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"Both a pleasure and a revelation."--Daniel Okrent, author of Nine
Innings In 1968, two astounding pitchers would dominate the game as
never before. One was black, the other white. The stoic Bob Gibson,
together with the St. Louis Cardinals, embodied an entire
generation's hope for integration at a heated moment in American
history. The flashy Denny McLain was a crass self-promoter who
lived a life apart from his Detroit Tigers teammates, searching for
fame. But for one season, the nation watched as these two men and
their teams swept their respective league championships to meet at
the World Series. Gibson set a major-league record that year with a
1.12 ERA. McLain won more than 30 games in 1968, a feat not
achieved since 1934 and untouched since. They would reach these
heights against the backdrop of assassinations, while boys boarded
planes to Saigon and riots swept through American cities, forever
changing the fabric of this country. In the grand tradition of
David Halberstam, The Year of the Pitcher evokes a nostalgic season
and its incredible characters through the story of one of the great
rivalries in sports, painting an indelible portrait of the national
pastime during our most turbulent era.
This book provides an overview of state-of-the-art research on
“Systems and Optimization Aspects of Smart Grid Challenges.”
The authors have compiled and integrated different aspects of
applied systems optimization research to smart grids, and also
describe some of its critical challenges and requirements. The
promise of a smarter electricity grid could significantly change
how consumers use and pay for their electrical power, and could
fundamentally reshape the current Industry. Gaining increasing
interest and acceptance, Smart Grid technologies combine power
generation and delivery systems with advanced communication systems
to help save energy, reduce energy costs and improve reliability.
Taken together, these technologies support new approaches for load
balancing and power distribution, allowing optimal runtime power
routing and cost management. Such unprecedented capabilities,
however, also present a set of new problems and challenges at the
technical and regulatory levels that must be addressed by Industry
and the Research Community.
This book provides an overview of state-of-the-art research on
"Systems and Optimization Aspects of Smart Grid Challenges." The
authors have compiled and integrated different aspects of applied
systems optimization research to smart grids, and also describe
some of its critical challenges and requirements.
The promise of a smarter electricity grid could significantly
change how consumers use and pay for their electrical power, and
could fundamentally reshape the current Industry. Gaining
increasing interest and acceptance, Smart Grid technologies combine
power generation and delivery systems with advanced communication
systems to help save energy, reduce energy costs and improve
reliability. Taken together, these technologies support new
approaches for load balancing and power distribution, allowing
optimal runtime power routing and cost management. Such
unprecedented capabilities, however, also present a set of new
problems and challenges at the technical and regulatory levels that
must be addressed by Industry and the Research Community.
Hybrid Polymer Composite Materials: Applications provides a clear
understanding of the present state of-the-art and the growing
utility of hybrid polymer composite materials. It includes
contributions from world renowned experts and discusses the
combination of different kinds of materials procured from diverse
resources. In addition, this volume from the four volume series
provides deep insights on the potential of hybrid polymer composite
materials for advanced applications.
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Garden Swing Tales (Hardcover)
Lakshmi S Pappu; Illustrated by Gaurav Bhatnagar
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Hybrid Polymer Composite Materials: Properties and Characterisation
presents the latest on these composite materials that can best be
described as materials that are comprised of synthetic polymers and
biological/inorganic/organic derived constituents. The combination
of unique properties that emerge as a consequence of the particular
arrangement and interactions between the different constituents
provides immense opportunities for advanced material technologies.
This series of four volumes brings an interdisciplinary effort to
accomplish a more detailed understanding of the interplay between
synthesis, structure, characterization, processing, applications,
and performance of these advanced materials, with this volume
focusing on their properties and characterization.
In this paper, the stress rupture reliability of Carbon/Epoxy
Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels (COPVs) is examined
utilizing the classic Phoenix model and accounting for the
differences between the design and the actual burst pressure, and
the liner contribution effects. Stress rupture life primarily
depends upon the fiber stress ratio which is defined as the ratio
of stress in fibers at the maximum expected operating pressure to
actual delivered fiber strength. The actual delivered fiber
strength is calculated using the actual burst pressures of vessels
established through burst tests. However, during the design phase
the actual burst pressure is generally not known and to estimate
the reliability of the vessels calculations are usually performed
based upon the design burst pressure only. Since the design burst
is lower than the actual burst, this process yields a much higher
value for the stress ratio and consequently a conservative estimate
for the reliability. Other complications arise due to the fact that
the actual burst pressure and the liner contributions have inherent
variability and therefore must be treated as random variables in
order to compute the stress rupture reliability. Furthermore, the
model parameters, which have to be established based on stress
rupture tests of subscale vessels or coupons, have significant
variability as well due to limited available data and hence must be
properly accounted for. In this work an assessment of reliability
of COPVs including both parameter uncertainties and physical
variability inherent in liner and overwrap material behavior is
made and estimates are provided in terms of degree of uncertainty
in the actual burst pressure and the liner load sharing.
To demonstrate the advanced composite materials technology under
development within the Ultra-Efficient Engine Technology (UEET)
Program, it was planned to fabricate, test, and analyze a turbine
vane made entirely of silicon carbide-fiber-reinforced silicon
carbide matrix composite (SiC/SiC CMC) material. The objective was
to utilize a five-harness satin weave melt-infiltrated (MI) SiC/SiC
composite material developed under this program to design and
fabricate a stator vane that can endure 1000 hours of engine
service conditions. The vane was designed such that the expected
maximum stresses were kept within the proportional limit strength
of the material. Any violation of this design requirement was
considered as the failure. This report presents results of a
probabilistic analysis and reliability assessment of the vane.
Probability of failure to meet the design requirements was
computed. In the analysis, material properties, strength, and
pressure loading were considered as random variables. The pressure
loads were considered normally distributed with a nominal
variation. A temperature profile on the vane was obtained by
performing a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis and was
assumed to be deterministic. The results suggest that for the
current vane design, the chance of not meeting design requirements
is about 1.6 percent.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
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++++ Hortulus Biblico-moralis Et Asceticus: Pro Floribus Exhibens
Septuaginta Fasciculos Doctrinarum Moralium Et Asceticarum Franz
Pappus von Tratzberg Wohler, 1725 Religion; Ethics; Bible;
Christian life; Ethics in the Bible; Meditations; Religion /
Ethics; Religion / Meditations
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