involved.

This book focuses on automotive user interfaces for in-vehicle usage, looking at car electronics, its software of hidden technologies (e.

This book summarizes the early successes, drawbacks and accomplishments in cell biology and cell biotechnology achieved by the latest projects performed on the International Space Station ISS.

This thesis offers new insights into the fluid flow behavior of automotive centrifugal compressors operating under near-stall conditions.

This book offers a comprehensive review of collision avoidance techniques and safe trajectory planning for manned and unmanned ships, together with extensive information on how to develop and implement algorithms for applications in real-world settings.

This book focuses on the application of classical combustion theory to ignition and flame propagation in solid-solid and gas-solid systems.

This book is devoted to studies of unsteady heat and mass exchange processes taking into account thermochemical destruction of thermal protective materials, research of transpiration cooling systems, thermal protection of composite materials exposed to low-energy disturbances, as well as the numerical solution of heat and mass transfer of the exchange.

This book reports a comprehensive study on the Industry 4.

This book gives a concise and comprehensive overview of non-cooperative target tracking, fusion and control.

This book offers a comprehensive look at materials science topics in aerospace, air vehicle structures and manufacturing methods for aerospace products, examining recent trends and new technological developments.

In his latest book, space scientist, futurist, and educator Joseph N.

This book gathers papers from the 23rd International Forum on Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications (AMAA 2020) held online from Berlin, Germany, on May 26-27, 2020.

This book contributes to the field of hybrid technology, describing the current state of knowledge concerning the hybrid material concept of laminated metallic and composite sheets for primary aeronautical structural applications.

This volume gives an overview on recent developments for various applications of modern engineering design.

This book addresses the reader interested in vehicular traffic phenomena, who have not learned about them before.

This books reviews and brings readers up to date with the latest research knowledge on road traffic safety.

This book presents the latest accomplishments in Novikov/conformal gearing as well as high-conformal gearing.

To support smart vehicular services especially in the future driverless era, the vehicular networks are expected to support high-bandwidth content delivery and reliable accessibility of multifarious applications.

The main topics of this book include advanced control, cognitive data processing, high performance computing, functional safety, and comprehensive validation.

This volume of the Lecture Notes in Mobility series contains papers written by speakers and poster presenters at the 21st International Forum on Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications (AMAA 2017) "e;Smart Systems Transforming the Automobile"e; that was held in Berlin, Germany in September 2017.

This book is the sixth edition.

This textbook on Fundamentals of Gas Dynamics will help students with a background in mechanical and/or aerospace engineering and practicing engineers working in the areas of aerospace propulsion and gas dynamics by providing a rigorous examination of most practical engineering problems.

This volume of the series SpringerBriefs in Space Life Sciences describes findings from space and accompanying ground research related to spatial orientation, posture and locomotion, cognition and psychomotor function.

This highly informative book offers a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of propulsion.

The book presents the results of the research project Fleets Go Green from different engineering disciplines.

Nonlinear Approaches in Engineering Applications: Design Engineering Problems examines the latest applications of nonlinear approaches in engineering and addresses a range of scientific problems.

This book presents the proceedings of the first vehicle engineering and vehicle industry conference.

This book presents the outcomes from the 2nd International Conference on Marine and Advanced Technologies 2021 (Icmat2021) which was organized by the Research and Innovation section, University Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian Institute of Marine Engineering Technology.

This book details aluminum alloys with special focus on the aluminum silicon (Al-Si) systems - that are the most abundant alloys second only to steel.

This monograph describes the findings of spaceflight research related to spatial orientation, sensorimotor coordination and mental function.

This book proposes some novel approaches for finding unmanned aerial vehicle trajectories to reach targets with unknown location in minimum time.

This book covers the parameterization of entry capsules, including Apollo capsules and planetary probes, and winged entry vehicles such as the Space Shuttle and lifting bodies.

Rotating Machinery, Optical Methods & Scanning LDV Methods, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 40th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2022, the sixth volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book presents a step-by-step methodology for the design of ramjet engines.

This book discusses the emerging field of industrial neuroscience, and reports on the authors' cutting-edge findings in the evaluation of mental states, including mental workload, cognitive control and training of personnel involved either in the piloting of aircraft and helicopters, or in managing air traffic.