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Operations Research Models and
In a rapidly developing field like Operations Research, its easy to get overwhelmed by the variety of topics and analytic techniques. Paul Jensen and Jonathan Bard help you master the expensive field by focusing on the fundamental models and …
The Handbook of Advanced Materials: Enabling New Designs
detailed guide to the latest advanced materials. New and improved product designs demand knowledge of the latest advanced materials. Having this knowledge and putting it into practice will frequently result in higher product performance, …
Bridges the gap between virtual reality and computer vision in manufacturing. What will it take to make virtual manufacturing a reality? In this groundbreaking book, leading VR researchers reveal the latest findings in key areas that are driving …
brand-new edition of the classic guide on low-speed wind tunnel testing While great advances in theoretical and computational methods have been made in recent years, low-speed wind tunnel testing remains essential for obtaining the full range of …
This text provides the fundamental background in mechanics, materials, and numerical analysis necessary to understand the principles of metal forming and its analysis. Using a unified approach, the authors bridge traditional gaps between forming …
Advanced Project Management: Best Practices on Implementation
Authoritative strategies for implementing project management. Senior managers at world-class corporations open their office doors to discuss case studies that demonstrate their thought processes and actual strategies that helped them lead their …
Diffusion in Solids: Field Theory, Solid-State Principles, and Applications
This book offers a modern treatment of diffusion in solids, covering such core topics as the transport of mass through the lattice of a crystalline solid. Part I of the book develops basic concepts in diffusion field theory and illustrates them …
Molecular Imprinting: From Fundamentals to Applications
Molecular imprinting, the polymerization of monomers in the presence of a template molecule which imprints structural information into the resulting polymers, is a scientific field which is rapidly gaining significance for a widening range of …
Acoustical engineers, researchers, architects, and designers need a comprehensive, single-volume reference that provides quick and convenient access to important information, answers and questions on a broad spectrum of topics, and helps solve …
Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning: Analysis and Design
Completely revised with the latest HVAC design practices!. Based on the most recent standards from ASHRAE, this Sixth Edition provides complete and up-to-date coverage of all aspects of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. You'll find the …
Colloid science is often described as an 'enabling' discipline, and its skills and techniques radiate into a wide spectrum of real scientific and industrial challenges ranging from engineering and physics through materials science and chemistry …
Extended Surface Heat Transfer
much-needed reference focusing on the theory, design, and applications of a broad range of surface types. Written by three of the best-known experts in the field. Covers compact heat exchangers, periodic heat flow, boiling off finned surfaces, …
Automotive Electrical Maintenance
This book describes how to carry out safely a range of basic servicing checks and replacements, such as they will be asked routinely to carry out in a general motor workshop. It assumes no scientific or mathematical background and includes …
The Physics and Chemistry of Materials
comprehensive introduction to the structure, properties, and applications of materials. This title provides the first unified treatment for the broad subject of materials. Authors Gersten and Smith use a fundamental approach to define the …
Financial and Economic Analysis for Engineering and Technology Management
Expert guidance for fiscally responsible engineering and technology managers. Written for practicing project engineers, students, and technical managers with no previous background in accounting or finance, Financial and Economic Analysis for …
Tape Casting: Theory and Practice
This major reference book is divided into two sections; the first deals with the practical, hands-on understanding of individual areas of tape casting and the other targets the understanding of the overall system. Readers can quickly address …
classroom-tested textbook providing a fundamental understanding of basic kinetic processes in materials. This textbook, reflecting the hands-on teaching experience of its three authors, evolved from Massachusetts Institute of Technology's first-…
Genetic Algorithms and Engineering Optimization
comprehensive guide to a powerful new analytical tool by two of its foremost innovators. The past decade has witnessed many exciting advances in the use of genetic algorithms (GAs) to solve optimization problems in everything from product design …
Complete coverage from fundamentals to cutting-edge applications. A solid understanding of tribology is essential for engineers in many fields working to design and ensure the reliability of machine parts and systems. This Introduction to …
Are You Looking for a Unified and Concise Approach to Teaching and Learning the Structure of Materials? Allen and Thomas present information in a manner consistent with the way future scientists and engineers will be required to think about …
Mechanics of Fibrous Composites
Comprehensive coverage of micro and macro mechanics of composite materials. Case studies on designing composite materials and laminates. Uses both SI and U.S. Customary units throughout. This is the only book that covers laminated tubes and …
Electrochemistry of Nanomaterials
Engineering of nanophase materials and devices is of vital interest in electronics, semiconductors and optics, catalysis, ceramics and magnetism. Research associated with nanoparticles has widely spread and diffused into every field of scientific …
Understanding Solids: The Science of Materials
"Understanding Solids: The Science of Materials" is a modern introduction to the structures and properties of solids. Taking an integrated approach, designed to appeal to both science and engineering students, the book develops an understanding …
The primary aspects of gas dynamics, meticulously covered and easy to understand. Fundamentals of Gas Dynamics provides the essential applications and problem-solving techniques used in gas dynamics. Written in an accessible but rigorous style, …
MATLAB Tutorial CD: Learning MATLAB Superfast
Learn how to use MATLAB—quickly and easily! Brian Daku's "MATLAB Tutorial CD: Learning MATLAB SuperFast" offers students a manageable, accessible, and affordable way to learn how to use this powerful programming tool, without the help of an …
This Second Edition for the standard graduate level course in conduction heat transfer has been updated and oriented more to engineering applications partnered with real-world examples. New features include: numerous grid generation—for finding …
This graduate text, and Cooper's companion introductory text ('Introduction to the Technology of Explosives'), serve the same markets as the successful explosives reference by Meyer, now in its 4th edition. VCH also published the International …
Apply Engineering Fundamentals to Human Factors Applications With a sound qualitative, mathematical approach, this new book shows how to use fundamental engineering skills to solve human factors application problems. As readers learn to use the …
Advanced Mechanics of Materials
Building on the success of five previous editions, this new sixth edition continues to present a unified approach to the study of the behavior of structural members and the development of design and failure criteria. The text treats each type of …
Thermal Quadrupoles: Solving the Heat Equation Through Integral Transforms
Thermal Quadrupoles describes a novel and powerful method which allows design engineers firstly to model a linear problem in heat conduction, then build a solution in an explicit form and finally obtain a numerical solution. It constitutes a …