Load Testing of Bridges - Proof Load Testing and the Future of Load Testing - Eva Lantsoght

Load Testing of Bridges, featuring contributions from almost fifty authors from around the world across two interrelated volumes, deals with the practical aspects, the scientific developments, and the international views on the topic of load testing of bridges. Volume 13, Load Testing of Bridges: Proof Load Testing and the Future of Load Testing, focuses first on proof load testing of bridges. It discusses the specific aspects of proof load testing during the preparation, execution, and post-processing..

Load Testing of Bridges - Current Practice and Diagnostic Load Testing - Eva Lantsoght

Load Testing of Bridges, featuring contributions from almost fifty authors from around the world across two interrelated volumes, deals with the practical aspects, the scientific developments, and the international views on the topic of load testing of bridges. Volume 12, Load Testing of Bridges: Current practice and Diagnostic Load Testing, starts with a background to bridge load testing, including the historical perspectives and evolutions, and the current codes and guidelines that are governing..

Fundamentals of Ultrasonic Testing - Chunguang Xu

Focusing on the theory and state-of-the-art technologies of ultrasonic testing (UT), this book examines ultrasonic propagation in solids and its detection applications, and explores the intersection of UT technology with various fields of electromagnetics, optics and physics.UT is one of the most widely used nondestructive testing techniques due to its high performance in terms of detection efficiency and safety. The rapid development of modern industrial products and technologies has created a new..

Induction Machines Handbook - Transients, Control Principles, Design and Testing - Ion Boldea

Induction Machines Handbook: Transients, Control Principles, Design and Testing presents a practical up-to-date treatment of intricate issues with induction machines (IM) required for design and testing in both rather constant- and variable-speed (with power electronics) drives. It contains ready-to-use industrial design and testing knowledge, with numerous case studies to facilitate a thorough assimilation of new knowledge.Individual Chapters 1 through 14 discuss in detail the following: Three-..

Heat Exchangers - Mechanical Design, Materials Selection, Nondestructive Testing, and Manufacturing Methods - Kuppan Thulukkanam

Heat Exchangers: Mechanical Design, Materials Selection, Nondestructive Testing, and Manufacturing Methods, Third Edition covers mechanical design of pressure vessels and shell and tube heat exchangers, including bolted flange joint design, as well as selection of a wide spectrum of materials for heat exchanger construction, their physical properties, corrosion behavior, and fabrication methods like welding.Discussing the basics of quality control, the book includes ISO Standards for QMS, and references..

This book focuses on the development of exoskeletons, using modern design tools such as CAD, CAE and CAM software to aid engineers in choosing materials and designing the product, in testing, prototyping, manufacturing and industrial development.

Concrete Materials and Technology - Kambiz Janamian

Starting with the basics, Concrete Materials and Technology: A Practical Guide examines the production and chemistry of cement, as well as the different types and their applications. Quality control processes and numerous methods for testing are presented and explained in detail.

Wearable Brain-Computer Interfaces - Pasquale Arpaia

This book presents a complete overview of the main EEG-based Brain-Computer paradigms and the related practical solutions for their design, prototyping, and testing. The book explores active, reactive, and passive BCI paradigms, with a particular emphasis on the operation for developing solutions, addressing the need for customization.

Sustainable Summer Fodder - Production, Challenges, and Prospects - Imran Ul Haq

Increasing human population pressure, especially in developing countries, indicates a massive increase in the consumption of livestock products. Fodder crops are the primary and cheapest source of feed for livestock, but feed shortages or poor-quality fodder are particular constraints to the world's livestock sector. These shortages affect milk production, adult and calf health, calving rates, and livestock numbers. Summer crops including cereal, legume, grass, and tree fodder, provide an economical..

Sustainable Summer Fodder - Production, Challenges, and Prospects - Imran Ul Haq

Increasing human population pressure, especially in developing countries, indicates a massive increase in the consumption of livestock products. Fodder crops are the primary and cheapest source of feed for livestock, but feed shortages or poor-quality fodder are particular constraints to the world's livestock sector. These shortages affect milk production, adult and calf health, calving rates, and livestock numbers. Summer crops including cereal, legume, grass, and tree fodder, provide an economical..

Nanofluids Technology for Thermal Sciences and Engineering - Research, Development, and Applications - Mukesh Kumar Awasthi

The text highlights how nanofluids can be used in thermal solutions across multiple industries, including electronics, energy, and manufacturing. It emphasizes the enhanced heat transfer properties of nanofluids and their potential to significantly improve the efficiency of heat exchange processes. The book discusses topics such as nanoparticle synthesis, nanofluid testing, performance enhancement using nanofluids, thermal behavior of hybrid nanofluids, Brinkman Equation in Nanofluids and Safety..

Electromagnetic Wave Absorption and Shielding Materials - Wei Lu

The book reveals the latest research findings and innovations in electromagnetic wave absorption and shielding by exploring the design and application of absorbent materials, the optimization of shielding structures and the improvement of testing and evaluation methods.From conductive materials to magnetic materials and from composite materials to nanomaterials, the book details the characteristics and advantages of various absorbent materials and explains their applications in electromagnetic wave..

Design of High-Performance Pre-Engineered Steel Concrete Composite Beams for Sustainable Construction - Ming-Shan Zhao

This accessible and practical shortform book details the properties and advantages of high-performance pre-engineered steel-concrete composite beams (HPCBs) for improving the sustainability of construction techniques and explains the analysis methods for testing HPCB systems.The authors describe a new HPCB system that has been developed to reduce the input of raw materials and embodied CO2 commonly associated with heavily loaded and long spanned industrial buildings (which predominately comprise..

Predictive Analytics for Toxicology - Applications in Discovery Science - Luis Gilbert Valerio Jr

Predictive data science is already in use in many fields, but its application in toxicology is new and sought after by non-animal alternative testing initiatives. Predictive Analytics for Toxicology: Applications in Discovery Science provides a comprehensive overview of the application of predictive analytics in the field of toxicology, highlighting its role and applications in discovery science.This book addresses the challenges of accurately predicting high-level endpoints of toxicity and explores..

The past decades have transformed the world of statistical data analysis, with new methods, new types of data, and new computational tools. Modern Statistics with R introduces you to key parts of this modern statistical toolkit. It teaches you: Data wrangling - importing, formatting, reshaping, merging, and filtering data in R. Exploratory data analysis - using visualisations and multivariate techniques to explore datasets. Statistical inference - modern methods for testing hypotheses and computing..

User Experience Methods and Tools in Human-Computer Interaction - Constantine Stephanidis

This book covers user experience methods and tools in designing user-friendly products and services, by encompassing widely utilized successful methods, including: elicitation, analysis and establishment of requirements, collaborative idea generation with design teams and intended users, prototype testing and evaluation of the user experience through empirical and non-empirical means. It: - Provides methods and tools tailored for each stage of the design process.- Discusses methods for the active..

Sensory Evaluation Techniques - Gail Vance Civille

The sixth edition of this classic text brings sensory evaluation to life for new students and experienced professionals alike. A full array of sensory methods is covered - including descriptive techniques, discrimination testing, and consumer research, plus guidance on test design, statistical analysis, and how to translate results into insights for actionable decisions. Like its predecessors, Sensory Evaluation Techniques, Sixth Edition gives a clear and concise presentation of practical solutions,..

Rock dynamics has become one of the most important topics in the field of rock mechanics and rock engineering, and involves a wide variety of topics, from earthquake engineering, blasting, impacts, failure of rock engineering structures as well as the occurrence and prediction of earthquakes, induced seismicity, rock bursts to non-destructive testing and explorations. Rock dynamics has wide applications in civil and infrastructural, resources and energy, geological and environmental engineering,..

The past decades have transformed the world of statistical data analysis, with new methods, new types of data, and new computational tools. Modern Statistics with R introduces you to key parts of this modern statistical toolkit. It teaches you: Data wrangling - importing, formatting, reshaping, merging, and filtering data in R. Exploratory data analysis - using visualisations and multivariate techniques to explore datasets. Statistical inference - modern methods for testing hypotheses and computing..

Product Fit and Sizing - Sustainable Product Evaluation, Engineering, and Design - Kathleen M Robinette

In this book, for the first time, the complexity of assessing fit and using fittings in the product design process is addressed from a scientific and systems engineering perspective. It includes: methods to represent the anthropometry of the target market, good practices to develop protocols for more reliable and consistent fit testing, methods for developing and maintaining a fit database, comprehensive statistical analyses needed for fit and sizing analysis, and instructions for selecting and modeling..

Handbook of Adaptive Optics - From Foundations to Applications - Enrique Josua Fernandez

Adaptive Optics (AO) is a technique allowing the manipulation of the wavefront of the light benefitting multiple fields like Microscopy, Optical Coherence Tomography, Visual Testing, Optical Communications, and Astronomical Optics, just to mention some examples. Handbook of Adaptive Optics contains a complete picture of the technique from the foundations to the most promising applications of AO in a variety of fields.Within this book, the reader will find different sections, including: a complete..

Mycotoxins in Food and Beverages - Innovations and Advances, Part II - Didier Montet

Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites produced by fungi in a wide range of foods (cereals, peanut, tree nuts, dried fruits, coffee, cocoa, grapes, spices...) both in the field and after harvest, particularly during storage. They can also be found in processed foods of plant origin, or by transfer, in food products of animal (milk, eggs, meat and offal). Mycotoxins are of major concern since they can cause acute or chronic intoxications in both humans and animals which are sometimes fatal. Many countries,..

Mycotoxins in Food and Beverages - Innovations and Advances Part I - Didier Montet

Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites produced by fungi in a wide range of foods (cereals, peanut, tree nuts, dried fruits, coffee, cocoa, grapes, spices...) both in the field and after harvest, particularly during storage. They can also be found in processed foods of plant origin, or by transfer, in food products of animal (milk, eggs, meat and offal). Mycotoxins are of major concern since they can cause acute or chronic intoxications in both humans and animals which are sometimes fatal. Many countries,..

Power Cable Technology - Sushil Kumar Ganguli

Power Cable Technology provides a precise understanding of the design, manufacture, installation, and testing of a range of electric power cables--from low-voltage, 1,000/1,100V cables to extra-high-voltage, 400kV cables--with reference to future trends in the industry. The authors' mantra is: know your cable. Thus, the book begins with a comprehensive overview of power cable design and manufacturing through the ages, and then: Describes the characteristics of the materials currently used in the..

Web Hacking Arsenal - A Practical Guide to Modern Web Pentesting - Rafay Baloch

In the digital age, where web applications form the crux of our interconnected existence, Web Hacking Arsenal: A Practical Guide To Modern Web Pentesting emerges as an essential guide to mastering the art and science of web application pentesting. This book, penned by an expert in the field, ventures beyond traditional approaches, offering a unique blend of real-world penetration testing insights and comprehensive research. It's designed to bridge the critical knowledge gaps in cybersecurity, equipping..