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Motion and Structure from Image Sequences is invaluable reading for researchers, graduate students, and practicing engineers dealing with computer vision. It presents a balanced treatment of the theoretical and ...

Provided here is a comprehensive treatise on all aspects of dielectric properties of wood and wood products. The topics covered include: Interaction between electromagnetic field and wood. - Wood composition and ...

"Methods of the Classical Theory of Elastodynamics" deals not only with classical methods as developed in the past decades, but presents also very recent approaches. Applications and solutions to specific problems serve ...

This book contains papers that were presented at the International Conference on Polycrystalline Semiconductors - Grain Boundaries, Dislocations and Het­ erointerfaces - (POLYSE '90), which was held in Schwabisch Hall, FRG,...

WAVE TURBULENCE is a state of a system of many simultaneously excited and interacting waves characterized by an energy distribution which is not in any sense close to thermodynamic equilibrium. Such situations in a choppy sea,...

"Adhesion and Friction: Microscopic Concepts" was the theme of the third workshop on interface phenomena organized jointly by the surface science groups at Dalhousie University and the University of Maine. The first two...

The summer school on "Silicon: Materials Science and Technology" was held at the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture in Erice, Sicily. It was the 16th course of a series in the International School of Materials...

The articles collected in this volume give a broad overview of the current state of surface science. Pioneers in the field and researchers met together at this Solvay Conference to discuss important new developments in surface...

We are extremely grateful to Springer-Verlag and to Prof. Dr. W. BeiglbOck for bring­ ing out the English edition of our book. We are also thankful to Dr. R. S. Wadhwa for a qualified translation. While preparing the manuscript...

Computers have been employed for some time in engineering design mainly as numerical or graphical tools to assist analysis and draughting. The advent of the technology of artificial intelligence and expert systems has enabled...

This book is a result of the lectures and discussions during the conference "Theory and Practice of Geometric Modeling". The event has been organized by the Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut fiir Informatik, Universitat Tiibingen and...

Dieses Buch bietet eine systematische Einführung in dieses neue Arbeitsfeld der automatischen Bildanalyse. Es behandelt sämtliche wichtigen Teilaspekte, beginnend mit der Gewinnung von Tiefenbildern durch passive und aktive...

Das Buch führt in die Grundlagen des Leichtbaus stabförmiger Tragwerke ein, die auch heute noch zur Abschätzung der ersten Dimensionierung (von z.B. Tragflügel oder Rumpf eines Flugzeuges oder Schiffes, Eisenbahnwaggon, Rakete,...

Dieses Buch beschreibt kompetent und umfassend die aktuellen Technologien zur Herstellung von hochintegrierten Schaltungen bis zur Prozeßintegration für den 256-Mbit-Speicher. Es wendet sich damit an fortgeschrittene Studenten...

Das Buch zeigt ausführlich die vielen Möglichkeiten für die Gestaltung von textilen Halbzeugen, die über verschiedene Stadien zum fertigen Bauteil führen. Außerdem gibt es Einblick in Kombinationsmöglichkeiten von Fasern und...

Dieses Buch befaßt sich mit den Grundlagen, Methoden und neueren Entwicklungen von Produktionsplanungs- und steuerungssystemen (PPS-Systeme) sowie integrierten betrieblichen Softwarelösungen und enthält eine aufwendige...

A process model is very often used for system analysis, design and management in various application areas. Using a process model has the advantage that it has only to be as precise as necessary within the parameters of the...

The EUROMECH Colloquium "Dynamics of Vibro-Impact Systems" was held at th th Loughborough University on September 15 _18 , 1998. This was the flrst international meeting on this subject continuing the traditions of the series...

More than a decade ago, because of the phenomenal growth in the power of computer simulations, The University of Georgia formed the first institutional unit devoted to the use of simulations in research and teaching: The Center...

here, Herbert Baur provides a simple description of the theory of thermophysics of polymers. In order to illustrate the theoretical skeleton, he only treats the simple, easily comprehensible problems of polymer physics, yet, in...

Intended for engineers who deal with vibrations of rods and shells in their everyday practice but who also wish to understand the subject from the mathematical point-of-view, the results contained here concerning high-frequency...

This book supplies a systematic description of the preparation, characterization, and manipulation of cluster beams for the synthesis of nanocrystalline materials. It addresses all issues relevant to the realization of...

"Are there common phenomena and laws in the dynamic behavior of granular materials, traffic, and socio-economic systems?" The answers given at the international workshop "Traffic and Granular Flow '99" are presented in this...

A straightforward introduction to basic concepts and methodologies for digital photoelasticity, providing a foundation on which future researchers and students can develop their own ideas. The book thus promotes research into...

More than a decade ago, because of the phenomenal growth in the power of computer simulations, The University of Georgia formed the first institutional unit devoted to the use of simulations in research and teaching: The Center...

A comprehensive presentation and analysis of properties and methods of formation of semiconducting silicides. Fundamental electronic, optical and transport properties of the silicides collected from recent publications will...

Pressure is one of the essential thermodynamic variables that, due to some former experimental difficulties, was long known as the "forgotten variable." But this has changed over the last decade. This book includes the most essential first experiments...

This volume includes 11 contributions to the 23rd Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society which took in Antalya, Turkey between September 6th and 11th, 2009. The contributions from leading scientists cover a broad spectrum of topics...

to Inorganic and Metallic Nanotubes.- Synthesis and Applications of Titanium Oxide Nanotubes.- Synthesis, Structural Analysis, and Applications of Titanium Oxide Nanotubes.- Synthesis and Applications of Titanium Oxide Nanotube Thin Films.- Synthesis and...

Vortex Sheets of Aircraft in Takeoff and Landing.- An Adaptive Implicit Finite Volume Scheme for Compressible Turbulent Flows about Elastic Configurations.- Timestep Control for Weakly Instationary Flows.- Adaptive Multiscale Methods for Flow Problems:...

Power Generation from Solid Fuels introduces the different technologies to produce heat and power from solid fossil (hard coal, brown coal) and renewable (biomass, waste) fuels, such as combustion and gasification, steam power plants and combined cycles...

High-Field Domains.- Moving High-Field Domains.- Negative Differential Conductivity Caused by Mobility.- Negative Differential Conductivity in Other Materials.- Current Channels.

Scientific Background.- Overview on OntoCAPE.- Meta Model.- Upper Level.- Supporting Concepts.- Material.- Chemical Process Systems.- Mathematical Models.- Design Principles of OntoCAPE.- Related Work on Ontologies for Engineering Applications.-...