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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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- 1
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- 978-3-319-36893-1
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- XIV, 233
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- -
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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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- 1
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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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- -
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- 610.153
Toward Sustainable Operations of Supply Chain and Logistics Systems
This book addresses critical issues in today’s logistics operations and supply chain management, with a special focus on sustainability. In dedicated chapters the authors address aspects concerning multimode logistics operations, reverse network configuration, forward and reverse supply chain integration, improvement of the production operations and management of the recovery activities, as w…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-19005-1
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- XI, 550
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- EcoProduction
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Additive Manufacturing Technologies: 3D Printing, Rapid Prototyping, and Dire…
This book covers in detail the various aspects of joining materials to form parts. A conceptual overview of rapid prototyping and layered manufacturing is given, beginning with the fundamentals so that readers can get up to speed quickly. Unusual and emerging applications such as micro-scale manufacturing, medical applications, aerospace, and rapid manufacturing are also discussed. This book p…
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- Ed. 2
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- 978-1-4939-2113-3
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- XXI, 498
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- -
- Call Number
- 621 GIB a
Suspensions of Colloidal Particles and Aggregates
This book addresses the properties of particles in colloidal suspensions. It has a focus on particle aggregates and the dependency of their physical behaviour on morphological parameters. For this purpose, relevant theories and methodological tools are reviewed and applied to selected examples. The book is divided into four main chapters. The first of them introduces important measurement techn…
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- 978-3-319-30663-6
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- XXI, 341
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- Particle Technology Series
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Introduction to Transonic Aerodynamics
Written to teach students the nature of transonic flow and its mathematical foundation, this book offers a much-needed introduction to transonic aerodynamics. The authors present a quantitative and qualitative assessment of subsonic, supersonic and transonic flow around bodies in two and three dimensions. The book reviews the governing equations and explores their applications and limitations a…
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- 978-94-017-9747-4
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- -
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Surgical Tools and Medical Devices
This new edition presents information and knowledge on the field of biomedical devices and surgical tools. The authors look at the interactions between nanotechnology, nanomaterials, design, modeling, and tools for surgical and dental applications, as well as how nanostructured surfaces can be created for the purposes of improving cell adhesion between medical devices and the human body. Each o…
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- -
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- 978-3-319-33489-9
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- XX, 691
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- -
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Active Flow and Combustion Control 2014
The book reports on the latest theoretical and experimental advances in the field of active flow and combustion control. It covers new developments in actuator technology and sensing, in robust and optimal open- and closed-loop control, as well as in model reduction for control. It collects contributions presented during the third edition of the Active Flow and Combustion Control conference, he…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-11967-0
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- IX, 416
- Series Title
- Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design
- Call Number
- 530.15 ACT a
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