Design in Modern Life
Originally published in 1946, this book is based on a series of broadcast talks on design. Led by an engineer, an artist and critic of architecture and industrial design, the discussions focussed on the problems that were involved by a general application of design to the environment of contemporary life.
Hydraulic Systems Volume 4
The book is targeting students and professionals who are looking to advance their fluid power careers. The book is colored and has the size of standard A4. The book is associated with a separate-colored workbook. The workbook contains printed power point slides, chapter reviews and assignments. This book is the fourth in a series that the author plans to publish to offer a complete and comprehensive educational curriculum for fluid power industry. This book is an attempt to fill the gap between the very academic style and the very commercial style of fluids power textbooks that are produced by fluid power manufacturers basically to promote their products. The book presents different types of hydraulic reservoirs, transmission lines, sealing elements, and heat exchangers. For each of these elements, the book introduces the methods of operations, construction, sizing, and selection. The book contains a total of eight chapters distributed over approximately 400 pages with very demonstrative figures and tables. The contents of the book are brand non-biased and intends to introduce the latest technologies related to the subject of the book.
Workbook 4
This Workbook is a complementary part to the textbook of the same title. This book is used as a workbook for students to take notes during the course delivery. It contains colored printout of the PowerPoint slides that are designed to present the course. Each chapter is followed by a number of review questions and assignments for homework.
Data-Driven Engineering Design
This book addresses the emerging paradigm of data-driven engineering design. In the big-data era, data is becoming a strategic asset for global manufacturers. This book shows how the power of data can be leveraged to drive the engineering design process, in particular, the early-stage design.Based on novel combinations of standing design methodology and the emerging data science, the book presents a collection of theoretically sound and practically viable design frameworks, which are intended to address a variety of critical design activities including conceptual design, complexity management, smart customization, smart product design, product service integration, and so forth. In addition, it includes a number of detailed case studies to showcase the application of data-driven engineering design. The book concludes with a set of promising research questions that warrant further investigation.Given its scope, the book will appeal to a broad readership, including postgraduate students, researchers, lecturers, and practitioners in the field of engineering design.
System Dynamics for Complex Problems in Pavement Engineering
Increasingly, segments of the civil infrastructure are considered to be parts of larger systems, which requires a systems approach for a fuller and proper understanding and solutions of problems.
Scour Manual
In this update of the original Scour Manual the reader is presented with not only the latest knowledge, but also with some new specific case studies to help the designer with applying the formulas and to show the limitations and the concept of scour by the flow of water.
Human Needs' Analysis and Evaluation Model for Product Development
This book presents a model (HUNE) that assists in the insertion of human aspects in the product development process (PDP), at the beginning of a project, at the analyzed information, during its development and post-development, evaluating its suitability for human beings. The model proved to be actual with respect to the existing ones, dynamic and flexible, because it does not replace any model, but can be applied to other models, methods, or structures of PDPs, and enables scope, replication, and future improvements. Its applications brought satisfactory results, and it was very well evaluated by the participants in the application, by external experts and also through scientific publications.
Valorization of Dredged Sediments as Sustainable Construction Resources
Dredging is increasing in scale worldwide, deep sea disposal is being eliminated, and landfill disposal is becoming less sustainable. Yet these sediments offer a potentially useful construction resource. This has sparked considerable research in valorization, for which this book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview.
Pressuremeters in Geotechnical Design
The pressuremeter quantifies in-situ stress, stiffness, strength and permeability in ground - using empirical design methods and numerical analyses. This covers the types of pressuremeter and control equipment, methods of installation, test procedures, methods of analysis, and design applications; with a detailed example.
Urban Water Systems & Floods IV
Research works were presented at the 8th International Conference on Flood and Urban Water Management with the aim of developing innovative solutions that can help bring about multiple benefits toward achieving integrated flood risk and urban water management strategies and policy. The papers resulting from these works form this book.Flooding is a global phenomenon that claims numerous lives worldwide each year. When flooding occurs in urban areas, it can cause substantial damage to property as well as threatening human life. In addition, many more people must endure the homelessness, upset and disruption that are left in the wake of floods. The increased frequency of flooding in the last few years, coupled with climate change predictions and urban development, suggest that these impacts are set to worsen in the future. How we respond and importantly, adapt to these challenges is key to developing our long term resilience at the property, community and city scale.As our cities continue to expand, their urban infrastructures need to be re-evaluated and adapted to new requirements related to the increase in population and the growing areas under urbanization. We also need to consider more nature-based interventions to the management of flood risk, including the adoption of more catchment-based approaches. These are now being recognised as being more sustainable and also able to achieve wider benefits to the environment and society as a whole.Water supply systems and urban drainage are also increasingly important due to this expansion. Topics such as contamination and pollution discharges in urban water bodies, as well as the monitoring of water recycling systems are currently receiving a great deal of attention from researchers and professional engineers working in the water industry. Mitigating losses from water distribution networks and effective, efficient and energy-saving management are key goals for optimising performance and reducing negative impacts. Sewer systems are under constant pressure due to growing urbanization and climate change, and the environmental impact caused by urban drainage overflows is related to both water quantity and water quality.This book is aimed at researchers, academics and practitioners involved in research and development activities across a wide range of technical and management topics related to urban water and flooding and its impacts on communities, property and people.
Design for Enhancing Eco-Efficiency of Energy-Related Products
This brief textbook underpins the concept of eco-efficiency in product design and systematically addresses the essence of the integration of simplified life cycle assessment (LCA) methods and tools into industrial design. Fundamental steps of LCA-based tools implementation within the higher education context are proposed, using energy-related products (ErP) design as a prime case study. All chapters are designed to respond to the common frequently asked questions in LCA-based tools implementation during the sustainable product design process. The chapters are also enriched with discussions, data sources of simplified LCA tools, and examples of design assignments that provide constructive learning. Some assignments aim at encouraging tool users' reflections while others tackle particularly at knowledge exchange. The examples can assist the reader to visualize challenges and opportunities to engage learners who are tool users. This textbook broadens LCA knowledge for industrial design and environmental engineering students as well as enhance their sustainable product design performance. For professional practitioners including industrial designers, product engineers, entrepreneurs and the like, this textbook can be used as a guide at the introductory level for integrating life cycle thinking into product design and development.
Ingenious Principles of Nature
This volume focuses on practical applications of the principles that can be transferred from nature to our design space. It is thereby supported by the regulation and control systems as described by the science of cybernetics.
An Impulse and Earthquake Energy Balance Approach in Nonlinear Structural Dynamics
This step-by-step approach to nonlinear structural dynamics and critical excitation transforms ground motion into impulses and by takes an energy balance approach. It can be used by practitioners for building and structural design, and is based on the energy balance law, and the concepts of kinetic and strain energies.
Additive Manufacturing Solutions
This book serves as an accelerated learning tool for students of Additive Manufacturing. The author presents key aspects of the subject in the form of questions and answers, so learners in a variety of contexts can find answers quickly to their specific question. Solutions to a variety of current, challenging problems are presented, clarified with examples, illustrations and copious references for more thorough investigation of the specific topic.Offers a unique, accelerated learning tool for students of Additive Manufacturing, presenting the subject in the form of questions and answers;Provides solutions to today's challenging problems in additive manufacturing, using examples, illustrations and references;Includes coverage of various aspects of additive manufacturing, such as materials, design, applications, post-process and digital manufacturing.
System Sustainment
"Sustainment" (as commonly defined by industry and government), is comprised of maintenance, support, and upgrade practices that sustain or improve the performance of a system and maximize the availability of goods and services while minimizing their cost and footprint or, more simply, the capacity of a system to endure. Sustainment is a multi-trillion-dollar enterprise for critical systems, in both government (infrastructure and defense) and industry (transportation, industrial controls, data centers, and energy generation).This book is a mix of engineering, operations research, and policy sciences intended to provide students with a thorough understanding of the concept of sustainability and sustainable product life-cycles, and an appreciation of the importance of sustaining critical systems. It starts from the key attributes for system sustainment that includes data analytics, engineering analysis and the public policy needed to support the development of technologies, processes, and frameworks required for the management of sustainable processes and practices. The specific topics covered include: acquisition of critical systems, reliability, maintenance, availability, readiness, inventory management, supply-chain management and risks, contracting for sustainment, and various analysis methodologies (discounted cash flow analysis, discrete-event simulation and Monte Carlo methods). Practice problems are included at the end of each chapter.
80 Ways to Expand Risk Perception
Risk Perception is the energy of safe behavior, an extraordinary ability to see and avoid the accident before it happens.Like every capacity, it needs to be developed and stimulated, so that it is practiced every day, everywhere, by anyone.This book, in a dynamic format, brings 80 ways to stimulate the perception of risk, using symbols, rituals, and communication practices, which make up the culture of security, all in a detailed and ready to use way.Combining methods and approaches in an elastic way, it expands the discussion and puts in the reader hands an instrument ready to be used.People say that books bring seeds, so here we have enough to plant an entire forest. Let's go!
Essentials of Safety
The text encourages readers at all levels to think differently and positively about the why, what and how of the things, in both leadership role and safety in areas of individuals work. It will be an ideal reference text for students, researchers and professionals in the fields of ergonomics, human factors, occupational health and safety.
Rock Mechanics and Engineering Geology in Volcanic Fields
Rock Mechanics and Engineering Geology in Volcanic Fields includes keynote lectures and papers from the 5th International Workshop on Rock Mechanics and Engineering Geology in Volcanic Fields (RMEGV2021, Fukuoka, Japan, 9-10 September 2021). This book deals with challenging studies related to solving engineering issues around volcanic fields, including: Volcanic geology, disasters and their mitigation Resources and energy in volcanic fields Mechanical behavior of volcanic rocks and soils Groundwater and environmental problems in volcanic fields Geotechnical engineering in volcanic fields Rock Mechanics and Engineering Geology in Volcanic Fields is of great interest to civil engineers and engineering geologists working in the areas of rock and soil mechanics, geotechnical engineering, geothermal energy, engineering geology, and environmental science.
Dam Surveillance - Lessons Learnt From Case Histories / Surveillance des Barrages - Le癟ons Tir矇es d’?tudes de cas
ICOLD Bulletin 180 presents the vast experience gained over the past 6 decades by the dam engineering community in the field of dam surveillance by means of 80 case histories. The case histories cover a wide variety of technical aspects and deal with success stories but also incidents, and aim to learn from these practical experiences.
Dams Safety and Society
The book aims to help clients, consultants and funding agencies which are engaged in dam safety assessment projects in developing countries to focus on issues that are based on the past lessons learnt.
Ergonomics Principles in Design
The text covers the application of ergonomic principles in diverse areas of design, like product, space, and communication in a single volume. It will serve as an ideal reference text for graduate students and professionals in the fields of ergonomics, human factors, occupational health and safety, industrial and manufacturing engineering.
Thermomechanical Pulp
This book provides an in-depth review of refiner-based mechanical pulping technology, specifically thermomechanical pulp (TMP) technology. The authors offer a readable and straightforward discussion of the technology, energy requirements, pulp quality characteristics, and morphological aspects of the thermomechanical pulping process. It is intended primarily to provide a useful introduction to young process engineers working in mechanical pulp mills in the early stages of their careers but with sufficient detail to provide the reader with a broader understanding of the overall process. University undergraduates as well as postgraduate students may also find this book to be a reliable resource. In addition, technologists and technical sales staff employed by equipment and chemical suppliers supporting the mechanical pulping industry will gain an improved understanding of the technology.This book offers a detailed overview of issues related to the market demand and production of high-yield market pulp, including wood composition and fibre morphology, the refining, screening and bleaching processes, and energy-saving approaches that reduce energy reliance without compromising quality. The authors provide a sound foundation for successful TMP plant operation as well as a reasonable starting point for any investigation into pulp-quality issues that may arise due to changes in chip supply or TMP plant operating parameters.
Laboratory Tests for Unsaturated Soils
This is the first book to systematically collate the various laboratory tests for unsaturated soils. It covers general background and theory along with test procedures and the interpretation of test results. It serves for students and researchers who are new to the field as well as for established professionals.
Occupational Exposures
This text will assist the reader in identifying and understanding the chemicals that are carcinogens and mutagens in the workplace. It will an ideal text for professionals and graduate students in the fields of occupational health and safety, industrial engineering, and chemical engineering.
Viet Nam's Ecosystem for Technology Startups
This report examines Viet Nam's tech-based startups in two sectors: agriculture and health. It assesses the challenges for creating a more enabling ecosystem to scale up startups in these sectors and makes recommendations to overcome them. Technology-based startup enterprises are an increasingly important part of the business landscape in Asia and the Pacific. By applying innovative technologies to create new products and services, they can make a significant contribution to economic development while generating social and environmental benefits. However, to survive and then thrive, tech startups require an enabling ecosystem that includes supportive government policy, adequate access to capital, skilled personnel, and quality digital infrastructure. This is the third country report in the series ""Ecosystems for Technology Startups in Asia and the Pacific.
Fundamentals of Fire Protection for the Safety Professional, Third Edition
Fundamentals of Fire Protection for the Safety Professional provides safety managers with a guide for incorporating fire hazard awareness and protection into their safety management plans. Industrial fires pose one of the greatest threats to organizations in terms of financial, human, and property losses. Understanding fire safety basics, the physics of fire, and the properties and classes of common hazards is key to designing fire safety management programs that not only protect an organization's assets but also ensure the safe evacuation of all involved. Fundamentals of Fire Protection for the Safety Professional takes an in-depth look at fire hazards in the workplace--from the substances required to do business to the building construction itself--and provides practical fire safety principles that can be applied in any work environment. Readers will learn how to develop emergency action plans and fire prevention plans, implement effective alarm and detection systems and fire extinguishment systems, and develop a comprehensive fire program management plan that is in compliance with Federal Emergency Management Agency, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, and National Fire Protection Association standards. Each chapter includes a chapter summary and sample problems, making this an ideal training tool in the workplace or the classroom. Answers to chapter questions and a comprehensive glossary and index are provided at the end of the book.
A Guide to Fire and Gas Detection Design in Hazardous Industries
This book will give readers the upper hand when working on a project to cut through the marketing of detection and design an effective system. It is an ideal text for professionals and graduate students working in the fields of occupational health and safety, fire protection engineering, and environmental safety.
Sink or Float
Why do some things sink and others float? Simple text introduces readers to key science curriculum, and commentary from Sesame Street characters makes the learning fun. About the Sesame Street (R) World of Science series: Explore the wonderful world of science! Ernie, Big Bird, and the rest of your Sesame Street friends make key science concepts like color, light and shadow, and states of matter accessible and engaging for young learners.
Human Factors Engineering and Ergonomics
This book comprehensively covers principles of conventional and computer-based machine interaction, cognitive workload, and fatigue in a single volume. It will an ideal textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate students in diverse fields including ergonomics, human factors, computer science, and psychology.
Factories of the Future
The manufacturing world is undergoing a massive digital transformation. Smart and connected infrastructures powered by artificial intelligence are bringing about yet another industrial revolution. Data based innovation is creating unprecedented opportunities for optimizing processes and gaining competitive advantage through new business models. In this book, we follow the magnificent story of the first three industrial revolutions in the tracks of great scientists, engineers and industrialists of yesterday, all the way up to cyber physical systems that will redefine the manufacturing value chain. Smart manufacturing revolution is rebuilding the factory from the ground up, changing old ways of doing business. Join me on this journey where we cover all the basic concepts and enabling technologies, then move on to formulate viable strategies on the path to Industry 4.0; for creating the Factories of the Future.
Seismic Performance of Asymmetric Building Structures
This work presents comprehensive analytical, computational, experimental investigations, and proposes improved design guidelines that structural engineers can utilize to enhance the seismic design of asymmetric building structures. It will be useful for practicing engineers, experts, and academics, as well as emergency preparedness managers.
Practical Root Cause Failure Analysis
Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) is a method used by maintenance and reliability industry professionals as one of the key tools to drive improvement. This book provides a quick guide to the applications involved in performing a successful RCFA.
Risk-Taking, Prevention and Design
This book provides an experience-based methodological framework for risk management in design and development of life-critical systems. It will be an ideal reference text for graduate students and professionals working in the fields of occupational health and safety, ergonomics, and human factors, and cognitive engineering.
Hydraulic Systems Volume 5
Safety and maintenance are very important experience to whoever involved in designing, commissioning, operating, and servicing hydraulic systems. Gaining such experience help to avoid future unexpected shutdowns, hence improve system reliability and safety of work environment. This book introduces the concept and best practices of hydraulic components and system maintenance.This book is targeting industry professionals who are in charge of operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting hydraulic systems. This book is also a great resource for mechanical engineers and service manuals technical writers. The books start by introducing best practices for safe design, commissioning, operating and servicing hydraulic components. The book then presents the maintenance concepts and measuring instruments commonly applicable for hydraulic system maintenance. The book follows that by presenting five sets of best practices for each of the following components: pumps, motors, cylinders valves, accumulators, reservoirs, transmission lines, heat exchangers, and filters. It is to be noted that, the listed best practices and maintenance actions are based on the author's experience and may not be applicable in each case. Therefore, the author is highly recommending reviewing the instructions from component and system manufacturers as considered the main and first source of information. This book is colored and has the size of standard A4. The book contains a total of twelve chapters distributed over 350 pages with very demonstrative figures and tables. The contents of the book are brand non-biased and intends to introduce the latest technologies related to the subject of the book. The book is the fifth in a series that the author plans to publish to offer a complete and comprehensive teaching curriculum for fluid power industry. The book is associated with a separate colored workbook. The workbook contains printed power point slides, chapter reviews and assignments.The book presents five sets of best practices for each of the following components: pumps, motors, cylinders valves, accumulators, reservoirs, transmission lines, heat exchangers, and filters. The five sets of best practices are as follows: 禮 BP-X Components-01-Selection and Replacement禮 BP-X Components-02-Maintenance Scheduling禮 BP-X Components-03-Installation and Maintenance Practices禮 BP-X Components-04-Standard Tests and Calibration禮 BP-X Components-05-Transportation and Storage
Turbulence in Open Channels and River Flows
This book is a monograph on the open-channel turbulence. Former part covers the basic characteristics including derivation of governing equations. The latter part focuses on various topics related to environmental management and disaster problem in river turbulence.
Operation of Hydraulic Structures of Dams / Exploitation Des Structures Hydrauliques de Barrages
This update of Bulletin 49A (1986) addresses the need for safe reservoir discharge under a variety of conditions, the dam operator's staffing, evaluation (inspection) of the condition of operating equipment, and operation during unusual or extreme conditions.
Rail Infrastructure Resilience
Economic growth, security and sustainability across Europe are at risk due to ageing railway infrastructure systems. At present, the majority of such systems are aging and some have even reached their initial design lives. These issues align with a major challenge in civil engineering: how to restore and improve urban infrastructure and built environments. Policy, environmental and physical barriers must be addressed and overcome. The complex and interconnected nature of the problem means that there is a need for academia, industry, communities and governments to work collaboratively. The challenges posed by extreme events from natural and man-made disasters are urgent. Rail Infrastructure Resilience: A Best-Practices Handbook presents developed improvement methods for rail infrastructure systems, toward resilience to extreme conditions. It shows how best to use new information in the engineering design, maintenance, construction and renewal of rail infrastructure resilience, through knowledge exchange and capability development. The book presents the outcome of a major European research project, known as the RISEN project. RISEN aimed to enhance knowledge creation and transfer using both international and intersectoral secondment mechanisms among European Advanced Rail Research Universities and SMEs, and Non-EU, leading rail universities, providing methodological approaches and practical tools for restoring and improving railway infrastructure systems for extreme events. Edited and written by members of this project, this book will be essential reading for researchers and practitioners hoping to find practical solutions to the challenges of rail infrastructure resilience.
Designing Small Weapons
This book focuses on developing small weapons, following the lifecycle of a firearm from design to manufacture.
Productivity and Reliability-Based Maintenance Management, Second Edition
Productivity and Reliability-Based Maintenance Management, Second Edition is intended to provide a strong yet practical foundation for understanding the concepts and practices of total productive maintenance (TPM) management--a proactive asset and resource management strategy that is based on enhancing equipment reliability and overall enterprise productivity. The book is intended to serve as a fundamental yet comprehensive educational and practical guide for departing from the wait-failure-emergency repair cycle that has plagued too many industries, instead advancing a proactive and productive maintenance strategy. It is not intended to be a how-to-fix-it manual, but rather emphasizes the concept of a world-class maintenance management philosophy to avoid the failure in the first place. Universities, junior and community colleges, and technical institutes as well as professional, corporate, and industrial training programs can benefit by incorporating these fundamental concepts in their technical and managerial curricula. The book can serve as a powerful educational tool for students as well as for maintenance professionals and managers. In addition to updating the previous historical and statistical data and tables, the second edition expands on and adds to case studies based on current maintenance-related events. Several numerical examples and explanations are revised in order to enhance the clarity of the methodology. The second edition introduces the readers to the state-of-the-art concepts of the Internet of Things (IoT), smart sensors, and their application to maintenance and TPM.
Distributed Real-Time Architecture for Mixed-Criticality Systems
This book presents the technical achievements of the European project DREAMS, whose objective is to develop a cross-domain architecture and design tools for networked complex systems, where application subsystems of different criticality levels execute on networked multi-core chips.
Text-Book on Highway Engineering
Historical review, Preliminary Investigations, Surveying and mapping, Design, Drainage, Foundations, Earth and sand clay roads, Gravel roads, Broken stone roads, Bituminous materials, Dust prevention by the use of palliatives, Bituminous surfaces, Bituminous gravel and bituminous macadam pavements, Bituminous concrete pavements, Sheet asphalt and rock asphalt pavements, Wood block pavements, Stone block pavements, Brick pavements, Concrete pavements, Miscellaneous roads and pavements, Street cleaning and show removal, Car tracks, Pipe systems, Comparison of roads and pavements, Sidewalks, curves, and gutters, Bridges, culverts, and guads rails, Economics, administration, and legislation,
Consolidation Analyses of Soils
This guide to constitutive relations of soils for one- and three-dimensional consolidation covers analytical solutions such as the finite element method, simplified methods for consolidation analysis for three-dimensional consolidation problems, with classic and state-of-the-art solutions.
Workbook 5
This Workbook is a complementary part to the textbook of the same title. This book is used as a workbook for students to take notes during the course delivery. It contains colored printout of the PowerPoint slides that are designed to present the course. Each chapter is followed by a number of review questions and assignments for homework.
Coasts and Estuaries: Management and Engineering
Coastlines, like many things around us, are constantly evolving. Keeping pace with the changes and their development is necessary to ensure their stability and to maintain eco-equilibrium for nearshore hydrodynamics and morphodynamics. Supported with field measurements for model validation, several numerical and analytical tools are available to us to understand the physical processes in the vicinity of these water bodies.This book encompasses the engineering principles involved in field data observation, measurement, collection, and processing; the prediction of wave climate and sediment transport using measured field data; numerical modelling involving calibration and validation of the hydrodynamic and morphodynamic processes; and the study of the underlying physical processes and the application of sustainable engineering measures to combat coast- and estuary-related problems.The book has three sections: The first section is an elaboration on the need for and framework of the existing management and engineering notions. The second section details the measurement of the various parameters such as wave climate (offshore and nearshore), shoreline changes, beach profile variation, and sediment transport rates. The third section describes the aspects of wave prediction to arrive at design characteristics and modelling of the hydrodynamic and morphodynamic processes along open coasts and tidal inlets.This book is designed to benefit students pursuing coastal engineering as their field of specialization. It could also serve as a guidebook to engineers, planners, and decision makers working in the fields of coastal, estuarine, and harbour engineering, governmental and private agencies that plan the financial outlay for coastal development projects, and private consultants dealing with maritime hydraulics.
