Ingenieurswissenschaften

SystemVerilog for Verification

Chris Spear

<P>The updated second edition of this book provides practical information for hardware and software engineers using the SystemVerilog language to verify electronic designs. The author explai...

Innovators

David P. Billington

A richly illustrated introduction to the engineering triumphs that made America modernIn this age of microchips and deep space probes, it's hard to imagine life before electricity or passenger...

Maintenance Engineering Handbook

Darrin Wikoff

Stay Up to Date on the Latest Issues in Maintenance Engineering The most comprehensive resource of its kind, Maintenance Engineering Handbook has long been a staple for engineers, managers, and t...

Fluid Dynamics of Cavitation and Cavitating Turbopumps

<P>The book focuses on the fluid dynamics of cavitation with special reference to high power density turbopumps, where it represents the major source of performance and life degradation. Whi...

Modeling Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

<P>This book fills the need for a practical reference for all scientists and graduate students who are seeking to define a mathematical model for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) simulation. Str...

The Variational Approach to Fracture

Gilles A. Francfort / Blaise Bourdin / Jean-Jacques Marigo

<P>Presenting original results from both theoretical and numerical viewpoints, this text offers a detailed discussion of the variational approach to brittle fracture. This approach views cra...

Structured Light and Its Applications

New possibilities have recently emerged for producing optical beams with complex and intricate structures, and for the non-contact optical manipulation of matter. This book fully describes the ele...

RFID Security and Privacy

Dirk Henrici

In the beginning of 2003, I found a short article about the privacy implications of RFID technology in a newspaper. It raised my interest, and after reading some early research papers on the topic...

Space Psychology and Psychiatry

Dietrich Manzey / Nick Kanas

<P>The first edition of this book was voted Winner of the 2004 International Academy of Astronautics Life Sciences Award. The second edition deals with psychological, psychiatric, and psycho...

Acoustics for Engineers

Jens Blauert / Ning Xiang

This book provides the material for an introductory course in engineering acoustics for students with basic knowledge in mathematics. It is based on extensive teaching experience at the university...

The Sound of Silence

Burkhard Vogel

<P>The content of this book will lead to affordable phono amplifier design approaches which will end up in lowest-noise solutions not far away from the edge of physical boundaries set by roo...

Compressibility Of Ultra-soft Soil

Myint Win Bo

Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 2008

With the total number of vehicles steadily increasing and soon approaching one billion, the world is facing serious challenges in terms of both safety of road transport and sustainability. Consequ...

ERP Systems and Organisational Change

<P>ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems are now the backbone of the information systems in public and private sector organisations. Yet difficulties remain. This book provides a unique...

Timber Designers' Manual

J. A. Baird / E. C. Ozelton

This major structural engineering manual covers overall detail design of structural timber and includes extensive tables and coefficients for speedy reference. The current edition takes account of...

Gas Turbine Performance

Paul Fletcher / Philip P. Walsh

A significant addition to the literature on gas turbine technology, the second edition of Gas Turbine Performance is a lengthy text covering product advances and technological developments. Includ...

The Lakes Handbook, Volume 2

Continuing concern about water supply and quality, ecosystem sustainability and restoration demands that the modern approach to the management of lakes and reservoirs should be based on a sound un...

Complex System Maintenance Handbook

<P>This utterly comprehensive work is thought to be the first to integrate the literature on the physics of the failure of complex systems such as hospitals, banks and transport networks. It...

Noise and Vibration Mitigation for Rail Transportation Systems

This book contains the presentations given during the 9th International Workshop on Railway Noise (IWRN9) which took place in Munich/Feldafing, Germany, on 4th to 8th September 2007. This workshop...

Bioengineering in Cell and Tissue Research

<P>Cutting edge research in cell and tissue research abounds in this review of the latest technological developments in the area. The chapters are written by excellent scientists on advanced...