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 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.
Business Intelligence and Mobile Technology Research
Business intelligence and analytics allow organizations to make informed decisions. This volume presents insightful research papers on the top-priority disruptive IT technologies that help businesses seize digital opportunities to increase growth and reduce costs.
As economic crisis threatens archaeological heritage, this collection of papers offers solutions and new approaches to its protection. It examines global experiences to find sustainable ways of managing and preserving cultural assets for the future.
Seismic Isolation Strategies for Earthquake-Resistant Construction
This book presents unique, modern, and cost-effective seismic isolation strategies to make existing buildings earthquake-proof. Learn how these highly efficient methods can be implemented quickly, easily, and without interrupting building use, demonstrated on real-world examples.
The Labeled Multi-Bernoulli Filter
This guide to labeled multi-Bernoulli filters for multi-object tracking combines essential theory with practical code examples. Learn to develop your own dependable tracking systems, easily adapted for applications in robotics, automotive engineering, and public safety.
This book presents a tool for decision making under uncertainty in engineering design. It synthesizes game theory and quantum decision theory in a value driven design framework to address stakeholder preferences and capture human factors like risk, bias, and emotion.
Electronics and Microprocessing for Research
This accompanying textbook for a beginners’ course in microprocessing explains introductory electronics, programming, microprocessing, and data collection techniques to allow students to start designing and building their own instruments for research projects.
Advance Peridynamics to model thin, shell-like structures. This book unveils extensions for solving shear-locking and introduces enhanced methods for accurately analyzing damage in fibre-reinforced composites.
Controllability of Dynamic Systems
This book explores the Green’s function method for controllability analysis in dynamic systems. Valid for both linear and nonlinear dynamics, the approach is shown with examples of sophisticated issues and extensive numerical analysis, revealing its advantages and drawbacks.
Retrofitting the Built Environment
By 2050, emissions from buildings could double. This book presents a powerful decision support system for evaluating environmentally and economically optimal retrofit options for non-domestic buildings, providing essential insights for engineers, architects, and policy makers.
3D printing is a swiftly evolving technology revolutionizing manufacturing and medicine. This book elucidates its history and process, focusing on its applications and recent advances in the field of dentistry, which have enhanced patient survival and life expectancy.
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.
Decoding Wireless Communications
Decode the intricacies of wireless technology. Through relatable analogies, this guide makes complex concepts clear. Explore everything from MIMO-OFDM to the future of 5G, AI, and the IoT. An enlightening journey for curious beginners and seasoned professionals alike.
The chapters collected here summarise ten years of work on the challenges that renewable energy faces, and represent a selection of the best papers presented at the International Conferences on Renewable Energy and Power Quality (ICREPQ) from 2003 to 2012.
This book presents research on optical filters for communication systems. These devices are designed and optimized to accurately filter channels from multiplexed optical signals through wavelength tenability, produced via thermo-optic, electro-optic, and strain effects.
Phase change material technology can enhance protective garments and create energy-efficient buildings. This book reveals key design requirements for the first time, providing guidance, tools, and testing procedures for designers, engineers, and researchers.
This book contains a selection of the best papers on power quality from 2003 to 2012. It provides an up-to-date reference for professional engineers, researchers, and postgraduate students interested in the state of the field.
A new era of computing is being driven by Cloud Computing, Big Data, and the Internet of Things, transforming the future of business and society. This volume is a collection of research papers in Cloud Computing, Computer Gaming, and IoT.
Nanomaterials
Explore the transformative power of nanomaterials in energy storage, medicine, and environmental remediation. This book presents nanotechnology as a key driver of sustainable development, offering vital insights for researchers, professionals, and students.