A collation of the authors' latest research, this book focuses on control applications that use piezoelectric actuators and sensors. They provide practical examples of engineering applications, such as flexible structures, flexible robotic manipulators, fine motion control, hydraulic control, and shunt damping. For each application, the consecutive process is presented, such as actuator design system modeling, analysis, control strategy formulation, experimental set-up, and control performance. This information is useful in the design of new machines or devices featuring smart material actuators and sensors integrating with piezoelectric materials.
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This volume demonstrates the use of advanced control theory to address vibration-related problems in mechanical systems. With particular emphasis on vibration control in high precision positioning systems such as hard disk drives, this book also covers a wide range of applications within automotive, aerospace, aeronautical, and manufacturing engineering. The text introduces various techniques for modeling friction and vibrations in mechanical systems and then demonstrates how to achieve advanced control for vibration rejection and friction compensation. The algorithms used in the book have been implemented on drives for systems developed at the Data Storage Institute.
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Electronics
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This volume discusses the impacts of contamination on fuel cell performance and the mitigation strategies to improve performance and durability. It covers the nature, sources, and electrochemistry of contaminants; their effects on fuel cell performance and lifetime; and the mechanisms of contamination. Exploring the major findings from experimental and theoretical studies in contamination-related research, the expert contributors present methods and tools used for diagnosing various contamination phenomena, along with strategies for mitigating the adverse effects of contamination. They also describe key issues in the future R&D of fuel cell contamination and control.
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Recent progress in optical communications has focused on the next generation of the Internet—the Optical Internet. From fundamental to modern aspects, this book provides an understanding of lightwave communication systems in which the lightwave is used as the carrier to transport information over the optical guided media. The text presents optical communication techniques and applications, employing single mode optical fibers as the transmission medium. Additional topics include optical transmitters, optical receivers, optical fiber amplifiers, and optical fiber communication systems. The author also offers both MATLAB ® and Simulink models to illustrate methods.
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Structured in stand-alone sections, designed specifically for practicing engineers, this book addresses specific reliability and maintainability analysis methods for part design, systems integration and life-cycle sustainment. Unlike many books on this subject, this one departs from the nearly exclusive use of the exponential probability distribution to characterize failure and demonstrates other probability distributions that more accurately describe the true behavior of failure. It emphasizes failure that results from wear-out over the useful life of the part. The engineering, rather than mathematical or statistical approach, sets this book a part.
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Machine Design
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Considered to be among the very best in the field, this masterwork from renowned experts J. N. Reddy and David Gartling is the latest version of a book that has long been relied upon by practicing engineers, researchers, and graduate students. Noted for its powerful methodology and clear explanations of the subject, this third edition contains considerably more workable exercises and examples associated with problems in heat conduction, incompressible viscous flow, and convection heat transfer. It also uses applied examples to show realistic examples of FEM in thermal and fluid design analysis.
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Reflecting recent advancements in colloidal nanocrystals and quantum-confined nanostructures, this second edition focuses on the semiconductor nanocrystals known as nanocrystal quantum dots. Gathering contributions from leading researchers, this edition includes new chapters on carrier multiplication (generation of multiexcitons by single photons), doping of semiconductor nanocrystals, and applications of nanocrystals in biology. The book also covers synthesis and assembly, spectroscopy of inter- and intraband optical transitions, single-nanocrystal optical and tunneling spectroscopy, transport properties, and nanocrystal applications in photovoltaics, light emitting technologies, lasing, bioimaging, and biosensing.
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This handbook presents a quantitative physical description of all aspects of cellular and organ performance and methods used to measure these functions. Moreover, it covers the physics necessary to understand the theoretical and practical basis for development of diagnostic and therapeutic tools. It offers readers a foundation in relevant physical principles and technology critical to understanding biological functioning for application to biomedical research and healthcare. Throughout, expert contributors emphasize aspects of diagnostic and therapeutic modalities in relation to normal physiological functions.
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Featuring the contributions of industrial and academic experts, this volume discusses the fundamental and practical aspects of industrial water treatment. After an overview of water chemistry and the characteristics of mineral scales, the book addresses the formation and control of different scales in various systems. It covers membrane-based separation processes, reverse osmosis systems, and scale control in thermal distillation processes. It also discusses corrosion control and the interactions of polyelectrolytes with suspended matter. Lastly, the book examines bacteria in water supplies, analytical techniques for identifying mineral scales and deposits, polymer use, and the monitoring of parameters and chemicals used to treat industrial water systems.
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Water Supply & Treatment
Physical Chemistry
Industrial Chemistry
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With the rapid development of nanotechnology, the surface-to-volume ratio of objects of interest continues to increase. As such, so does the importance of our ability to tailor interfacial properties. Written by bestselling author and internationally renowned researcher K.S. Birdi, this volume offers comprehensive coverage of the field of electrical double layer (EDL) research. It discusses theoretical models used with EDL and demonstrates how they can be applied to typically encountered real-world problems including those that must be considered in modern industrial applications. The book provides bonus material on advanced theory that is separate from the main text.
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