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Praise for the Series "This book will be a useful reference to control engineers and researchers. The papers contained cover well the recent advances in the field of modern control theory." --IEEE Group Correspondence "This book will help all those researchers who valiantly try to keep abreast of what is new in the theory and practice of optimal control." --Control

This book explains how UHF tags and readers communicate wirelessly. It gives an understanding of what limits the read range of a tag, how to increase it (and why that might result in breaking the law), and the practical things that need to be addressed when designing and implementing RFID technology. Avoiding heavy math but giving breadth of coverage with the right amount of detail, it is an ideal introduction to radio communications for engineers who need insight into how tags and readers work....

Subsea repairs and inspection are costly for petroleum and pipeline engineers and proper training is needed to focus on ensuring system strength and integrity. Subsea Pipeline Integrity and Risk Management is the perfect companion for new engineers who need to be aware of the state-of-the-art techniques. This handbook offers a "hands-on" problem-solving approach to integrity management, leak detection, and reliability applications such as risk analysis. Wide-ranging and easy-to-use, the book...

Proceedings of the 20th International Cryogenic Engineering Conference

Introducing engineering design as part of the product development process, Principles of Engineering Design uses a unique scientific approach that integrates the presentation of the modern systematic design process with design projects and components design. This textbook demonstrates how to think functionally about design, identify components that fulfill specific functions, relate these functions to the design characteristics of common engineering components, evaluate performance, and integrat...

The analysis of recurrences in dynamical systems by using recurrence plots and their quantification is still an emerging field. Over the past decades recurrence plots have proven to be valuable data visualization and analysis tools in the theoretical study of complex, time-varying dynamical systems as well as in various applications in biology, neuroscience, kinesiology, psychology, physiology, engineering, physics, geosciences, linguistics, finance, economics, and other disciplines. This mult...

Finite element methods have become ever more important to engineers as tools for design and optimization, now even for solving non-linear technological problems. However, several aspects must be considered for finite-element simulations which are specific for non-linear problems: These problems require the knowledge and the understanding of theoretical foundations and their finite-element discretization as well as algorithms for solving the non-linear equations. This book provides the reader wit...

In this book international expert authors provide solutions for modern fundamental problems including the complexity of computing of critical points for set-valued mappings, the behaviour of solutions of ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations and difference equations, or the development of an abstract theory of global attractors for multi-valued impulsive dynamical systems. These abstract mathematical approaches are applied to problem-solving in solid mechanics, hydro- a...

This book contains selected papers by results of the 12th International Conference Mechatronic Systems and Materials (MSM'2016, Bialystok, Poland, July 3-8, 2016) and will be useful for researchers, engineers and scientists whose activity related to the designing of modern mechatronic systems for various applications - from the intellegent measurment devices to robotic systems for manufacture and space researches.

In diesem Lehrbuch werden grundlegende methodische Ansatze fur den modellbasierten Systementwurf von mechatronischen Systemen in systematischer und geschlossener Form dargestellt. Der vorgestellte Methodenkanon umfasst domanenneutrale Methoden zur Modellbildung und Verhaltensanalyse: Multidomanenmodellierung (energie-/tor-/signalbasiert), Simulationstechnik (ODE-/DAE-/Hybride-Systeme), robuste Regelungsansatze, stochastische Verhaltensanalyse und quantitative Entwurfsbewertung uber Systembudgets...

The study covers the benefits of an integrated reliability and maintainability engineering programme in industry and government complete with case histories. It includes 15 maintainability design criteria; 11 test methods to determine maintainability engineering measures; and 16 preventive maintenance policies.

Intended for mechanical, electrical and mineral engineers, this book presents the basic concepts of the formation of rapid and slow circulations in disperse mediums subjected to vibrations. It analyzes a vast body of experimental data, disclosing fine mechanisms by which vibration affects the disperse medium in process.

This is a study of changes that have occurred in British party and electoral politics since 1964. It assesses the decline of Labour party support and attributes it to changes in social structure that have reduced the size of class groups which provided the bulk of the Labour vote and to the reduced appeal of Labour to these groups. A similar decline in Conservative support among traditional Tory social groups makes this a general phenomenon of declining class voting. The consequence of this decl...