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.
This book offers a comprehensive examination of shape control, vibration analysis, and buckling in piezolaminated composite plates. Using shear deformation theory in finite element methods, it delivers accurate calculations of deformation, frequencies, and buckling modes.
High-Temperature, Drying Shrinkage, and Environmental Impact Assessment of Alkali-Activated Concrete
This book explores Alkali-activated Concrete (AAC), a sustainable substitute for Portland cement. It focuses on AAC’s long-term performance advantages, addressing uncertainties and offering practical recommendations to pave the way for its wider use in construction.
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.
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.
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.
This book presents mathematical models of thermal stresses, strengthening, and crack formation in two-component materials like composites and dual-phase steel. Suitable for research, engineering, university courses, and non-specialists, with a helpful mathematical appendix.
This book contains proceedings from the ICRAIC 2K25 conference, where leading global experts explored cutting-edge innovations in robotics, automation, and AI. It offers valuable insights into the latest trends, challenges, and applications for researchers and professionals.
This guide explores cache coherency in multicore systems, from key protocols to the design of a scalable fabric for the RISC-V architecture. Leveraging detailed simulations, the book rigorously examines the fabric’s ability to maintain memory consistency across multiple cores.
Human Calcification Mechanisms
This book explores calcium regulation—from essential bone mineralization to harmful soft tissue calcification. It unites foundational science with AI, advanced imaging, and robotic interventions, offering cutting-edge insights into calcification disorders and their management.
Very-Large-Scale Integration Physical Design
This book presents an innovative, automated approach to fix Timing-Design Rule Check (TDRC) violations in VLSI chip design. Using TCL scripting to streamline the Engineering Change Order (ECO) process, it achieves an 87% violation fix rate with minimal global timing shifts.
Plasticity in solids is determined not by defects, but by the distribution of valence electrons. An isotropic distribution causes lattice instability, making solids more plastic but less strong. This work introduces a novel model of a plastic crystal based on this concept.
Enabling Techniques for the Internet of Things
Unlock the potential of the Internet of Things. This guide explores the networks, devices, and algorithms driving IoT. Discover practical applications from smart cities to farming, and navigate critical challenges like security, privacy, and sustainability.
Turbulent Two-Phase Jets of Mutually Immiscible Liquids
This work develops mathematical models to simulate mixing and heat transfer in turbulent multiphase jets. It presents a new method to calculate important characteristics impossible with other techniques and reveals the phenomenon of kinetic energy amplification.
Current theories fail to adequately account for energy dissipation in modern materials. Based on a new theory, this book solves problems of minimizing energy dissipation, reducing vibrations in machines, and preventing resonances, with applications in geophysics and beyond.
Birthing the Computer
This volume, the first in a series, charts the progress of computer systems, including the Zuse machines and those by IBM. It details the transition from relays to vacuum tubes, and how this led to the first true computers, resulting in them becoming a commercial enterprise.
In the 1970s, new technology was needed to build on Arctic ice. This book relates the human history and technical innovations developed, moving beyond lab studies to detail the testing, construction and use of ice in real conditions for designers, educators, and students.
Unchecked structural damages threaten public safety. This guide to non-destructive testing (NDT) methods helps inspectors select the most applicable and cost-effective technique for detecting defects in structures using steel, concrete, fibre-reinforced polymers, and timber.
A practical guide to numerical methods in structural engineering for students and professionals. Drawing on 30+ years of experience, this book bridges theory and practice, showing how to design safe, economical structures with worked examples in both SI and US customary units.
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.