Water Supply and Distribution Systems
Water Supply and Distribution Systems, Second edition is a comprehensive introduction to the topic of how water is delivered to homes and businesses throughout the world. It covers fundamental concepts and exploring the latest ideas of good practice. Water supply and distribution systems are a key element of essential urban infrastructure. Water utilities worldwide are embarking on a process of 'digitalisation', which promises to bring benefits to the industry, but this is fraught with uncertainty, hype, barriers to innovation and requires an organisational culture change. Water industry professionals have to address, not only, classic design and management problems but also, increasingly, environmental and sustainability requirements and concerns. Drawing together information that is currently scattered across several sources, this book aims to alleviate the concerns engineers have with these issues. With chapters written by academics and practitioners this book covers modelling planning operational and management issues leakage management optimal design asset planning and management a new chapter on smart new water systems. Water Supply and Distribution Systems is a key text for early-stage practitioners, students in training to become water industry practitioners, and a useful reference book for practising engineers, particularly to provide up-to-date information on practices in today's increasingly complex water industry.
Bridges Unveiled
The captivating world of bridges, a realm where steel and concrete span sinuously over rivers and roads. Our journey spans a quarter-century, tracing the evolution of Buro Happold's groundbreaking bridge designs. These are not your run-of-the-mill crossings; they are symphonies of form and function.Our team has never been your typical engineers. They are bridge artisans, measuring aspirations alongside spans. They have danced with differential equations, solved complex matrices and applied sound engineering principles, debated aesthetics with architects and occasionally pondered life over lukewarm coffee in the office.Life at Buro Happold was not all smooth arches. We weathered seismic tremors and wrestled with winds of change. But challenges hone our resolve. It taught us that equations alone cannot span chasms; it takes a dash of stubbornness and a pinch of inspiration.Within these pages, you will meet sixteen bridges. Each has a tale, saga of late-night brainstorming, coffee-stained blueprints, many were successfully constructed a few that never got built.This book is not just for engineers. It is for the child who skips across bridges, imagining tightropes. It is for the commuter who ponders existence during rush hour. And yes, it is even for the squirrel that once pirouetted atop our truss bridge.So, let us raise our metaphorical hard hats and salute these magnificent spans. Whether you are a bridge enthusiast, a casual reader, or a curious soul, welcome aboard. The symphony of bridges awaits, complete with a chorus of rivets and the occasional seagull solo.Life is short. Build bridges. And enjoy the experience.
The Digital Highway- Revolutionizing Road Logistics with Technology
Step into the fast-paced world of road transportation logistics with Dr. Balvinder Singh Banga debut book, "The Digital Highway: Revolutionizing Road Logistics with Technology," a captivating journey into the heart of trucking and supply chain management. From bustling urban centers to remote highways, explore the critical role of trucking in powering global commerce and connecting communities. Through vivid storytelling and expert analysis, Dr. Balvinder unveils the challenges and triumphs of the industry, from navigating treacherous terrain to embracing cutting-edge technologies. Discover the unsung heroes behind every road journey, from truckers braving the open road to logistics managers orchestrating seamless supply chains. With a keen eye for detail and a passion for innovation, Dr. Balvinder offers a comprehensive look at the forces shaping the future of trucking, from sustainable practices to regulatory trends. Whether you're a seasoned industry insider or a curious observer, this book offers valuable insights into the dynamic world of road transportation logistics. Join Dr. Balvinder on an exhilarating ride through the highways and byways of the global supply chain and unlock the secrets to success in the world of trucking.
AutoCAD Plant 3D 2024 for Designers, 8th Edition
AutoCAD Plant 3D 2024 for Designers book introduces the readers to AutoCAD Plant 3D 2024, one of the world's leading application, designed specifically to create and modify P&ID's and plant 3D models. In this book, the author emphasizes on the features of AutoCAD Plant 3D 2024 that allow the user to design piping & instrumentation diagrams and 3D piping models. Also, the chapters are structured in a pedagogical sequence that makes this book very effective in learning the features and capabilities of AutoCAD Plant 3D 2024.Special emphasis has been laid in this book on tutorials and exercises, which relate to the real world projects, help you understand the usage and abilities of the tools available in AutoCAD Plant 3D 2024. You will learn how to setup a project, create and edit P&IDs, design a 3D Plant model, generate isometric/orthographic drawings, as well as how to publish and print drawings.Salient Features of the BookConsists of 10 chapters that are organized in a pedagogical sequence.Project on a Thermal Power Plant.Comprehensive coverage of AutoCAD Plant 3D 2024 concepts and techniques.Tutorial approach to explain the concepts.Detailed explanation of all commands and tools.Real-world mechanical engineering designs as tutorials.Additional information in the form of notes and tips.Self-Evaluation Tests and Review Questions at the end of each chapter to help the users assess their knowledge.
Driving Automation
The technology behind self-driving cars is being heavily promulgated as the solution to a variety of transport problems including safety, congestion, and impact on the environment. This text examines the key role that human factors plays in driving forward future vehicle automation in a way that realizes the benefits while avoiding the pitfalls.Driving Automation: A Human Factors Perspective addresses a range of issues related to vehicle automation beyond the 'can we' to 'how should we'. It covers important topics including mental workload and malleable attentional resources theory, effects of automation on driver performance, in-vehicle interface design, driver monitoring, eco-driving, responses to automation failure, and human-centred automation.The text will be useful for graduate students and professionals in diverse areas such as ergonomics/human factors, automobile engineering, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, and health and safety.
The Other Side of Safety
The text identifies and clarifies the clandestine methods of Results Based Safety (RBS) from Behavior Based Safety (BBS) as they function directly in opposition to each other. It will serve as an ideal text for students, and professionals in the fields of ergonomics, human factors, occupational health, and safety.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
This book aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers, and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Artificial Intelligence. The book provides a premier interdisciplinary platform to present practical challenges and adopted solutions.The book addresses the complete functional framework workflow in Artificial Intelligence technology. It explores the basic and high-level concepts and can serve as a manual for the industry for beginners and the more advanced. It covers intelligent and automated systems and its implications to the real-world, and offers data acquisition and case studies related to data-intensive technologies in AI-based applications.The book will be of interest to researchers, professionals, scientists, professors, students of computer science engineering, electronics and communications, as well as information technology.
Coastal Disaster Surveys and Assessment for Risk Mitigation
This covers the essentials of coastal disaster management, for students and engineers. It outlines recent field surveys of tsunamis and storm surges, with measurements of flood heights, distributions of structural destruction, testimonies, and numerical simulations and practical trials, for effective coastal disaster mitigation.
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.
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.
Technology Innovation in Manufacturing
The text highlights the need for a technology innovation-strategy model to assist manufacturing industries in enhancing their performance in today's competitive environment. It will serve as an ideal reference text for graduate students and academic researchers in the field of industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering etc.
Modern Manufacturing Technology
The objective of this book is to summarize the emergence and exploration of modern manufacturing techniques (MMTs) with a focus on metallic and advanced material based additive manufacturing technologies, and their potential applications. Further, it exploits manufacturing of novel nanomaterials, ultrafine electronic devices and so forth.
Human Cold Stress
This book provides an up-to-date, accessible, and comprehensive coverage of human cold stress from principles and theory to practical application.It defines cold stress and how people respond to it. It describes how to assess a cold environment to predict when discomfort, wind-chill, hypothermia, shivering, frostbite, and other consequences will occur. It also advises on what to do to prevent unacceptable outcomes, including determination and selection of clothing to preserve comfort and health.The book will be of interest to practitioners and students and anyone involved with fields such as textiles, clothing, and industrial hygiene.
Knowledge Engineering
This book shows how to develop process-oriented methodologies, and presents a wide range of quantitative methods applied to various knowledge engineering problems.
Remanufacturing and Remanufacturability Assessment for the Circular Economy
This book presents decision support tools that can be used in the early design stage to analyze the feasibility of a product and its components for remanufacturing. It also covers how to design a product specifically for remanufacturing and offers supporting case studies.
Safety and Health Competence
Global and technological transformation is changing work and learning. A broader understanding of prevention and cultural change associated with it is putting new demands on companies and their employees. People and organizations need suitable competences to deal with this transformation. They need to be empowered to shape decent living and working conditions. Safety and Health Competence: A Guide for Cultures of Prevention is written in the context of work and health. The use of a social-constructive and a context sensitive approach to competence in occupational safety and health is new and forms a theoretical basis for putting into place the necessary learning processes for cultural transformation in companies and educational institutions. Covers a broad range of new demands placed on companies and employees in this age of global and technological transformation Provides assistance with a better understanding of the current debate on occupational safety and health (OSH) competences Presents a comprehensive source of information for OSH experts, human resource specialists, educational institutions, training development specialists, teachers, and trainers, allowing them to identify competence needs, promote competence development, and assess competences Explains what the concept culture of prevention means Offers real-life examples that will appeal to practitioners
Artificial Intelligence and Human Performance in Transportation
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a major technological advancement in the 21st century. With its influence spreading to all aspects of our lives and the engineering sector, establishing well-defined objectives is crucial for successfully integrating AI in the field of transportation. This book presents different ways of adopting emerging technologies in transportation operations, including security, safety, online training, and autonomous vehicle operations on land, sea, and air.This guide is a dynamic resource for senior management and decision-makers, with essential practical advice distilled from the expertise of specialists in the field. It addresses the most critical issues facing transportation service providers in adopting AI and investigates the relationship between the human operator and the technology to navigate what is and is not feasible or impossible. Case studies of actual implementation provide context to common scenarios in the transportation sector.This book will serve the reader as the starting point for practical questions regarding the deployment and safety assurance of new and emergent technologies in the transportation domains. Artificial Intelligence and Human Performance in Transportation is a beneficial read for professionals in the fields of Human Factors, Engineering (Aviation, Maritime and Land), Logistics, Manufacturing, Accident Investigation and Safety, Cybersecurity and Human Resources.
Nature-Inspired Optimization in Advanced Manufacturing Processes and Systems
The manufacturing system is going through substantial changes and developments in light of Industry 4.0. Newer manufacturing technologies are being developed and applied. There is a need to optimize these techniques when applied in different circumstances with respect to materials, tools, product configurations, and process parameters. This book covers computational intelligence applied to manufacturing. It discusses nature-inspired optimization of processes and their design and development in manufacturing systems. It explores all manufacturing processes, at both macro and micro levels, and offers manufacturing philosophies. Nonconventional manufacturing, real industry problems and case studies, research on generative processes, and relevance of all this to Industry 4.0 is also included.Researchers, students, academicians, and industry professionals will find this reference title very useful.
Ergodesign Methodology for Product Design
This book presents a co-design detailed methodology that will enable the reader to develop human-centered product designs, considering the user's needs, skills, and limitations.The purpose of this book is to produce an ergonomic design methodology in which the "user's voice" can be translated into product requirements in a way that designers and manufacturers can use, characterizing it as a co-design methodology. It discusses important topics including ergonomics and product design, design specifications, project evaluation, modeling and prototyping, product safety, human error, kansei/affective engineering, usability and user experience, models of usability, methods for research and evaluation of usability, methods for evaluation of user-experience, preliminary strategic design planning, detailing design, and design, ergonomic and pandemics.The book offers a human-centered design methodology that allows the reader to carry out analysis and design projects for both products aimed at the disabled user population and those that serve the general population. It will be a valuable reference text for undergraduate and graduate students and professionals in the fields of ergonomics, design, architecture, engineering, and related fields. It can also be used by students and professionals of physiotherapy and occupational therapy interested in designing products for people with special needs.
Humanising Safety
The world of safety for professionals can often be unclear. In an industry that divides the safety world into one of two camps, either traditional or contemporary safety, the lack of knowledge propagates through books, publications, podcasts, social media, and conferences, leaving safety professionals feeling more muddled than informed.
Introduction to Human Factors for Organisational Psychologists
This text introduces industrial and organisational psychologists to the discipline of human factors. It also provides a range of tools necessary for the application of human factors strategies and techniques in practice. The text is intended to respond to the growing demand for organisational psychologists to assist in the development and evaluation of initiatives that are intended to optimise the relationship between workers and the operational environments with which they engage.The book- Contains practical strategies and examples that are intended to guide readers- Combines human factors and organisational psychological concepts in a single volume- Covers context-related examples that illustrate the application of human factors tools and principles- Presents an integrated approach to human factors from an organisational psychological perspectiveThe text begins by discussing the application of human factors in organisations, together with notions of risk and uncertainty. Frameworks for human factors are considered, including error-based and system safety approaches. It explores the links between individual differences and human factors, and it covers group processes and the impact on team performance, including the role of leadership and followership. The book also presents a range of tools and techniques that can be applied by organisational psychologists to acquire human factors-related information and develop an understanding of the situation or factors that may explain human behaviour.
Manufacturing Parameters and Entrepreneurship
This reference text discusses manufacturing parameters and entrepreneurship in the context of space consideration. It provides basic understanding of several manufacturing parameters and estimation techniques with the help of examples for better understanding of readers including graduate students and professional engineers.
Integrated Earthquake Simulation
Integrated earthquake simulation (IES) is a new method for evaluating earthquake hazards and disasters induced in cities and urban areas. It utilises a sequence of numerical simulations of such aspects as earthquake wave propagation, ground motion amplification, structural seismic response, and mass evacuation. This book covers the basics of numerical analysis methods of solving wave equations, analyzing structural responses, and developing agent models for mass evaluation, which are implemented in IES. IES makes use of Monte-Carlo simulation, which takes account of the effects of uncertainties related to earthquake scenarios and the modeling of structures both above and below ground, and facilitates a better estimate of overall earthquake and disaster hazard. It also presents the recent achievement of enhancing IES with high-performance computing capability that can make use of automated models which employ various numerical analysis methods. Detailed examples of IES for the Tokyo Metropolis Earthquake and the Nankai Trough Earthquake are given, which use large scale analysis models of actual cities and urban areas.
Mindful Safety
Synthesising the latest thinking from neuroscience and psychology with the practice of safety management, Mindful Safety shows how a much stronger safety culture can be built from the ground up. Case studies, applied research and practical exercises all demonstrate how attention, and the ability to focus, can significantly boost performance and resilience, whilst reducing human error and the number of safety incidents.Representing a new kind of safety thinking to meet contemporary challenges, the book covers four critical levels: the individual, the relational, the organisational and the societal. The approach can be successfully applied to the healthcare, road, rail, aviation and energy sectors for greater safety and performance.The emphasis on self-care, strengthening relationships and learning from positives signals a clear shift in safety management thinking. This is not just an insightful, analytical approach, but an action-based one ready for implementation. Few approaches in the field tackle the subjects of sleep, fatigue, distraction, smartphone addiction, workplace stress and mental health with the same vigour, or provide the safety toolkit for fighting a pandemic. If you want to create the right mindset to achieve exceptional results in these uncertain times, this book will show you how. It is aimed at professionals in the health and safety industry, as well as graduate students in human factors, ergonomics, industrial engineering and production engineering.
Applied Attention Theory
This book provides details concerning the relevance of all aspects of attention. Topic application areas run from the design of warning systems to capture attention, to the attention distractions in the workplace, to the failures of dividing attention while driving, to the measurement of mental workload while flying.
Sustainable Manufacturing
Sustainability enables the development of products with minimal environment impact coupled with economical and societal benefits. This book provides an understanding of theoretical and practical perspectives pertaining to Sustainable manufacturing. This book focuses on fundamentals, providing insights, concepts, tools, methods, case studies, and practical perspectives taken from research. The book will be of interest to students, researchers and industry practitioners.
What Makes the Systems Engineer Successful? Various Surveys Suggest An Answer
This book offers a survey of successful attributes of the systems engineer. It focuses on the key positive attributes of what today's systems engineer should be and puts a model in place for achievement and behavior for future systems engineers. The book, in survey form, provides a description of how and why systems engineers can be, and have been, successful. It offers successful attributes, focuses on the key positive qualities, and drills down to the success features to aim for and the failure characteristics to avoid. The ending result is that it sets a model for achievement and behavior for future systems engineers to follow a successful path. This book will be helpful to systems engineers, industrial engineers, mechanical engineers, general engineers, and those in technical management.
Sustainability
Sustainability is one of the most embraced topics nowadays. Everybody is affected by issues of sustainability. Every organization needs to pay attention to these issues. As long as more people and more organizations are engaging in business and industry activities, there will always be a need for sustainability. This book presents tools such as lean six sigma to help sustain results by using process focused decisions. This book covers tools and techniques of industrial engineering to promote sustainability. It discusses a systems approach, the evolution of new products, development of sustainability alliances, and highlights the role of sustainability in advancing organizational goals. The book also addresses sustainability as a coordinated project using a project management approach. It includes the interface of humans and technology and presents an integration of analytics. The book is ideal for all engineering, business, and management fields.
Human Factors and Ergonomics in Sport
Sport is an integral part of society, playing a key role in human health and well-being, and cultural, political and economic development. As sport is becoming more complex, competitive, diverse, and increasingly reliant on technology, HFE theories, methods, and principles are progressively being applied to help understand and optimize sports systems. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Sport: Applications and Future Directions showcases the latest in sports HFE research and practice. Including contributions from both HFE and sports science researchers, it provides a collection of state-of-the-art studies, reviews and commentaries covering a diverse set of sports and sporting issues. "This book is an excellent resource for all academics and students in general. It provides updated theoretical foundations and applications that conceive a world where everything is connected and embedded in technology that allows us to capture, process and visualise actions and interactions, also at transdisciplinary levels." Professor Jaime Sampaio, Head of the Research Center in Sports Sciences, Health and Human Development (CIDESD), University of Tr獺s-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal"With the changing nature of work comes an ever-greater focus on leisure. Sport is a major dimension of this crucial form of human activity. Now comes Salmon and his colleagues who have assembled a panoply of world leaders who each provide their own individual perspectives on this intriguing world. Their emphasis on the human factors and ergonomics of these activities brings us new and exciting insights. A great read for the specialist and generalist alike."Professor Peter Hancock, Pegasus Professor, Provost Distinguished Research Professor and Trustee Chair, University of Central Florida, USA."Finally, the complexity of sports and health is being considered in full. This book challenges contemporary thinking toward the prevention of injuries in sports, and provides tangible solutions to help our field into a new decade."Professor Evert Verhagen, Amsterdam Collaboration on Health and Safety in Sports & Department of Public and Occupational Health, VU University Medical Center
Intro to Workplace Safe (3rd Ed)
Workplace safety and health (WSH) is an important area of any business or organisation. A serious accident or ill health incident can cause much suffering and distress to workers, co-workers, and the victims' family and friends. In addition, the organisations involved in the WSH incident will have to manage negative consequences including increase in insurance premiums, lost time and delays, morale issues, union and community protests, and reputation losses. On the other hand, good WSH can lead to organisational excellence.This book takes a systems-thinking approach to allow readers to understand how WSH is an integral part of any organisation. The different chapters are strung together by an overarching model of incident causation and underpinning models are presented to allow a strong conceptual foundation. Practical WSH knowledge are also discussed in relevant chapters to ensure that beginners have an introduction to the fundamentals of WSH hazards and controls. Besides the strong emphasis on conceptual framework, readers will also be exposed to the details of a WSH management system and practical WSH processes, hazards and controls. This edition brings all ten of the book's chapters up to date with current-day best practices, WSH guidelines, and approved codes of practice. A series of online quizzes are available to readers to help them to reinforce the concepts of each chapter.Undergraduates and post-graduates will benefit from the systematic introduction to the foundations of WSH management. Practitioners will strengthen their conceptual understanding and widen their perspective by re-visiting the foundations of WSH management through a systems-thinking lens.
If There Were No Shinkansen
This book is the first book written in English about the secret story of the birth of the Shinkansen in Japan and its subsequent developments. The author, Mr. Shuichiro Yamanouchi, a former chairman of East Japan Railway (JR East), addresses what the essence of Shinkansen technology is and how it could be achieved in such a short time. And the book, written based on his long experience in railway engineering and management, gives readers a bird's-eye view of the Japanese railway as a whole, and the technical philosophy of his great career behind it. In this book, its whole picture is clarified, that is, the world's first 200 km/h running, dealing with troubles after the opening, and development of the 300 km/h commercial operation after that, including the failure stories encountered in the process. These gave a big stimulation to the development of other high-speed railways, and this book helps readers to learn about the accumulated experiences of Japanese high-speed railways that have not been revealed so far, such as railway safety, noise against the environment, railway privatization, harmonization of management and engineering, and so forth."
Seismic Retrofit of Existing Buildings
Seismic Retrofit of Existing Buildings is a concise and easy-to-use book aimed at supporting engineers in the design of retrofit solutions for seismically vulnerable buildings. It offers readers guidance on both conceptual design strategies and relevant detailed design considerations, drawing from the authors' extensive experience in research and practice in seismic regions. Useful advice is provided on the design choices and detailing tips recognising the practical implementation challenges behind these projects. It brings together the need-to-know information in one guide and will help you cut through conflicting advice, demystify technical jargon and interpret international standards to ensure that you have the right tools and knowledge in order to retrofit any building structure anywhere in the world. This book is unique in its coverage of a range of global and local seismic retrofit solutions applicable to buildings constructed in unreinforced masonry, reinforced concrete, structural steel and timber. Highlights include: background on seismic risk mitigation and the basis for retrofit practical design tips and advice on consulting with clients an overview of seismic assessment of existing structures, with reference to international standards including Eurocode 8, ASCE-41 and New Zealand standards guidance on commonly used seismic retrofit solutions with supporting conceptual design examples coverage of various construction types vulnerable to earthquakes and the specific retrofit techniques employed to improve their performance commentary on future trends and the relevance of seismic retrofit of existing buildings to sustainability goals. It will be an indispensable companion for engineers, construction professionals and researchers, who seek to understand the principles behind seismic retrofit and the challenges and solutions in practical implementation.
Bad Construction Worse Engineers
In BAD CONSTRUCTION, WORSE ENGINEERS, Mario Levarie takes readers on a gripping journey through the catastrophic collapse of the Quebec Bridge in Canada, exposing the engineering negligence that led to the tragedy. Through meticulous research and analysis, Levarie uncovers the design flaws, construction failures, and ethical lapses that contributed to the collapse, while providing valuable lessons for modern engineering and construction. This captivating and informative book serves as a cautionary tale, reminding us of the importance of accountability, ethics, and safety in engineering.
CAREC Road Safety Engineering Manual 7
This manual outlines the many benefits of managing road speed in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) countries, addresses misunderstandings, and explains how stakeholders can apply a safe system approach.Reducing travel speeds by 10 km/h on roads in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) countries would halve crash deaths and would also reduce the considerable economic cost of accidents. The manual summarizes evidence to help stakeholders in the CAREC region improve speed management. It looks at how road design, vehicle technology, and user behavior affect accidents and outlines potential interventions.
Applied Reliability for Engineers
Engineering systems and products are an important element of the world economy and each year billions of dollars are spent to develop, manufacture, operate, and maintain systems and products around the globe. Because of this, global competition is requiring reliability professionals to work closely with other departments involved in engineering development during the product design and manufacturing phase.Applied Reliability for Engineers is an attempt to meet the need for a single volume that addresses a wide range of applied reliability topics. The material is treated in such a manner that the reader will require no previous knowledge to understand the text. The sources of most of the information presented are given in a reference section at the end of each chapter. At appropriate places, the book contains examples along with their solutions. At the end of each chapter there are numerous problems to test reader comprehension. This volume is thus suitable for use as a textbook as well as for reference.Applied Reliability for Engineers is useful to design professionals, system engineers, reliability specialists, graduate and senior undergraduate students, researchers and instructors of reliability engineering, and engineers-at-large.
Systems Approach to the Design of Commercial Aircraft
The good news is that aviation fatalities have fallen dramatically in recent years. An understanding of these phenomena promises to bring the fatality rate even lower. This book is the most advanced book in its field. It describes commercial aircraft from an advanced systems point of view.
Earthquake Science and Engineering
This book addresses scientific and engineering aspects of earthquakes, which are generally taught and published on separately. This book intends to fill the gap between these two fields associated with earthquakes and help seismologists and earthquake engineers better communicate with and understand each other.
Circular Economy for the Management of Operations
Circular-Economy is a new concept in operations management. Its goal is to redefine growth, focusing on positive benefits arising for society as a whole out of efficiencies such as designing waste out the operations process. This book will help practitioners use the proper strategy for effective adoption of Circular practices to use in their organization.Features: Provides a complete understanding of Circular-Economy practices Offers advanced mathematical models to help industry management adopt the correct practices Presents a deep understanding of cross-functional and customer-focused design thinking Covers how to develop sustainable practices in all types of activities within operations management. Circular Economy for the Management of Operations will be of interest to practitioners and researchers in engineering as well as business management
Human Factors in Performing Arts
This captivating book explores the intersection where performing arts meetshuman interaction and delves into the application of human factors principlesin this field. From music and theatre to cinema and magic shows, indoor andoutdoor performances are analysed from a human factors perspective. Written in an accessible language, this book offers a comprehensive overview of howhuman factors influence various facets of the performing arts, enriching theexperience for both performers and audiences alike. This book uncovers howhuman factors principles can enhance performance across script writing, stagedesign, crowd engagement and more. Through engaging storytelling and practicalexamples, readers will learn about the intricacies of audience attention, ambience creation and the importance of feedback in shaping memorableperformances. Whether you're a seasoned professional or an aspiring eventsmanager looking to enhance the user experience, this book provides valuableinsights into optimising the human experience within the realm of performingarts, making it safe and memorable for all. Ideal for professionals in human factors, occupational health and safety, as well as those working in theperforming arts industry, Human Factors in Performing Arts: A Layperson'sApproach serves as a valuable resource for theatre managers, event organisersand anyone involved in orchestrating small- or large-scale performances. Withits blend of theory and real-world application, the book offers a fresh perspectiveon human factors and the art of entertainment, making it essentialreading for anyone passionate about elevating their craft.
Catastrophic Incidents
The book analyses why human-made catastrophes continue to occur. The catastrophic risk associated with a range of high technology industries is described along with some major incidents and their causes. Different means available to prevent such incidents are summarized, together with explanations as to why these methods often fail.
Handbook of Usability and User-Experience
Handbook of Usability and User-Experience: Methods and Techniques is concerned with emerging ergonomics in design concepts, theories, and applications of human factors knowledge focusing on the discovery, design, and understanding of human interaction and usability issues with products and systems for their improvement.
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.
Handbook of Usability and User-Experience
This volume is concerned with emerging ergonomics in design concepts, theories and applications of human factors knowledge focusing on the discovery, design and understanding of human interaction and usability issues with products and systems for their improvement. It is research focused and includes product case studies.
Jin Chinese Grammar I
This book is the first volume of a two-volume set that synchronically and diachronically studies the Jin dialect in Northern Shaanxi Province in China, with a focus on the grammatical features of the pronouns, the aspect and appearance, and the tense system of the dialect.
Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Structures
Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Structures: Testing, Sensing, Monitoring, and Control covers a wide range of topics in the areas of vibration testing, instrumentation, and analysis of civil engineering and critical infrastructure.
