Engineering: general Books

The solar thermal central receiver is a key component of any solar thermal plant. The efficiency with which a receiver accomplishes its function is of central interest in solar thermal technology. Solar thermal receivers have...

Projects of very different natures are continuously changing the world in which we live. Project management offers the right instruments to solve the multitude of problems that arise during the life of a project from its...

It was a greatest pleasure for me to learn that Springer-Verlag wished to produce a second edition of my book. In this connection, Dr. H. Lotsch asked me to send hirn a list of misprints, mistakes, and inaccuracies that had...

Current interest in a variety of low Reynolds number applications has focused attention on the design and evaluation of efficient airfoil sections at chord Reynolds numbers from about 100,000 to about 1,000,000. These ...

The third edition of Dye Lasers has been prepared in response to demand for an updated version of this well-known Topics volume. The classic chapters on continuous-wave dye lasers and properties of dye lasers are unchanged, but...

This book deals with the theory of macroscopic systems. Traditionally this theory has been fragmented over a number of disciplines like thermodynamics, physical transport phenomena, sometimes referred to as non-equilibrium or...

One cannot overemphasize the importance of studying fluids in motion or at rest for a variety of scientific and engineering endeavors. Fluid mechanics as an art reaches back into antiquity, but its rational formulation is a...

"Electromagnetic theory is a peculiar subject. The peculiarity resides not so much in the stratification - superposed layers of electrostatics. magnetostatics. steady currents and time-varying fields - as in the failure that...

The 25th Anniversary Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science was held as a joint conference with the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley...

What is Computational Hydraulics? Computational hydraulics is one of the many fields of science in which the application of computers gives rise to a new way of working, which is intermediate between purely theoretical and...

Records of the 2nd Eurographics Workshop on "Intelligent CAD Systems", Held on April 19-23, 1988, at Konigshof Congress Centre, Veldhoven, the Netherlands

Dieses Buch behandelt das Magnetische Schweben in seinen drei wichtigen Formen, permanentmagnetisches (PMS), elektromagnetisches (EMS) und elektrodynamisches (EDS) Schweben, dazu die berührungsfreien Antriebe mit Lang- und...

The Technology Program GAST was executed from 1981 to 1987 as a German-Spanish joint program aiming at the development and the investigation of necessary solar specific components and software for a gas-cooled tower power...

Micromechanics provides a link between the structure and the properties at different scales of observation. This book deals with micromechanical analysis of interfaces and interface layers and presents several modelling tools...

Because of the clearly important role cooperative systems play in areas such as military sciences, biology, communications, robotics, and economics, just to name a few, the study of cooperative systems has intensified. This...

The Structure of Neural Networks.- Transfer from the Logical Basis of Boolean Elements "AND, OR, NOT" to the Threshold Logical Basis.- Qualitative Characteristics of Neural Network Architectures.- Optimization of Cross Connection Multilayer Neural...

3 The workshop on Methods for Macromolecular Modeling (M ) , held at New York University on 12- 14 October 2000, attracted 187 participants from Eu­ rope, Asia, the Americas, and the Middle East. (see monod.biomath .nyu.eduj...

This first book on pulsed magnet design deals with the design of pulsed, non-destructive coils for the generation of high magnetic fields. It provides readers with a concise and comprehensive text describing every aspect of...

The book series on the ethics of science and technology assessment edited by the Europ?ische Akademie is devoted to the publication of the work-reports of its project groups, works on the foundations of ethics, the philosophy...

Is the behaviour of a crowd in an emergency situation predictable? Are the different patterns occurring in pedestrian flow based on common rules? How does panic change human reactions? These and other questions have been the...

1. 1 Introduction This book is written in two major parts. The ?rst part includes the int- ductory chapters consisting of Chapters 1 through 6. In part two, Chapters 7-26, we present the applications. This book continues our...

This book presents an up-to-date account of research in important topics of fuzzy group theory. It concentrates on the theoretical aspects of fuzzy subgroups of a group. It includes applications to abstract recognition problems...

This is the first and only monograph on this subject, and provides a systematic presentation of theoretical fundamentals of the mechanics of rods as well as numerical methods used for practical purposes. Includes problems and...

Do Smart Adaptive Systems Exist? is intended as a reference and a guide summarising and focusing on best practices when using intelligent techniques and building systems requiring a degree of adaptation and intelligence. It is...

Biological and philosophical anthropologies of the 20th century keep emphasising the "Sonderstellung" of humans among the realm of living beings. However, it is not clear how this particular role should be characterised, how it...

The Europäische Akademie zur Erforschung von Folgen wissenschaftlich-tech- scher Entwicklungen Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler GmbH is concerned with the sci- tific study of the consequences of scientific and technological advance for...

This monograph systematically presents the existing identification methods of nonlinear systems using the block-oriented approach It surveys various known approaches to the identification of Wiener and Hammerstein systems which...

This book collects invited lectures presented and discussed on the AMAS & ECCOMAS Workshop/Thematic Conference SMART'o3. The SMART'o3 Conference on Smart Materials and Structures was held in a 19th century palace in Jadwisin...

Humans have always been hopeless at predicting the future...most people now generally agree that the margin of viability in prophecy appears to be 1 ten years. Even sophisticated research endeavours in this arena tend to go 2...

Fourth edition sold over 1400 copies in North America. For the fifth edition the chapter on Optimization has been enlarged and the chapters on Probability Theory and Statistics have been carefully revised. Includes over 450...

It is known that composites have insufficient transversal strength and rigidity, and low longitudinal shear modulus, compression and shear strength. This book describes methods to avoid these disadvantages by hybridization and...

Innovations in Intelligent Systems is a rare collection of the latest developments in intelligent paradigms such as knowledge-based systems, computational intelligence and hybrid combinations as well as practical applications...

This research report brings together present trends in advanced welding robots, robotic welding, artificial intelligent and automatic welding. It includes important technical subjects on welding robots such as...

Seit den Veröffentlichungen von Porter haben wettbewerbsstrategische Frage­ stellungen in der betriebswirtschaftliehen Literatur zunehmende Bedeutung erfah­ ren. Die leichte Nachvollziehbarkeil strategischer Empfehlungen der...

Dieses Lehrbuch führt den Anwender der Mathematik, insbesondere Ingenieure und Naturwissenschaftler, in die Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und mathematische Statistik ein. Inhaltliche Schwerpunkte sind zufällige Ereignisse,...

Das Lehr- und Übungsbuch "Physik mit dem PC" wendet sich an Schüler und Studenten, die ausgesuchte physikalische Themen mit dem Computer behandeln wollen. Eine Vielzahl von Aufgabenstellungen führt den Leser gleichermaßen in...

Dieser Band ist aus Lehrveranstaltungen hervorgegangen, die von den Autoren für Ingenieurstudenten, insbesondere für den Studiengang Bauingenieurwesen, an der Technischen Universität Dresden gehalten wurden. Zentrale Themen...

Viren sind in der Umwelt nahezu allgegenwärtig. Sie stellen Umweltfaktoren dar, die in starkem Maße sowohl auf Individuen, besonders auf deren Eigenum­ welt, als auch auf Ökosysteme und Populationssysteme einwirken. Viren...

Heute hat der diffuse Stoffeintrag in Böden und in Gewässern, sei es über den Luftpfad oder über die Bodennutzung, in vielen Regionen Ausmaße angenommen, die ein regelndes Eingreifen zum Schutz der Wasserressourcen erforderlich...

Das vorliegende Studien skript "Silizium-Halbleitertechnologie" ist aus der Vorlesung "Halbleitertechnologie" entstanden, die erstmalig im Wintersemester 1989/90 von Prof. Dr.-Ing. K. Schumacher an der Universität Dortmund...

Dieses Skript ist für diejenigen geschrieben, die das Studium der BWL beginnen wollen. Es soll helfen, den Weg zu ebnen, in das interessante Gebiet der Wirtschaft gedanklich einzusteigen. Auch Praktiker sind eingeladen, das...

Dieses Skriptum entstand aus der einsemestrigen Wahlvorle­ sung "Ölhydraulik" an der FH Ulm, die für die Studenten der Studiengänge der Fachrichtung Maschinenwesen angeboten wird. Das Skriptum setzt wie die Vorlesung nur die...

Seit jeher ist man im Ingenieurberuf daran inter­ essiert, ein gegebenes Ziel schnell, effektiv und ohne ubertriebenen Aufwand zu erreichen. Dies gilt ganz besonders im Bereich der Elektronik, der ja bekanntlich sehr raschen...

Diese Sammlung sozialgeschichtlich orientierter und soziolo­ gisch interessanter Arbeiten soll eine Einführung in ein Thema sein, dem sich die Denker seit über 200 Jahren mit zunehmender Intensität, aber mit abnehmender...