Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
|
Your cart is empty |
|||
Books > Academic & Education > Professional & Technical > Engineering
Electromagnetics is the foundation of our electric technology. It describes the fundamental principles upon which electricity is generated and used. This includes electric machines, high voltage transmission, telecommunication, radar, and recording and digital computing. This book will serve both as an introductory text for graduate students and as a reference book for professional engineers and researchers. This book leads the uninitiated into the realm of numerical methods for solving electromagnetic field problems by examples and illustrations. Detailed descriptions of advanced techniques are also included for the benefit of working engineers and research students. * Comprehensive descriptions of numerical methods
This volume contains 18 papers selected from 90 presented at the
Fifth International Conference on Biaxial/Multiaxial Fatigue and
Fracture held in Cracow, Poland 8-12 September 1997. The papers in
this book deal with theoretical, computational and experimental
aspects of the multiaxial fatigue and fracture of engineering
materials and structures. The papers are divided into the following
four categories: Most papers in this publication talk about the behaviour of
constructional materials and elements of machines under
non-proportional loading and under variable amplitude and random
loading, which are more realistic load histories met in industrial
practice. Variable amplitude loading under cyclic load with basic
frequency and random loading under load with a continuous band of
frequency is classified here. This book gives a review of the
latest world success and directions of investigations on multiaxial
fatigue and fracture. More and more often publications are results
of the co-operation of researchers from different laboratories and
countries. Seven out of eighteen papers included here were worked
out by international authors teams. This is a symptom of the times,
when science and investigations know no borders.
Growing numbers of engineering graduates are finding employment in
the control systems area with applications to manufacturing. To be
properly prepared for such positions, it is desirable that the
students be exposed to the topics of process control, discrete
logic control and the fundamentals of manufacturing. Presently
there is no existing textbook and/or reference that combine
together process control, discrete logic control and the
fundamentals of manufacturing. This is a book that fills that
gap. * Covers both analog and digital control using P/PI/PID
controllers and discrete logic control using ladder logic diagrams
and programmable logic controllers
"Rock Mass Classifications - A Practical Approach in Civil
Engineering" was written in response to the many unanswered
questions regarding this subject. Questions such as - Is
Classification reasonably reliable? Can it be successful in crisis
management of geohazards? Can a single Classification system be
general for all rock structures? Is Classification a scientific
approach? Laborious field research was undertaken in the Himalayan
mountains by a team of scientists from the Central Mining Research
Institute (CMRI), University of Roorkee (UOR), Central Soil and
Material Research Station (CSMRS), U.P. Irrigation Research
Institute (UPIRI), and Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) to
answer these questions. The results obtained from the research work
were systematically compiled to produce this book which bears
particular relevance to civil, mining and petroleum engineers and
geologists. Endorsements
The Second Sino-US Symposium Workshop on Recent Advancement of
Computational Mechanics in Structural Engineering was held between
May 25-28, 1998, in Dalian, China. The objectives were: to share
the insights and experiences gained from recent developments in
theory and practice; to assess the current state of knowledge in
various topic areas of mechanics and computational methods and to
identify joint research opportunities; to stimulate future
cooperative research and to develop joint efforts in subjects of
common needs and interests; to build and to strengthen the
long-term bilateral scientific relationship between academic and
professional practicing communities.
Research into thermal convection in porous media has substantially
increased during recent years due to its numerous practical
applications. These problems have attracted the attention of
industrialists, engineers and scientists from many very diversified
disciplines, such as applied mathematics, chemical, civil,
environmental, mechanical and nuclear engineering, geothermal
physics and food science. Thus, there is a wealth of information
now available on convective processes in porous media and it is
therefore appropriate and timely to undertake a new critical
evaluation of this contemporary information. "Transport Phenomena
in Porous Media" contains 17 chapters and represents the collective
work of 27 of the world's leading experts, from 12 countries, in
heat transfer in porous media. The recent intensive research in
this area has substantially raised the expectations for numerous
new practical applications and this makes the book a most timely
addition to the existing literature. It includes recent major
developments in both the fundamentals and applications, and
provides valuable information to researchers dealing with practical
problems in thermal convection in porous media. Each chapter of the
book describes recent developments in the highly advanced
analytical, numerical and experimental techniques which are
currently being employed and discussions of possible future
developments are provided. Such reviews not only result in the
consolidation of the currently available information, but also
facilitate the identification of new industrial applications and
research topics which merit further work.
A multidisciplinary introduction to engineering design using
real-life case studies.
Mastering modelling, and in particular numerical models, is becoming a crucial and central question in modern computational mechanics. Various tools, able to quantify the quality of a model with regard to another one taken as the reference, have been derived. Applied to computational strategies, these tools lead to new computational methods which are called "adaptive." The present book is concerned with outlining the state of the art and the latest advances in both these important areas. Papers are selected from a Workshop (Cachan 17-19 September 1997) which is the third of a series devoted to Error Estimators and Adaptivity in Computational Mechanics. The Cachan Workshop dealt with latest advances in adaptive computational methods in mechanics and their impacts on solving engineering problems. It was centered too on providing answers to simple questions such as: what is being used or can be used at present to solve engineering problems? What should be the state of art in the year 2000? What are the new questions involving error estimators and their applications?
This book is a comprehensive and practical guide to the use of
ultrasonic techniques for the characterization of fluids. Focusing
on ultrasonic velocimetry, the author covers the basic topics and
techniques necessaryfor successful ultrasound measurements on
emulsions, dispersions, multiphase media, and
viscoelastic/viscoplastic materials. Advanced techniques such as
scattering, particle sizing, and automation are also presented. As
a handbook for industrial and scientific use, Ultrasonic Techniques
for Fluids Characterization is an indispensable guide to chemists
and chemical engineers using ultrasound for research or process
monitoring in the chemical, food processing, pharmaceutical,
cosmetic, biotechnology, and fuels industries.
Hydrodynamic Lubrication is the culmination of over 20 years close,
collaborative work by the five authors and discusses the practical
use of the formalization of low pressure lubrication. The work
concentrates on the developments to journal and thrust bearings and
includes subjects such as: - the dynamic behaviour of plain and tilting-pads - the thermal aspects - the positive and negative effects of non-cyclindricity and shape defects resulting from manufacturing or operation - the effects of inertia - the appearance of Taylor's vortices and of turbulence and their repercussions. The book contains an abundance of test results objectively compared with theoretical conclusions and a chapter on "technical considerations" to ensure that draft mechanisms will work satisfactorily under the imposed conditions. Hydrodynamic Lubrication is an essential reference book for future and practising engineers who want to put hydrodynamic and hydrostatic journal bearings and thrust bearings into operation under conditions of total safety.
This book contains 38 papers presented at the seventh Working
Conference on 'Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems'
held at Boulder, Colorado, USA, on April 2-4, 1996. The Working
Conference was organized by the IFIP (International Federation for
Information Processing) Working Group 7.5 of Technical Committee 7
and was the seventh in a series of similar conferences. The
objectives of the Working Group and hence this publication are:
- to promote modern structural systems optimization and
reliability theory,
Control problems offer an industrially important application and a
guide to understanding control systems for those working in Neural
Networks. Neural Systems for Control represents the most up-to-date
developments in the rapidly growing aplication area of neural
networks and focuses on research in natural and artifical neural
systems directly applicable to control or making use of modern
control theory. The book covers such important new developments in
control systems such as intelligent sensors in semiconductor wafer
manufacturing; the relation between muscles and cerebral neurons in
speech recognition; online compensation of reconfigurable control
for spacecraft aircraft and other systems; applications to rolling
mills, robotics and process control; the usage of past output data
to identify nonlinear systems by neural networks; neural
approximate optimal control; model-free nonlinear control; and
neural control based on a regulation of physiological
investigation/blood pressure control. All researchers and students
dealing with control systems will find the fascinating Neural
Systems for Control of immense interest and assistance.
The International Conference on Mechanical Design and Production
has been established since 1979 by the Department of Mechanical
Design and Production at Cairo University. The conference MDP-6 held in Cairo, 2-4 January 1996, represents
the 6th in the series. Its aim was to highlight the current
advances in mechanical design and production, and to disseminate
the latest developments from academic and industrial institutions
in all related scientific disciplines. This publication includes a selection of papers submitted to the conference and reviewed by members of the scientific committee. The main areas of the papers include: materials processing and characterization constitutive modeling; simulation and analysis of manufacturing processes; numerical analysis of structures; fracture analysis; design and tribology; dynamics, control and robotics; and new trends in industrial and manufacturing engineering.
The direct conversion of daylight into electricity by photovoltaic solar cells is one of the most promising of the renewable energy options. The importance of the technology is reflected in the growth in the field. What was largely technology for space programmes in 1976 produced 28.6 MW of terrestrial modules in 1987. The popularity of the technology can partly be explained by its versatility. Arrays of any size and voltage can be constructed from standard modules, with the conversion efficiency being practically independent from output. Photovoltaics are also well suited to on-site generation of power in remote areas. This book is intended primarily to give students, engineers and scientists entering the photovoltaics field an overview of all aspects of the subject, with pointers to further reading. However, by using simple language and avoiding jargon, an effort has been made to make the work useful and interesting to the general public. |
You may like...
Turbulence in Porous Media - Modeling…
Marcelo J. S. de Lemos
Hardcover
R4,107
Discovery Miles 41 070
Compressibility, Turbulence and High…
Thomas B. Gatski, Jean-Paul Bonnet
Hardcover
R2,332
Discovery Miles 23 320
Computational Fluid Dynamics in Fire…
Guan Heng Yeoh, Kwok Kit Yuen
Hardcover
The Mechanics of Constitutive Modeling
Niels Saabye Ottosen, Matti Ristinmaa
Hardcover
R5,572
Discovery Miles 55 720
|