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  • Optimization Methods in Structural Design

    by Alan Rothwell ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book offers an introduction to numerical optimization methods in structural design. Employing a readily accessible and compact format, the book presents an overview of optimization methods, and equips readers to properly set up optimization problems and interpret the results. A ‘how-to-do-it’ approach is followed throughout, with less emphasis at this stage on mathematical derivations. The ... Read more

    $102.49 CAD

  • Antarctic Security in the Twenty-First Century

    Legal and Policy Perspectives

    Edited by Alan D. Hemmings, Donald R. Rothwell, Karen N. Scott ...
    The Antarctic Treaty (1959) was adopted for the purpose of bringing peace and stability to Antarctica and to facilitate cooperation in scientific research conducted on and around the continent. It has now been over fifty years since the signing of the treaty, nevertheless security continues to drive and shape the laws and policy regime which governs the region. Antarctic Security in the Twenty ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

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  • Basic Earthquake Engineering

    From Seismology to Analysis and Design

    by Halûk Sucuoğlu, Sinan Akkar ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book provides senior undergraduate students, master students and structural engineers who do not have a background in the field with core knowledge of structural earthquake engineering that will be invaluable in their professional lives. The basics of seismotectonics, including the causes, magnitude, and intensity of earthquakes, are first explained. Then the book introduces basic elements of ... Read more

    $108.89 CAD

  • Introduction to Transonic Aerodynamics

    by Roelof Vos, Saeed Farokhi ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Written to teach students the nature of transonic flow and its mathematical foundation, this book offers a much-needed introduction to transonic aerodynamics. The authors present a quantitative and qualitative assessment of subsonic, supersonic and transonic flow around bodies in two and three dimensions. The book reviews the governing equations and explores their applications and limitations as ... Read more

    $108.89 CAD

  • Solar Flares

    What You Need to Know: A Special from Tarcher/Penguin

    by Whitley Strieber ...
    There is a force out there that could destroy our world in minutes. . . .Solar flares—brief bursts of radiation from our sun—have always existed and have never been particularly dangerous. Nature hasn’t changed. But we have. By making our world so dependent on electricity delivered by huge, unprotected power grids we have inadvertently placed humanity at terrible risk. As bestselling author ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Fracture, Fatigue, Failure, and Damage Evolution, Volume 5

    Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

    Edited by Jay Carroll, Samantha Daly ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution*, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics*, the fifth volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on a wide range of areas, including:Mixed Mode Fracture I: Emphasis on ... Read more

    $256.19 CAD

  • Structural Synthesis of Parallel Robots

    Part 5: Basic Overconstrained Topologies with Schönflies Motions

    by Grigore Gogu ...
    Series Book 5 - Engineering (R0)
    This book represents the fifth part of a larger work dedicated to the structural synthesis of parallel robots. The originality of this work resides in the fact that it combines new formulae for mobility, connectivity, redundancy and overconstraints with evolutionary morphology in a unified structural synthesis approach that yields interesting and innovative solutions for parallel robotic ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Simulation Based Engineering in Solid Mechanics

    by J.S. Rao ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book begins with a brief historical perspective of the advent of rotating machinery in 20th century Solid Mechanics and the development of the discipline of the Strength of Materials. High Performance Computing (HPC) and Simulation Based Engineering Science (SBES) have gradually replaced the conventional approach in Design bringing science directly into engineering without approximations. A ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Man–Machine–Environment System Engineering

    Edited by Shengzhao Long, Balbir S. Dhillon ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This research topic was first established in China by Professor ShengZhao Long in 1981, with direct support from one of the greatest modern Chinese scientists, XueSen Qian. In a letter to ShengZhao Long from October 22nd, 1993, XueSen Qian wrote: “You have created a very important modern science subject and technology in China!”MMESE primarily focuses on the relationship between Man, Machine and ... Read more

    $256.19 CAD

  • Rotors: Stress Analysis and Design

    by Vincenzo Vullo, Francesco Vivio ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Stress and strain analysis of rotors subjected to surface and body loads, as well as to thermal loads deriving from temperature variation along the radius, constitutes a classic subject of machine design. Nevertheless attention is limited to rotor profiles for which governing equations are solvable in closed form. Furthermore very few actual engineering issues may relate to structures for which ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Structural Optimization with Uncertainties

    by N.V. Banichuk, Pekka Neittaanmäki ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Structural optimization is currently attracting considerable attention. Interest in - search in optimal design has grown in connection with the rapid development of aeronautical and space technologies, shipbuilding, and design of precision mach- ery. A special ?eld in these investigations is devoted to structural optimization with incomplete information (incomplete data). The importance of these ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Poison Spring

    The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA

    by E.G. Vallianatos, McKay Jenkins ...
    Imagine walking into a restaurant and finding chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides, or neonicotinoid insecticides listed in the description of your entree. They may not be printed in the menu, but many are in your food.These are a few of the literally millions of pounds of approved synthetic substances dumped into the environment every day, not just in the US but around the world. They seep into our ... Read more

    $12.19 CAD