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.
This is the first book to form the big picture of all data analytics methods in spectroscopy. Its rigorous mathematical basis, in-depth descriptions, numerous examples, and reproducible calculations make it a valuable guide for practitioners, students, and lecturers.
This collection of influential essays and articles will help your community develop people-first strategies for becoming smarter and more intelligent. Learn from in-depth global examples of innovation, connectivity, sustainability, and inclusive, equitable growth.
Heat transfer is vital for efficient power production. This book covers efficiently utilizing energy by integrating heat exchangers into power production units. It provides descriptions of heat transfer applications in everyday life and industry, supported by practical examples.
This book travels back in time to describe the utilization of materials both familiar and arcane. It explores their practical history in mining, metallurgy and crafts, with evidence from archaeology and geology, portraying the advances that led to modern materials science.
This book covers the automatic protection, control, and monitoring of power systems. It focuses on intelligent algorithms to combat ferroresonance and SSR in traditional and smart grids, and introduces a SCADA-based system for simulation, analysis, and energy management.
This book examines why modern architecture lacks humanity and creates environmental errors. It studies historical styles to show how the evolution of design was broken in the 20th century by aggressive, reductionist ideologies that attack our inherited communities.
This book explores the window’s transformation in Early Modern Europe. Driven by a classical revival and the climate change of the Little Ice Age, builders created new traditions that rivalled Italy, culminating in the iconic French casement and the English sash window.
Understanding Interactions in Complex Systems
This book explores the complex nature of interactions and the modeling of interactional systems. It shows that all disciplines can be enriched by exploring alternative paradigms, arguing that ignoring the multi-dimensional nature of interactions is not an option.
This book covers mineral resource estimation, from classic geometric to modern geostatistical techniques. It includes essential theory, mine planning, international codes, and extensive diagrams. A comprehensive textbook and reference for students and mining geologists.
This book provides an in-depth description of the why and how of offset QPSK. Topics move from time-domain descriptions and benefits to detection, synchronization, equalization, and offset QPSK’s relationship to continuous phase modulations, illustrated with detailed examples.
Explore the synthesis, characterization, and applications of advanced polymeric materials. Written by renowned experts, this book bridges the gap between fundamental research and industry, covering innovations in energy storage, biomedical technology, and electronic materials.
In colonial Mexico, male missionary orders built vast complexes in urban centers. This book surveys what remains of this unique architectural patrimony in Mexico City, Puebla, and other cities, discussing its history and role in urban development for historians and architects.
This book sets forth the theory of optimal manoeuvring near a circular orbit for transfer and rendezvous problems. It presents simple analytical methods for real spacecraft and details effective methods for manoeuvre assessment to more accurately propagate collision hazards.
This book describes the physics and modeling of the near-Earth medium and its disturbances from seismic and solar sources. It explores the coupling between the Earth’s solid and gaseous shells, providing a basis for natural disaster prediction. For scientists and students.
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.
For students in medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry, this text covers General and Inorganic Chemistry with a focus on medical applications. It presents chemical principles and explores their role in developing metal-based diagnostic and therapeutic agents and new cancer therapies.
Nanostructured Nonlinear Optical Materials
This book focuses on novel applications of nanostructured nonlinear optical materials, including optical limiting, Q-switching, mode-locking, and laser-nanoplasma physics. It is useful for physicists, material scientists, and engineers interested in laser technology.
This book explores climate-resilient building in India, focusing on durable structures for aggressive environments. It covers the causes of concrete deterioration and offers cost-effective mix designs and improved construction practices to enhance the service life of structures.
A refresher for health professionals, this book reinforces the statistical principles required for certification and board exams. Its concise presentation, with many examples and exercises, helps solidify your learning and retention of key topics.