Safety and Wearable Technology
Safety and Wearable Technology tackles the issue of workplace safety, as each day around the world workers lose their lives in accidents, and more succumbing to work-related illnesses.With wearable technology readily available, a new frontier has opened for workplace safety, offering powerful tools that can change worker protection.
Deformation and Failure Mechanism of Rock Tunnels under Earthquake Loading
This covers seismic performance, deformation and failure mechanisms, good aseismic design, and effective damage assessment and restoration. It gives analytical solutions for longitudinal and transversal seismic deformation, along with performance-based restoration design and aseismic design, and a case study of Japan's Tawarayama tunnel.
Tailings Dam Safety / S矇curit矇 des Barrages de St矇riles
ICOLD Bulletin 194, Tailings Dam Safety, aims to assist the international community to further develop and adopt safe practices for tailings dam planning, design, construction, operation, and closure with a focus on the technical aspects that are mentioned but not fully developed in other National and Industry Guidelines and Standards.
Designing for Situation Awareness
Developed by the leading scientists in the field, Designing for Situation Awareness: An Approach to User-Centered Design, Third Edition offers a systematic and successful methodology for supporting the situation awareness (SA) of individuals and teams who work in complex and demanding environments.Newly updated to reflect the latest research on SA, this new edition provides needed background on common SA challenges, the cognitive processes people use to form and maintain SA, and the agile design processes that the SA-Oriented Design processes can compliment. The chapters feature detailed examples of SA-Oriented Design focused on SA in driving, SA in healthcare, SA in command and control, SA in unmanned and remotely operated vehicles, and SA with augmented reality. It also includes 60 detailed design principles for engineers and designers who want to improve the SA provided by their systems based on leading research in the field, as well as 12 principles and proven approaches for developing effective SA training. Design principles focus on supporting people's SA processes and dealing with common SA challenges, supporting an understanding of information certainty, dealing with complexity and alarms, and the effects of automation and AI on SA, as well as supporting the unique SA needs of teams.This book will appeal to any engineer, human factors practitioner, system designer, or other professional interested in situation awareness. It will be highly pertinent to aviation engineers, military engineers, intelligence professionals, emergency management personnel, medical practitioners, air traffic controllers, automobile engineers, financial and business management workers, and power and process control room staff.
Territorial Imaginaries
Fresh offerings on world mapping beyond Western conventions. This strikingly colorful volume contends that modern mapping has never been sufficient to illustrate the complex reality of territory and political sovereignty, whether past or present. For Territorial Imaginaries, editor K瓣ren Wigen has assembled an impressive slate of experts, spanning disciplines from political science to art history, to contribute perspectives and case studies covering three main themes: mapping before the nation-state, rethinking and critiquing mapping practices, and robust traditions of counter-cartography. Each contributor proposes alternative ways to think about mapping, and the essays are supported with rich archival documentation. Among the far-reaching case studies are Barbara Mundy's cartographic history of Indigenous dispossession in the Americas, Peter Bol's examination of two Chinese maps created five hundred years apart, and Ali Yaycıoğlu's exploration of tensions between top-down and bottom-up mapping of Habsburg and Ottoman border claims.
Bell Telephone System's Preeminent Role in the Growth of Industrial Design
Histories of design pay scant attention to the corded telephone, which played an immeasurable role in early communication. Although the Bell System, with many Nobel Prizes, is justly acknowledged for its technical prowess, it should also be recognized for its early and considerable impact on the developing discipline of industrial design. In 1930, young Henry Dreyfuss, who would later become known as a pioneer of industrial design, was retained by the Bell System as a design consultant and matured in that environment. With substantial input from Bell System engineers, Dreyfuss and his staff produced attractive telephone designs that were manufactured and installed in more than one hundred million American homes and copied around the world. Featuring over one hundred illustrations, Bell Telephone System's Preeminent Role in the Growth of Industrial Design is a deep dive into the development and evolution of the corded telephone. A detailed case study of an object that would become so ubiquitous and commonplace, it is also the story writ large of the establishment and importance of the field of industrial design.
Bell Telephone System's Preeminent Role in the Growth of Industrial Design
Histories of design pay scant attention to the corded telephone, which played an immeasurable role in early communication. Although the Bell System, with many Nobel Prizes, is justly acknowledged for its technical prowess, it should also be recognized for its early and considerable impact on the developing discipline of industrial design. In 1930, young Henry Dreyfuss, who would later become known as a pioneer of industrial design, was retained by the Bell System as a design consultant and matured in that environment. With substantial input from Bell System engineers, Dreyfuss and his staff produced attractive telephone designs that were manufactured and installed in more than one hundred million American homes and copied around the world. Featuring over one hundred illustrations, Bell Telephone System's Preeminent Role in the Growth of Industrial Design is a deep dive into the development and evolution of the corded telephone. A detailed case study of an object that would become so ubiquitous and commonplace, it is also the story writ large of the establishment and importance of the field of industrial design.
Networked Systems in Industry 4.0
The networking of devices, machines and systems plays a key role in Industry 4.0. This textbook conveys the basic knowledge required for the successful use of intelligent networked production systems. It is aimed at students from the fields of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering as well as process and environmental engineering, and is also suitable for practitioners who are involved in the automation of production.The book is divided into three parts. Part I is dedicated to the basics of networking and bus systems, including their procedures, methods and structures of local networks; hardware and software components of embedded systems; the properties of selected fieldbus systems; and open communication between networked systems based on Open Platform Communications. Part II deals with the Industrial Ethernet as well as wireless and mobile communication systems. Part III deals with the networking of cyber-physical systems, which form the basis for Industry 4.0 scenarios. Its coverage includes the architectures and services for Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things, communication infrastructures and protocols for Industry 4.0 production systems and networking in the digital factory.The basics of networked systems are illustrated using numerous application cases. More than 80 exercises provide the opportunity to test and deepen the knowledge acquired. The solutions to all the exercises, as well as additional supplementary material are also available.
Flood Evaluation, Hazard Determination and Risk Management / ?valuation Des Crues, D矇termination Des Dangers Et Gestion Des Risques
ICOLD Bulletin 187 begins with a section defining the design flood, followed by three main chapters. The second chapter examines the main aspects of flood volume. The third chapter looks in more detail at stochastic approaches to flood risk assessment. The final chapter deals with the forecasting aspects of proactive flood management.
Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility
Human Factors Analysis of 23 Cyberattacks
As cyber threat actors have become more sophisticated, data breaches, phishing attacks, and ransomware are increasing. While technical issues are fundamental in understanding how to improve system security, analyzing the roles of human agents is crucial. This title addresses, through examples, the human factors behind cybersecurity attacks.
Automation 4.0
The fourth industrial revolution places a number of additional demands on the design and automation of processing machines. Digitalization and automation are making products and their manufacturing processes not only more sophisticated, but also more individual. Growing demands on availability, logistics, quality and extreme price sensitivity are not leaving the production environment unscathed. This book analyses the challenges and provides meaningful examples of solution scenarios for effective production in the age of Industry 4.0.Automation 4.0 shows readers how the requirements of Industry 4.0 may be projected onto known design principles. The resulting functions are illustrated using real-life examples from industry to create a roadmap for drawing up a specification sheet for the design of a versatile processing machine. Numerous practical examples illustrate the modular, function- and object-oriented design of individual machines and systems as a solution for increasing efficiency throughout their entire life cycle. To this end, a procedure for the design of versatile machines based on object- and function-oriented modularization is presented and illustrated and elaborated step by step on the basis of the requirements.This book presents solution strategies that address the additional demands of modularization on the structure and component selection of automation systems flexibly, sustainably and with minimal engineering effort. These include aspects of real-time capability as well as machine safety and the selection of a suitable fieldbus, human-machine communication and the ability to interact in digital production. Finally, the topics of AI-supported quality assurance, simulation and digital twins are also addressed and the current state of research on the interaction of Industry 4.0 components is conveyed.The book offers a comprehensive overview of the development of sustainable machines, particularly in terms of cost-effectiveness for very small batch sizes. It is not only for students of automation technology and mechatronics, but also for industrial, development and design engineers.
Learning from Near Misses
Learning From Near Misses can provide opportunities to improve safety without the need for harm to have first occurred. This book explores how near misses contribute to safety management across high-risk sectors, to help organisations, industries and sectors utilise learning from near misses in line with contemporary safety theory.
Occupational Health and Safety in the Food and Beverage Industry
A safe and healthy working environment is a vital aspect of the food and beverage processing industry. Occupational Health and Safety in the Food and Beverage Industry provides key information on food and beverage manufacturing disease, injury management, and safer steps for employees to get back to work and discusses food security, safety, biosecurity, defense food safety, and quality including food adulteration.Features: Discusses fundamentals of occupational health and safety in the food and beverage industry Highlight standards and legislations as related to occupational health and safety for food and beverage processing sectors Covers hazards, elements, accident prevention, various hazards present in food and beverage sectors, and their disease and injury management Explores ethical issues in agri-food processing sectors and their effects on sustainability Introduces importance, organization, and management for food and beverage processing sectors to prevent losses The book is intended for professionals in the fields of occupational health and safety, food engineering, chemical engineering, and process engineering.
Innovations in Topology Optimization
This book is a practical guide to the topology optimization process. It explains the fundamental theoretical underpinnings of topology optimization techniques andcovers hands-on implementation. The book also offers several real-world examples that illustrate the transformative power of topology optimization in enhancing product design. Through these case studies, the book demonstrates how the application of topology optimization can tangibly and measurably elevate the quality, efficiency, and functionality of a diverse range of products, further reinforcing its importance and effectiveness.
Sharing the Road
With the advancements in sensor and computation technologies, connected autonomous vehicle (CAVs) services are deployed on roads, sharing the road with human-driven vehicles (HVs). This brings challenges to traffic safety, due to uncertainty in HVs' behaviors. Sharing the Road offers solutions to create a safer world with HVs and AVs.
Effective Procurement of Ground Investigation
Effective Procurement of Ground Investigation is a client's best practice guide to procuring good quality ground investigations which will ensure that ground related and other risks are suitably and sufficiently assessed and that the required data is obtained to meet the project objectives. Procurement should follow a structured process from planning, through risk assessment to choosing the most appropriate procurement approach, conditions of contract to development of the specification. Clients often underestimate the potential cost of not assessing and managing ground related risks and that inadequate or poor ground investigations can result in serious delays and additional costs to projects. This guide describes the significant risks which may occur as part of the investigation process and explains the importance of early contractor involvement for their identification and management prior to commencement of the investigation. It also explains why clients who fairly allocate those risks, obtain a more value for money ground investigation. It is essential that the client creates a team which has the appropriate competence and proven track record from the ground investigation adviser, designers to the ground investigation specialists. Adequate ground investigations can only be developed by a flexible process led by competent individuals who truly understand the investigation methods, the importance of supervision and that this type of work is likely to encounter unknowns and uncertainty. Effective Procurement of Ground Investigation is intended primarily for Clients but construction professionals such as civil and structural engineers, architects, developers and other procurers will benefit from using this guidance. Prepared by Julian Lovell and Matthew Baldwin on behalf of the Association of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists.
Regulation of Dam Safety
ICOLD Bulletin 167 provides a comprehensive review of legal and regulatory arrangements for the safety of dams among the countries represented at ICOLD. As such, this review is essentially a snapshot of the situation being in place at the end of the first and the beginning of the second decade in the 21st century.
Restorative Just Culture
At work, accountability can often translate to punishment. This book explores trust, learning, and accountability in the aftermath of incidents. Fully updated, the fourth edition of Restorative Just Culture covers restorative justice, challenging conventional notions of blame and retribution to create a 'just culture' in the workplace.
GIS Cartography
The new edition of this well-established introductory cartography textbook is updated to respond to the demand for critical engagement with new technologies, the passion for inclusive design, and for preparing students to build competence in fundamental skills. Written in a friendly style, it is enjoyable to read and includes over 200 figures and maps, explaining everything from layout design to dynamic cartography issues. A new chapter discusses the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in cartography, and a significant expansion to 3D cartography has been incorporated into existing chapters. A new chapter on accessibility provides a thorough understanding of universal design. Additional updates include placements and best practices for digital map elements, global labeling techniques including language support, hybrid map styling, multiscale map testing, and information on 4D mapping.New in the Fourth Edition: Exploration of geospatial AI and generative AI in cartography and how they can already make an impact on workflows. New material on vision, motor, and cognitive accessibility techniques in map design. Expanded discussion on 3D cartography. All chapters are updated with new data and important new developments in cartography, including the importance of accessible design to ensure inclusivity for all users. Updated study questions and exercises to enhance student engagement and comprehension. New discussions of techniques such as aquarium cutaways, integrated north arrows, joy plots, hybrid satellite maps, crafted hachuring, as well as updated information on resolution and file types. This book is written as a go-to guide for learning the art and science of mapmaking. It is for undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in GIS and cartography and studying fields such as geography, geophysics, environmental engineering, urban planning, and so on. It is also a valuable resource for professionals interested in learning techniques and technologies for creating maps and visualizing geospatial datasets.
Bridge Failures and Lessons Learnt
Around the world, bridge failures are occurring on an almost monthly basis. Bridge Failures and Lessons Learnt: Future-proofing to prevent disasters uses case studies from history, as well as more recent events, to analyse in detail the causes and consequences of these failures, shedding light on technological advancements and actionable steps to prevent such disasters in the future. Bridge collapses may be attributed to a relatively small number of causes, including errors either in design or construction, incorrect operation, poor maintenance and, especially with climate change upon us, environmental factors. It is usually due to a combination of these factors which leads to failure. In many cases, however, the detailed engineering reasons behind those collapses have not been widely shared so that bridge engineers can learn the lessons and to try to prevent similar recurrences. This principle of knowledge sharing has been fundamental to the development of engineering understanding for the last few centuries. This book provides a detailed analysis of the more frequent causes of failures, using a selection of case studies from around the world focuses on future-proofing new and existing bridges, particularly in response to climate change highlights the opportunities offered by new technology, including the use of remote sensors, IoT, and AI. Bridge Failures and Lessons Learnt is a much-needed reference for bridge managers, consultants, inspectors, and civil and structural engineers engaged in the design, construction, maintenance, and management of bridges both in the UK and overseas. It is also useful reading for consultants designing bridge repairs, inspectors, and asset owners.
Human Factors in the U.S. Railroad Industry
Human Factors in the U.S. Railroad Industry book investigates the human factor behind one of the world's biggest railway networks and synthesizes the body of research that has been produced by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on Human Factors in the Railroad industry since 1993.
Passive Vibration Control of Structures
Research in structural vibration control deals with catastrophic failures of civil structures during natural hazards.
Oil Well Production Mechanism
This is a comprehensive guide to the intricacies of the oil and gas industry, focusing specifically on production processes. Written by industry experts, the book offers valuable insights into the technical aspects, environmental considerations, and economic factors associated with oil and gas exploration and extraction.Main topics covered: Introduction to the oil and gas industry: The book overviews the industry, including its historical background, global significance, and key players. Basic reservoir concepts: It explores the techniques and technologies used to identify potential oil and gas reserves, assess their commercial viability, and estimate their production potential. Well completion and construction, intervention: The book delves into the various well completion processes, methodologies, construction and well intervention techniques, and reasons. This section focuses on completing the drilled wells and initiating production. It covers completion techniques, wellbore stimulation, artificial lift methods, and production optimization. Emerging technologies and future trends: It highlights the latest advancements in drilling and production technologies, such as directional drilling, hydraulic fracturing, and digitalization. It also discusses the industry's prospects and challenges. Oil Well Production Mechanism serves as a valuable resource for professionals, students, and enthusiasts seeking a comprehensive understanding of the oil and gas industry's production processes. It combines technical knowledge with practical insights, making it an essential read for anyone involved or interested in this dynamic field.
Humans and Cyber Security
Humans and Cyber Security: How Organisations Can Enhance Resilience Through Human Factors delivers an applied approach to capturing and mitigating the risk of the human element in cyber security and proposes that it is easier to change organisational practices than it is individual behaviour.
Achieving Digital Transformation Through Analytics and AI
Due to the rapid emergence of the development and use of Analytics and AI in organizations, this book focuses on these aspects related to digital transformation. We are in the midst of the GenAI craze, with prompt engineering, large language models, and AI ethics playing key roles. According to estimates, about 329 million terabytes of data are created each day [https: //explodingtopics.com/blog/data-generated-per-day] or approximately 120 zettabytes per year. With this overabundance of data, in all types of forms, the use of Analytics and AI are essential techniques to help organizations make sense of their digital transformation efforts. In this book volume, we are fortunate to have the contributions of leading individuals worldwide in various sectors, such as organization AI implementation, business management innovation and data gathering using artificial intelligence.
Process Operations Safety
Provides crucial lessons in process safety operations, drawing from 100 global case studies Written from an operator's perspective, Process Operations Safety provides valuable information and education on the fundamentals of process operations safety by providing background on process safety and key leading operational management and equipment failures that have led to catastrophic process safety incidents, including loss of life. Written by an expert with more than five decades of industry experience, this book enables readers to learn how simple jobs that they perform every day can lead to catastrophic safety incidents without proper caution, protocol, and attention. A self-learning quiz is provided near each chapter's end, with answers to all questions provided in the Appendix. A listing of additional resources or reference material, many with internet links, is also included at the end of each chapter. Readers will find: Principles of process safety, properties of hydrocarbons, vapor cloud explosions (VCE), and boiling liquid expanding vapor explosions (BLEVE) Most frequent causes of significant process safety events in refining and petrochemical industries Causal factors in over 100 global case studies of operations and incidents, divided into thirty-five subchapters with several examples for each, explaining what happened and what could have happened Key lessons learned, written in simple terms using descriptions without jargon or complicated formulas Process Operations Safety is an essential learning resource for petroleum refining and petrochemical plant operators, line supervisors, and critical support staff with field responsibility, such as process and mechanical engineers, along with advanced students at community and four-year colleges and technical/trade schools taking a process operations course.
Circularity Days 2024
This book comprises the proceedings of the conference "Circularity Days 2024", which took place from May 15th-16th in Wolfsburg. The conference focused on key topics such as Design for Remanufacturing, Circular Production, and Sustainable Materials and Applications. The emphasis was placed on products that are easily disassembled, repaired, and remanufactured, utilizing innovative manufacturing methods to minimize resource consumption, energy usage, and emissions, and highlighting eco-friendly materials and their role in achieving circularity. Especially circular production methods, which combine the advantages of minimal resource consumption and maximal reusability, have a high potential for reducing the environmental impact, while simultaneously extending the product lifecycle. The future, efficient and scalable integration of sustainable materials and circular production methods requires innovations and constant developments in design and manufacturing technology. This is an open access book.
Introduction to Modern Infrastructure Construction
Introducing the basics of infrastructure design and construction, this textbook offers an primer on civil construction. From the initial bid to a megaproject's final stages, this accessible guide to the construction manager's role on a heavy civil construction jobsite is suitable for graduate, undergraduate students and professionals.
Introduction to Modern Infrastructure Construction
Introducing the basics of infrastructure design and construction, this textbook offers an primer on civil construction. From the initial bid to a megaproject's final stages, this accessible guide to the construction manager's role on a heavy civil construction jobsite is suitable for graduate, undergraduate students and professionals.
Bridges as Structural Art
Bridges as Structural Art features twenty-five bridges designed by Miguel Rosales and his firm Rosales + Partners, Inc. The firm is characterized by a unique combination of architectural sensitivity, engineering knowledge, and communication skills that allows it to create iconic, cost-effective and technically innovative bridges. These transformational bridges have become a source of pride in the areas in which they have been built and tangible expressions of the art of bridge design.
Braced Oil Dampers for Buildings
These seismic vibration control systems are connected using braces in series and installed with pins to the building structure, enabling installation with little impact on the building structure. This book details testing, analysis and case studies of dampers at braced positions and also exposed to small amplitude vibration.
Containerization in Maritime Transport
Containerization in Maritime Transport addresses challenges to maritime transport and containerization, beginning with economic and managerial factors, through organizational, technical, operational, information and IT challenges, and ending with ecological challenges- to lessen the environmental impacts of maritime transport.
Design of Hybrid Structures
This guide focuses on design approaches for concrete structures reinforced in an unconventional way by steel profiles. It draws on the European Smartcoco research project, of experimentation and numerical modelling, giving practical guidance for designers and introducing the subject for researchers and graduate students.
Safety Engineering in the Oil and Gas Industry
Safety Engineering in the Oil and Gas Industry discusses how to improve safety in the oil and gas industry and reduce hazards to the lowest level feasible. A must-read for any student or professional in the oil and gas industries.
Mineral Processing Technology
This book introduces science and technology of processing solid minerals to concentrates of grades suitable for industrial extraction of metal values and other non-metallic products. It also includes case studies, process flowsheets, processing of tailings arising from mineral processing plants, more worked examples, and practice questions.
Human Factors on the Flight Deck
Discusses the underlying theories and practices that allow for identification, development, design, analysis, and evaluation, this text will be useful for professionals, graduate students and academic researchers in the fields of aviation, human factors, and ergonomics. It covers principles and methodologies for user-centered design.
Introduction to Human Factors
This textbook introduces readers to the innovative field of human factors psychology, offering real-world examples illustrating how experimental findings are used to improve the design of tools and environments used daily. This edition provides updated text, examples, pedagogical boxes, references, and an expanded instructor's manual.
Human Factors in Simulation and Training
Human Factors in Simulation and Training: Application and Practice covers the latest applications and practical implementations of advanced technologies in the field of simulation and training.
