Science and Technics / Technology & engineering

Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics

by Peter W. Hawkes

Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics features cutting-edge articles on the physics of electron devices (especially semiconductor devices), particle optics at high and low energies, microlithography, image...

Folk-Tales of Bengal - With 32 Illustrations In Colour by Warwick Goble

by Burr Bassell

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. The writer wishes to acknowledge his appreciation of the assist- ance given him by Mr. Jas. D. Schuyler, M. Am. Soc. C. E., Con- sulting Hydraulic Engineer, in reviewing this paper, and in making...

Equipment Inventories for Owners and Facility Managers: Standards, Strategies and Best Practices

by R. A. Keady

The National Institute of Science and Technology estimates that the loss of information between the construction of a building and the operation and maintenance of that building results in a 15.8 billion dollar...

William Dargan (1799-1867): An Honourable Life

by Fergus Mulligan

THIS IS THE FIRST FULL-LENGTH BIOGRAPHY OF THE GREAT RAILWAy ENGINEER WILLIAM DARGAN (1799-1867), WHO CHANGED THE FACE OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND. The son of a County Carlow farmer, he began his career in...

Managing the Brief for Better Design

by Alastair Blyth & John Worthington

Based on extensive research, this book offers an understanding of the briefing process and its importance to the built environment. The coverage extends beyond new build covering briefing for services and fit-outs....

Communication in the Design Process

by Stephen A. Brown

The Design and Construction industry is in a state of attempted change. Improvement is a key word for employer, consultant and contractor. Real steps forward are slow, and most damning is the continuous repetition...

Airport Systems: Planning, Design and Management 2/E

by Richard de Neufville & Amedeo Odoni

Written by leading technical professionals, known worldwide for their expertise in the planning, design, and management of airports

Airport Systems: Planning, Design and Management, Second Edition is an in-depth...

Heavy and Extra-heavy Oil Upgrading Technologies

by James G Speight

Unconventional reservoirs of oil and gas represent a huge additional global source of fossil fuels. However, there is much still to be done to improve techniques for their processing to make recovery and refining...

A Cleveland Legacy: The Architecture of Walker and Weeks

by Eric Johannesen

Walker and Weeks was the foremost architectural firm in Cleveland for nearly forth years, from 1911 to 1949. Its clients were the wealthy and influential of Cleveland and the Midwest; its landmark accomplishments...

Nanochemistry

by G. B. Sergeev

This book is devoted to nanochemistry: a branch of the actively developing interdisciplinary field of nanoscience. This branch of science studies the processes to production and reactions of nanoparticles and...

Knott's Handbook for Vegetable Growers

by Donald N. Maynard & George J. Hochmuth

The leading one-stop reference for commercial vegetable growers for more than 50 years

Rooted in tradition, branching out to the future. For more than half a century, Knott's Handbook for Vegetable Growers has...

Applying the ADA: Designing for The 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for Accessible Design in Multiple Building Types

by Marcela A. Rhoads

A guide to real-world applications of The 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for Accessible Design

Applying the ADA helps architects and developers understand better how the rules for eliminating...

Enhanced Oil Recovery Field Case Studies

by James Sheng

Enhanced Oil Recovery Field Case Studies bridges the gap between theory and practice in a range of real-world EOR settings. Areas covered include steam and polymer flooding, use of foam, in situ combustion,...

Pasteurisation: A Food Industry Practical Guide

by Joy Gaze

Adopt best practice in the use of pasteurisation with food and drink products to help assure food safety and maximise product quality

Uncertainty and Optimization in Structural Mechanics

by Abdelkhalak El Hami & Radi Bouchaib

Optimization is generally a reduction operation of a definite quantity. This process naturally takes place in our environment and through our activities. For example, many natural systems evolve, in order to...

Architecture and Governance for Communication Services

by No?l Crespi & Emmanuel Bertin

Communication services are evolving at an unprecedented rate. No longer limited to interpersonal vocal communication, they now integrate functions such as address books, content sharing and messaging. The emergence...

Shape-Memory Alloys Handbook

by Christian Lexcellent

The aim of this book is to understand and describe the martensitic phase transformation and the process of martensite platelet reorientation. These two key elements enable the author to introduce the main features...

Risk Propagation Assessment for Network Security: Application to Airport Communication Network Design

by Mohamed Slim Ben Mahmoud, Nicolas Larrieu & Aliain Pirovano

The focus of this book is risk assessment methodologies for network architecture design. The main goal is to present and illustrate an innovative risk propagation-based quantitative assessment tool. This original...

The CSI Construction Product Representation Practice Guide

by Construction Specifications Institute

The must-have reference on construction product representation—and the essential study aid for the Certified Construction Product Representative (CCPR) Exam

The CSI Practice Guides are a library of comprehensive...

Bistatic SAR Data Processing Algorithms

by Xiaolan Qiu, Chibiao Ding & Donghui Hu

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is critical for remote sensing. It works day and night, in good weather or bad. Bistatic SAR is a new kind of SAR system, where the transmitter and receiver are placed on two separate...