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Covers the fundamentals of combined-cycle plants to provide background for understanding the progressive design approaches at the heart of the textDiscusses the types of compact heat exchanger surfaces, suggesting novel designs that can be considered for optimal cost...
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Springer
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2015-11-19
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This book describes wetting fundamentals and reviews the standard protocol for contact angle measurements. The authors include a brief overview of applications of contact angle measurements in surface science and engineering. They also discuss recent advances and...
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Springer
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2015-11-18
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This book reflects and expands on the current trend in the building industry to understand, simulate and ultimately design buildings by taking into consideration the interlinked elements and forces that act on them.This approach overcomes the traditional, exclusive...
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Springer
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2015-11-12
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Human adaptation under cold or hot temperatures has always required specific fabrics for clothing. Sports or protective garment companies propose to improve performance or safety. Behind thermal comfort lays many physical/physiological topics: human thermoregulation...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2015-11-04
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This thesis offers important new insights into and a deeper understanding of premixed flame instabilities and hydrogen safety. Further, it explains the underlying mechanisms that control the combustion processes in tubes. The author’s previous scientific...
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Springer
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2015-11-03
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In this book, the author introduces the concept of unsteady aerodynamics and its underlying principles. He provides the readers with a comprehensive review of the fundamental physics of free and forced unsteadiness, the terminology and basic equations of aerodynamics...
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Springer
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2015-10-31
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This comprehensive and carefully edited volume presents a variety of experimental methods used in Shock Waves research. In 14 self contained chapters this 9th volume of the “Shock Wave Science and Technology Reference Library” presents the experimental methods used in...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-10-31
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Shock Wave Science and Technology Reference Library
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This thesis
presents a series of mechanical test methods and comprehensively investigates
the deformation and damage behavior of Cu/Pb-free solder joints under different
loading conditions. The fracture behavior of Pb-free joint interfaces induced
by stress, deformation...
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Springer
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2015-10-31
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Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Volume 4 of the Proceedings of the 2015SEM Annual Conference& Exposition onExperimental and Applied Mechanics, the fourth volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to important areas of research and...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-10-30
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The 16thInternational Symposium on MEMS and Nanotechnology, Volume 5 of the Proceedings of the 2015SEM Annual Conference& Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the fifth volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important...
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Springer
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2015-10-30
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The book offers advanced students, in 7 volumes, successively characterization tools phases, the study of all types of phase, liquid, gas and solid, pure or multi-component, process engineering, chemical and electrochemical equilibria, the properties of surfaces and...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2015-10-27
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Huge earthquakes and tsunamis have caused serious damage to important structures such as civil infrastructure elements, buildings and power plants around the globe. To quantitatively evaluate such damage processes and to design effective prevention and mitigation...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-10-26
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Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1 represents the first of nine volumes of technical papers presented at the Society for Experimental Mechanics SEM 15th International Congress & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, held at Costa Mesa, California,...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-10-23
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Comprehensively covers conventional and novel drying systems and applications, while keeping a focus on the fundamentals of drying phenomena. Presents detailed thermodynamic and heat/mass transfer analyses in a reader-friendly and easy-to-follow approach Includes case...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2015-10-22
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This SpringerBrief equips readers to develop defensible fire safety designs for a range of concrete structures. It identifies current gaps in the research and provides a more complete understanding of the structural and thermal response of contemporary Post-tensioned...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-10-19
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The book presents a series of concise papers by researchers specialized in various fields of continuum and computational mechanics and of material science.The focus is on principles and strategies for multiscale modeling and simulation of complex heterogeneous...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-10-17
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This book presents, in a self-contained fashion, a series of studies on flow and heat transfer in porous media, in which distinct energy balances are considered for the porous matrix and for the permeating fluid. Detailed mathematical modeling is presented considering...
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Springer
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2015-10-16
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This book explores the Energy Minimization Multi-scale (EMMS) theory and the drag model for heterogeneous gas-solid fluidized flows. The results show that the cluster density plays a critical role with regard to drag. A novel cluster model is proposed and indicates that...
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Springer
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2015-10-14
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This book focuses on the modeling and analysis of heat and fluid flow in microchannels and micro-systems, compiling a number of analytical and hybrid numerical-analytical solutions for models that account for the relevant micro-scale effects, with the corresponding...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-10-10
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This book provides an in-depth description of the fundamental tribological aspects of cold and hot sheet rollings. The author describes new developments in the rolling processes, the rolling oils, the rolling rolls and the structural materials resulting from sheet...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-10-05
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