Collagen is vital to cell culture and tissue repair. This book describes the journey from pioneering 1950s research on collagen preparations to the massive implications for today’s tissue engineering and personalised medicine.
Reinforced concrete columns play a very important role in structural performance; as such, it is essential to apply a suitable analytical tool to estimate their structural behaviour and consider failure mechanisms. This monograph focuses on fiber beam-column elements.
Planar Trusses
This book contains 73 schemes of trusses, with solutions for many not widely published. It identifies trusses with hidden dangerous properties and provides compact formulas for engineers and theorists to supplement numerical calculations, especially for complex structures.
This book explores modern polymeric composites and their applications in information technologies, such as polarization holography, light electro-optical modulators, polarization sensitive gratings, and photovoltaic elements.
Conventional theories about alloys are wrong. This book is the first to present exhaustive evidence that processes in alloys are determined by the chemical interaction between nearest atoms, radically changing our ability to consciously design new materials.
A guide to chemically modifying metal surfaces to produce hard, scratch-resistant, and corrosion-resistant surfaces, or surfaces that easily accept coatings. Includes processes for aluminum, magnesium, titanium, iron, copper, silver, and their alloys.
Immobilizing ionic liquid (IL) in a polymer matrix is a low-cost method to produce ionogels—an excellent substitute for liquid electrolytes. This book provides a complete overview, from ionogel development to application, and covers characterization and transport properties.
This easy-to-follow guide offers a state-of-the-art approach to optimization methods for academics and industrial engineers. It provides a comprehensive study with directly implementable Matlab code, suited to readers even without a programming background.
Electronics and Microprocessing for Research, 2nd Edition
A beginner’s guide to electronics, programming, and microprocessing with Arduino. Assuming no prior knowledge, this book explains how to control components and read sensors. With hands-on lab activities, you’ll learn to turn your project ideas into functional prototypes.
The Baseline Mass Transfer Coefficient
This book presents a revolutionary achievement: the Standard Specific Baseline Mass Transfer Coefficient. It solves the long-standing inability to correlate mass transfer coefficients between tests, transforming the design and operation of water and wastewater aeration systems.
Developments in Management Science in Engineering 2018
This book identifies the main research categories of Management Science in Engineering (MSE), and evaluates and classifies each journal in this field. Developed by leading experts, it is of interest to scientists, researchers, practitioners, engineers, and students.
To combat human error in complex cockpits, this book offers unique insights into building an onboard expert system. It details a system that supports the crew by detecting a hazard in real-time, identifying its source, and providing recommendations to pilots to avoid accidents.
This book details an innovative finite element (FE) formulation for post-tensioned (PT) concrete. It provides MATLAB code to simulate bonded, unbonded, or partially bonded tendons, including sliding, friction, and anchor seating loss, with reduced computational power.
The Life of Cracks
To secure the strength of an engineering structure, one must understand the reasons and type of its potential failure. While mechanics has focused on strength, it is just as vital to understand fracture. This book provides essential knowledge and insights on this matter.
This book covers the key principles, theories, and applications of information and communication technologies for academic and professional audiences. It explores network architecture, information theory, wireless communications, network security, and optimisation methods.
This book describes terahertz radiation’s interaction with materials from dielectrics to metals. It covers all types of terahertz sources and detectors, investigates the “terahertz gap,” and explores means of increasing the working frequency and output power of the devices.
This book covers the measurement of optoelectronic components, focusing on the implementation of static electrical and optical characterization. It links these measurements to solid state physics and presents different LED technologies through detailed experimental analyses.
Trussed Frames and Arches
This book details 72 statically determinate truss schemes, providing compact formulas for deflection. For engineers and theorists, these formulas are a reliable test for numerical calculations, are especially effective for large trusses, and warn of hidden dangerous properties.
Improvement of the Structural Integrity of Ceramic Parts
This book presents novel techniques for ensuring the structural integrity of advanced ceramics. It details methods to control crack initiation and retardation in complex shapes, offering a vital resource for engineers and scientists developing new superhard materials.
Selected Topics on Antenna Synthesis
This volume provides essential tools for developing antennas. It moves beyond classical synthesis to focus on synthesizing desired radiation patterns and optimizing phase patterns to eliminate shadowing effects, while strengthening the reader’s engineering style of thinking.