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  • Cement-Based Materials for Nuclear Waste Storage

    Edited by Florence Bart, Céline Cau-di-Coumes, Fabien Frizon, Sylvie Lorente ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    As the re-emergence of nuclear power as an acceptable energy source on an international basis continues, the need for safe and reliable ways to dispose of radioactive waste becomes ever more critical. The ultimate goal for designing a predisposal waste-management system depends on producing waste containers suitable for storage, transportation and permanent disposal. Cement-Based Materials for ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Constructal Law and the Unifying Principle of Design

    Edited by Sylvie Lorente, Adrian Bejan, Luiz A.O. Rocha ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Design happens everywhere, whether in animate objects (e.g., dendritic lung structures, bacterial colonies, and corals), inanimate patterns (river basins, beach slope, and dendritic crystals), social dynamics (pedestrian traffic flows), or engineered systems (heat dissipation in electronic circuitry). This “design in nature” often takes on remarkably similar patterns, which can be explained under ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

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    Fundamentals, Technology and Application

    by Wout van Bommel ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book outlines the underlying principles on which modern road lighting is based, and provides the reader with knowledge of how these principles should be applied in practice.This book offers a completely fresh approach to the subject, reflecting how the technology of road lighting has progressed to keep up with the changes in lamp technology, especially in solid state light sources, and the ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Applied Hydraulic Transients

    by M. Hanif Chaudhry ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Applied Hydraulic Transients, 3rd Edition covers hydraulic transients in a comprehensive and systematic manner from introduction to advanced level and presents various methods of analysis for computer solution. The book is suitable as a textbook for senior-level undergraduate and graduate students as well as a reference for practicing engineers and researchers. The field of application of the book ... Read more

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  • Energy Democracy

    Germany’s Energiewende to Renewables

    by Craig Morris, Arne Jungjohann ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book outlines how Germans convinced their politicians to pass laws allowing citizens to make their own energy, even when it hurt utility companies to do so. It traces the origins of the Energiewende movement in Germany from the Power Rebels of Schönau to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s shutdown of eight nuclear power plants following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident. The authors explore ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Fatigue Design of Marine Structures

    by Inge Lotsberg ...
    Fatigue Design of Marine Structures provides students and professionals with a theoretical and practical background for fatigue design of marine structures including sailing ships, offshore structures for oil and gas production, and other welded structures subject to dynamic loading such as wind turbine structures. Industry expert Inge Lotsberg brings more than forty years of experience in design ... Read more

    $127.99 USD

  • Basic Earthquake Engineering

    From Seismology to Analysis and Design

    by Halûk Sucuoğlu, Sinan Akkar ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book provides senior undergraduate students, master students and structural engineers who do not have a background in the field with core knowledge of structural earthquake engineering that will be invaluable in their professional lives. The basics of seismotectonics, including the causes, magnitude, and intensity of earthquakes, are first explained. Then the book introduces basic elements of ... Read more

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  • Nuclear Energy

    An Introduction to the Concepts, Systems, and Applications of Nuclear Processes

    by Raymond L. Murray, Keith E. Holbert ...
    Nuclear Energy is one of the most popular texts ever published on basic nuclear physics, systems, and applications of nuclear energy. This newest edition continues the tradition of offering a holistic treatment of everything the undergraduate engineering student needs to know in a clear and accessible way. The book presents a comprehensive overview of radioactivity, radiation protection, nuclear ... Read more

    $71.09 USD

  • Pneumatic Conveying of Solids

    A theoretical and practical approach

    by G.E. Klinzing, F. Rizk, R. Marcus, L.S. Leung ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    Pneumatic conveying is one of the most popular methods of handling bulk powdered and granular materials in mining, chemical and agricultural industries. This 3rd edition of this successful book covers both theoretical and practical aspects of the subject. It is unique in its blending of academic materials and good industrial design techniques. Each topic is covered in depth, with emphasis placed ... Read more

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  • Engineering Heat Transfer

    by Donatello Annaratone ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book is a generalist textbook; it is designed for anybody interested in heat transmission, including scholars, designers and students.Two criteria constitute the foundation of Annaratone’s books, including the present one.The first one consists of indispensable scientific rigor without theoretical exasperation.The inclusion in the book of some theoretical studies, even if admirable for their ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Linear and Non-linear Mechanical Behavior of Solid Materials

    by Christian Lexcellent ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book offers an essential introduction to the linear and non-linear behavior of solid materials, and to the concepts of deformation, displacement and stress, within the context of continuum mechanics and thermodynamics. To illustrate the fundamental principles, the book starts with an overview of solid mechanics, experimental methods, classes of material behaviors, and the thermodynamic ... Read more

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  • Magnetic Levitation

    Maglev Technology and Applications

    by Hyung-Suk Han, Dong-Sung Kim ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of magnetic levitation (Maglev) technologies, from fundamental principles through to the state-of-the-art, and describes applications both realised and under development.It includes a history of Maglev science and technology showing the various milestones in its advancement. The core concepts, operating principles and main challenges of Maglev ... Read more

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