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3D Printing 101: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide

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Report copyright infringementby M. Eng Johannes Wild (Author)With this 3D printing book, you can develop a solid basic knowledge on the topic of FDM 3D printing and learn step by step everything you need to know to prepare and 3D print objects. The author of the book is an enthusiastic 3D printing user and engineer (M.Eng.) and will guide you professionally from the basics to advanced settings. After a short introduction to the basic concepts of 3D printing and a guide to buying a 3D printer,...

Membrane Technology for Osmotic Power Generation by Pressure Retarded Osmosis

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Report copyright infringementby Tai-Shung Chung (Editor), Chun Feng Wan (Editor)Osmotic energy can be effectively harvested through pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) which is the most widely investigated technology due to its greater efficiency and higher power density output and effective membranes are the heart of the PRO technology. This book will cover a broad range of topics, including PRO membranes, fouling, module fabrication, process design, process operation and maintenance. It summari...

Classical Feedback Control with Nonlinear Multi-Loop Systems: With Matlab(r) and Simulink(r), Third Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Boris J. Lurie (Author), Paul Enright (Author)Classical Feedback Control with Nonlinear Multi-Loop Systems describes the design of high-performance feedback control systems, emphasizing the frequency-domain approach widely used in practical engineering. It presents design methods for high-order nonlinear single- and multi-loop controllers with efficient analog and digital implementations. Bode integrals are employed to estimate the available system performance ...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael B. Smith (Author)A Q&A Approach to Organic Chemistry is a book of leading questions that begins with atomic orbitals and bonding. All critical topics are covered, including bonding, nomenclature, stereochemistry, conformations, acids and bases, oxidations, reductions, substitution, elimination, acyl addition, acyl substitution, enolate anion reactions, the Diels-Alder reaction and sigmatropic rearrangements, aromatic chemistry, spectroscopy, amino a...

Basic Practical Guide to Welding Works: Everything you need to know about welding from scratch

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Report copyright infringementby Bentley Levi (Author)This article will take a closer look into how welding works. We will also discuss some of the many applications for welding and the equipment and expertise required to make them all work. Let's first look back at how it all started.Contents The History of Welding Trade tools for welding Welding: The Process It's hard to find a good welder. In industry (and art): Welding Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8 x 5...

Industrial Approaches in Vibration-Based Condition Monitoring

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Report copyright infringementby Jyoti Kumar Sinha (Author)Vibration-based condition monitoring (VCM) is a well-accepted approach in industries for early detection of any defect, thereby triggering the maintenance process and ultimately reducing overheads and plant downtime. A number of vibration instruments, data analyzer and related hardware and software codes are developed to meet the industry requirements. This book aims to address issues faced by VCM professionals, such as frequency range...

The Survival of the Fitter: Lives of Some African Engineers

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Report copyright infringementby John Powell (Author)This book traces the development of Ghana's informal engineering sector through stories of the progress of the actual people involved. The first generation of grassroots engineers are wayside vehicle mechanics, or 'fitters', engaged in repairing machinery. Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.32 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 15, 1995

The Complete Manual of Small-Scale Food Processing

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Fellows (Author)Small-scale food processing is important worldwide. For individual processors, it is highly accessible as a start-up business, especially for women; farmers and fishermen can readily diversify into processing to increase their incomes; and high added-value enables processors to earn an income from relatively small scales of production. For policy makers: small-scale food processing can create employment, increase food security and improve ...

Absorbable Metals for Biomedical Applications

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Report copyright infringementby Hendra Hermawan (Guest Editor), Mehdi Razavi (Guest Editor)Absorbable metals have shown significant clinical potential for temporary implantapplications, where the material is eventually replaced by healthy, functioning tissue.However, several challenges remain before these metals can be used in humans.Innovations and further improvements are required. This book collects scientificcontributions dealing with the development of absorbable metals with improved and...

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Report copyright infringementby Ramesh Chandra Nayak (Author), Manmatha Kumar Roul (Author)Mechanical engineering is one of the oldest and broadest branches of engineering concerned primarily with applications of the principles of physics and mathematics for designing, analysing, production and operation of various machines and systems. The field of mechanical engineering requires an understanding of core areas including mechanics, thermodynamics, materials science, heat transfer, refrigerati...

The Music of Film: Collaborations and Conversations

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Report copyright infringementby Steven A. Saltzman (Author)The Music of Film opens up the world of film music from the inside. Through a series of interviews and conversations with professional composers, music supervisors, music editors, and picture editors, this book shows how music for film and television works according to insiders in the industry. Here we find a comprehensive collection of techniques and personal insights and get a unique perspective on how these key players in postprodu...

2D Materials: And Their Exotic Properties

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Report copyright infringementby Paolo Bondavalli (Author)The book explains, in an easy way, the diffi cult to grasp concepts behind 2D exotic material properties for physicists, materials scientists, and engineers. This is a new class of phenomena highlighted in 2D materials with strong implications on physics. Physics, also for complex phenomena, is explained in easy terms that are ideal for newcomers to the fi eld and advanced students alike. Theory and specifi c examples of materials and t...

Transforming Everything?: Evaluating Broadband's Impacts Across Policy Areas

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Report copyright infringementby Karen Mossberger (Editor), Eric W. Welch (Editor), Yonghong Wu (Editor)Broadband, or high-speed internet, has been called the most important infrastructure challenge of the century. It has the potential to connect remote communities, streamline health care services, and support innovation across education, economics, and numerous other fields. Given the growing and widespread investments in broadband, how can citizens and policymakers determine whether the prom...

Solving the Riddle of Microsoft and Your Computer: 2Nd Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Riddle (Author)Solving the Riddle of Microsoft and Your Computer provides easy to follow step by step instructions. Chapter one provides some useful facts about your computer. This Chapter describes such things as how to operate your mouse; how to modify your screen saver and printer settings; options for printing files; how to use different functions of the calculator; playing and storing music; using Snipping Tool to capture images; determining amount of...

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Between Nature and Society: Biographies of Materials

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Report copyright infringementby Bensaude-Vincent Bernadette (Author)This volume opens the readers' eyes to the central role of materials in human societies and in the environment by telling the life stories of fifteen materials. In this rich collection of stories, materials are found at the complex interface between nature and society. They are not just atomic structures with a set of properties and behaviors. They capture the attention of nations worldwide because materials have major impact...

Finite Element Analysis: With Numeric and Symbolic MATLAB

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Report copyright infringementby Akin John E (Author)This comprehensive compendium presents the detailed theory, implementation and application of finite element analysis via heavily commented Matlab scripts. The book includes over 110 examples of the methods, and has a very detailed subject index. It uniquely illustrates the use of symbolic Matlab capabilities to derive element interpolation functions and to analytically integrated complicated element matrices.The useful volume text is suitab...

Smart Energy Management: A Computational Approach

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Report copyright infringementby Ramamritham Krithi (Author)The focus of this book is smart energy management with the recurring theme being the use of computational and data-driven methods that use requirements/measurement/monitoring data to drive actuation/control, optimization, and resource management. The computational perspective is applied to manage energy, with an emphasis on smart buildings and the smart electric grids.The book also presents computational thinking and techniques such a...

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Report copyright infringementby Unifem (Editor)This book is an introduction to the principles of drying and gives an indication of the range of technologies available, along with case studies examining the use of improved drier designs. Number of Pages: 64 Dimensions: 0.2 x 9.4 x 6.7 IN Publication Date: December 15, 1995

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen G. Porter (Author)Pyroelectric Infrared Detectors Stephen G. Porter This little book introduces pyroelectricity and pyroelectric detectors for students, scientists, engineers, and others with a basic grounding in physics and mathematics. It covers the basic concepts of the pyroelectric effect and includes a chapter on pyroelectric materials. It discusses device physics, including black-body radiation and infrared absorption. Performance modelling of pyr...

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Report copyright infringementby Anup Goel (Author)NA Number of Pages: 344 Dimensions: 0.72 x 10.88 x 8 IN Publication Date: December 01, 2020

Applied Mathematics with Open-Source Software: Operational Research Problems with Python and R

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Report copyright infringementby Vincent Knight (Author), Geraint Palmer (Author)Applied Mathematics with Open-source Software: Operational Research Problems with Python and R is aimed at a broad segment of readers who wish to learn how to use open-source software to solve problems in applied mathematics. The book has an innovative structure with 4 sections of two chapters covering a large range of applied mathematical techniques: probabilistic modelling, dynamical systems, emergent behaviour ...

Nature's Wild Ideas: How the Natural World Is Inspiring Scientific Innovation

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Report copyright infringementby Kristy Hamilton (Author)A lively and endlessly fascinating deep-dive into nature and the many groundbreaking human inventions inspired by the wild. "Delightful."-The Guardian"Fans of Helen Scales won't want to miss this."--Publishers Weekly STARRED ReviewWhen astronomers wanted a telescope that could capture X-rays from celestial bodies, they looked to the lobster. When doctors wanted a medication that could stabilize Type II diabetic patients, they found thei...

The Hop: Its Culture and Cure, Marketing and Manufacture; A Practical Handbook on the Most Approved Methods in Growing, Harvesting, Curing and Selling

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Report copyright infringementby Herbert Myrick (Author)Herbert Myrick loved all things hop farming. Here, after a brief history of the hop from the 16th century onward, he provides a thorough breakdown of everything from the variety and chemistry of hops to selling the final product. Myrick has left no stone unturned. He explores the ideal soil and soil preparation and even the impact of caterpillars and fungi.A talented writer and publisher, Myrick specialized in agriculture. He published an...

Car Suspension: - over 120 years of ride and handling

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Report copyright infringementby Julian Edgar (Author)Covering every decade from the 1890s until now, this book reveals an incredible array of fascinating and advanced vehicle suspension designs. Meet the people and ideas behind Packard's Torsion Level suspension, BMC's Hydrolastic and BMW's semi-trailing arms. Understand the outcry over the Corvair's 'unsafe at any speed' rear suspension design... marvel at the McLaren F1's extreme handling.... and be amazed at the Citroën 2CV's interconnecte...

The Book of Old-Fashioned Flowers; And Other Plants Which Thrive in the Open-Air of England

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Report copyright infringementby Harry Roberts (Author)The book "" The Book of Old-Fashioned Flowers; And Other Plants Which Thrive in the Open-Air of England, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence th...

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Report copyright infringementby Brian C. Odom (Editor), Stephen P. Waring (Editor)American AstronauticalSociety Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award AsNASA prepared for the launch of Apollo 11 in July 1969, many African Americanleaders protested the billions of dollars used to fund "space joyrides" ratherthan help tackle poverty, inequality, and discrimination at home. This volumeexamines such tensions as well as the ways in which NASA's goal of spaceexploration aligned with the caus...

Measurement Methods in the Operation of Ships and Offshore Facilities

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Report copyright infringementby Leszek Chybowski (Guest Editor), Arkadiusz Tomczak (Guest Editor), Maciej Kozak (Guest Editor)The development of modern measurement methods for ship systems results from economic changes and increasingly stringent environmental requirements. Additionally, the specificity of ship systems and the conditions in which they work lead to very restrictive requirements for the reliability and accuracy of measuring systems on ships and offshore facilities. This collecti...

Practical Root Cause Failure Analysis: Key Elements, Case Studies, and Common Equipment Failures

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Report copyright infringementby Randy Riddell (Author)Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) is a method used by maintenance and reliability industry professionals as one of the key tools to drive improvement. This book offers a quick guide to the applications involved in performing a successful RCFA by providing a foundational view of maintenance and reliability strategies. It also highlights the practical applications of RCFA and identifies how to achieve a successful RCFA, as well as discussin...

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Report copyright infringementby Eli Usheunepa Yunana (Author)Calculations in Chemical Kinetics for Undergraduates aims to restore passion for problem solving and applied quantitative skills in undergraduate chemistry students. Avoiding complicated chemistry jargon and providing hints and step wise explanations in every calculation problem, students are able to overcome their fear of handling mathematically applied problems in physical chemistry. This solid foundation in their early studies wi...

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Professional Ethics for the Construction Industry

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca Mirsky (Author), John Schaufelberger (Author)This second edition of Professional Ethics for the Construction Industry empowers a new generation of built environment professionals to navigate the ethical challenges confronting them at every stage of a project, from the initial bid to its completion and beyond. Authored by a pair of veteran educators and industry professionals, this textbook introduces ethical dilemmas aspiring construction professionals ...