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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.

  • Smart Clothes and Wearable Technology

    • 2nd Edition
    • Jane McCann + 1 more
    • English
    Smart Clothes and Wearable Technology, Second Edition focuses on the design process, material selection, garment construction, and new production techniques for smart clothing. Building on the success of the previous edition, this book brings wearable technologies ever closer to market with its design-led approach to the integration of technologies into textiles. This design-led, cross-disciplinary approach to the development of hybrid processes ensures that results are both attractive and usable to wider audiences. The book will also help designers adapt their product development processes in response to novel textile and garment manufacturing technologies. Case studies showing best practices and warning of pitfalls help the reader develop applications and products in the real world. The differences between testing and design for smart and traditional clothes are also discussed.

  • Dynamic Deformation, Damage and Fracture in Composite Materials and Structures

    • 2nd Edition
    • Vadim Silberschmidt
    • English
    Dynamic Deformation, Damage and Fracture in Composite Materials and Structures, Second Edition reviews various aspects of dynamic deformation, damage and fracture, mostly in composite laminates and sandwich structures, and in a broad range of application areas including aerospace, automotive, defense and sports engineering. This book examines low- and high-velocity loading and assesses shock, blast and penetrative events, and has been updated to cover important new developments such as the use of additive manufacturing to produce composites, including fiber-reinforced ones. New microstructural, experimental, theoretical, and numerical studies with advanced tools are included as well. The book also features four new chapters covering topics such as dynamic delamination, dynamic deformation and fracture in 3D-printed composites, ballistic impacts with fragmenting projectiles, and the effect of multiple impacting.

  • Stress, Strain, and Structural Dynamics

    An Interactive Handbook of Formulas, Solutions, and MATLAB Toolboxes
    • 2nd Edition
    • Bingen Yang
    • English
    Stress, Strain, and Structural Dynamics: An Interactive Handbook of Formulas, Solutions, and MATLAB Toolboxes, Second Edition is the definitive reference to statics and dynamics of solids and structures, including mechanics of materials, structural mechanics, elasticity, rigid-body dynamics, vibrations, structural dynamics, and structural controls. The book integrates the development of fundamental theories, formulas, and mathematical models with user-friendly interactive computer programs that are written in MATLAB. This unique merger of technical reference and interactive computing provides instant solutions to a variety of engineering problems, and in-depth exploration of the physics of deformation, stress and motion by analysis, simulation, graphics, and animation.

  • Advanced Methods in Biomedical Signal Processing and Analysis

    • 1st Edition
    • Kunal Pal + 3 more
    • English
    Advanced Methods in Biomedical Signal Processing and Analysis presents state-of-the-art methods in biosignal processing, including recurrence quantification analysis, heart rate variability, analysis of the RRI time-series signals, joint time-frequency analyses, wavelet transforms and wavelet packet decomposition, empirical mode decomposition, modeling of biosignals, Gabor Transform, empirical mode decomposition. The book also gives an understanding of feature extraction, feature ranking, and feature selection methods, while also demonstrating how to apply artificial intelligence and machine learning to biosignal techniques.

  • Innovative Processes and Materials in Additive Manufacturing

    • 1st Edition
    • Sunpreet Singh + 2 more
    • English
    Innovative Processes and Materials in Additive Manufacturing explains game-changing interdisciplinary applications of recent research breakthroughs in additive manufacturing technology. The number of research publications addressing additive manufacturing has soared in recent years as a range of disciplines explore the possibilities that this technology can provide. This book acts as a bridge between this high-level research and the large number of academics and practitioners looking to additive manufacturing for innovative solutions, providing them with practical and approachable information. Applications in aerospace, automotive, medical, construction, and food industries are addressed, featuring technical details that will help successful implementation. This unique book also provides broad coverage of the theory behind this emerging technology, including material development, as well as the technical details required for readers to investigate the novel applications of the involved methods for themselves.

  • Pipeline Rules of Thumb Handbook

    A Manual of Quick, Accurate Solutions to Everyday Pipeline Engineering Problems
    • 9th Edition
    • M.J. Kaiser + 1 more
    • English
    Pipeline Rules of Thumb Handbook: A Manual of Quick, Accurate Solutions to Everyday Pipeline Engineering Problems, Ninth Edition, the latest release in the series, serves as the "go-to" source for all pipeline engineering answers. Updated with new data, graphs and chapters devoted to economics and the environment, this new edition delivers on new topics, including emissions, decommissioning, cost curves, and more while still maintaining the quick answer standard display of content and data that engineers have utilized throughout their careers. Glossaries are added per chapter for better learning tactics, along with additional storage tank and LNG fundamentals. This book continues to be the high-quality, classic reference to help pipeline engineers solve their day-to-day problems.

  • The Neurobiology of the Gilles De La Tourette Syndrome and Chronic Tics: Part B

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 4
    • English
    The Neurobiology of the Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome and Chronic Tics, Part B, Volume Four reviews historical background, current nosology and guidelines. In addition, it includes an overview of pathophysiology, ranging from its genetic basis and changes in neurochemistry and electrophysiology to widespread neural circuits. Specific chapters cover The genetic basis of Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome, Genome-wide association study of Tourette Syndrome, De Novo mutations in Tourette Syndrome, Animal models for Tourette Syndrome, The neural-immune crosstalk in Tourette syndrome: from immunobiology to epistemology, Functional connectivity in the Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome, and much more.

  • Microscope Image Processing

    • 2nd Edition
    • Fatima Merchant + 1 more
    • English
    Microscope Image Processing, Second Edition, introduces the basic fundamentals of image formation in microscopy including the importance of image digitization and display, which are key to quality visualization. Image processing and analysis are discussed in detail to provide readers with the tools necessary to improve the visual quality of images, and to extract quantitative information. Basic techniques such as image enhancement, filtering, segmentation, object measurement, and pattern recognition cover concepts integral to image processing. In addition, chapters on specific modern microscopy techniques such as fluorescence imaging, multispectral imaging, three-dimensional imaging and time-lapse imaging, introduce these key areas with emphasis on the differences among the various techniques.The new edition discusses recent developments in microscopy such as light sheet microscopy, digital microscopy, whole slide imaging, and the use of deep learning techniques for image segmentation and analysis with big data image informatics and management.Microscop... Image Processing, Second Edition, is suitable for engineers, scientists, clinicians, post-graduate fellows and graduate students working in bioengineering, biomedical engineering, biology, medicine, chemistry, pharmacology and related fields, who use microscopes in their work and would like to understand the methodologies and capabilities of the latest digital image processing techniques or desire to develop their own image processing algorithms and software for specific applications.

  • Biosensors for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases

    • 1st Edition
    • Jayashankar Das + 3 more
    • English
    Biosensors for Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases provides a review of how cornerstone optical, electronic, nanomaterial and data processing technologies can address detection issues occurring in a pandemic event. This book gives insights into the fundamental physical, chemical and biological mechanisms needed for such a type of detection. The content covers potential biomarkers which can be used for the infectious disease diagnostic, helping readers find the appropriate approach for the diagnosis of infectious diseases. It presents a novel approach to transferring the sensing platform from lab to application in clinics and to point of care detection. The book then moves on to discuss the function and efficiency of the biosensing platform in early diagnosis of infectious diseases compared to the standard methods. The required time, the technician skills and the steps which must be performed are other key factors of the biosensing platform which are well explained.

  • Modeling of Mass Transport Processes in Biological Media

    • 1st Edition
    • Sid M. Becker + 4 more
    • English
    Modeling of Mass Transport Processes in Biological Media focuses on applications of mass transfer relevant to biomedical processes and technology—fields that require quantitative mechanistic descriptions of the delivery of molecules and drugs. This book features recent advances and developments in biomedical therapies with a focus on the associated theoretical and mathematical techniques necessary to predict mass transfer in biological systems. The book is authored by over 50 established researchers who are internationally recognized as leaders in their fields. Each chapter contains a comprehensive introductory section for those new to the field, followed by recent modeling developments motivated by empirical experimental observation. Offering a unique opportunity for the reader to access recent developments from technical, theoretical, and engineering perspectives, this book is ideal for graduate and postdoctoral researchers in academia as well as experienced researchers in biomedical industries.

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