Digital Storage Oscilloscopes
Ian Hickman “Digital Storage Oscilloscopes" Newnes | 1997-01-15 | ISBN:0750628561 | 160 pages | PDF | 14,4 Mb
Digital storage oscilloscopes have long since completely supplanted analog storage oscilloscopes and have reached a degree of sophistication and performance which enable them to rival the most advanced real time oscilloscopes. In this comprehensive handbook, which provides a practical vade mecum for the engineer, Ian Hickman describes how they work and how to use them to best advantage.
A wide range of models is available. This book includes a guide to all makes and models and will be best kept beside the instrument for instant reference. It will also be a most helpful guide to the subject for students and trainees. Ian Hickman is an experienced designer and author of best-selling titles including 'Oscilloscopes: How to Use Them, How They Work', Newnes Practical Radio Frequency Handbook', 'Analog Electronics' and 'Analog Circuits Cookbook'.
Design and Optimization of Thermal Systems
Yogesh Jaluria “Design and Optimization of Thermal Systems, Second Edition" CRC | 2007-12-13 | ISBN:0849337534 | 752 pages | PDF | 4,8 Mb
Thermal systems play an increasingly symbiotic role alongside mechanical systems in varied applications spanning materials processing, energy conversion, pollution, aerospace, and automobiles. Responding to the need for a flexible, yet systematic approach to designing thermal systems across such diverse fields, Design and Optimization of Thermal Systems, Second Edition provides hands-on guidance needed to solve practical and progressively complex design problems.
This bookoffers a thorough examination of basic concepts and procedures for conceptual design, formulation, modeling, simulation, feasible design, and optimization. The chapters encompass traditional as well as emerging techniques, featuring timely and compelling examples to demonstrate the range of potential problems and available solutions that readers may apply to their own needs.
Maintaining its emphasis on mathematical modeling and simulation techniques, this revised edition offers extended coverage on manufacturability,material selection, and sensitivity. It includes new material on genetic and gradient search methods and highlights significant trends such as knowledge-based design methodology. This edition also updates and enhances its coverage of important economic, safety, security, and environmental aspects and considerations.
Concrete
P. Kumar Mehta, Paulo J.M. Monteiro “Concrete" McGraw-Hill Professional | 2005-09-26 | ISBN:0071462899 | 659 pages | PDF | 8,5 Mb
This textbook presents the art and science of concrete in a simple, clear, hands-on manner, focusing on the following: Cement and concrete are predicted to be the premier building material of the 21st Century; Includes unique diagrams, photographs, and summary tables; Updated to include new chapters on non-destructive methods for concrete; future challenges in concrete technology; an increased number of examples of concrete applications; and new developments in durability.
Case Studies in Engineering Design
Cliff Matthews “Case Studies in Engineering Design" Butterworth-Heinemann | 1998-06-26 | ISBN:0340691352 | 272 pages | PDF | 12,7 Mb
A multidisciplinary introduction to engineering design using real-life case studies.
Case Studies in Engineering Design provides students and practising engineers with many practical and accessible case studies which are representative of situations engineers face in professional life, and which incorporate a range of engineering disciplines.
Fundamentals of Thermophotovoltaic Energy Conversion
Donald Chubb “Fundamentals of Thermophotovoltaic Energy Conversion" Elsevier Science | 2007-06-22 | ISBN:0444527214 | 530 pages | PDF | 2,8 Mb
This is a text book presenting the fundamentals of thermophotovoltaic(TPV) energy conversion suitable for an upper undergraduate or first year graduate course. In addition it can serve as a reference or design aid for engineers developing TPV systems. Mathematica design programs for interference filters and a planar TPV system are included on a CD-Rom disk. Each chapter includes a summary and concludes with a set of problems.
Aerodynamics of Wind Turbines
Martin O. L. Hansen “Aerodynamics of Wind Turbines" Earthscan Publications Ltd. | 2008-01 | ISBN:1844074382 | 224 pages | PDF | 2,7 Mb
Aerodynamics of Wind Turbines is the established essential text for the fundamental solutions to efficient wind turbine design. Now in its second edition, it has been entirely updated and substantially extended to reflect advances in technology, research into rotor aerodynamics and the structural response of the wind turbine structure.
Topics covered include increasing mass flow through the turbine, performance at low and high wind speeds, assessment of the extreme conditions under which the turbine will perform and the theory for calculating the lifetime of the turbine. The classical Blade Element Momentum method is also covered, as are eigenmodes and the dynamic behavior of a turbine. The new material includes a description of the effects of the dynamics and how this can be modeled in an aeroelastic code, which is widely used in the design and verification of modern wind turbines. Further, the description of how to calculate the vibration of the whole construction as well as the time varying loads has been substantially updated.
This is the essential reference for both engineering students and others with a professional or academic interest in the physics and technologies behind horizontal axis wind turbines.
