Polymer Processing

This book addresses traditional polymer processing as well as the emerging technologies associated with the plastics industry in the 21st century and combines engineering modeling aspects with computer simulation of realistic polymer processes. This book provides a polymer processing background t...

Understanding Blow Molding 2E

This book examines hands-on practical applications, which will benefit those new to the plastic blow molding industry, as well as those who are experienced but may not have been exposed to all facets of a blow molding plant. People from various disciplines such as product and manufacturing engine...

Plastics Additives Handbook 6E

Plastics without additives are not viable. Additives are essential to make plastics processable and to assure their end-use properties. The demands on additives have continued to evolve, not only because of changes in processing conditions and production techniques but also because plastics are b...

Analyzing and Troubleshooting Single-Screw Extruders 2E

Prior extrusion books are based on barrel rotation physics—this is the first book that focuses on the actual physics of the process—screw rotation physics. In the first nine chapters, theories and math models are developed. Then, these models are used to solve actual commercial problems in the re...

Injection Molding for Practitioners

Practical and easy to understand, this book describes the injection molding process and the settings of the injection molding machine to produce high-quality injection molded parts. It is intended as a guide for the machine operator and provides clear instructions for process optimization. How ex...

Atlas of Polymer Structures

Structure and morphology determine the properties of polymeric materials. This atlas provides, with well over 2000 high-quality micrographs, a comprehensive overview of the structural/morphological diversity of all classes of polymers. All microscopic techniques from light microscopy through scan...

Runner and Gating Design Handbook 3E

For the first time, both the art and the science of designing runners and gates are presented in a concise format. Tried and true runner and gating design techniques successfully used with various materials and molding applications are described together with cutting edge new technologies. The ...

Automotive High Speed Communication Technologies

The demands for processing power, software, and communication are continuously increasing; in all industries and also in the automotive one. In vehicles, the need for higher data rates is driven by more electronic functions in general, but especially by ever more potent (camera) sensors, displays...

Designing with Plastics

This book is an indispensable tool for every engineer and designer working with plastic materials. It assists in the development of plastic parts that are not only functional and esthetically pleasing but also manufacturable while meeting ever increasing end-use requirements. The short but concis...

Injection Molds for Beginners

This applications-oriented book describes the construction of an injection mold from the ground up. Included are explanations of the individual types of molds, components, and technical terms; design procedures; techniques, tips, and tricks in the construction of an injection mold; and pros and c...

Polymer Rheology

Rheology unites the seemingly unrelated fields of plasticity and non-Newtonian fluids by recognizing that both these types of materials are unable to support a shear stress in static equilibrium. In this sense, a plastic solid is a fluid. Granular rheology refers to the continuum mechanical descr...

Applications of Biomass-Derived Materials for Bioproducts and Bioenergy

This book offers a unique overview of usage of biomass, biomaterials, and bioproducts, including biopolymers. Included are materials, processes, usage as an energy source, and, in particular, applications. It is intended to educate both professionals and graduate students, who typically must acqu...

Machine Designer's Reference

One-of-a-Kind Tool Speeds Mechanical Design Work Designers at all levels of experience need a handy, comprehensive reference that helps them get the job done faster... and better. Machine Designers Reference by J. Marrs fulfills the need, and then some. This hardcover 716-page volume benefi...

Production Spare Parts

Covers stocking theory and practice. Uses the Pareto Principal throughout as the best way to achieve superior results with a minimum of investment of time by plant personnel. Includes the following topics: the risks inherent in setting inventory stocking levels, setting...

Exploring Advanced Manufacturing Technologies

Designed to introduce new technologies to students, instructors, manufacturing engineers, supervisors and managers, this ready reference includes many new manufacturing technologies for those who do not have time to undertake the necessary research. Each topic addresses the following points: ...

Machine Shop Trade Secrets

Written by an experienced machinist and plastic injection mold maker, this groundbreaking manual will have users thinking and producing like experienced machinists. Machine Shop Trade Secrets provides practical “how-to” information that can immediately be put to use to improve ones machining...

Metalworking Sink or Swim

This CD-ROM contains the PDF version of Metalworking Sink or Swim. This collection of priceless tips, tricks, skills, and experiences from a veteran of the trade is presented in a way that captures the attention of users and engages them in the process of furthering the art. It includes shop-te...

Programmable Automation Technologies

Ebook Edition of item 978-0-8311-3346-7 - Divided into four parts, Programmable Automation focuses on programmable automation technologies used in industry. Comprehensive yet concise, this unique textbook provides a solid foundation of analytical techniques to justify automation and the knowled...

Cyborg Mind

Hide and Seek

Through dramatic incidents tells for the first time the full story of the development of Cold War naval intelligence from the end of WWII to the breakup the Soviet Union in 1991, from both sides, East and West. Unlike other accounts, which focus on submarine confrontations and accidents, the auth...

Regulus

This book details the Regulus Program, initiated by Chance Vought Aircraft corporation, already famous for the F4U Corsair, which paved the way for inertial navigation and subsequently the guided missile program.

Technology and Power in the Early American Cotton Industry

Behind the original pubication of Montgomery’s “Practical Detail” (1840) lay the continuing concern about world markets & international economic & technological leadership. Montgomery’s achievement lay in the wealth & reliability of the comparative data he assembled, for the first tim...

Transfer of Early Industrial Technologies to America

Contents: Part I: A Survey: The Transfer of Industrial Technologies to Early America; Part II: Case Studies: William Weston, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, and the Philadelphia Plan for Internal Improvements; Eleuthere Irenee du Pont: “Eleve des Poudres” to American Gunpowder Manufacturer; Moncure Robin...

The Power of the Internet in China

Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways. Guobin Yang's pioneering study maps an innovative range of contentious forms and practices linked to Chinese cyberspace, delin...

Visual Mechanic Knowledge

Markham’s 60 drawings are the earliest-known set of textile machine maker’s workshop drawings in the U.S. prepared primarily for cotton machinery but also for wool carding and spinning equipment. Prepared between 1814 and 1825, this book includes an examination of its provenance, a biography of t...

Renaissance Vision from Spectacles to Telescopes

Deals with the history of eyeglasses from their invention in Italy ca. 1286 to the appearance of the telescope three cent. later. “By the end of the 16th cent. eyeglasses were as common in western and central Europe as desktop computers are in western developed countries today.” Eyeglasses served...

Dictionary of Weights and Measures for the British Isles

The complexity of medieval & modern pre-metric weights & measures (W&M) in Britain presents an obstacle to scholarly research on Western European econ. history. The problem is: the approx. dimensions of many non-standardized measuring units, used by both the Crown & the regional &...

Bottled Energy

This is a print on demand publication. The storage battery may seem to be little more than the device which starts a car, but during the hundred years of its commercial existence, it has filled many different roles. These roles have changed with the years, the technology of the storage battery ad...

Fish-Shape Paumanok

The bittersweet message of this volume is at once Robert Cushman Murphy’s celebration of the magnificent environment and history of Long Island that inspired him; a chronicle of man’s destructive tendencies as they found focus on this sandy strand; and a gentle warning to change our ways. Althoug...

Playing with Fire

This collection of historical and scientific studies shows the impressive significance of the invention, development, and use of the lightning rod in the past 250 years. The rod was a device long taken to be a symbol of enlightenment and utility, judged by some people the very first practical app...

Natural Farming

Natural Farming carries a simple but widely overlooked message: healthy soil makes healthy plants, which in turn make healthy animals and healthy people. The book explores the consequences in the soil of applications of superphosphate and other artificial fertilizers over decades, and explains so...

What Is to Be Done

A follow-up to the author's prescient bestseller, first published in 1982, that alerted the public to the likely impacts of information technologies and the emergence of a post-industrial society. When Sleepers, Wake! was released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world: ...

Alcohol Fuel

The essential how-to book on making and using ethanol as an alternative renewable fuel.

Photovoltaics

A comprehensive training resource for producing electric power from the sun.

Solar Electricity Basics - Revised and Updated 2nd Edition

Solar Electricity Basics is a highly readable introduction to a promising technology, ideal for homeowners, business owners, builders, and students. It covers everything you need to work with solar electricity including sizing a solar electric system, types of systems, how systems operate, and co...

Serious Microhydro

From water to wire--harnessing the energy of running water.

Eating Fossil Fuels

A shocking outline of the interlinked crises in energy and agriculture--and appropriate responses.

Wind Power Basics

A clean and simple introduction to generating electricity from the wind.

Tiny Transit

Tiny Transit is a how-to guide for Councils of Governments (COGs) and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) searching for practical ways for their cities to cut carbon emissions.

Arduino in easy steps

Arduino in easy steps is an indispensable guide for anyone wanting to get started with Arduino – the popular circuit board that allows users to create interactive objects. In digestible chunks, it explains:What Arduino is and what can be done with itWhat’s in your Arduino kit, refreshing your kn...

Wrap It Up

A new approach on packaging design, which includes materials, structure and an appendix with die cut patterns to inspire one’s own projects.

Epic Disruptions

A kaleidoscopic look at how eleven disruptive innovations—including the iPhone, the transistor, disposable diapers, and Julia Child's The Art of French Cooking—reshaped industries and societies, propelling humanity toward new frontiers.From gunpowder to generative AI, the forces of disruption are...

Vanishing Fish

"Daniel Pauly is a friend whose work has inspired me for years."—Ted Danson, actor, ocean activist, and co-author of Oceana"This wonderfully personal and accessible book by the world’s greatest living fisheries biologist summarizes and expands on the causes of collapse and the essential actions t...

Doppelganger: Un viaje al mundo del espejo / Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein, una de las periodistas más influyentes del mundo y autora de bestsellers como No logo y La doctrina del shock, nos ofrece en Doppelganger un análisis revelador del laberinto de espejos de la política de hoy y de las realidades inciertas del universo digital. ¿Qué pasaría si te desper...

La fantasía de volar

Un libro sobre las distintas formas de volar presentes a lo largo de la historia. ¿Por qué soñamos con volar?¿Cuál es el origen evolutivo de las alas?¿Qué caracteriza a las máquinas voladoras ideadas por el ser humano? Estas son algunas de las preguntas a las que responde este extraordinario lib...

Prepare, Respond, Renew

Prepare, Respond, Renew: GIS for Wildland Fire explores a collection of real-life stories about wildland fire agencies successfully using GIS for preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery and rehabilitation workflows. 

Top 20 Essential Skills for Imagery and Remote Sensing

Top 20 Essential Skills for Imagery and Remote Sensing guides readers step-by-step through interpreting imagery, creating imagery products, and performing various imagery analysis workflows.

Working Beyond Borders

In Working Beyond Borders: GIS for Geospatial Collaboration, see how government, industries, and others, are using location intelligence and GIS to interconnect people and help them respond to some of our most critical issues, such as climate change, sustainable development, racial equity, emerge...

Brunel's Britain

A comprehensive look at Brunel's most famous and his lesser-known achievements. This remarkable book takes each of his triumphs and explores them in historical context, as well as from engineering and architectural point of view. An excellent 'gazetteer' gives the reader a chance to go out and fo...

Brunel's Britain

A comprehensive look at Brunel's most famous and his lesser-known achievements. This remarkable book takes each of his triumphs and explores them in historical context, as well as from engineering and architectural point of view. An excellent 'gazetteer' gives the reader a chance to go out and fo...

Modifying the Electronics of Modern Classic Cars

Want to upgrade to fully programmable engine management but don’t know how? Then this book will come to your rescue! Step-by-step instructions with hundreds of photographs and diagrams will empower you to upgrade your car’s lighting, instrumentation, sound and engine management systems, and much ...

Improving crop pest/disease modeling

Dissemination of crop pests and diseases occurs through both natural and anthropogenic processes, facilitated by the increasing interconnectedness of the global food chain. Food security depends on our ability to manage crop pests and diseases effectively. This chapter offers a brief overview of ...

Plantain (Plantago lanceolata): from weed to multi-functional component in sustainable dairy-farm systems

This chapter explores the potential of narrow-leaved plantain (ribgrass, Plantago lanceolata L.) to perform a range of roles in promoting more sustainable pasture-based livestock systems. The chapter begins by looking more broadly at the challenge of nitrogen losses from grazed pastures. This pro...

Improving modeling of nutrient cycles in crop cultivation

This chapter describes nutrient cycle modelling for nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) and is not meant to be a review of existing nutrient models. Most of these existing models were designed to predict the effects of N and P on crop growth response. Given the importance of N in glo...

Journalism and the Metaverse

Journalism has been in a state of disruption since the development of the Internet. The Metaverse, or the future of the Internet, is likely to fuel even further disruption in journalism. This book will provide a critical examination of the implications of the Metaverse for the continuing transfor...

The Techno-Apparatus of Bodily Production

Expanding on the concept of the apparatus of bodily production in the work of Donna Haraway and Karen Barad, Josef Barla explores how material bodies along with their boundaries, properties, and meanings performatively materialize at sites where technological, biological, technoscientific, (bio-)...

The Manhattan Project

Launched in 1942, the Manhattan Project was a well-funded, secret effort by the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada to develop an atomic bomb before the Nazis. The results—the bombs named "Little Boy" and "Fat Man"—were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945.A vast state wi...

The Sustainable City

Steven Cohen presents an approachable and applicable guide to urban sustainability that highlights how new, greener trends in city development touch our lives on a daily basis. Replete with recommendations and insights, The Sustainable City has invaluable lessons for anyone seeking to link public...

Watts in the Desert

Solar power has taken a journey from what was once considered the lunatic fringe to mainstream society and industry. Looking specifically at the Solex project in Carnarvon, Western Australia, which pioneered the harvest of solar energy, this book offers an introduction to the development of renew...

Sustainable Food Production

This concise text offers an overview of the key issues in sustainable food production for all readers interested in the ecology and environmental impact of agriculture. It details the ecological foundations of farming and food systems, showing how to create sustainable alternatives to the industr...

A Glossary of Food Science and Technology

This work lists comprehensively over 20,000 terms commonly used in food science with their Chinese equivalents. It is a useful and valuable reference, especially when biotechnology, environmental protection, organic and natural food nutrition, etc. have become popular topics of discussion among p...

Technology in Postwar America

Carroll Pursell tells the story of the evolution of American technology since World War II. His fascinating and surprising history links pop culture icons with landmarks in technological innovation and shows how postwar politics left their mark on everything from television, automobiles, and gene...

Rail, Steam, and Speed

From October 6 through 14, 1829, in a small village just outside Liverpool, England, ten thousand spectators gathered to witness one of the most remarkable events of the Industrial Age: a battle among locomotives that became known as the Rainhill Trials. Five machines were entered in the competit...

Think Locally, Act Globally

This book explores how the traditional Polish agricultural sector has been affected by globalization, emphasizing the principles of sustainable development as well as flexibility and resilience. It highlights the effects of postcommunist transformations and Poland’s accession to the European Union.

Market Driven Supply Chains

Market Driven Supply Chains explores how aligning supply chain processes with market needs boosts competitiveness. Covering demand shaping, capacity management, product design, procurement, and disruption response, it offers insights for academics, practitioners, and graduate students.

Earthworks

Earthworks: A guide outlines the key principles and practicalities of earthworks for projects of all scales, for the construction of minor works through to major earth structures.

Thermal Insulation Materials for Building Applications

This book presents the variations, technical details and capabilities of state-of-the-art of thermal insulation materials for building applications. As a single source of information on all aspects of insulation materials, the reader can make an informed choice and select the necessary insulation...

Civil Engineering Heritage Scotland

Part of the "Civil Engineering Heritage" series for the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, this book describes the visionary projects that created the opportunities for trade and wealth creation. It records Scotland's achievements as a civilisation through the enduring memorials that great e...

The Spatial Grasp Model

The Spatial Grasp Model suggests uses beyond the theoretical, including the examination of hurricanes and forest fires. Investigating group behaviour of ocean animals, discovery of unknown terrain features, and path-findings in large transport networks truly demonstrates the real-world applicatio...

Designers' Guide to Eurocode 6: Design of Masonry Structures

A detailed guide to Eurocode 6 Design of Masonry Structures: Part 1-1 Common rules for reinforced and unreinforced masonry structures, dealing with the various sections in EN1996-1-1.

Management Decisions for Engineers

This title is a guide, designed for engineering managers, to the theory and practice of how good decisions are made and why poor decisions occur. It is the result of many years of teaching and consultancy in organizational and social decision making and provides some of the most important concept...

Flood Risk

This uniquely comprehensive guide for engineers and scientists demonstrates the feasibility of an integrated approach that combines resilient infrastructure with adaptive flood risk management.

Port Maintenance Handbook 2021

Written by an engineer with over 50 years of international experience in the field, this is the ultimate guide to maintaining port structures and understanding the tasks and equipment needed to undertake essential repair work.

Monitoring Underground Construction

This is the only guide to the principles for development, design, implementation and management of monitoring systems employed to manage risks in underground construction for clients, project managers, designers, contractors and asset owners.

Safe Intrusive Activities on Land Potentially Impacted by Contamination

Safe Intrusive Activities on Land Potentially Impacted by Contamination provides health, safety and environmental information and good practice recommendations for professionals engaged with intrusive activities on land impacted by contamination, including individuals/organisations involved in sp...

Whole-Life Value-Based Decision-Making in Asset Management

Whole-Life Value-Based Decision-Making in Asset Management is a comprehensive guide to improving the effectiveness of infrastructure asset management by determining the level of expenditure on infrastructure assets in order to maximise life-cycle value.

Admixtures - Enhancing Concrete Performance

There are opportunities and threats in concrete. For these opportunities to change into beneficial practice, engineers must focus on the changes that are required to champion concrete. This book deals with issues such as advances in admixture technology and concrete performance.

The Properties and Use of Coal Fly Ash

This book draws together a large quantity of research that has been carried out on pulverised fuel ash (PFA) over the past 30 years.In addition to covering the potential uses of PFA it provides an overview of the benefits of use.

Guidance on Public Procurement for SMEs

This thorough guide is essential reading for all owners, directors and senior professionals of SMEs as well as public sector organisations, including bid managers and coordinators.

CESMM4 Revised

This fourth edition of the handbook has been specifically produced to be used alongside the new Civil Engineering Standard Method of Measurement, fourth edition - CESMM4. The handbook has been completely updated and includes new text to bring it in line with the changes and new material contained...

Civil Engineering Heritage

This work deals with the civil engineering heritage of London and the Thames Valley. The development of London has attracted the design and construction skills of a range of eminent civil engineers and contractors.

Tunnelling in the Urban Environment

With urban tunnel construction growing worldwide, the ability to accurately predict the ground and structural response to tunnelling and the associated risks is now more important than ever before. Engineers are expected to consider all aspects of tunnel engineering in order to safeguard existing...

Maintaining the Safety of our Dams and Reservoirs

Maintaining the Safety of our Dams and Reservoirs covers a wide range of topics which are of direct relevance to all who work with dams and reservoirs, whether in the UK or abroad, be they owners, maintainers, designers or constructors.

Vibration of Solids and Structures under Moving Loads

This book analyses the effects of moving loads on elastic and inelastic solids, elements and parts of structures and on elastic media, namely beams, continuous beams, beams on elastic foundations, rigid-plastic beams and thin-walled beams, frames, arches, strings, plates, elastic spaces and half ...

The Motorway Achievement

Providing a set of contrasting accounts of the creation of the motorway system, the problems encountered, the solutions adopted and the lessons learned for motorway development, this volume comprises eight chapters, each of which was compiled by a leading contributor to the motorway programme.

Terrain and Geohazard Challenges facing Onshore Oil and Gas Pipelines

This volume consisting of over 40 papers presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Terrain and Geohazard Challenges Facing Onshore Oil and Gas Pipelines.

Planning and Design of Ports and Marine Terminals

Following from the success of the first edition, this new edition continues to look at the rational planning for port facilities requirements (berths, storage and cargo handling equipment), organisations, management and operations with relation to planning and design of ports and marine terminals.

Refurbishment Projects

Refurbishment Projects by David Oloke is a qualitative reference tool for exploring health and safety management and risk management of alteration, renovation and refurbishment projects.