This user-friendly text uses illustrations and college math to analyze dynamic phenomena in everyday life. It presents dynamics as a unified framework, showing how simple concepts expand to complex design formulae for engineering structures.
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.
Fatigue of Sintered Materials
This book details the theoretical background of Powder Metallurgy (PM) and the fatigue phenomenon of dynamically loaded sintered components. It analyses the influence of powder morphology and heat treatment on fatigue strength, and includes a fatigue analysis of sintered gears.
Energy and Geopolitics, Volume 1
In an era of abundant energy, our greatest challenge is sustainable development. This book explains the fundamentals of energy and reviews all major sources: oil, gas, coal, nuclear, and renewables. It is an essential guide to the complex geopolitics of energy.
This book covers the Laplace transform technique for linear systems in electrical and mechanical engineering. It focuses on Laplace and inverse transforms, transfer functions, and applications for solving initial and boundary value problems.
For students and specialists in nonlinear dynamics, this book develops original methods to study dynamical chaos, synchronization, and dynamic structures in lattices of coupled rotators, using methods from bifurcation theory and qualitative numerical methods.
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.
Explore state-of-the-art research in infrastructure management, from innovative 3D-printed concrete to computer vision-based maintenance. This book is essential reading for engineers and contractors paving the way toward sustainable and resilient infrastructure.
This easy-to-follow guide provides the necessary steps in discretizing continuous systems. It covers sampling, reconstruction, stability analysis, and the synthesis of digital controllers, including a practical guide to PID speed control of a DC motor using an Arduino card.
This book focuses on controlling interfacial strength, a key problem in adhesion science. It examines adhesive joints of fibers and modified epoxy resins, analyzing the dependence of adhesive strength on modifier concentration and the mechanisms controlling strength synergism.
Providing an up-to-date discussion of advanced ternary MAX ceramics, this book introduces students and engineers to key research topics. It explores Ti2AlCxNy MAX ceramics, from their synthesis and properties to their industrial application and reinforcement in Mg composites.
This book assesses the risks of debris flows in Georgia, calculating the damage they cause. It presents innovative, patented structures to regulate them, designed using theoretical, laboratory, and field studies to ensure reliability. For scientists, engineers, and students.
Energy rules the world, shaping policies and sparking conflicts in the race for domination. This book examines the subject from a multidimensional view, covering key energy zones like Russia and the Middle East, as well as the policies pursued by leading nations.
This volume offers key insights into sound scattering, covering scatterers, waveguides, hydroacoustic antennas, and loudspeakers. It details numerical solutions to complex problems using the boundary element method.
Turbulent fluid flows appear random, but averages like pressure and flow rate are predictable. Past mathematical models have been either too simple or too complex for practical use. This book explores a middle ground: computationally tractable yet realistic models.
The Optimization of Parameters for Ships Navigating in Ice
An essential analysis of global icebreaker construction and the North Sea Route, presenting feasibility studies on the design, performance, and safe navigation of new arctic vessels.
Design Concepts for Seismic-Resistant Buildings
This book proposes a quantitative shaking evaluation for seismic-resistant buildings, with guidance to calculate the shaking quantity scale. It also demonstrates using Artificial Intelligence to predict this scale, which is highly important for earthquake early warning systems.
Hydrodynamic and aerodynamic bearings guide rotating machines like turbines under severe conditions. This book provides a numerical analysis of how textured surfaces improve their hydrodynamic, tribological, and structural performance under these demanding operating parameters.
This book compares dynamic mathematical models to solve problems of impact and shock. Its methodologies help determine the life-resource of large constructions, simulate dynamic contact processes, and design new composite materials. For scientists, students, and engineers.
This book investigates the use of abrasive flow finishing (AFF) to impart a quality finish on gears. It covers the development of the AFF process, machine design, parametric optimization, and laser texturing, showing how AFF is a productive, economical, and sustainable process.