Engineering category: 12393 books
The Advances in Civil Engineering Materials
Selected Papers of the ICACE 2018 held in Batu Ferringhi, Penang Malaysia on 9th -10th May 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
This volume presents a compilation of research works in civil engineering. All manuscripts in this volume were presented during the 2nd International Conference on Architecture and Civil Engineering (ICACE 2018) which was held at Parkroyal Hotel, Penang, Malaysia on 09–10 May 2018. The editor(s)...
by Kam Tim Chau
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
This second of two comprehensive reference texts on differential equations continues coverage of the essential material students they are likely to encounter in solving engineering and mechanics problems across the field - alongside a preliminary volume on theory.
This book covers a very broad...
Heat Transfer to Non-Newtonian Fluids
Fundamentals and Analytical Expressions
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book has been written with the idea of providing the fundamentals for those who are interested in the field of heat transfer to non-Newtonian fluids. It is well recognized that non-Newtonian fluids are encountered in a number of transport processes and estimation of the heat transfer characteristics...
by Paul E Harris
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
A user guide and training manual written for Project Management Professionals who wish to learn how to set up a database and plan and control projects using Primavera P6 with or without Resources and Roles. The book is aimed at: Project management companies who wish to run their own software training...
Pushing the Limits
New Adventures in Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America’s poet laureate of technology. **Pushing the Limits **celebrates some of the largest things we have created–bridges, dams, buildings--and provides a startling new vision of engineering’s...
Engineering Nature
Water, Development, and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Focusing on globalization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jessica Teisch examines the processes by which American water and mining engineers who rose to prominence during and after the California Gold Rush of 1849 exported the United States' growing technical and environmental...
The Tinkerers
The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Having completed her transition from a manufacturing economy, America – it is said – has stopped making things. When there are breakthroughs in engineering and design, it’s usually thanks to a team of corporate researchers trying to squeeze out more profit. But once upon a time, the United States...
by Andrew Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
This book is an introduction to oil and gas designed to be both accessible to absolute beginners who know nothing about the subject, and at the same time interesting to people who work in one area (such as drilling or seismic exploration) and would like to know about other areas (such as production...
Connexions
The Unseen Hand of Tony Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Tony Hunt spent the six decades of his professional and personal life interacting with the élite in the fields of engineering, architecture and industrial design – this is his story. His life and career are described, showing how he formed lasting relationships with architects, patrons, artists,...
by Paul Anthony Russell, E A Stokoe
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This textbook covers ship construction techniques and methods for all classes of Merchant Navy marine deck and engineering Certificates of Competency (CoC) as well as Undergraduate students studying Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. It is complementary to Volume 4 (Naval Architecture) and...
by Sharon Reier
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
New York City boasts more spectacular bridges than any other city in the world. From the Gothic stone arches and gossamer steel webbing of the Brooklyn Bridge (perhaps the greatest engineering achievement of the 19th century), to the Verrazano-Narrows — the world's longest suspension bridge when...
Engineers for Change
Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
An account of conflicts within engineering in the 1960s that helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history.
In the late 1960s an eclectic group of engineers joined the antiwar and civil rights activists of the time in agitating for change....
by James M. Gere, Stephen P. Timoshenko
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
The best available guide to the elastic stability of large structures, this book introduces the principles and theory of structural stability. It was co-authored by the father of modern engineering mechanics, Stephen Timoshenko, and James Gere, who updated the materials and worked closely with Dr....
by Rebecca Richards-Kortum
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Can technology and innovation transform world health? Connecting undergraduate students with global problems, Rebecca Richards-Kortum examines the interplay between biomedical technology design and the medical, regulatory, economic, social and ethical issues surrounding global health. Driven by case...