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.
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.
Reinforced Concrete Design
This book provides the fundamentals of analysis and design of reinforced concrete (RC) elements in a simple way. A valuable guide for students and practicing engineers, its design procedures provide a roadmap to create your own programming codes to increase design productivity.
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.
This book describes wireless channels for mobile communication system design. It explains mobile propagation and analyses multi-path channel properties, validated by experiments. Topics include street cell design, antenna diversity, and SU/MU-MIMO channel models for 5G systems.
Artificial Intelligence
AI is reshaping how we live and work, revolutionizing healthcare and robotics. The potential for AI to drive innovation and solve complex problems is limitless, promising a future enriched by intelligent systems. However, the risks are notable and must be taken into account.
This book introduces gear drive fundamentals and the theoretical background of load capacity. It focuses on strength analyses for metal, sintered, and polymer gears, describing surface pitting, tooth root capacity, and fatigue design approaches with practical examples.
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.
Unconventional Aeronautical Investigatory Methods
The 1972 crash of Alitalia flight AZ 112 killed 115 people and was blamed on pilot negligence. This book reveals the truth: the disaster was not an accident but a criminal act, a symptom of the geopolitical tensions gripping Italy and Europe in that decade.
Space Systems Architecture for Resource Utilization
Space resources will transform human enterprise. This practical workbook is an invaluable guide for start-ups, students, and space enthusiasts. Learn how to start a space business, engage regulators, and coordinate teams to gain the confidence to build, live, and work in space.
Antimicrobial Coatings for Biodegradable Polymers
This book provides new insights into methodologies for the preparation of antimicrobial coatings using diverse nanoparticles. These can be applied to medical textiles and hospital devices, reinforcing polymers’ functionality, even against microorganisms resistant to antibiotics.
Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC) uses prefabricated elements to reduce on-site construction time and traffic disruptions. This book examines ABC for short-span bridges, covering decision-making, systems, inspection methods, and a complete design example.
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.
Outer Space Development, International Relations and Space Law
The development of outer space is happening now, but few are aware. The vast wealth it generates threatens to create unprecedented inequality. This is a call to action to ensure the final frontier benefits all of humanity, not just a select few.
This book solves scattering problems for elastic waves in solids using analytical approaches. It provides benchmark solutions for numerical methods and introduces applications in ultrasonic non-destructive evaluation, material characterization, and geophysics.
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.
This book focuses on the nanoparticle-based modification of oxide powders for enamels, paints, ceramics, and insulators. It presents studies on the properties and physical processes that occur in these materials when irradiated with accelerated electrons and protons.
This textbook on hydroacoustics covers the reflectivity of elastic bodies and the synthesis of hydroacoustic antennas. Along with classical diffraction theory, it uses numerical methods like the finite element method and the boundary element method.
This book is a systematic study of modern engineering sciences, exploring current trends and future developments. Areas covered include artificial intelligence, quantum computing, nanotechnology, advanced manufacturing, and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMs).
This book explores creating a new material by combining the biopolymer Arboblend V2 Nature with silver nanoparticles, known for their antimicrobial properties. Using Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD), a nanofilm creates a uniform distribution of silver for various applications.