Heat Transfer: Basics and Practice

English | 2012 | ISBN: 3642191827 | 289 pages | PDF | 3.95 MB

The book provides an easy way to understand the fundamentals of heat transfer. The reader will acquire the ability to design and analyze heat exchangers. Without extensive derivation of the fundamentals, the latest correlations for heat transfer coefficients and their application are discussed. The following topics are presented - Steady state and transient heat conduction - Free and forced convection - Finned surfaces - Condensation and boiling - Radiation - Heat exchanger design - Problem-solving After introducing the basic terminology, the reader is made familiar with the different mechanisms of heat transfer. Their practical application is demonstrated in examples, which are available in the Internet as MathCad files for further use. Tables of material properties and formulas for their use in programs are included in the appendix. This book will serve as a valuable resource for both students and engineers in the industry. The author’s experience indicates that students, after 40 lectures and exercises of 45 minutes based on this textbook, have proved capable of designing independently complex heat exchangers such as for cooling of rocket propulsion chambers, condensers and evaporators for heat pumps.

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Solid Modelling and CAD Systems: How to Survive a CAD System

Solid Modelling and CAD Systems: How to Survive a CAD System by Ian Stroud, Hildegarde Nagy

Solid Modelling and CAD Systems gives users an insight into the methods and problems associated with CAD systems. It acts as a bridge between users who learn interfaces without understanding how they work and developers who create systems without understanding the needs of the users.The main feature of Solid Modelling and CAD Systems is a logical analysis of the techniques and basic solid modelling methods used in modern CAD systems. The book goes on to describe, among other subjects:two-dimensional shape definition methods,the command interface and graphics,databases and data exchange,early-phase design, andcommand files and command structures. Reading Solid Modelling and CAD Systems will help users understand the limitations of the techniques they are using and will enable practitioners to use CAD systems more efficiently. It is a valuable tool for designers, as well as for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students. The exercises it contains allow readers to try out different aspects of the subject matter and the book also includes projects that can be used for teaching purposes.

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Spinger

2007
ISBN: 3540713972
442 pages
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13,9 MB
 

This comprehensive summary of the current state of the art of titanium addresses all aspects of titanium. It is all covered, from the magical metal’s basic characteristics and physical metallurgy to the correlations between processing, microstructure and properties. Richly illustrated with more than 300 figures, this compendium takes a conceptual approach to the physical metallurgy and applications of titanium, making it suitable as a reference and tutorial for materials scientists and engineers.

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Jorge Welti-Chanes and Jose Miguel Aguilera, "Engineering and Food for the 21st Century"

CR C | 2002 | ISBN: 1566769639 | 1104 pages | PDF | 12,7 MB 

 

 

 

Engineering and Food for the 21st Century presents important reviews and up-to-date discussions of major topics relating to engineering and food. Internationally renowned contributors discuss a broad base of food engineering and related subjects, including research and prospective industrial applications. The first part begins with recent trends in food engineering and challenges for the future. It then presents important discussions of fundamental aspects of food engineering, including physical chemistry, mass transfer, food rheology, and food structure. Part 2 contains state-of-the-art presentations on thermal processing and packaging, minimal processing, emerging technologies, process control, biotechnology, and environmental factors associated with the processing of food.

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This new, fully-revised edition covers all the major topics of digital signal processing (DSP) design and analysis in a single, all-inclusive volume, interweaving theory with real-world examples and design trade-offs. Building on the success of the original, this edition includes new material on random signal processing, a new chapter on spectral estimation, greatly expanded coverage of filter banks and wavelets, and new material on the solution of difference equations. Additional steps in mathematical derivations make them easier to follow, and an important new feature is the do-it-yourself section at the end of each chapter, where readers get hands-on experience of solving practical signal processing problems in a range of MATLAB experiments. With 120 worked examples, 20 case studies, and almost 400 homework exercises, the book is essential reading for anyone taking DSP courses. Its unique blend of theory and real-world practical examples also makes it an ideal reference for practitioners.

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Fairm.nt Press | 2004 | ISBN: 0881735051 | 264 pages | PDF | 5 MB

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Written by a highly regarded power industry expert, this comprehensive manual covers in full detail all aspects of electric power distribution systems, both as they exist today and as they are evolving toward the future. A new chapter examines the impact of the emergence of cogeneration and distributed generation on the power distribution network. Topics include an overview of the process of electricity transmission and distribution, a thorough discussion of each component of the system - conductor supports, insulators and conductors, line equipment, substations, distribution circuits and more - as well as both overhead and underground construction considerations. Improvements in both materials and methods of power distribution are also explored, including the trend toward gradual replacement of heavier porcelain insulators with lighter polymer ones. The complex aspects of electric power distribution are explained in easy-to-understand, non-technical language.

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Publisher: Wiley-VCH; 1 edition (May 9, 2005)

ISBN: 3527310142
Pages: 1137
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This first book dedicated to all aspects of the field presents our current knowledge in its entirety, covering the necessary disciplines and processes involved - from the monomer to the final product. With an international editor and author team from academia and such leading chemical companies as Bayer, BASF and DuPont, the text adopts a multidisciplinary approach and a practical point of view. Starting with polymer chemistry and thermodynamics, the book goes on to deal with measurement, control, and characterization, before tackling process development, safety issues, scale-up, and modeling. It concludes with emerging processes.

 

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This book introduces the concepts and methodologies related to the modelling of the complex phenomena occurring in materials processing. After a short reminder of conservation laws and constitutive relationships, the authors introduce the main numerical methods: finite differences, finite volumes and finite elements. These techniques are developed in three main chapters of the book that tackle more specific problems: phase transformation, solid mechanics and fluid flow. The two last chapters treat inverse methods to obtain the boundary conditions or the material properties and stochastic methods for microstructural simulation. This book is intended for undergraduate and graduate students in materials science and engineering, mechanical engineering and physics and for engineering professionals or researchers who want to get acquainted with numerical simulation to model and compute materials processing.

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Springer

2004-11-23
ISBN: 3540214569
570 pages
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Understanding tensile fracture in rocks provides an important key for the interpretation of many problems in structural geology. This book presents a multidisciplinary approach to tensile fracture in rocks (faulting is briefly addressed), starting with an introduction to fracture physics and progressing through tectonofractographic features, characterized both in experimental settings and in geological outcrops. Four examples of sedimentary rocks and two of granites have been chosen to demonstrate the principles and problems in fracture geology. Principles of fracture mechanics and rock mechanics are applied throughout the book, which also explores current understanding about electromagnetic radiation induced by fractures and how such radiation can be used to monitor and predict earthquakes and hazardous collapses in mines. The monograph serves not only as a manual on how to handle specific problems and their solutions in fractual geology but also as a starting point for researchers and graduate students interested in the field of rock fracturing.

 

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Publisher: Fairmont Press

ISBN: 0881735248
edition 2005
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Fully illustrated reference brings you detailed coverage of the full spectrum of equipment and processes used in the production of electricity, from the basics of energy conversion to prime movers, generators, and boilers. DLC: Electric power production.



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Process Management: Why Project Management Fails in Complex Decision Making Processes

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 364213940X
edition 2010
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What is it that makes a manager or a politician a successful decision maker? Our first inclination would be to say decisiveness and substance. Many managers who met those criteria, however, had to abandon the field in the past several years. The authors of Process Management regard a manager as successful if he pays much attention to the process aspects of change.
 
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CRC

2009
ISBN: 1420071696
253 pages
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Given that engineering flexibility can potentially provide a competitive advantage, the question then becomes: Precisely how valuable is this flexibility? However, traditional methods often fail to accurately capture the economic value of investments in an environment of widespread uncertainty and rapid change. The real options method represents the new state-of-the-art technique for valuation and management of strategic investments, enabling corporate decision-makers to leverage uncertainty and limit downside risk.

Real Options in Engineering Design, Operations, and Management presents and synthesizes the body of knowledge in the area of real options for engineering systems. Providing case studies and step-by-step computations of real options valuation, it covers engineering applications

across different disciplines such as industrial and civil engineering, and computer science. The authors review financial-option research results, consider how to quantify engineering activities, and analyze optimal business strategies based on a variety of real option models. They integrate academic work on real options in engineering, current practice, and discussion of future needs and opportunities.

Flexibility in decision making allows firms to compete more effectively in a world of substantial price and demand uncertainty, product variety, short product life cycles, and rapid product development. And with more frequent demands being placed on engineering systems to change, managers and manufacturing systems must react to events as they unfold. This book explores a real options modeling framework for engineering transitions that allows decision makers to capture and investigate several alternatives for improving an engineering system.

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The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is the foundation architecture for the next generation of mobile phones, wireless-enabled PDAs, PCs, and so on, delivering multimedia content (audio, video, text, etc.) over all types of networks. It is essential for network engineers/administrators and telecommunications engineers to not only understand IMS architecture but to also be able to apply it at every stage of the network design process. This book will contain pragmatic information on how to engineer IMS networks as well as an applications oriented approach, for engineering and networking professionals who are responsible for making IMS "play" in the real world.

* Describes the convergence of wireless IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) with other networks, including wireline and cable

* Discusses building interfaces for end users and IMS applications servers

* Explores network management issues with IMS

 

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ISBN-10: 0750683880
360 Pages
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download: Code of Practice for Project Management for Construction and Development

Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 3rd Edition edition (4 Oct 2002)
Language English

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In 1991 the Chartered Institute of Building initiated a multi–institute task force and a Code of Practice for Project Management was published in 1992, with a second edition in 1996. Like previous editions, this third edition has been substantially revised to embody the results of intensive consultation between the CIOB and representatives of the professional bodies concerned with construction and development.
The Code is divided into two sections:

the first covers eight stages associated with projects from inception to completion, each one well supported with diagrams, flowcharts and checklists
the second section contains a project handbook, complete with guidance documentation and checklists.

The third edition features new guidance on:

project planning
EU procurement procedures
performance management plan

partnering
project risk assessment
environmental impact assessment

procurement options and
value for money framework.
Effective project management involves the assessment and management of risk, and this is a strong theme throughout the Code.
The Code of Practice provides an authoritative guide to the principles and practice of construction project management. It will be a key reference source for clients, contractors and professionals, irrespective of the size and nature of the project. Much of the information is also relevant to project managers in other commercial spheres.
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The code is an outstanding example of collaboration between key professional industry bodies working in a team … it represents a significant step forward … to help achieve successful outcomes for both clients and the construction industry.


I strongly recommend this valuable multi–institutional code of practice to all who are involved in construction project management and developmen

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download: Electronic Circuits: Fundamentals and Applications

Newnes

2002
ISBN: 0750653949
320 pages
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6,5 MB

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The essential textbook for students following pre-degree level courses, technician engineers, and all who need to access a straightforwardly written reference covering all the major areas of 21st century electronics.

Mike Tooley's classic reference texts Electronic Circuits Handbook and Electronics Circuits Students Handbook have long offered a unique coverage of analog and digital electronics and applications in a single volume. The two versions of this title have now been combined to produce a major textbook which combines comprehensive coverage of principles and applications with readability and ease of use.

New material on communications engineering, test and measurement and fault-finding bring the coverage up-to-date with the latest developments and reinforce the relevance of this text for a wide range of electronics courses, for maintenance and operations engineers as well as those following traditional electronics courses.

The coverage has been matched to the latest UK pre-degree syllabuses: AVCE and the new 2001/2 BTEC National specifications, as well as the relevant City&Guilds certificates and NVQ schemes. However, the book is designed as a reference text, meeting the needs of students, amateurs and professionals.

· Covers principles and applications of analog and digital electronics in one volume

· Ideal pre-degree student text

· A straightforward reference text for a wide audience of technician engineers, students and enthusiasts

 

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download : A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge

Project Management Institute
2008-12-31
ISBN: 1933890517
459 pages
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31 MB

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This Book can be usefull for all Industrial Engineers and Managers !

Besides all the criticism, I find this book very useful and a must for every project manager. However, if you are a beginner to the discipline of proejct management, first go through a basic book on project management such as 90 Days to Success as a Project Manager;the only book (for now) that is compatible with this (4th) edition of the PMBOK Guide. I am asking my students to read this book (40 days...) before reading the PMBOK Guide and after reading the PMBOK Guide. It is a well known fact that Standards in any field tend to be dry. Otherwise with the help of other books such as the one mentioned above, it can be a great entry into the discipline of project management.

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Newnes

2003
ISBN: 075065855X
576 pages
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Mathematics for Electrical Engineering and Computing embraces many applications of modern mathematics, such as Boolean Algebra and Sets and Functions, and also teaches both discrete and continuous systems - particularly vital for Digital Signal Processing (DSP). In addition, as most modern engineers are required to study software, material suitable for Software Engineering - set theory, predicate and prepositional calculus, language and graph theory - is fully integrated into the book.

Excessive technical detail and language are avoided, recognising that the real requirement for practising engineers is the need to understand the applications of mathematics in everyday engineering contexts. Emphasis is given to an appreciation of the fundamental concepts behind the mathematics, for problem solving and undertaking critical analysis of results, whether using a calculator or a computer.

The text is backed up by numerous exercises and worked examples throughout, firmly rooted in engineering practice, ensuring that all mathematical theory introduced is directly relevant to real-world engineering. The book includes introductions to advanced topics such as Fourier analysis, vector calculus and random processes, also making this a suitable introductory text for second year undergraduates of electrical, electronic and computer engineering, undertaking engineering mathematics courses.

The book is supported by a comprehensive website at http:www.bh.com/companions/075065855X, featuring:

* plotXpose software (for equation solving, and drawing graphs of simple functions, their derivatives, integrals and Fourier transforms)

* over 60 pages of "Background Mathematics" reinforcing introductory material for revision purposes in advance of your first year course

* problems and projects (linking directly to the software)

* a complete worked solutions manual (password protected)

Dr Attenborough is a former Senior Lecturer in the School of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering at South Bank University. She is currently Technical Director of The Webbery - Internet development company, Co. Donegal, Ireland.

* Fundamental principles of mathematics introduced and applied in engineering practice, reinforced through over 300 examples directly relevant to real-world engineering

* Over 60 pages of basic revision material available to download in advance of embarking on a first year course

* Companion website featuring complete solutions manual, plotXpose software, and further problems and projects enabling students to build on the concepts introduced, and put the theory into practice.

 

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download : Linear Programming, 2nd Ed

Operation Research, play a very important role in industrial engineering and management. Linear programming is a member of operation reasearch, which you need to understand it !

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Table of Contents:

Introduction / Mathematical Background / Theory of the Simplex Method / Detailed Development and Computational Aspects of the Simplex Method / Further Discussion of the Simplex Method / Resolution of the Degeneracy Problem / The Revised Simplex Method / Duality Theory and its Ramifications / Transportation Problems / Network Flows / Special Topics / Applications of Linear Programming to Industrial Problems / Applications of Linear Programming to Economic Theory / Index.

 

 

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download : Handbook of Power System Engineering

John Wiley and Sons

2007
ISBN: 0470027428
577 pages
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11,5 MB
 

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Maintaining the reliable and efficient generation, transmission and distribution of electrical power is of the utmost importance in a world where electricity is the inevitable means of energy acquisition, transportation, and utilization, and the principle mode of communicating media. Our modern society is entirely dependent on electricity, so problems involving the continuous delivery of power can lead to the disruption and breakdown of vital economic and social infrastructures.

This book brings together comprehensive technical information on power system engineering, covering the fundamental theory of power systems and their components, and the related analytical approaches.

Key features :

• Presents detailed theoretical explanations of simple power systems as an accessible basis for understanding the larger, more complex power systems.

• Examines widely the theory, practices and implementation of several power sub-systems such as generating plants, over-head transmission lines and power cable lines, sub-stations, including over-voltage protection, insulation coordination as well as power systems control and protection.

• Discusses steady-state and transient phenomena from basic power-frequency range to lightning- and switching-surge ranges, including system faults, wave-form distortion and lower-order harmonic resonance.

• Explains the dynamics of generators and power systems through essential mathematical equations, with many numerical examples.

• Analyses the historical progression of power system engineering, in particular the descriptive methods of electrical circuits for power systems.

Written by an author with a wealth of experience in the field, both in industry and academia, the Handbook of Power System Engineering provides a single reference work for practicing engineers, researchers and those working in industry that want to gain knowledge of all aspects of power systems. It is also valuable for advanced students taking courses or modules in power system engineering.

 

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