Rigging is hazardous and complex. This book deals exhaustively with the scientific principles and safe practices for rigging heavy loads. It is a must-read for managers and engineers responsible for the safety of their teams involved in heavy rigging activities.
This volume highlights West Africa’s abundant clean energy resources. It shows the pace at which the renewable energy sector is growing and its contribution to mitigating global warming, detailing resources, the business environment, and the development of solar and hydro power.
This book presents the theory and methods of solving vector optimization problems. It mathematically proves an optimal solution, solving the problem for the first time, with applied methods for researchers modeling economic and engineering systems.
This book describes mathematical methods for calculating nuclear characteristics and intercluster potentials. It discusses phase shift analysis of elastic scattering at low and astrophysical energies and investigates three-body models of light nuclear nuclei.
Outer Space Development, International Relations and Space Law
The development of outer space is happening now, but few are aware. The vast wealth it generates threatens to create unprecedented inequality. This is a call to action to ensure the final frontier benefits all of humanity, not just a select few.
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.
Digitalization leads to complex applications encoded by simple Boolean variables. However, their exponential growth creates challenges. This book gathers research on the Boolean domain to help readers solve these real-life scientific and practical tasks.
The sun is a powerful source of energy, yet we fail to use it efficiently. This book explains the significance of light spectra and intensity manipulation through innovation for enhanced electricity production by solar devices.
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.
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.
Drawing parallels to fluid dynamics, this book observes how solar wind creates vortex structures in the plasma wakes of planets and comets. These features reveal an outstanding property that could also be produced by stellar winds interacting with the ionospheres of exoplanets.
A hands-on guide to solving industrially relevant problems. Master basic and advanced calculations for key chemical industry processes. Features real-life exercises with answers, covering complex installations with recycle-loops and cascades of reactors.
Appraisal of Water Resources for Effective and Sustainable Management
This book assesses the chemical health of the Volta Lake ecosystem, using pollution indicators to inform sustainable management. It offers an integrated approach to protect the ecosystem, safeguard quality of life, and preserve the lake for future generations.
A comprehensive overview of spiro compounds for academics and industry professionals. Covering modern synthesis strategies and their applications with up-to-date information, this collection will inspire future advances in the field.
This textbook on hydroacoustics covers the reflectivity of elastic bodies and the synthesis of hydroacoustic antennas. Along with classical diffraction theory, it uses numerical methods like the finite element method and the boundary element method.
This book discusses traffic information estimation methods using cellular network data for Intelligent Transportation Systems. It proposes three key methods: Handover (HO)-based, Fingerprint Positioning Algorithm (FPA)-based, and Cell Probe (CP)-based.
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 explores the preservation of the urban historical environment. It covers improving and strengthening building structures, construction technology, geotechnics, and energy efficiency, detailing developments in pile structures using discharge-pulse technology.
Existing methods for studying the piezooptic properties of crystals are imperfect and lead to significant errors. This book introduces 2D-polarimetric and interferometric methods that increase experimental accuracy and ensure reliable results for photoelastic properties.
Clarkeson turns architecture on its head, reading Palladio’s drawings as carefully crafted and meant to be measured. This book claims Palladio’s rightful place in the history of metrology, offering a fresh interpretation that dispels myths and explains ‘the bits that don’t fit’.
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