Intermetallic and Ceramic Coatings

Intermetallic and Ceramic Coatings
Narnedra B. Dahotre, T.S. Sudarshan | 1999-01-01 00:00:00 | CRC | 504 | Other Engineering
Detailing the properties of specific coatings, problems related to adhesion onto various substrates, and potential commercial applications, this text surveys up-to-date techniques involved in preparing intermetallic and ceramic coatings. The book features a list of selected applications covering the latest industrially available practices.
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Solar Technologies for Buildings

Solar Technologies for Buildings
Ursula Eicker | 1900-01-01 00:00:00 | | 341 | Other Engineering
Solar Technologies for Buildings
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Working Guide to Pump and Pumping Stations: Calculations and Simulations

Working Guide to Pump and Pumping Stations: Calculations and Simulations
E. Shashi Menon | 2009-01-01 00:00:00 | Gulf Professional Publishing | 304 | Other Engineering
A plain language guide to the tools and techniques needed to ensure efficiency, Working Guide to Pump and Pumping Stations provides practicing engineer and senior field personnel with a quick but rigorous exposition of pumps, including applications. In this book, readers find expert advice for determining TDH, NPSH, BHP and driver power requirements, discharge temperature, parallel/series operation and their impact on the operating conditions; developing system-head curves and performance considerations; pump selection for multi-product operations. The book also emphasizes the understanding of the internal workings of pumping systems and their components.

Calculations for their selection, sizing and power output
Case studies based on the author's 35 years of field experience
Covers all types of pumps
Simplified models and simulations
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Airport Engineering

Airport Engineering
Norman J. Ashford, Paul H. Wright | 1900-01-01 00:00:00 | Wiley-Interscience; 3 edition (February 1992) | 536 | Other Engineering
This new revised Third Edition of Airport Engineering, the basic classroom text for airport planning and design, shows professionals and students such key essentials as:
The structure and organization of air transport
Forecasting of air transport demand, using both traditional and new methods
Airport systems planning
Airport master planning
Air traffic control, lighting, and signing
Airport capacity and configuration
Passenger terminal
Air cargo facilities
Airport access
Designing for safety
Environmental impact of airports
Reflecting the latest FAA, ICAO, and IATA recommendations and guidelines, and mirroring the changing climate of air travel in the 1990s, Airport Engineering, Third Edition is the single most informative guide to mastering the state of the art in airport engineering and design. And also by the same authors… Transportation Engineering Planning and Design Third Edition Paul H. Wright and Norman Ashford This book gives a balanced treatment of all modes of transportation—highways, railways and guideways, pipelines, airports, and ports and harbors. Transportation Engineering, Third Edition is divided into six parts:
Part 1—Introduces the transportation system of the United States
Part 2—Deals with the operation and control of the vehicles that use the physical transport systems
Part 3—Examines transportation planning
Part 4—Explains the design of land transportation facilities
Part 5—Describes the planning procedures and design criteria for air transportation facilities
Part 6—Covers water transportation facilities
Complete with an excellent list of references at the end of each chapter for readers who waist to study a transportation problem in greater detail, Transportation Engineering, Third Edition is the definitive textbook for students taking undergraduate transportation courses in civil engineering and city planning. 1989 (0 471-83874-8) 784 pp.
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Mechanical Properties of Polymers based on Nanostructure and Morphology

Mechanical Properties of Polymers based on Nanostructure and Morphology
G. H. Michler | 2005-01-01 00:00:00 | CRC Press | 784 | Other Engineering
The improvement of strength and durability in polymers has implications relevant to industrial, medical, and household applications. Enhanced by the improved knowledge of the interactions between complex hierarchical structures and functional requirements, Mechanical Properties of Polymers Based on Nanostructure and Morphology focuses on new polymer materials that possess a combination of improved mechanical and other physical properties.

This book specifies techniques used in structural and morphological characterization, discusses crazing and molecular variables of fracture behavior, and clarifies various modes of deformation mechanisms and orientation processes for semicrystalline polymers, block copolymers, and composites. The volume examines microindentation hardness studies and mechanisms of toughness enhancement for particle modified, amorphous and semicrystalline polymers and blends using model analysis. Experts in the field present innovations that illustrate new aspects of manufacturing, structure development, and properties of practical relevance in nanoparticle-filled thermoplastic polymers and the applications of carbon nanotube and nanofiber reinforced polymer systems. Other topics discussed in the book include alternative methods of polymer modification based on micro- and nanolayered polymers and hot compaction of oriented fibers and tapes.

This book reflects the continuing research of mechanisms contributing to the structure-function relationship of nanostructured polymers and nanocomposites. Mechanical Properties of Polymers Based on Nanostructure and Morphology presents effective ways to combine improved mechanical and physical properties in polymers and form new, performance-enhanced composite materials.
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Dust Explosions in the Process Industries 2nd edition

Dust Explosions in the Process Industries 2nd edition
Rolf K.Eckhoff | 1997-01-01 00:00:00 | Butterworth-Heinemann | 660 | Other Engineering
Experience has shown all too clearly that ignition and explosion can occur wherever combustible dusts are handled or permitted to accumulate as a by-product of related activities. Despite reasonable precautions, accidents can and do happen; recognition of this universal hazard and the potential means for its control is widespread, as evidenced by the many individuals and groups worldwide performing research and developing codes and regulations. The primary means of controlling and minimizing this recognized hazard are study, regulation and education; to accomplish this, specific knowledge must be generated and disseminated for the benefit of all interested people. Rolf Eckhoff has, in my estimation, prepared an outstanding book. It presents a detailed and comprehensive critique of all the significant phases relating to the hazard and control of a dust explosion, and offers an up to date evaluation of prevalent activities, testing methods, design measures and safe operating tcchniques.
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Earthquake Engineering in Europe

Earthquake Engineering in Europe
Mihail Garevski, Atilla Ansal | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 | Springer | 568 | Other Engineering
This book contains 22 state-of-the-art papers on earthquake engineering from carefully selected very eminent researchers mainly from Europe but also from the USA and Japan. The topics covered by the contributions form a very comprehensive collection of on earthquake engineering, making a unique book. This volume may serve as a good reference book for researchers in the field of earthquake engineering.
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Human error, safety and systems development

Human error, safety and systems development
Chris W.Johnson, Philippe Palanque | 2004-01-01 00:00:00 | Kluwer academic publishers | 341 | Other Engineering
The papers in this collection address the problem of developing systems that support human interaction with complex, safety-critical applications. The last thirty years have seen a significant reduction in the accident rates across many different industries. Given these achievements, why do we need further research in this area? There is little room for complacency. For example, it has been difficult to sustain reductions in the incident rate across the aviation industry. This not only indicates an impasse in attempts to achieve ‘zero’ accidents. It is also a source of long-term concern because a stable incident rate combined with rising numbers of departures will yield increases in the frequency of adverse events. In other areas, the incident rates are rising in spite of the best efforts of safety managers.
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Fluid Power Dynamics

Fluid Power Dynamics
R. Keith Mobley | 1900-01-01 00:00:00 | | 1 | Other Engineering
Fluid Power Dynamics
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