Transport technology and trades

This book reports on the German research initiative AeroStruct, a three-year collaborative project between universities and the aircraft industry.

Thomas Stietz untersucht das Bewegungsverhalten und die dynamischen Eigenschaften von Kugelgelenken für den Lastfall Kippen.

Flying Canucks tells the fascinating story of aviation in Canada through this collection of 37 biographies of important aviators in our nation's history.

The 2024 edition of Warship, the celebrated annual publication featuring original research on the history, development, and service of the world's warships.

As today's cars continue to become more complicated and complex, the cost to repair them has continued to climb.

LLong established as the bible for long-distance cruisers and a bestseller for more than 25 years, World Cruising Routes is the indispensable planning guide to nearly 1,000 sailing routes covering all the oceans of the world from the tropical South Seas to the high latitudes of the Arctic and Antarctic, geared specifically to the needs of cruising sailors.

This book collects papers presented in the Invited Workshop, "e;Liutex and Third Generation of Vortex Definition and Identification for Turbulence,"e; from CHAOS2020, June 9-12, 2020, which was held online as a virtual conference.

The 24th century: humankind has become a spacefaring civilization, colonizing the solar system and beyond.

These proceedings present selected research papers from CSNC2017, held during 23th-25th May in Shanghai, China.

Automotive manufacturers are required to decrease CO2 emissions and increase fuel economy while assuring driver comfort and safety.

Luna 2, launched by the USSR in 1959, was the first spacecraft from Earth to land on the moon.

Undetected human error in aircraft maintenance creates a latent error condition that can contribute to undesirable outcomes.

Experts believe that self-driving cars will be much safer than conventional cars.

This third edition, in the same tradition as the second, is a vital servicing tool containing information covering virtually every motorcycle over 50cc sold in the UK since 1980.

This book introduces the concept of software architecture as one of the cornerstones of software in modern cars.

This accessible reference introduces firefighting and fire safety systems on ships and is written in line with the IACS Classification Rules for Firefighting Systems.

Die komplexe Nutzfahrzeugtechnik anschaulich darzustellen ist Ziel dieses Werkes, das aus 9 einzelnen, in sich abgeschlossenen Beiträgen besteht.

Heat Transfer in Aerospace Applications is the first book to provide an overall description of various heat transfer issues of relevance for aerospace applications.

This book is a compilation of selected papers from the 4th ENRI International Workshop on ATM/CNS (EIWAC2015).

This book comprises select peer-reviewed proceedings of the 26th National Conference on IC Engines and Combustion (NCICEC) 2019 which was organised by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra under the aegis of The Combustion Institute-Indian Section (CIIS).

The narrative surrounding the Titanic's voyage, collision, and sinking in April 1912 seems tailor-made for film.

Zukunftsorientierte Verkehrskonzepte müssen sowohl das Mobilitätsbedürfnis als auch Umweltaspekte berücksichtigen.

This book is designed to summarize and synthesize Professor Chen Weirong's many years of research and related technical progress in the field.

Decreasing the magnetic field signature of a naval vessel will reduce its susceptibility to detonating naval influence mines and the probability of a submarine being detected by underwater barriers and maritime patrol aircraft.

Autonomous unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) are critical to current and future military, civil, and commercial operations.

How could the newly authorized space shuttle help in the U.

This book is intended as a text for undergraduate and graduate courses in aerodynamics, typically offered to students of aerospace and mechanical engineering programs.

THE MOST COMPLETE, UP-TO-DATE GUIDE TO RADIO COMMUNICATIONS FOR PILOTSFully revised to cover the most current protocols, this practical resource provides everything you need to communicate with confidence from the cockpit.

Microsystems are an important success factor in the automobile industry.

The TSR2 is one of the greatest 'what-if' aircraft of the Cold War, whose cancellation still generates anger and controversy among aviation fans.

This book includes high-quality research papers presenting the latest advances in aerospace and related engineering fields.

This book includes a selection of reviewed and enhanced contributions presented at the SpaceOps 2021, the 16th International Conference on Space Operations, held virtually in May 2021.

Great Britain not only invented the main-line railway but has also led the way in it's preservation - not just locomotves and carriages but also the buildings and structures that bear witness to the confidence of railway developers, architects and engineers.

Life support systems are an integral part of crewed spacecraft designs and habitation systems.

NASA's mission is to drive advances in science, technology, aeronautics, and space exploration to enhance knowledge, education, innovation, economic vitality, and stewardship of Earth.

Vibration of Periodic Structures introduces the fundamentals of periodic structure theory by considering the simplest model - wave propagation in an infinitely long periodic spring-mass system.

Diese verständliche Einführung in die Mikroelektronik im Kraftfahrzeug stammt von zwei der versiertesten Kenner der Materie, von denen einer bereits die Anfänge in Deutschland wesentlich beeinflußt hat.

This book examines recent progress and new technological developments in sustainable aviation.

The fascinating story of fiberglass boats and the mavericks who dreamed them.

Sustainable Energy Development: A Multi-Criteria Decision Making Approach discusses sustainable energy development, the main path for achieving carbon neutrality, and the use of multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) in assessing energy transition in both operational and socio-political forms.

An influential guide to maritime emergencies and the current strategies that can be employed to cope with the immediate after effects and ramifications of disaster at sea.

This essential book is the first comprehensive exposition in the area of optimal low-thrust orbit transfer using non-singular variables.

This monograph has grown out of the authors' recent work directed toward solving a family of problems which arise in maneuvering modern spacecraft.

Both concise and comprehensive, this out-and-out 'crammer' covers allthe essentials of the RYA Day Skipper syllabus, arranged andhighlighted to make revising easier and now updated and expanded forthe fourth edition.

This book highlights cyber-security overview, perspectives, and challenges that affect advanced Vehicular technology.

This book addresses the task of computation from the standpoint of asymptotic analysis and multiple scales that may be inherent in the system dynamics being studied.