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Peruvian Fabrics; 12 pt 4
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What Time is It? The Story of Clocks
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Our Greatest Industry (ca. 1935)
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Modern Ways for Modern Days
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High Explosive Shells in the Making
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California Wool Production; E171
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Shuttle-craft Courses in Weaving
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Personal Reminiscences of the Lumbering Era
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Semi-annual Report of Schimmel & Co. (Fritzsche Brothers); October 1912
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Western Pipe and Steel News; v.6 (1929)-v.8 (1931)
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Time and Clocks
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The Antikythera Mechanism
In Antikythera Mechanism: The Story Behind the Genius of the Greek Computer and Its Demise, Evaggelos Vallianatos, historian and ecopolitical theorist, shows that after the conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great in the late fourth century BCE, the Greeks, especially in Egypt, reached unprecedented heights of achievements in science, technology, and civilization. The Antikythera Mechanism, an astronomical computer probably crafted in Rhodes in the second century BCE, was proof of that prowess. It's the grandfather of our computers.Greek sponge divers discovered the Antikythera Mechanism in 1900 on a 2,100-year-old Roman-era shipwreck. The hand-powered device reveals a sophisticated Greek technology previously unknown to scholars and historians, not seen and understood again until the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book not only describes how the sophisticated political and technological infrastructure of the Greeks after Alexander the Great resulted in the Antikythera celestial computer, and the bedrock of science and technology we know today, but also how the influence of Christianity on Greek civilization destroyed the nascent computer age of ancient Greece. Vallianatos, born in Greece and educated in America, is a historian, author, and journalist. He is a passionate champion of Greek culture and a well-suited guide to this historical account.Vallianatos explains how and why Greek scientists employed advanced engineering in translating the beautiful conception of the Antikythera Mechanism into an astronomical computer of genius: a bronze-geared device of mathematical astronomy, predicting the eclipses of the Sun and the Moon; calculating the risings and settings of important stars and constellations, and the movements of the planets around the Sun; while mechanizing the predictions of scientific theories. The computer's accurate calendar connected these cosmic phenomena to the Olympics and other major Panhellenic religious and athletic celebrations, bringing the Greeks closer to their gods, traditions, and the Cosmos.
The Progressive Machine
The story of innovation isn't always told in novels. Sometimes it evolves from ingenuity, curiosity, and sheer will. That is the story of Lean--before we called it "Lean." The Progressive Machine is Stephen Weller's definitive primer on how a very important concept in production and service excellence came into being. Like the philosophy itself, the ideas neither start nor end here, helping to develop a leadership mindset that not only continuously improves, but also continues to grow. That is the heart of Lean. By always looking for better ways to think and do things, we are always changing the world, one step at a time. This book is less about the concepts and more about the people who brought them to life. These innovators saw opportunities to increase the value of the work around them. In doing so, they each laid the foundation for what is now considered an integral part of how to operate.
Integrating Deep Learning Algorithms to Overcome Challenges in Big Data Analytics
Data science revolves around two giants: Big Data analytics and Deep Learning. It is becoming challenging to handle and retrieve useful information due to how fast data is expanding. This book presents the technologies and tools to simplify and streamline the formation of Big Data as well as Deep Learning systems.This book discusses how Big Data and Deep Learning hold the potential to significantly increase data understanding and decision-making. It also covers numerous applications in healthcare, education, communication, media, and entertainment. Integrating Deep Learning Algorithms to Overcome Challenges in Big Data Analytics offers innovative platforms for integrating Big Data and Deep Learning and presents issues related to adequate data storage, semantic indexing, data tagging, and fast information retrieval.FEATURES Provides insight into the skill set that leverages one's strength to act as a good data analyst Discusses how Big Data and Deep Learning hold the potential to significantly increase data understanding and help in decision-making Covers numerous potential applications in healthcare, education, communication, media, and entertainment Offers innovative platforms for integrating Big Data and Deep Learning Presents issues related to adequate data storage, semantic indexing, data tagging, and fast information retrieval from Big Data This book is aimed at industry professionals, academics, research scholars, system modelers, and simulation experts.
All About Pull Production
All About Pull Production is a practical guide for anyone looking to implement pull systems. It focuses on practical application and values functionality over theory, albeit it explains the underlying relations. It is not a high-level philosophical discussion of lean, but a book to help you roll up your sleeves and get the job done. It is written for the practitioner. If you are working in production or logistics and want to implement pull, then this book is for you. It also serves as a useful reference for students and researchers of lean manufacturing. With a foreword by John Shook. The book has received the prestigious Shingo Publication Award on October 2022.
The Operation of Contemporary Blast Furnaces
The Operation of Contemporary Blast Furnace.- The Activation of the Hearth.- The Structure of Stock Column and the Control of Gas Distribution.- The Stabilization Furnace Temperature.- The Control of Slag Composition.- Tapping of Iron and Slag.- Basic Operation of Blast Furnace.- Precaution and Disposition of Furnace Breakage.- Scaffolding.- Blast Furnace Blowing on.- Blowing out, Banking and Blowing off.- The Explosion of Blast Furnace.
Technische Zuverl瓣ssigkeit mit MINITAB(R)
Produkte werden komplexer und Kundenanspr羹che bzgl. Nutzungsdauer, Qualit瓣t, Sicherheitserwartung und Kosten steigen. Man l繹st dieses Spannungsverh瓣ltnis verst瓣rkt durch eine h繹here Auslastung der Bauteile und effizientere Erprobungsmethoden. Hier helfen die Methoden der technischen Zuverl瓣ssigkeit, denn bei Kenntnis der Lasten, und der Werkstoffgrenzen k繹nnen Bauteile h繹her ausgelastet und Erprobungskosten gespart werden. Die Autoren und Trainer der technischen Zuverl瓣ssigkeit Dr.-Ing. Stefan Einbock und M.Sc. Arber Avdyli fassen deswegen die Grundlagen der technischen Zuverl瓣ssigkeit auf verst瓣ndliche Art zusammen und liefern konkrete und direkt anwendbare Methoden f羹r einen selbst瓣ndig erstellten Zuverl瓣ssigkeitsnachweis. Um den Inhalt verst瓣ndlich zu vermitteln, werden zahlreiche Abbildungen verwendet und eine einfache und klare Sprache gew瓣hlt. Die Theorie wird um praxisrelevante ?bungen erg瓣nzt. Eine einfache Anwendung der Methoden erm繹glichen die begleitenden Excel Tools. Zus瓣tzlich werden Erfahrungswerte mitgeliefert, und Schritt f羹r Schritt L繹sungen vorgestellt, so dass eine Berechnung von Zuverl瓣ssigkeiten einfach m繹glich ist, auf f羹r Einsteiger. Dieses Buch versetzt Sie dadurch in die Lage: - Sich schnell und einfach in die technische Zuverl瓣ssigkeit einzuarbeiten und diese Methoden richtig anzuwenden - Erprobungen abzuleiten und auszuwerten - Ihre Bauteile h繹her auszulasten - Kosten bei der Erprobung einzusparen
All About Pull Production
All About Pull Production is a practical guide for anyone looking to implement pull systems. It focuses on practical application and values functionality over theory, albeit it explains the underlying relations. It is not a high-level philosophical discussion of lean, but a book to help you roll up your sleeves and get the job done. It is written for the practitioner. If you are working in production or logistics and want to implement pull, then this book is for you. It also serves as a useful reference for students and researchers of lean manufacturing. With a foreword by John Shook. The book has received the prestigious Shingo Publication Award on October 2022.
Ductile Mode Cutting of Brittle Materials
This book provides a systematic and comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of ductile mode cutting of brittle materials, covering a range of topics from the fundamental physics to engineering practices. Discussing the machining mechanics and material properties, it explains the fundamental mechanism of ductile-to-brittle transition in the cutting of brittle materials. It also presents theoretical modeling and molecular dynamic simulation to demonstrate that ductile mode cutting can be achieved under certain conditions, as well as extensive experimental studies that produced smooth and damage-free surfaces on different materials, such as silicon, glass, tungsten carbide and calcium fluoride. Lastly, it explores how the ductile mode cutting performance and machinability of brittle materials can be further improved by hybrid machining processes like ultrasonic vibration and thermal-assisted cutting technologies in order to meet industry demands.
Stress Free Maintenance Solutions
Stress FreeTM Maintenance Solutions provides maintenance and operational guidance to establish a controlled maintenance and operational process.The focus on maintenance stability systems, maintenance sustaining systems and maintenance improvement systems changes the production system and those working within it.The ability to eliminate the majority of breakdowns, the minor stops utilizing a daily operational maintenance and technical maintenance stability check lists increases throughput and the eliminates up and down production performance.What is the first turning point? What action does the MC take or what decision does he/she make that changes the book's direction? Once he/she crossed this line, there's no going back.The stability created by running continuously greatly improves the through put capacity of the production system.Increasing the maintenance skills of everyone associated with the production system changes the culture.The work becomes easier. The personnel capabilities rise. The environment becomes appealing.Applying Stress FreeTM Maintenance Solutions requires dedication, coordination and supporting systems. It requires hard work.A strategic approach the priorities the achievement of stability requires the close partnership of several organizations such as, those that ensure the required parts, tools and materials are available.The professional maintenance personnelproduction line personnelproduction planningSupply chain leadersWorking together in creating a stable production system results in more throughput, reduced expenses, and improved profit margin.Stress FreeTM Maintenance Solutions is a simple comprehensive guide intended to provide the outline of the elements that will work in every production facility whether manually managed or MRP managed.Imagine being the top performers in Safety, Quality, Throughput, Response Flexibility and First in Low Cost Production. This is possible with a stable production system..
Design and Management of Manufacturing Systems
Although the design and management of manufacturing systems have been explored in the literature for many years now, they still remain topical problems in the current scientific research. The changing market trends, globalization, the constant pressure to reduce production costs, and technical and technological progress make it necessary to search for new manufacturing methods and ways of organizing them, and to modify manufacturing system design paradigms. This book presents current research in different areas connected with the design and management of manufacturing systems and covers such subject areas as: methods supporting the design of manufacturing systems, methods of improving maintenance processes in companies, the design and improvement of manufacturing processes, the control of production processes in modern manufacturing systems production methods and techniques used in modern manufacturing systems and environmental aspects of production and their impact on the design and management of manufacturing systems. The wide range of research findings reported in this book confirms that the design of manufacturing systems is a complex problem and that the achievement of goals set for modern manufacturing systems requires interdisciplinary knowledge and the simultaneous design of the product, process and system, as well as the knowledge of modern manufacturing and organizational methods and techniques.
Global Supply Chain
Global Supply Chain: Using Systems Engineering Strategies to Respond to Disruptions uses a systems-based approach of the tools and techniques of industrial engineering applied to the global supply chain. The specific application addressed in this book is the supply chain, which has been disrupted due to COVID-19 and the closure of several plants in the chain.The book presents the basic tools of industrial engineering applicable to a dynamic supply chain system. It recognizes the nuances of human factors in any commerce and industry and covers the basic elements of a supply chain from a systems perspective. It highlights the global impacts of disruption caused by COVID-19 and leverages the Triple C Model of system communication, cooperation, and coordination. It also illustrates the applicability of the DEJI systems model for supply chain design, evaluation, justification, and integration. Supply chain modeling optimization examples are offered, and the introduction of a newly developed learning curve model, applied to the global supply chain, is presented. The contents of the book are applicable not only to the food supply chain but also to the supply of other commodities, including physical products, services, and desired end results.The book is written for engineers working in production, civil, mechanical, and other industries. It will be of interest to engineering managers, consultants as well as those involved with business management. University students and instructors will also find this book useful as a general reference.
Papal Bull
Printing thrived after it came to Rome in the 1460s. Renaissance scholars, poets, and pilgrims in the Eternal City formed a ready market for mass-produced books. But Rome was also a capital city--seat of the Renaissance papacy, home to its bureaucracy, and a hub of international diplomacy--and print played a role in these circles, too. In Papal Bull, Margaret Meserve uncovers a critical new dimension of the history of early Italian printing by revealing how the Renaissance popes wielded print as a political tool. Over half a century of war and controversy--from approximately 1470 to 1520--the papacy and its agents deployed printed texts to potent effect, excommunicating enemies, pursuing diplomatic alliances, condemning heretics, publishing indulgences, promoting new traditions, and luring pilgrims and their money to the papal city. Early modern historians have long stressed the innovative press campaigns of the Protestant Reformers, but Meserve shows that the popes were even earlier adopters of the new technology, deploying mass communication many decades before Luther. The papacy astutely exploited the new medium to broadcast ancient claims to authority and underscore the centrality of Rome to Catholic Christendom. Drawing on a vast archive, Papal Bull reveals how the Renaissance popes used print to project an authoritarian vision of their institution and their capital city, even as critics launched blistering attacks in print that foreshadowed the media wars of the coming Reformation. Papal publishing campaigns tested longstanding principles of canon law promulgation, developed new visual and graphic vocabularies, and prompted some of Europe's first printed pamphlet wars. An exciting interdisciplinary study based on new literary, historical, and bibliographical evidence, this book will appeal to students and scholars of the Italian Renaissance, the Reformation, and the history of the book.
Artificial Intelligence and Digital Systems Engineering
The resurgence of artificial intelligence has been fueled by the availability of the present generation of high-performance computational tools and techniques. This book is designed to provide introductory guidance to artificial intelligence, particularly from the perspective of digital systems engineering.Artificial Intelligence and Digital Systems Engineering provides a general introduction to the origin of AI and covers the wide application areas and software and hardware interfaces. It will prove to be instrumental in helping new users expand their knowledge horizon to the growing market of AI tools, as well as showing how AI is applicable to the development of games, simulation, and consumer products, particularly using artificial neural networks.This book is for the general reader, university students, and instructors of industrial, production, civil, mechanical, and manufacturing engineering. It will also be of interest to managers of technology, projects, business, plants, and operations.
Machine Learning and Analytics in Healthcare Systems
This book provides applications of machine learning in healthcare systems and seeks to close the gap between engineering and medicine. It will combine the design and problem-solving skills of engineering with health sciences, in order to advance healthcare treatment. The book will include areas such as diagnosis, monitoring, and therapy. The book will provide real-world case studies, gives a detailed exploration of applications in healthcare systems, offers multiple perspectives on a variety of disciplines, while also letting the reader know how to avoid some of the consequences of old methods with data sharing. The book can be used as a reference for practitioners, researchers and for students at basic and intermediary levels in Computer Science, Electronics and Communications.
Sterile Manufacturing
This book highlights key ideas and factors to coach and guide professionals involved in learning about Sterile Manufacturing and operational requirements. It covers regulations and guidelines instituted by the FDA, ISPE, EMA, MHRA, and ICH, emphasizing good manufacturing practice and inspection requirements in the manufacturing of medicinal products. Additionally, this book provides the fundamentals of aseptic techniques, quality by design, risk assessment, and management in support of sterile operations applications. It creates a link to the implementation of business practices in drug manufacturing and healthcare and forms a correlation between design strategies including a step-by-step process to ensure reliability, safety, and efficacy of healthcare products for human and animal use. The book also provides a connection between drug production and regulated applications by offering a review of the basic elements of sterile processing, and how to remain viable with solid strategic planning. The book is a concise reference for professionals and learners in the field of sterile operations that governs primarily, pharmaceutical and medical device space, but can also extend to food and cosmetics that require clean (aseptic) manufacturing applications. It also helps compounding pharmacists and GMP inspectors and auditors.
Swarm Intelligence
Swarm intelligence is one of the fastest growing subfields of artificial intelligence and soft computing. This field includes multiple optimization algorithms to solve NP-hard problems for which conventional methods are not effective. It inspires researchers in engineering sciences to learn theories from nature and incorporate them.Swarm Intelligence: Foundation, Principles, and Engineering Applications provides a comprehensive review of new swarm intelligence techniques and offers practical implementation of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) with MATLAB code. The book discusses the statistical analysis of swarm optimization techniques so that researchers can analyse their experiment design. It also includes algorithms in social sectors, oil and gas industries, and recent research findings of new optimization algorithms in the field of engineering describing the implementation in machine learning. This book is written for students of engineering, research scientists, and academicians involved in the engineering sciences.
The Progressive Machine
The story of innovation isn't always told in novels. Sometimes it evolves from ingenuity, curiosity, and sheer will. That is the story of Lean--before we called it "Lean." The Progressive Machine is Stephen Weller's definitive primer on how a very important concept in production and service excellence came into being. Like the philosophy itself, the ideas neither start nor end here, helping to develop a leadership mindset that not only continuously improves, but also continues to grow. That is the heart of Lean. By always looking for better ways to think and do things, we are always changing the world, one step at a time. This book is less about the concepts and more about the people who brought them to life. These innovators saw opportunities to increase the value of the work around them. In doing so, they each laid the foundation for what is now considered an integral part of how to operate.
Intelligent Manufacturing
Part I Optimization using traditional techniques (4 Chapters) Use of traditional design of experiments techniques such as full factorial design, Taguchi, response surface methodology and mixed model design to optimize the various traditional and non-traditional manufacturing and machining processes. Part II Multi-criteria decision making through soft computing and evolutionary techniques (4 Chapters) This part of the book will cover multiobjective optimizations using soft computing techniques such as artificial neural network (ANN) and fuzzy logic, artificial intelligence (AI) based genetic algorithms (GA), PSO (Particle swarm optimization), GRA (Grey relational analyses), TOPSIS (Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) and Hybrid methods.
Fiber Optic Measurement Techniques
Fiber Optic Measurement Techniques is an indispensable collection of key optical measurement techniques essential for developing and characterizing today's photonic devices and fiber optic systems. The book gives comprehensive and systematic descriptions of various fiber optic measurement methods with the emphasis on the understanding of optoelectronic signal processing methodologies, helping the reader to weigh up the pros and cons of each technique and establish their suitability for the task at hand. Carefully balancing descriptions of principle, operations and optoelectronic circuit implementation, this indispensable resource will enable the engineer to: Understand the implications of various measurement results and system performance qualifications Characterize modern optical systems and devices Select optical devices and subsystems in optical network design and implementation Design innovative instrumentations for fiber optic systems The 2nd edition of this successful reference has been extensively updated (with 150 new pages) to reflect the advances in the field since publication in 2008 and includes: A new chapter on fiber-based optical sensors and spectroscopy techniques A new chapter on measurement uncertainty and error analysis Fiber Optic Measurement Techniques brings together in one volume the fundamental principles with the latest techniques, making it a complete resource for the optical and communications engineer developing future optical devices and fiber optic systems.
Digital Methods in Developing Textile Products for People with Locomotor Disabilities
In the United States, there are 3-4 million wheelchair users, with the number steadily increasing. This book focuses upon the design of garments for wheelchair-users by considering the shape of the body while in the sitting position, the needs of the user (functionality, fashionability, ease-of-use, affordability, safety), as well as the characteristics and properties of the materials used. The book references 186 original resources and includes their direct web link for in-depth reading. Keywords: Disabilities, Clothing for Disabled Persons, Wheelchair Users, Paraplegia, Functional Clothes, Kinematic Model, Scanning Procedure, 2D-3D/ 3D-2D Virtual Prototype, Body Posture Simulation, Virtual Pattern Making, Garment Fit Simulation.
Operational Excellence in the New Digital Era
Operational excellence, as a quest in the prevailing digital era, is predicated on a systems view of the operating environments in business, industry, government, academia, and other organizational entities. This book uses a systems-based approach to show how operational excellence can be pursued, achieved, and sustained. It offers a systems perspective for operational excellence and discusses the evolution of products from the classical operation era to present day digital operations. It covers the role of global markets on domestic operations, presents operational work design and ergonomics, and combines industrial engineering, advanced research, and practical experience. This book is a useful guide for scholars, practitioners and those involved in engineering, management, and business fields.
Welding and Cutting Case Studies with Supervised Machine Learning
This book presents machine learning as a set of pre-requisites, co-requisites, and post-requisites, focusing on mathematical concepts and engineering applications in advanced welding and cutting processes. It describes a number of advanced welding and cutting processes and then assesses the parametrical interdependencies of two entities, namely the data analysis and data visualization techniques, which form the core of machine learning. Subsequently, it discusses supervised learning, highlighting Python libraries such as NumPy, Pandas and Scikit Learn programming. It also includes case studies that employ machine learning for manufacturing processes in the engineering domain. The book not only provides beginners with an introduction to machine learning for applied sciences, enabling them to address global competitiveness and work on real-time technical challenges, it is also a valuable resource for scholars with domain knowledge.
Socio-Inspired Optimization Methods for Advanced Manufacturing Processes
Introduction.- A Brief Review of Socio-Inspired Metaheuristics.- Multi Cohort Intelligence Algorithm.- Optimization of Electric Discharge Machining (EDM).- Optimization of Abrasive Water Jet Machining (AWJM).- Optimization of Micro Milling Process.- Optimization of Micro Drilling Process.- Optimization of Cutting Forces in Micro Drilling of CFRP Composites for Aerospace Applications.- Optimization of Micro Turning Process.- Optimization of Machining Process Parameters of Titanium Alloy Under (MQL) Environment.
Sterile Manufacturing
This book highlights key ideas and factors to coach and guide professionals involved in learning about Sterile Manufacturing and operational requirements. It covers regulations and guidelines instituted by the FDA, ISPE, EMA, MHRA, and ICH, emphasizing good manufacturing practice and inspection requirements in the manufacturing of medicinal products. 　 Additionally, this book provides the fundamentals of aseptic techniques, quality by design, risk assessment, and management in support of sterile operations applications. It creates a link to the implementation of business practices in drug manufacturing and healthcare and forms a correlation between design strategies including a step-by-step process to ensure reliability, safety, and efficacy of healthcare products for human and animal use. The book also provides a connection between drug production and regulated applications by offering a review of the basic elements of sterile processing, and how to remain viable with solid strategic planning. 　 The book is a concise reference for professionals and learners in the field of sterile operations that governs primarily, pharmaceutical and medical device space, but can also extend to food and cosmetics that require clean (aseptic) manufacturing applications. It also helps compounding pharmacists and GMP inspectors and auditors.
Thermoplastic Elastomers
The book provides a qualified and fast view into the world of TPE including the difference to rubber materials. It describes their classification as they are presented in the market, characterization, manufacturing, processing and behavior. Aside from the self-learning option, it is a companion to seminars and studies about elastomers.
Thermoplastische Elastomere
Das Buch bietet einen qualifizierten und schnellen Einblick in die Welt der TPE einschlie?lich des Unterschieds zu Gummiwerkstoffen. Es beschreibt deren Einordnung, wie sie auf dem Markt pr瓣sentiert werden, Charakterisierung, Herstellung, Verarbeitung und Verhalten. Neben der M繹glichkeit des Selbststudiums ist es ein Begleiter zu Seminaren und Studien 羹ber Elastomere
Advances in Functional Finishing of Textiles
1. Surface Modification of Textiles with Nanomaterials for Flexible Electronics Applications.- 2. Functional Finishing of Cotton Textiles using Nanomaterials.- 3. Environmental Profile of Nano-finished Textile Materials: Implications on Public Health, Risk Assessment, and Public Perception.- 4. Biotechnology: An Eco-friendly Tool of Nature for Textile Industries. 5. Application of Enzymes in Textile Functional Finishing.- 6. Recent Advances in Development of Antimicrobial Textiles.- 7. Advances of Textiles in Tissue Engineering Scaffolds.
Mechanical Design
Mechanical Design: Theory and Applications, Third Edition introduces the design and selection of common mechanical engineering components and machine elements, hence providing the foundational "building blocks" engineers needs to practice their art. In this book, readers will learn how to develop detailed mechanical design skills in the areas of bearings, shafts, gears, seals, belt and chain drives, clutches and brakes, and springs and fasteners. Where standard components are available from manufacturers, the steps necessary for their specification and selection are thoroughly developed. Descriptive and illustrative information is used to introduce principles, individual components, and the detailed methods and calculations that are necessary to specify and design or select a component. As well as thorough descriptions of methodologies, this book also provides a wealth of valuable reference information on codes and regulations.
Stress FreeTM Supply Chain Solutions
Stress Free Supply Chain Solutions provides guidance to a flowing, optimum inventory, customer facing supply chain. Output tracking clearly documents issues at each flow boundary. The issues are prioritized, and supply chain participants apply resources to eliminate them. Issues at supply chain boundaries are easier to address given the clarity given by the use of output tracking. The stability created by reducing flow barriers increases throughput and reduces the level of required inventory. The discussion by the boundary owners becomes focused on mutually identified problems. The close association of the boundary owners leads to mutually agreed to priority improvements This close association supports the development of the personnel on both sides of the supply chain boundary.The resolution of problems at the supply chain boundaries creates a flowing, low inventory, high margin business. The flowing supply chain, the skill developing personnel and the superior business results will not go unnoticed. Imagine being the top performers in Safety, Quality, Throughput, Response Flexibility and First in Profit Margin. Apply Stress FreeTM Supply Chain Solutions and achieve it.
In-Situ Structure Characterization of Elastomers During Deformation and Fracture
This thesis offers novel insights into the time-dependent structural evolution of polymers under deformation. In-situ tensile experiments at high-brilliance synchrotron sources allowed to characterize the material with unrivaled resolution in time and space. The strain-induced crystallization in natural rubber was studied by wide-angle X-ray diffraction. Special emphasis was put on the establishment of new structure-property relationships to give a more in-depth understanding of the mechanical performance of rubber parts, e.g. in tear fatigue loading. To this end, the kinetics of strain-induced crystallization were investigated, subjecting the material to high strain rates. The local structure around a crack tip was observed by scanning wide-angle X-ray diffraction. Ultra-small angle X-ray scattering served to study filled elastomers under deformation, from specially prepared model filler systems to industrially relevant carbon black filled rubbers. Other methods include electron microscopy coupled with in-situ tensile testing and optical dilatometry to examine cavitation in rubbers.The underlying theory as well as a literature review are covered by an extensive introductory chapter, followed by a description of the experimental techniques. The results are presented in more detail than in the original journal publications.
Textiles and Their Use in Microbial Protection
Textiles and Their Use in Microbial Protection: Focus on COVID-19 and Other Viruses provides readers with vital information about disinfection mechanisms used in textile applications in the fight against dangerous microbes and viruses. KEY FEATURES: Introduces the basics of textile materials used for medical applications Features key information on virology, characterization, indication, and passivation of COVID-19 Describes UV, photocatalysis, photooxidation, application of TiO2, copper-based viral inhibition, and activated carbon Discusses antiviral finishes for the protection against SARS-CoV-2, particle penetration in dense cotton fabrics under swollen state, and the impact of moisture on face masks and their designs Aimed at textile and materials engineers as well as readers in medical fields, this text offers a comprehensive view of fundamentals and solutions in the use of textiles for microbial protection.
Practical Guide to Digital Manufacturing
This book covers the subject of digital manufacturing. It provides a practical guide for readers on using computer aided design (CAD), computer aided engineering (CAE) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM) and other computer assistive tools for the design of products, machines, processes and system integrations through the case studies of engineering projects. The book introduces a thorough theoretical foundation and discussion of the historical development, and enabling technologies of digital manufacturing. It also covers a broad range of computer aided tools for a variety of applications including: geometric modelling;assembly modelling;motion simulation;finite element analysis;manufacturing process simulation;machining programming;product data management; and, product lifecycle management. Practical Guide to Digital Manufacturing uses many real-world case studies to illustrate the discussed applications, making it easily readable for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as engineers with the needs of computer-aided design and manufacturing knowledge and skills.
