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The Engineering and Technology portfolio includes comprehensive overviews of all major research and practical developments in aerospace and automotive engineering, civil and environmental engineering, mechanical and industrial engineering, materials engineering, electrical engineering, communications engineering, and more. In-depth coverage, innovative state-of-the-art approaches, and real-world case studies provide valuable, actionable insights for researchers, applied engineers and students. The content in Elsevier's Engineering and Technology books program addresses core issues in industry and society, such as sustainability, the circular economy, AI, and automation.

  • Quantum Confined Lasers

    Recent Advances
    • 1st Edition
    • Frederic Grillot
    • English
    Quantum Confined Lasers: Recent Advances provides an overview of the recent advances and current challenges in the field, and features a comprehensive treatment of diode lasers starting from the basics up to the most advanced concepts and technologies. With his 10-year background in optoelectronics and semiconductor physics, Professor Grillot presents a concise overview of the state-of-the-art in semiconductor lasers.The book includes timely challenges in diode lasers, fully related to the birth of future green optical telecommunication networks, the incorporation of photonics in consumer microelectronics, and the development of terahertz solutions for free space communications and sensing. This book serves as a valuable tool for all researchers, scientists, and R&D engineers engaged in design and development of lasers and optoelectronics.

  • Multiscale Computation of Failure in Granular Materials

    • 1st Edition
    • Richard Wan
    • English
    Multiscale Computation of Failure in Granular Materials covers the multiscale modeling of geomaterials, referencing their mechanical and failure behaviors. Multiscale approaches introduce underlying particle micromechanics, giving way to enriched or structured macroscopic constitutive relationships endowed with small scale information. The pertinence of such models in continuum approaches, such as the finite element method in capturing rich failure modes implicating strain localization and fracture and diffuse phenomena is highlighted, along with an analysis of failure through discrete element modeling. Finally, the presence of liquid and gas phases within a granular material is covered in relation to saturated and partially saturated media.

  • Tribology Testing

    Replicating Real World Engineering Systems
    • 1st Edition
    • Peter M. Lee
    • English
    Tribology Testing: Replicating Real World Engineering Systems explores the gap that exists between standard tests, procedures and the systems they are intended to reproduce. The author draws on decades of experience working in both commercial and academic tribological tests to provide proven techniques to successfully and efficiently bridge that gap. This is essential reading for any researcher or engineer who is working with the results of tribology tests, but it is also an ideal reference for anyone interested in increasing the efficiency of tribology research.

  • Reliability of Photonics Devices

    • 1st Edition
    • Yannick Deshayes
    • English
    Reliability of Photonics Devices discusses the advantages of training computer scientists with a knowledge base that is broad enough to adapt to the context of different companies, administrations and organizations. The book's focus is multidisciplinary, including the inclusion of computer science, information systems, organization and management, communication, professionalization and applied mathematics. The MIAGE sector is offered by 22 French universities, 6 of which offer a joint remote version, also shared by 5 associated foreign institutions.In this sector, students come from scientific or economics-management fields. Their mathematical background, without being elementary, is not that of a student engaged in a long mathematical field. The applied mathematics concepts of the MIAGE program focus on descriptive statistics, probabilities, data analysis, random processes and numerical simulation.

  • IImplanted Digital Prosthetics

    • 1st Edition
    • Maxime Derian
    • English
    Orthotic Digital Devices in the Human Body explores the once science-fiction concept of implanting a digital device to provide healthcare information. Since the first pacemakers were surgically implanted in the human body 60 years ago, there has been a significant increase in the different types of digital devices added to the body for eHealth purposes. This books provides a synthetic point-of-view of the different possibilities offered by this tools.

  • Energy Efficient Design of Wireless Sensor Networks

    • 1st Edition
    • Nouha Sghaier + 1 more
    • English
    Energy Efficient Design of Wireless Sensor Networks explores how to optimize energy supply in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), which is more complex than in conventional wired networks because it involves not only reducing the energy consumption of a single sensor node, but also maximizing the lifetime of an entire network. The book focuses on mobile wireless sensor networks characterized by poor connectivity, examining ways to exploit the mobility of nodes to optimize their energy consumption and maximize the lifetime of the entire network on two main levels, the neighbor's discovery phase and data transfer methods.

  • The Discrete Element Method for Granular Solids

    • 1st Edition
    • Bruno Chareyre
    • English
    The Discrete Element Method for Granular Solids provides scientists and engineers with solutions to the basic problems of DEM modeling of granular solids, both conceptual and practical. To help new users, the book carefully follows important steps, from conceptual model, to the numerical simulation of dense granular materials. This includes contact models, numerical schemes, simulation setup and post-processing. The authors present many examples, including the complete code which assists the reader in reproducing the simulations with open-source code—Yade-DEM—that was developed by the author and his colleagues at the University of Grenoble.

  • Digital Control Engineering

    Analysis and Design
    • 3rd Edition
    • M. Sami Fadali + 1 more
    • English
    Digital controllers are part of nearly all modern personal, industrial, and transportation systems. Every senior or graduate student of electrical, chemical, or mechanical engineering should therefore be familiar with the basic theory of digital controllers. This new text covers the fundamental principles and applications of digital control engineering, with emphasis on engineering design.Fadali and Visioli cover analysis and design of digitally controlled systems and describe applications of digital control in a wide range of fields. With worked examples and Matlab applications in every chapter and many end-of-chapter assignments, this text provides both theory and practice for those coming to digital control engineering for the first time, whether as a student or practicing engineer.

  • Hybrid Composite Precast Systems

    Numerical Investigation to Construction
    • 1st Edition
    • Won-Kee Hong
    • English
    Hybrid Composite Precast Systems: Numerical Investigation to Construction focuses on the design and construction of novel composite precast frame systems that permit almost effortless erection and structural efficiency. The precast frame systems discussed in the book are similar to that of steel frames, but offer similar savings to concrete frames. The design of connections and detailed analysis of their structural behavior is discussed in detail. Fundamentals with regards to the post yield behavior of concrete and metal are also presented to illustrate how these two different materials are integrated together to remove individual material drawbacks. Readers are given a broad introduction to existing technologies that are then combined with a description of the construction methods the author proposes. This book will help the end users become familiar with the existing types of structural forms, not just the "Lego" type frame system that the author proposes.

  • Control Systems Design of Bio-Robotics and Bio-Mechatronics with Advanced Applications

    • 1st Edition
    • Ahmad Taher Azar
    • English
    Control Systems Design of Bio-Robotics and Bio-Mechatronics with Advanced Applications delivers essential and advanced bioengineering information on the application of control and robotics technologies in the life sciences. Judging by what we have witnessed so far, this exciting field of control systems and robotics in bioengineering is likely to produce revolutionary breakthroughs over the next decade. While this book is intended for senior undergraduate or graduate students in both control engineering and biomedical engineering programs, it will also appeal to medical researchers and practitioners who want to enhance their quantitative understanding of physiological processes.

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