Crc Press imprint: 4124 books
Human Factors Challenges in Emergency Management
Enhancing Individual and Team Performance in Fire and Emergency Services
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This book provides an overview of state-of-the-art research that has been conducted within Australia, funded by the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre. The chapters source and contextualize their own research practice within the context of the international research literature. Therefore, while...
Resilience Engineering Perspectives, Volume 2
Preparation and Restoration
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Preparation and Restoration is the second volume of Resilience Engineering Perspectives within the Ashgate Studies in Resilience Engineering series. In four sections, it broadens participation of the field to include policy and organization studies, and articulates aspects of resilience beyond initial...
The ETTO Principle: Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off
Why Things That Go Right Sometimes Go Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Accident investigation and risk assessment have for decades focused on the human factor, particularly 'human error'. Countless books and papers have been written about how to identify, classify, eliminate, prevent and compensate for it. This bias towards the study of performance failures, leads to...
Handbook of RAMS in Railway Systems
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
The Handbook of RAMS in Railway Systems: Theory and Practice addresses the complexity in today's railway systems, which use computers and electromechanical components to increase efficiency while ensuring a high level of safety. RAM (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability) addresses the specifications...
Smart Grids
Clouds, Communications, Open Source, and Automation
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
The utilization of sensors, communications, and computer technologies to create greater efficiency in the generation, transmission, distribution, and consumption of electricity will enable better management of the electric power system. As the use of smart grid technologies grows, utilities will be...
by José Manuel Torres Farinha
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The book aims to be reading for asset maintenance management in a perspective of whole life cycle of any type of physical asset.It deals with acquisition management, including econometric models to evaluate its life cycle, and the maintenance policies to adopt during its life until withdrawal. It...
by Lawrence A. Klein
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
An intelligent transportation system (ITS) offers considerable opportunities for increasing the safety, efficiency, and predictability of traffic flow and reducing vehicle emissions. Sensors (or detectors) enable the effective gathering of arterial and controlled-access highway information in support...
by Catherine M. Burns, John Hajdukiewicz
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Ecological Interface Design delivers the techniques and examples that provide you with a foundation to succeed in designing advanced display graphics. The opening chapters introduce the "art" of interface design by exposing the analytical methods behind designs, the most common graphical...
A Life in Error
From Little Slips to Big Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This succinct but absorbing book covers the main way stations on James Reason’s 40-year journey in pursuit of the nature and varieties of human error. In it he presents an engrossing and very personal perspective, offering the reader exceptional insights, wisdom and wit as only James Reason can....
by David D. Woods, Sidney Dekker, Richard Cook
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Human error is cited over and over as a cause of incidents and accidents. The result is a widespread perception of a 'human error problem', and solutions are thought to lie in changing the people or their role in the system. For example, we should reduce the human role with more automation, or regiment...
Resilience Engineering in Practice
A Guidebook
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Resilience engineering has since 2004 attracted widespread interest from industry as well as academia. Practitioners from various fields, such as aviation and air traffic management, patient safety, off-shore exploration and production, have quickly realised the potential of resilience engineering...
Beyond Command and Control
Leadership, Culture and Risk
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This book will advance the understanding of leadership beyond the inherited myths and modalities of command and control. Leadership is separated from ideas and institutional seniority and explained as the collaborative power of one with others. Enabling the intelligent co-participation of all people,...
Nanocellulose and Sustainability
Production, Properties, Applications, and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Nanometre scale cellulose fibres, or nanocellulose, are emerging materials for various advanced applications. Nanocellulose and Sustainability: Production, Properties, Applications, and Case Studies provides a comprehensive overview of nanocellulose production, nanocellulose properties and nanocellulose...
by Hemchandra Madhusudan Shertukde
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
The demand for alternative energy sources fuels the need for electric power and controls engineers to possess a practical understanding of transformers suitable for solar energy. Meeting that need, Distributed Photovoltaic Grid Transformers begins by explaining the basic theory behind transformers...