Ingenieurswissenschaften

Selected Aerothermodynamic Design Problems of Hypersonic Flight Vehicles

Claus Weiland / Ernst Heinrich Hirschel

Programming Mobile Robots with Aria and Player

Amanda Whitbrook

"Programming Mobile Robots with Aria and Player" provides a guide to creating object-oriented C++ programs for robots using the Player and Aria APIs within a Linux environment. The book is...

Bond Graph Methodology

Wolfgang Borutzky

Nowadays, engineering systems are of ever-increasing complexity and must be c- sidered asmultidisciplinary systems composed of interacting subsystems or system components from different engineerin...

Proceedings of the 18th International Meshing Roundtable

<P>This volume contains the articles presented at the 18th International Meshing Roundtable (IMR)&nbsp;organized, in part, by Sandia National Laboratories and held October 25-28, 2009 in...

Lifetime-Oriented Structural Design Concepts

<P>Safety and reliability are important for the whole expected service duration of an engineering structure. Therefore, prognostical solutions for different building types are needed and unc...

Plant Microevolution and Conservation in Human-influenced Ecosystems

David Briggs

Titanate and Titania Nanotubes

Dmitry V Bavykin / Frank C Walsh

This exciting new book is a unique compilation of data from a wide range of chemical and spectroscopic instrumentation and the integration of nanostructure characterisation drawn from physical, ch...

Total Food

This Proceedings Volume provides an overview of current research and development presented at the Total Food 2009 International Conference in Norwich, April 2009. The Total Food series of biennial...

Advanced Design of Mechanical Systems: From Analysis to Optimization

Multibody systems are used extensively in the investigation of mechanical systems including structural and non-structural applications. It can be argued that among all the areas in solid mechanics...

Logic Synthesis for FSM-Based Control Units

Alexander Barkalov / Larysa Titarenko

Irreversible Electroporation

Non-thermal irreversible electroporation is a new minimally invasive surgical p- cedure with unique molecular selectivity attributes – in fact it may be considered the first clinical molecular s...

Non-Linear Mechanics of Materials

Jacques Besson / Jean-Louis Chaboche / Georges Cailletaud / Samuel Forest

<P>In mechanical engineering and structural analysis there is a significant gap between the material models currently used by engineers for industry applications and those already available ...

Fault Location on Power Networks

Eugeniusz Rosolowski / Murari Mohan Saha / Jan Jozef Izykowski

<P>Fault Location on Power Lines enables readers to pinpoint the location of a fault on power lines following a disturbance. The nine chapters are organised according to the design of differ...

Nanodiamonds

<P><EM>Nanodiamonds: Applications in Biology and Nanoscale Medicine</EM> highlights the translation of nanodiamonds toward clinical relevance and medical applications.</P>&...

Piezoelectric-Based Vibration Control

Nader Jalili

<p>“Piezoelectric-Based Vibration-control Systems: Applications in Micro/Nano Sensors and Actuators” covers: Fundamental concepts in smart (active) materials including piezoelectric and ...

Adaptive Supply Chain Management

Dmitry Ivanov / Boris Sokolov

<P>Adaptive Supply Chain Management develops new viewpoints on the SCM goal paradigm, problem semantics, and decision-making support.</P><P>Drawing upon years of research and pra...

Human Centered Robot Systems

<P>Human Centered Robotic Systems must be able to interact with humans such that the burden of adaptation lies with the machine and not with the human. This book collates a set of prominent ...

Emerging Nanotechnologies for Manufacturing

Nanotechnology is a technology on the verge of commercialization. In this important work, an unrivalled team of international experts provides an exploration of the emerging nanotechnologies that ...

Electromagnetic Fields in Stratified Media

Kai Li

<P>"Electromagnetic Fields in Stratified Media" deals with an important branch of electromagnetic theory, which has many useful applications in subsurface communication, radar, and g...

Vortex Rings

D. G. Akhmetov

Vortex flow is one of the fundamental types of fluid and gas motion. These flows are the most spectacular in the form of concentrated vortices, characterized by the localization of vorticity (curl...