This book provides insight into the fundamentals of IoT concepts, architecture, and applications. It details emerging applications—including environmental, agricultural, industrial, and medical sensing—by focusing on specific frameworks, challenges, and future research trends.
This book is an introduction to computational methods in physics. It details how to make a physical problem computable, using numerous examples and solved problems from classical mechanics to quantum mechanics, and directly teaches the reader how to implement these techniques.
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.
Engineering of Solid Rocket Motors
This book explores the systems engineering, production processes and performance issues of solid rockets. It discusses state-of-the-art techniques and recent developments, appealing to rocket scientists, students, and professors.
Entransy
This book introduces entransy theory, an alternative perspective on thermal phenomena. It covers the concept’s principles, its application in process optimization, and the controversies surrounding it. This is an essential introduction for students, engineers, and researchers.
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.
Simulation and Modeling of Emerging Devices
This book covers the principles, modelling, fabrication, and applications of TFETs and FinFETs. A reference for students, researchers, and device engineers, it details simulation aspects and technological developments, assuming a background in semiconductor device physics.
This book explains magnetohydrodynamics: how magnetic fields create forces in conductive fluids. It covers governing equations, nanofluid heat transfer, and new numerical and analytical methods with applications in engineering, nanotechnology, and materials science.
This book describes the principles of microwave circuit theory, bridging electromagnetic fields and circuit analysis. It explores scattering, admittance, impedance, and transmission matrices in detail. Learn analysis methods for complex networks, aided by numerous diagrams.
This book covers current advances and methods in craniomaxillofacial bone bioengineering. It offers invaluable tools and methodologies for translating research from the bench to the clinic, making it an essential reference for researchers and specialist clinicians.
Energy Losses in Big Woodworking Machines
Big woodworking machines suffer from their size. Static and dynamic loads cause deformations and vibrations, increasing energy consumption. This monograph investigates these issues, proposing optimization solutions to minimize energy losses and prevent machine damage.
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.
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.
This book explains the latest research in mechanical engineering, detailing a new analytical approach—Akbari-Ganji’s Method (AGM)—for solving problems in aerospace, vibration and control, and nanotechnology.
A clear guide to achieving success in EU-funded projects, this book highlights the tools required to close the gap between robotics innovation and the markets of inspection and maintenance. For technology innovators, researchers, start-ups, scaleups, and SMEs.
Explore non-standard processes in complex electrochemical systems, from plasma electrolytic polishing to heating metals to 1000 °C inside a solution. This book covers diffusion saturation of alloys and is essential for physicists, chemists, metal scientists, and engineers.
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 focuses on the evolution from Industry 4.0 to the next stage: Industry 5.0. It explores the steps needed to take automation to the next level, improving operational efficiency and causing significant shifts for consumers and manufacturers alike.
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.
This introductory textbook for undergraduates presents the physical background, mathematical modeling, and dynamical analysis of linear vibrations in discrete and continuous systems, offering analytical solutions and key engineering applications.