Cement based composites: Materials, Mechanical Properties and Performance

EBook Description: This book considers the properties and behaviour of cement-based materials from the point of view of composite science and technology. It deals particularly with newer forms of cement-based materials and also with a composite approach to conventional materials and their special properties. Emphasis is put on non-conventional reinforcement and design methods, problems at interfaces in the materials and on durability of structures made with them.

With a successful first edition, the popularity of the book will continue in its revision as it incorporates a chapter on Finite Elements, and new problems including Matlab and Mathcad problems.

Guidelines for Mechanical Integrity Systems

In recent years, process safety management system compliance audits have revealed that organizations often have significant opportunities for improving their Mechanical Integrity programs. As part of the Center for Chemical Process Safety's Guidelines series, Guidelines for Mechanical Integrity Systems provides practitioners a basic familiarity of mechanical integrity concepts and best practices. The book recommends efficient approaches for establishing a successful MI program.

Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People

Nature often comes up with simpler solutions to engineering problems than do human engineers. Does that mean that nature's technology is superior? Arguing that nature can be improved upon, Vogel's comparison of biological and human-made technologies shows how and why.

Materials Selection in Mechanical Design

Describes procedures for materials selection in mechanical design, allowing the most suitable materials for a given application to be identified from the full range of materials and section shapes available.

New materials enable advances in engineering design. This book describes a procedure for material selection in mechanical design, allowing the most suitable materials for a given application to be identified from the full range of materials and section shapes available. A novel approach is adopted not found anywhere else.

Materials are introduced through their properties; materials selection charts (a new development) capture the important features of all materials, allowing rapid retrieval of information and application of selection techniques. Merit indices, combined with charts, allow optimisation of the materials selection process. Sources of material property data are reviewed and approaches to their use are given. Material processing and its influence on the design are discussed. The book closes with chapters on aesthetics and industrial design. Case studies are developed as a method of illustrating the procedure and as a way of developing the ideas further.

Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, Second Edition

The leading text for materials selection in engineering

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"Well presented and clear with lots of other references."

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Combined Quantum Mechanical and Molecular Mechanical Methods

Combined quantum mechanical and molecular mechanical methods is one of the most promising approaches for quantum mechanical calculations of chemical processes in solution and in enzymes. This book provides an in-depth survey of the methods and applications of these combined techniques in chemistry and biochemistry.
Description Combined quantum mechanical and molecular mechanical methods is one of the most promising approaches for quantum mechanical calculations of chemical processes in solution and in enzymes. This book provides an in-depth survey of the methods and applications of these combined techniques in chemistry and biochemistry.
The November 1997 symposium drew scientists from several industrialized countries to Las Vegas to describe how they can tremendously simplify the study of chemical structures and reactions in solution and in enzymes by subjecting the smaller solute part of the system to quantum mechanics and the remainder solvent to classical force field. They discuss such aspects as treating link atoms in hybrid methods, dual-level methods for electronic structure calculations of potential energy functions that use quantum mechanics as the lower level, generalized molecular mechanics including quantum electronic structure variations of polar solvents, applying linear- scaling electronic structure methods to the study of the polarization of proteins and DNA in solutions, and exciting green fluorescent protein. The text is reproduced from typescripts, some of which are double-spaced.

Mechanisms And Mechanical Devices Sourcebook, 3 Edition

2,501 mechanisms and mechanical devices � at your fingertips!

A one-of-a-kind pictorial directory, Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook, Third Edition, gives you drawings and descriptions of time-tested components, mechanisms, and devices. A carefully compiled index lets you quickly find a specific component which may very well be the exact problem-solving answer you�ve been seeking. You can count on this guide to help you:

* Recycle successful mechanical inventions into new products, with or without modifications
* Design basic mechanisms from scratch with a chapter of tutorial text and formulas
* Save time researching patents
* Get a refresher on the design and function of bearings, belts, brakes, clutches, couplings, cranks, feeders, gears, genevas, joints, latches, linkages, pumps, screws, springs, and switches
Stay on top of present and future trends in mechanical engineering and machine design, with up-to-date treatments of motion control systems; 2D and 3D CAD software; industrial robots and rapid prototyping (RP) systems; recent research and spinoffs of MEMS technology.

Mechanical Engineering Systems

Content matched to requirements of IIE and other BSc Engineering and Technology courses Practical text featuring worked examples, case studies, assignments and knowledge-check questions throughout.Maths in Action panels introduce key mathematical methods in their engineering contextsBreadth of coverage to enable tutors to tailor the book's use to suite their particular syllabus. A core text for first year modules in Mechanical Engineering offering student-centred learning based in real-life engineering practice.

Mechanical Engineering Systems provides all the essential information an engineering student needs in preparation for real-life engineering practice. The authors take a uniquely student-centred approach to the subject, with easily accessible material introduced through case studies, assignments and knowledge-check questions.

This book is carefully designed to be used on a wide range of introductory courses at first degree and HND level. The interactive style of the book brings the subjects to life with activities and case studies rather than devoting hundreds of pages to theory. Key numerical and statistical techniques are introduced through Maths in Action panels located within the main text. The content has been carefully matched to a variety of first year degree modules from IEng and other BSc Engineering and Technology courses. Lecturers will find the breadth of material covered gears the book towards a flexible style of use, which can be tailored to their syllabus.

The Lumbar Spine Mechanical Diagnosis & Therapy 2 Volume Set

The Lumbar Spine: Mechanical Diagnosis & Therapy by Robin McKenzie and Stephen May has been revised and expanded into a two volume tome with a foreward by Nikolai Bogduk, MD, PhD, DSc. New 'evidence-based' chapters present intervertebral disc pathology, updated techniques, stream-lined classification system and revised management for derangement syndromes.

Mechanical Design Handbook

Optimize the efficiency and reliability of machines and mechanical systems
Totally redesigned to meet today's mechanical design challenges, this classic handbook provides a practical overview of the complex principles and data associated with the design and control of dynamic mechanical systems.
New Chapters on continuous control systems, digital control systems, and optical systems
Covers power transmission and control subsystems

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