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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.

  • Handbook of Energy Efficiency in Buildings

    A Life Cycle Approach
    • 1st Edition
    • Umberto Desideri + 1 more
    • English
    Handbook of Energy Efficiency in Buildings: A Life Cycle Approach offers a comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the subject with a further focus on the Life Cycle. The editors, renowned academics, invited a diverse group of researchers to develop original chapters for the book and managed to well integrate all contributions in a consistent volume. Sections cover the role of the building sector on energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, international technical standards, laws and regulations, building energy efficiency and zero energy consumption buildings, the life cycle assessment of buildings, from construction to decommissioning, and other timely topics. The multidisciplinary approach to the subject makes it valuable for researchers and industry based Civil, Construction, and Architectural Engineers. Researchers in related fields as built environment, energy and sustainability at an urban scale will also benefit from the books integrated perspective.

  • Rehabilitation of Concrete Structures with Fiber-Reinforced Polymer

    • 1st Edition
    • Riadh Al-Mahaidi + 1 more
    • English
    Rehabilitation of Concrete Structures with Fiber Reinforced Polymer is a complete guide to the use of FRP in flexural, shear and axial strengthening of concrete structures. Through worked design examples, the authors guide readers through the details of usage, including anchorage systems, different materials and methods of repairing concrete structures using these techniques. Topics include the usage of FRP in concrete structure repair, concrete structural deterioration and rehabilitation, methods of structural rehabilitation and strengthening, a review of the design basis for FRP systems, including strengthening limits, fire endurance, and environmental considerations. In addition, readers will find sections on the strengthening of members under flexural stress, including failure modes, design procedures, examples and anchorage detailing, and sections on shear and torsion stress, axial strengthening, the installation of FRP systems, and strengthening against extreme loads, such as earthquakes and fire, amongst other important topics.

  • Nonlinear Electronics 1

    Nonlinear Dipoles, Harmonic Oscillators and Switching Circuits
    • 1st Edition
    • Brahim Haraoubia
    • English
    Nonlinear Electronics 1: Nonlinear Dipoles, Harmonic Oscillators and Switching Circuits deals with the appearance of nonlinear electronic circuits and their behavior. The book studies a number of circuits that interface between analog and digital electronics, including astable, monostable, bistable, Schmitt trigger, and analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion. Users will find a complete resource that deals with all aspects of these circuits, starting from the discrete component and gradually working to the integrated circuit.

  • Nonlinear Kalman Filter for Multi-Sensor Navigation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Application to Guidance and Navigation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Flying in a Complex Environment
    • 1st Edition
    • Jean-Philippe Condomines
    • English
    Nonlinear Kalman Filter for Multi-Sensor Navigation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles covers state estimation development approaches for Mini-UAV. The book focuses on Kalman filtering technics for UAV design, proposing a new design methodology and case study related to inertial navigation systems for drones. Both simulation and real experiment results are presented, thus showing new and promising perspectives.

  • Advances in Heat Transfer

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 50
    • Ephraim M. Sparrow + 2 more
    • English
    Advances in Heat Transfer, Volume 50, provides in-depth review articles from a broader scope than in traditional journals or texts, with this comprehensive release covering chapters on Heat Transfer in Rotating Channels, Advances in Liquid Metal Science and Technology in Chip Cooling and Thermal Management, Heat Transfer in Rotating Cooling Channel, Anomalous Heat Transfer: Examples, Fundamentals, and Fractional Calculus Models, and much more.

  • Recent Advances in Chaotic Systems and Synchronization

    From Theory to Real World Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Olfa Boubaker + 1 more
    • English
    Recent Advances in Chaotic Systems and Synchronization: From Theory to Real World Applications is a major reference for scientists and engineers interested in applying new computational and mathematical tools for solving complex problems related to modeling, analyzing and synchronizing chaotic systems. Furthermore, it offers an array of new, real-world applications in the field. Written by eminent scientists in the field of control theory and nonlinear systems from 19 countries (Cameroon, China, Ethiopia, France, Greece, India, Italia, Iran, Japan, Mexico, and more), this book covers the latest advances in chaos theory, along with the efficiency of novel synchronization approaches. Readers will find the fundamentals and algorithms related to the analysis and synchronization of chaotic systems, along with key applications, including electronic design, text and image encryption, and robot control and tracking.

  • Circular Economy in Textiles and Apparel

    Processing, Manufacturing, and Design
    • 1st Edition
    • Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
    • English
    Circular Economy in Textiles and Apparel: Processing, Manufacturing, and Design is the first book to provide guidance on this subject, presenting the tools for implementing this paradigm and their impact on textile production methods. Sustainable business strategies are also covered, as are new design methods that can help in the reduction of waste. Drawing on contributions from leading experts in industry and academia, this book covers every aspect of this increasingly important subject and speculates on future developments.

  • Brain-Computer Interfaces for Neuroadaptive Human-Computer Interaction

    • 1st Edition
    • Thorsten O. Zander + 1 more
    • English
    Brain-Computer Interfaces for Neuroadaptive Human-Computer Interaction provides comprehensive and rigorous coverage of human-computer interaction (HCI), psychology, neuroscience, engineering, and brain-computer interfaces (BCI). This leading-edge book provides researchers in the field with an understanding of the relevance and application of BCI methods and solutions in the context of HCI and human-machine systems. BrainComputer Interface provides readers with a broad survey of relevant themes, as well as comprehension of the underlying concepts. Furthermore, the book provides fundamental skills necessary to design and set up experiments, and evaluate the results. To this end, the book comprises theoretical sections, as well as explicit instructions, discussions of important questions, summaries, and exercises. Specific points are illustrated using examples of actual experiments and applications, and coverage includes neurophysiological concepts that are relevant to BCI, a history of BCI ideas, methods, and research, fundamentals of experimental BCI research and design, the why and how of applying BCI in HCI contexts, as well as signal processing and machine learning methods using open-source toolboxes.

  • Free-Surface Flow

    Computational Methods
    • 1st Edition
    • Nikolaos D. Katopodes
    • English
    Free-Surface Flow: Computational Methods presents a detailed analysis of numerical schemes for shallow-water waves. It includes practical applications for the numerical simulation of flow and transport in rivers and estuaries, the dam-break problem and overland flow. Closure models for turbulence, such as Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes and Large Eddy Simulation are presented, coupling the aforementioned surface tracking techniques with environmental fluid dynamics. While many computer programs can solve the partial differential equations describing the dynamics of fluids, many are not capable of including free surfaces in their simulations.

  • Hardware Security

    A Hands-on Learning Approach
    • 1st Edition
    • Swarup Bhunia + 1 more
    • English
    Hardware Security: A Hands-On Learning Approach provides a broad, comprehensive and practical overview of hardware security that encompasses all levels of the electronic hardware infrastructure. It covers basic concepts like advanced attack techniques and countermeasures that are illustrated through theory, case studies and well-designed, hands-on laboratory exercises for each key concept. The book is ideal as a textbook for upper-level undergraduate students studying computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, and biomedical engineering, but is also a handy reference for graduate students, researchers and industry professionals. For academic courses, the book contains a robust suite of teaching ancillaries. Users will be able to access schematic, layout and design files for a printed circuit board for hardware hacking (i.e. the HaHa board) that can be used by instructors to fabricate boards, a suite of videos that demonstrate different hardware vulnerabilities, hardware attacks and countermeasures, and a detailed description and user manual for companion materials.

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