This edition contains 17 papers presented at past Anna Maria Workshops. Topics include The Future of the Cement and Concrete Industries, Testing and Standards for Concrete Durability, and Designing Concrete for Durability.

This book is a crash course in the fundamental theory, concepts, and terminology of switching power supplies. It is designed to quickly prepare engineers to make key decisions about power supplies for their projects.
Intended for readers who need to quickly understand the key points of switching power supplies, this book covers the 20% of the topic that engineers use, 80% of the time.
Unlike existing switching power supply books that deal strictly with design issues, this book also recognizes the growing importance of "off-the-shelf" commercial switching power supplies, giving readers the background necessary to select the right commercial supply.
This book covers the core essentials of power supply theory and design while keeping mathematics to the absolute minimum necessary. Special attention is given to the selection of appropriate components, such as inductors and transformers, to ensure safe and reliable operation. Engineers, whose main design responsibilities are in other areas, will better understand the strengths and weaknesses of switching power supplies and whether such supplies are appropriate for their projects. They will be able to give more meaningful design requirements and specifications to those who design switching power supplies.
* Discusses both AC line supplies and DC-DC inverters.
* Covers the main switching power supply designs, including flyback, forward conversion, bridge, buch, boost, and boost/buck topologies.
* Design examples include a 220 volt offline switching power supply and a 110 volt uninterruptible supply.

AUTHORITATIVE, COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS FOR MEMS AND MOEMS ASSEMBLIES .

. This is a rigorous examination of design concepts, fabrication processes, and properties of materials used in MEMS and MOEMS package construction and assembly, detailing routing, electrical performance, thermal management, hermeticity level, and reliability. The author also describes advanced packaging methods, including: . Wafer-level packaging. Microfluidic device packaging. Optical MEMS packaging. RF and microwave packaging. Laser sealing.

. Readers will find in-depth coverage of assembly technology and manufacturability, including cost issues..

. CONTENT THAT SOLVES MEMS AND MOEMS PACKAGING And ASSEMBLY PROBLEMS:
. Engineering fundamentals of packaging for MEMS and MOEMS devices. Principles, materials, and fabrication of MEMS and MOEMS devices. Evaluation methods for MEMS and MOEMS packaging challenges. MEMS packaging processes. From MEMS and MOEMS to nanotechnology. . . . . .

The theory, design, and applications of the metadyne. The theory, design, and applications of a class of electrical machines, the metadyne, written by the man who first defined these devices and recognized their potentialities.

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The Digital Factory reveals the hidden human labor that supports today's digital capitalism. The workers of today's digital factory include those in Amazon warehouses, delivery drivers, Chinese gaming workers, Filipino content moderators, and rural American search engine optimizers. Repetitive yet stressful, boring yet often emotionally demanding, these jobs require little formal qualification, but can demand a large degree of skills and knowledge. This work is often hidden behind the supposed magic of algorithms and thought to be automated, but it is in fact highly dependent on human labor. The workers of today's digital factory are not as far removed from a typical auto assembly line as we might think. Moritz Altenried takes us inside today's digital factories, showing that they take very different forms, including gig economy platforms, video games, and Amazon warehouses. As Altenried shows, these digital factories often share surprising similarities with factories from the industrial age. As globalized capitalism and digital technology continue to transform labor around the world, Altenried offers a timely and poignant exploration of how these changes are restructuring the social division of labor and its geographies as well as the stratifications and lines of struggle.

Explore the theory and applications of superatomic clusters and cluster assembled materials Superatoms: Principles, Synthesis and Applications delivers an insightful and exciting exploration of an emerging subfield in cluster science, superatomic clusters and cluster assembled materials. The book presents discussions of the fundamentals of superatom chemistry and their application in catalysis, energy, materials science, and biomedical sciences. Readers will discover the foundational significance of superatoms in science and technology and learn how they can serve as the building blocks of tailored materials, promising to usher in a new era in materials science. The book covers topics as varied as the thermal and thermoelectric properties of cluster-based materials and clusters for CO2 activation and conversion, before concluding with an incisive discussion of trends and directions likely to dominate the subject of superatoms in the coming years. Readers will also benefit from the inclusion of: A thorough introduction to the rational design of superatoms using electron-counting rules Explorations of superhalogens, endohedrally doped superatoms and assemblies, and magnetic superatoms A practical discussion of atomically precise synthesis of chemically modified superatoms A concise treatment of superatoms as the building blocks of 2D materials, as well as superatom-based ferroelectrics and cluster-based materials for energy harvesting and storage Perfect for academic researchers and industrial scientists working in cluster science, energy materials, thermoelectrics, 2D materials, and CO2 conversion, Superatoms: Principles, Synthesis and Applications will also earn a place in the libraries of interested professionals in chemistry, physics, materials science, and nanoscience.

Periodic control has reached a notable degree of maturity thanks to developments over the last few decades. We have seen not only major theoretical achievements but also new significant applications.

The IFAC workshop on "Periodic Control Systems" (PSYCO 2001), held at the Villa Erba Congress Centre in Cernobbio-Como (Italy), August 27-28 2001, aimed at presenting the full picture of the area by gathering experts in the field and all interested researchers, coming from universities, research institutions and industries.

The program consisted of technical sessions, organized in two parallel streams and two plenary lectures, given by Jason L. Speyer (University of California at Los Angeles, USA) and Yutaka Yamamoto (Kyoto University, Japan). The technical sessions included 42 papers covering the following subjects:

Periodic Systems Analysis
Application
Time-Series
Hybrid and Sampled-Data
Aerospace Applications
Periodic Systems Control
Numerical Methods
Multirate and Batch Processes
Repetitive and Nonlinear Control

A dozen of the papers were devoted to a number of applications, including aerospace, jet and diesel engines, gas turbines, nuclear reactors, power systems, satellites, environmental sciences and finance.
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Ein umfassendes Referenzwerk fur Chemiker und Industriefachleute zum Thema Nanopartikel Nanopartikel aus Metalloxid sind ein wesentlicher Bestandteil zahlreicher naturlicher und technologischer Prozesse ? von der Mineralumwandlung bis zur Elektronik. Daruber hinaus kommen Metalloxid-Nanopartikel in Pulverform im Maschinenbau, in der Elektronik und der Energietechnik zum Einsatz. Das Werk Metal Oxide Nanoparticles: Formation, Functional Properties and Interfaces stellt die wichtigsten Synthese- und Formulierungsansatze bei der Nutzung von Metalloxid-Nanopartikeln als Funktionsmaterialien vor. Es werden die ublichen Verarbeitungswege erklart und die physikalischen und chemischen Eigenschaften der Partikel mithilfe von umfassenden und erganzenden Charakterisierungsmethoden bewertet. Dieses Werk kann als Einfuhrung in die Formulierung von Nanopartikeln, ihre Grenzflachenchemie und ihre funktionellen Eigenschaften im Nanobereich genutzt werden. Daruber hinaus dient es zum vertiefenden Verstandnis, denn das Buch enthalt detaillierte Angaben zu fortschrittlichen Methoden bei der physikalischen, chemischen, Oberflachen- und Grenzflachencharakterisierung von Metalloxid-Nanopartikeln in Pulvern und Dispersionen. *Erlauterung der Anwendung von Metalloxid-Nanopartikeln und der wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen *Betrachtung der Partikelsynthese, einschliesslich der Grundsatze ausgewahlter Bottom-up-Strategien *Untersuchung der Formulierung von Nanopartikeln mit einer Auswahl von Verarbeitungs- und Anwendungswegen *Diskussion der Bedeutung von Partikeloberflachen und -grenzflachen fur Strukturbildung, Stabilitat und funktionelle Materialeigenschaften *Betrachtung der Charakterisierung von Metalloxid-Nanopartikeln auf verschiedenen Langenskalen In diesem Buch finden Forscher im akademischen Bereich, Chemiker in der Industrie und Doktoranden wichtige Erkenntnisse uber die Synthese, Eigenschaften und Anwendungen von Metalloxid-Nanopartikeln.

At the beginning of the new millennium the PID controller continues to be a key component of industrial control. During this century many different structures of control have been proposed to overcome the limitation of the PID controllers. Because of their simplicity and usefulness, they give a very useful solution to an important part of the industrial processes.

The present-day structure of PID controllers is quite different from the original analog PID controllers. Now the implementation of the PID is based on digital design, these digital PIDs include many algorithms such as anti-wind-up, auto-tuning, adaptive, and fuzzy fine tuning to improve their performances, but the basic actions remain the same.

During the last two decades, the general reluctance of researchers to use PID controllers has begun to disappear. Many of the new capabilities of digital PID controllers have been introduced by the research community. The industrial control users apply these innovations easily, even enthusiastically. PID control has become one of the most important ways for the scientific specialist in control and the users of industrial control to work together.

This workshop was organized so that the scientific world and the industrial control world could meet and discuss the present and future use of PID controllers - the successes and failures of their use and how to determine the limits of performances. This workshop was also useful for learning about control history, since the origin and evolution of PID control can provide us with keys for new development and designs.

Through the theories, strategies, and broad range of case studies in Taguchi Methods for Robust Design, you gain exposure to the entire spectrum of robust design, and master its application. You also learn to prevent quality problems in the early stages of product development/design, to use the dynamic signal-to-noise (SN) ratio as the performance index for robustness of production functions, and to evaluate methods of data collection and analyze case studies of parameter design. Contents include: Types of SN ratios Basic dynamic-type SN ratios for continuous variables Various cases Non-dynamic SN ratios Classified attributes SN ratio with complex numbers Layout and analysis of Youden Square Incomplete data Robust technology department Case studies.

Electrical Engineering/Power and Energy Engineering Power Electronic Converter Harmonics Multipulse Methods for Clean Power "An excellent treatment of the subject." --Allan Ludbrook, Ludbrook & Associates "Pulls all the material together and presents it from the viewpoint of a long-time practitioner in the field ... will be much appreciated by designers, the utilities, and users." --Thomas Barton, University of Calgary Stay on the cutting edge of applied power electronics for energy-saving systems with this invaluable guide to multipulse converters, power sources, and the IEEE Industry Standard 519. One of the foremost experts in the field and holder of 28 patents, Derek A. Paice brings you new circuit schematics and easy-to-follow methods for practical system analysis, using actual field test results. This book offers thorough coverage of:

• Requirements, calculations, and standards for harmonics
• Power source representation
• Multipulse methods and transformers
• Double-wound, auto-wound, interphase, and current-control transformers
• Multiphase circuit performance
• Practical applications
• Useful formulas for analysis

Power Electronic Converter Harmonics will be indispensable to anyone looking for optimum concepts for power electronics design, including applications engineers, consultants, and manufacturers. Also of Interest from IEEE Press... Printed Circuit Board Design Techniques for EMC Compliance Mark I. Montrose 1996 Hardcover 256 pp IEEE Order No. PC5595 ISBN 0-7803-1131-0 electromagnetic Compatibility in Power Electronics Laszlo Tihanyi 1995 Hardcover 416 pp IEEE Order No. PC3129 ISBN 0-7803-0416-0 Handbook of Electrical and Electronic Insulating MaterialsSecond Edition W. Tillar Shugg, Shugg Enterprises, Inc. 1995 Hardcover 608 pp IEEE Order No. PC 3780 ISBN 0-7803-1030-6

The 80th Glass Problem Conference (GPC) was organized by the Kazuo Inamori School of Engineering, The New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University, Alfred, NY 14802 and The Glass Manufacturing Industry Council (GMIC), Westerville, OH 43082. The Program Director was S. K. Sundaram, Inamori Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Kazuo Inamori School of Engineering, The New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University, Alfred, NY 14802. The Conference Director was Robert Weisenburger Lipetz, Executive Director, Glass Manufacturing Industry Council (GMIC), Westerville, OH 43082. The GPC Advisory Board (AB) included the Program Director, the Conference Director, and several industry representatives. The Board assembled the technical program. Donna Banks of the GMIC coordinated the events and provided support. The Conference started with a half-day plenary session followed by technical sessions. The themes and chairs of four technical sessions were as follows: Melting and Combustion Uyi Iyoha, Praxair, Inc., Peachtree City, GA, Jan Schep, Owens-Illinois, Inc., Perrysburg, OH, and Justin Wang, Guardian Industries, Auburn Hills, MI Batch, Environmental, and Modeling Phil Tucker, Johns Manville, Littleton, CO and Chris Tournour, Corning Inc., Corning, NY Refractories Larry McCloskey, Anchor Acquisition, LLC, Lancaster, OH and Eric Dirlam, Ardagh Group, Muncie, IN Sensors and Control Adam Polycn, Vitro Architectural Glass, Cheswick, PA and Glenn Neff, Glass Service USA, Inc., Stuart, FL

Ideal for any manufacturing engineer, designer, operator, machinist, or toolmaker who wants to learn all the secrets of Electrical Discharge Machining, this important book reveals EDM's unique capabilities and provides the reader with a clear understanding of both the practical and theoretical aspects the technology. Full coverage is given to both wire and vertical EDM, and the book contains many tips and ideas to improve performance that can't be found in any other book. Unusual topics include discharge dressing, innovative flushing techniques, and advances in CNC EDM strategies that will save both time and money. It also contains information on troubleshooting, purchasing a machine, moldmaking, preventive maintenance, and selecting and filtering water and dielectrics.

Today’s competitive marketplace demands high quality and a fast track from drawing board to finished product. This guide shows how companies can gain a competitive edge by applying powerful project management tools to the product development process. The authors focus on speed to market, quality management, profitability, and multifunctional teamwork. They provide tools for handling the technical concerns of project development and maintenance, as well as people-related issues such as team motivation and the demands of top management. Particular attention is given to saving time and streamlining performance with the latest project management software. Chapters on everything from start-up to completion cover how to:

• Define the new product project aims and goals
• Create a market-based specification for a new or modified product or service
• Plan, develop, and schedule projects
• Break down the work structure for a project
• Manage people for maximum performance
• Monitor projects effectively from start to finish
• Make the right trade-offs when resources are limited
• Minimize risks and set up effective contingency plans
• Determine when changes are needed and adopt them smoothly

A step-by-step plan is provided for all the members of the product development team, including marketing, engineering, manufacturing, and other personnel. Strategies cover how to organize the product project team and product support team, complete with tips on assigning tasks, coordinating functions, and subcontracting. Detailed guidelines on how to be a successful project manager address control, communication, and conflict resolution. Also discussed is how to monitor project progress, including preparing reports and conducting project reviews. Many practical examples show how to apply the book’s techniques in real-world situations. Managing the Development of New Products is essential reading for new product development team members at all levels, including marketing, engineering, and manufacturing personnel. Professors and students in departments of business management or engineering management will also find the book valuable.

Two of the most acclaimed reference works in the area of acoustics in recent years have been our "Encyclopedia of Acoustics, " 4 Volume set and the Handbook of Acoustics spin-off. These works, edited by Malcolm Crocker, positioned Wiley as a major player in the acoustics reference market. With our recently published revision of Beranek & Ver's "Noise and Vibration Control Engineering," Wiley is a highly respected name in the acoustics business.

Crocker's new handbook covers an area of great importance to engineers and designers. Noise and vibration control is one largest areas of application of the acoustics topics covered in the successful encyclopedia and handbook. It is also an area that has been under-published in recent years. Crocker has positioned this reference to cover the gamut of topics while focusing more on the applications to industrial needs. In this way the book will become the best single source of need-to-know information for the professional markets.

Silicon The expert reference on sustainable and energy-efficient production of photovoltaic-grade silicon materials Electrochemical methods, in particular molten-salt approaches, are a cost-effective, energy-efficient, and highly sustainable approach for producing solar-grade silicon. Surface micro- and nanostructuring methods for effective light harvesting, silicon electrorefining in molten salts, electrodeposition of photoresponsive films, and other related processes are likely to replace conventional carbothermic production methods. Silicon: Electrochemistry, Production, Purification and Applications presents an up-to-date summary of recent experimental and technological developments in the field, highlighting sustainable and energy-efficient processes for high-grade silicon production for a variety of photovoltaic and energy applications. Presented in a logical and concise format, this authoritative volume details the fundamental properties and technical processes of metal-grade silicon production and describes the various electrochemical methods for high-grade silicon production. Topics include silicon surface modification, chemical-physical structuring, porous and black silicon, electrochemical Si surface structuring and anodizing in molten salts, and more. Reviews the sustainable and energy-efficient production and purification of photovoltaic-grade silicon materials Summarizes recent progress in sustainable processes for high-grade silicon production Describes electrochemical methods for silicon production such as electrolysis, electrodeposition, and electrorefining Concludes with a discussion of future challenges and opportunities Written by a leading researcher in the field, Silicon: Electrochemistry, Production, Purification and Applications is a valuable resource for chemists and material scientists in academia and industry, particularly those working in sustainable energy development, photovoltaics, light harvesting efficiency, solar-to-chemical conversion, and production of solar-grade silicon, batteries, photoelectrodes, or silicon-based semiconductors.

Chemical Product Formulation Design and Optimization Explore the cutting-edge in chemical product formulation and design In Chemical Product Formulation Design and Optimization: Methods, Techniques, and Case Studies, a team of renowned technologists and engineers delivers a practice guide to chemical product design. Offering real-world case studies for disinfectant formulation, the optimization of defined media, and the formulation of biocomposites, the book contains introduction to the current product design process. In addition to the background of related statistical techniques, readers will find: Clear illustrations, figures, and tables that improve understanding and retention of critical topics Thorough introductions to the mathematical principles of chemical product design A complete examination of intellectual property considerations in the chemical product design process Ideal for process and chemical engineers, Chemical Product Formulation Design and Optimization: Methods, Techniques, and Case Studies is a must-read resource for professionals in the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industry as well as chemical engineers working in the food, paint, and dye industries who seek a one-stop resource that includes the latest advances in chemical product formulation.

An understanding of thermal physics is crucial to much of modern physics, chemistry and engineering. This book provides a modern introduction to the main principles that are foundational to thermal physics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. The key concepts are carefully presented in a clear way, and new ideas are illustrated with copious worked examples as well as a description of the historical background to their discovery. Applications are presented to subjects as diverse as stellar astrophysics, information and communication theory, condensed matter physics and climate change. Each chapter concludes with detailed exercises.
The second edition of this popular textbook maintains the structure and lively style of the first edition but extends its coverage of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics to include several new topics, including osmosis, diffusion problems, Bayes theorem, radiative transfer, the Ising model and Monte Carlo methods. New examples and exercises have been added throughout.
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Designed for advanced undergraduate or first-year graduate courses in semiconductor or microelectronic fabrication, Fabrication Engineering at the Micro- and Nanoscale, Fourth Edition, covers the entire basic unit processes used to fabricate integrated circuits and other devices.
With many worked examples and detailed illustrations, this engaging introduction provides the tools needed to understand the frontiers of fabrication processes.

Targeted Drug Delivery Novel approaches in targeted drug delivery for both small molecule and biopharmaceutical drugs Targeted Drug Delivery explores a new frontier in drug research that has become a focus for developing novel medications. The work discusses a wide range of approaches for targeting small molecules as well as peptide and macromolecular drugs, from prodrugs to drug conjugates to drug carriers and devices, helping readers to stay up to date on the latest developments in the field. The following key topics are addressed: Antibody conjugates, prodrugs, and suicide gene therapeutics Protac technology for selectively degrading target proteins Delivery of nucleic acid drugs Novel drug carriers, such as liposomes, vesicles, and nanoparticles Unmet medical needs for which there is a large market potential, such as viral infections and cancer For chemists, pharmacologists, and professionals in the wider pharmaceutical industry, Targeted Drug Delivery is a comprehensive guide on how to solve the greatest challenge in treating many diseases: delivering a pharmaceutically active substance to the target tissue in the body.

Natural and Synthetic Waxes A compilation of all relevant information for the production and use of waxes in technical applications Waxes are among the oldest organic substances used by mankind. Before all others, beeswax is known to have played a role in human history for thousands of years. But over time, many other wax species have been detected and exploited, and prepared for different utilizations. Today, we possess knowledge of a great variety of different types of waxes. Unfortunately, there still is no broadly accepted definition of a wax: for the relatively few wax chemists, waxes are usually defined by their physico-chemical properties more than by their chemical constitution. Waxes are not uniform but oligomeric and polymeric substances, not simply describable with a chemical formula. The realm of waxes encompasses fully or partly natural, refined, partly or fully synthetic products, which can be extended by "wax-like" products which do not fulfil all definition criteria. Waxes are offered in different forms like pellets, granules, powders, or micropowders. Their number of technical applications runs into thousands. However, waxes in most cases are just adjuvants or additives, and with few exceptions like candles not known to a broader public. Only few publications over the last decades tried to present a more comprehensive overview of heir chemistry, chemical composition, their physical and analytical properties, their applications, and their sometimes astonishing history. Based on personal experience and expertise, the authors intend to present an overview on the main classes of waxes, their origin, history, future, and potential fate. Economical aspects like market size and development, ecological impacts and challenges, and regulatory issues are also addressed. Waxes are indispensable products in everyday life and in industry and technology, though mostly not even visible or distinguishable to experts. They deserve more than the role of a "poor cousin" in chemistry and technology.