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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 presents one hundred solved problems in Classical Mechanics to support students of Physics and Engineering. Detailed solutions feature practical applications, numerical examples, and result analysis. Key topics include Newtonian, Lagrangian, and Hamiltonian Mechanics.
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.
Sustainable Advances in Construction and Building Materials
This book explores net-zero carbon emission (NZCE) materials in India, endorsing low-carbon construction for a sustainable future. It gives the construction industry insights into creating efficient net-zero buildings that utilize cost-effective technologies to reduce emissions.
Sustainable Corrosion Inhibitors from Natural Sources
This book focuses on utilizing natural sources, such as plant extracts, to develop green corrosion inhibitors that support ecosystem preservation. This is one of the most effective and economical methods of protecting metallic surfaces by replacing toxic chemical inhibitors.
A lucid introduction to system dynamics and control. This book systematically introduces the mathematical tools for modeling engineering systems, followed by the fundamentals of control system design and analysis. Numerous examples and exercises are included for self-study.
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.
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.
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.
Chen delivers a feasible framework for applying airborne Lidar data to urban research. In addition to providing a general introduction to the subject, this book explains a series of case studies to show how theoretical models can be employed to address practical urban issues.
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 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.
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.
Not much literature exists on QR (Quick Response) Codes and their applications in the emerging digital society, making this foundational text very important to the field of technology. It spells out their “pros” and “cons”, providing potential challenges to their emergence.
Can the spirit of “Wabi-Sabi” be seen through science? This book explores the Japanese tea ceremony and its utensils from the field of materials science. While tea master Rikyu Sen perfected his art, his contemporary Leonardo da Vinci was integrating art and science in Europe.