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IsoGeometric Analysis: A New Paradigm in the Numerical Approximation of PDEs:…
Providing an introduction to isogeometric methods with a focus on their mathematical foundations, this book is composed of four chapters, each devoted to a topic of special interests for isogeometric methods and their theoretical understanding. It contains a tutorial on splines and generalizations that are used in CAD parametrizations, and gives an overview of geometric modeling techniques that…
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- 978-3-319-42309-8
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Essays on the History of Mechanical Engineering
This book treats several subjects from the History of Mechanism and Machine Science, and also contains an illustrative presentation of the Museum of Engines and Mechanisms of the University of Palermo, Italy, which houses a collection of various pieces of machinery from the last 150 years. The various sections deal with some eminent scientists of the past, with the history of industrial inst…
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- 978-3-319-22680-4
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- 142 b/w illustrations, 180 illustrations in colour
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Transactions on Engineering Technologies
This volume contains fifty-one revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers participating in the international conference on Advances in Engineering Technologies and Physical Science (London, UK, 2-4 July, 2014), under the World Congress on Engineering 2014 (WCE 2014). Topics covered include mechanical engineering, bioengineering, internet engineering, wireless networ…
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- 978-94-017-9803-7
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- XI, 773
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Computational methods, seismic protection, hybrid testing and resilience in e…
The book is a tribute to the research contribution of Professor Andrei Reinhorn in the field of earthquake engineering. It covers all the aspects connected to earthquake engineering starting from computational methods, hybrid testing and control, resilience and seismic protection which℗ℓhave been℗ℓthe main research topics in the field of earthquake engineering in the last 30 years. Thes…
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- xiii, 329 pages ; 25 cm.
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- 624.176
Sustainable Development, Knowledge Society and Smart Future Manufacturing Tec…
The book contributes to a better understanding of the role of knowledge societies in achieving sustainability. It is based on the conference with the same title held in Riga, which brought together experts from Europe and the rest of the world. The book highlights sustainable development in relation to the knowledge society and smart future manufacturing technologies, and it helps provide a bet…
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- 978-3-319-14883-0
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- XVI, 341
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- World Sustainability Series
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Towards Ultrasound-guided Spinal Fusion Surgery
This thesis describes the design and fabrication of ultrasound probes for pedicle screw guidance. The author details the fabrication of a 2MHz radial array for a pedicle screw insertion eliminating the need for manual rotation of the transducer. He includes radial images obtained from successive groupings of array elements in various fluids. He also examines the manner in which it can affect ul…
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- 978-3-319-29831-3
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- XIII, 95
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- Springer Theses
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Towards Functional Safety in Drive-by-Wire Vehicles
This book presents approaches to address key challenges based on a vehicle level view and with a special emphasis on Drive-by-Wire systems. The design and testing of modern vehicle electronics are becoming more and more demanding due to increasing interdependencies among components and the safety criticality of tasks. The development towards Drive-by-Wire functionalities in vehicles with multip…
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- 978-3-319-36893-1
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- XIV, 233
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Towards Cognitive Cities
This book introduces the readers to the new concept of cognitive cities. It demonstrates why cities need to become cognitive and why therefore a concept of cognitive city is needed. It highlights the main building blocks of cognitive cities and illustrates the concept by various cases. Following a concise introductory chapter the book features nine chapters illustrating various aspects and dime…
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- 978-3-319-33798-2
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- XVII, 215
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- Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
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Sustainable Automotive Technologies 2014
This volume collects the research papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Sustainable Automotive Technologies (ICSAT), Gothenburg, 2014. The topical focus lies on latest advances in vehicle technology related to sustainable mobility. ICSAT is the core and state-of-the-art conference in the field of new technologies for transportation. Research contributions from the US, Australi…
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- 978-3-319-17999-5
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- IX, 237
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- Lecture Notes in Mobility
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Recent Advances in Computational Methods and Clinical Applications for Spine …
This book contains the full papers presented at the MICCAI 2014 workshop on Computational Methods and Clinical Applications for Spine Imaging. The workshop brought together scientists and clinicians in the field of computational spine imaging. The chapters included in this book present and discuss the new advances and challenges in these fields, using several methods and techniques in order to …
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- 978-3-319-14148-0
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