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The discovery and rapid evolution of carbon nanotubes have led to a vastly improved understanding of nanotechnology, as well as dozens of possible applications for nanomaterials of different shapes an...

A Practical Guide to Maintenance Carrying a billion-dollar price tag, corrosion of reinforced concrete is the enemy of every country’s investment in real estate. The widespread and long-term use of re...

Relying heavily on MATLAB® problems and examples, as well as simulated data, this text/reference surveys a vast array of signal and image processing tools for biomedical applications, providing a work...

In today’s digital design environment, engineers must achieve quick turn-around time with ready accesses to circuit synthesis and simulation applications. This type of productivity relies on the princ...

Industrial solvents make up a group of indispensible products in the different segments of the production chain. Throughout the decades, their use has evolved with the increase in knowledge on the s...

Advanced Wireless Communications: 4G Cognitive and Cooperative Broadband Technology GLISIC, Savo Advanced Wireless Communications" continues to provide a comparative study of enabling technologies for...

This book provides a quantitative treatment of the science of ecotoxicology. The first chapters consider fundamental concepts and definitions essential to understanding the fate and effects of toxican...

Using spin to replace or augment the role of charge in signal processing devices, computing systems and circuits may improve speed, power consumption, and device density in some cases—making the study...

For graduate students in engineering and structural dynamics, Orense et al. (civil and environmental engineering, U. of Auckland, New Zealand) compile 28 papers from the International Workshop on Soil...

This book provides a unified and chronological approach to aero engines and gas turbines from the 1940s to the 21st century. Part I discusses the history, classifications, and performance of air-breat...

Focusing on the principles of physical, chemical, enzymatic and microbial transformation, this college textbook presents the latest information on the efficient transformation of milk into high qualit...

It has been almost fifty years since the first papers on the application of reliability theory to mining problems were published in the United States. Developing rapidly in the late 1950s and 1960s, r...

Everything you need to design, implement, and manage a successful QFD program The QFD Handbook is a total how-to guide for companies planning to initiate a QFD program as well as those that already ha...

A clear, up-to-date presentation of the principles of flow in open channels A fundamental knowledge of flow in open channels is essential for the planning and design of systems to manage water resourc...

Ripka (electrical engineering, Czech Technical University) and Tipek, a private sector researcher, present the latest principles and properties of new sensor types, concentrating on sensor types used ...

Peterson´s Stress Concentration Factors establishes and maintains a system of data classification for all of the applications of stress and strain analysis and expedites their synthesis into CAD appli...

The first book to cover one of the hottest subjects in wireless communications today, Mobile WiMAX Summarises the fundamental theory and practice of Mobile WiMAXPresents topics at introductory level f...

An innovative approach that helps students move from the classroom to professional practice This text offers a comprehensive, unified methodology to analyze and design chemical reactors, using a react...

The IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) is the technology that merges the Internet with the cellular world. It makes Internet technologies such as the web, email, instant messaging, presence, and videoconfe...

Flat Panel Displays (FPDs) are a frequent feature in our daily lives, used in mobile phones, laptop computers, desktop computer monitors and TVs. Several display technologies have been developed for F...

Combines the theory and the practice of applied digital control This book presents the theory and application of microcontroller based automatic control systems. Microcontrollers are single-chip comp...

Ellipsometry is a powerful tool used for the characterization of thin films and multi-layer semiconductor structures. This book deals with fundamental principles and applications of spectroscopic elli...

Complete reference guide to automotive electrics and electronics This new edition of the definitive reference for automotive engineers, compiled by one of the world’s largest automotive equipment supp...

Incidents That Define Process Safety describes approximately fifty incidents that have had a significant impact on the chemical and refining industries´ approaches to modern process safety. Events are...

While there are many resources available on fire protection and prevention in chemical petrochemical and petroleum plants—this is the first book that pulls them all together in one comprehensive resou...

Essential for proper operation and design of digital communications systems and storage media, coding theory provides a means to transmit information across time and space over noisy and unreliable co...

Intended as a first introduction to the micromechanics of porous media, this book entitled “Microporomechanics” deals with the mechanics and physics of multiphase porous materials at nano and micro sc...

With forewords by Jan Bosch, Nokia and Antero Taivalsaari, Sun Microsystems. Learn how to programme the mobile devices of the future! The importance of mobile systems programming has emerged over the ...