Many tribological devices act as viable bearings in contrast to basic hydrodynamic theory. Similarly, powder films possess quasi-hydrodynamic features that allow them to act as conventional fluid film bearings. These phenomena have led to a novel definition of lubricants as intermediate layers, detailed in the present volume. Tribology of Interface Layers illustrates that the various lubrication modes, from dry to hydrodynamic to powder lubrication, overlap to such a degree that they exist on a tribological spectrum. Based on experimental and theoretical work, this text shows how the interdependence of powder and hydrodynamic lubrication exemplify this continuum in tribological processes.
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Tribology
Metals & Alloys
Mechanics
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Translating fundamental principles into day-to-day engineering concepts, this reference provides the tools to accurately measure process efficiency and sustainability in the power and chemical industries. It helps engineers recognize why losses occur and how they can be reduced utilizing familiar thermodynamic principles. It also compares the present industrial society with an emerging metabolic society in which mass production and consumption are in closer harmony with the natural environment. The book uses classic thermodynamic principles for clear understanding, analysis, and optimization of workflows, environmental resources, and driving forces in the chemical and power industries.
• Green Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Economics & Policy
Energy
Industrial Chemistry
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Electronic, Magnetic, and Optical Materials takes a materials science and engineering approach for teaching the fundamentals of electronic, magnetic, and optical properties of materials. This book integrates the physics, chemistry, materials science, and engineering concepts with the technological aspects of materials used by the electronics, magnetics, and photonics industry. It features discussions of applications in nanoscience and technology. Written clearly and concisely, it includes numerous real-world technology examples, from computers to credit cards to optic fibers. This text also provides electronic teaching aids to illustrate concepts, available for download on the web.
• Advanced Materials and Technologies
Electromagnetics & Microwaves
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Electronics
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Given the rapid software and hardware developments in DSP, it is vital for students to complement their theoretical learning with practical applications. Each chapter of this book consists of a brief section on theory to explain the underlying mathematics and principles, a problem-solving section, and a computer laboratory section with programming examples and exercises using MATLAB® and Simulink. Applicable chapters include a hardware laboratory section composed of exercises using test and measuring equipment. This text offers a concise, easily understood presentation that makes the information accessible to students while building their proficiency with the software, the hardware, and the theory of DSP.
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Digital & Wireless Communication
Digital Signal Processing
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The second edition of a bestseller, this book critically examines the successes and failures of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) during the course of the past decade. The new subtitle reflects this edition’s focus on meta-principles critical to moving ahead and successfully building ITS infrastructures that take advantage of smart/green technologies. The book identifies challenging problems that must be addressed in order to bring real quality of life improvements and positively impact our environmental and civil infrastructure systems.
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Transportation Engineering
Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing
Intelligent Systems
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This second edition of a bestseller provides a well-illustrated resource that comprehensively covers the design of inherently safer and user-friendly plants. The book demonstrates how chemical plants can withstand human error and equipment failures without serious effects on safety, output, or efficiency. This edition features new chapters that outline the role of inherently safer design in explosion prevention and mitigation and the link between inherently safer design and process safety design. New sections address the hierarchy of controls and highlight human factors in determining risk. The text also includes case studies that review major process incidents.
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Industrial Chemistry
Plant Engineering
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A guidebook through the minefield of government contracting and procurement, this book describes the dangerous practices commonly applied in the development and management of government contracts and provides advice for avoiding the sort of errors that might compromise their ability to protect the public interest. It includes strategies for increasing profits for government contractors, rather than incurring burdensome costs, through compliance with government mandated subcontracting and financial management systems. The book provides practical processes and strategies to diminish negative impacts from government contracting perils.
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Public Administration & Management
Public Finance
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The second edition of a bestseller, System Management: Planning, Enterprise Identity, and Deployment demonstrates how to make systems development work for any organization. Updated with new chapters, new examples, and new figures, it discusses the optimum marriage between specific program planning and a company's generic identity. The author focuses on the management aspects of the functional departments and programs and highlights the areas that must be improved in order to implement outstanding systems capability.
• Systems Engineering
Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing
Production Systems
Systems & Control Engineering
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One of the most advanced and popular numerical computer models used in the field of soil physics, the HYDRUS series is used for the analysis of water flow and solute transport in variably saturated porous media. Co-authored by the software’s creator, Dr. Jirka Simunek, this volume demonstrates two-and three- dimensional simulations and computer animations of numerical models using the software. Classroom-tested at the University of Georgia, this volume includes numerous examples and homework problems. It provides students with access to the base HYDRUS program as well as the Rosetta Database, which contains large volumes of information on the hydraulic properties of soils.
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Soil Mechanics
Condensed Matter Physics
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In today’s business world, project managers not only have to be diligent in project planning and execution, but also need to have skills in persuasion, self-management, communication, and relationship management. This volume empowers project managers to master the skills necessary to succeed in the current environment. The book examines several trends within the project landscape, describes the challenges created by these trends, and provides illuminating case studies that elucidate each trend and its impact. Then the book offers techniques that can be applied to fully master needed skills and includes more case studies in which the skills and techniques are used and the outcomes discussed.
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Management of IT
Software Engineering & Systems Development
Engineering Project Management
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