The Institute of Materials, 1993. — 217 p. — (European Federation of Corrosion Publications Number 10). — ISBN: 0-901716-33-2. This book is part of a series of books published by the European Federation of Corrosion (EFC). European Federation of Corrosion was founded in 1955 with the purpose of promoting European co-operation in the fields of research into corrosion and...
3rd Edition. — CRC Press, 2014. — 460 p. — ISBN 978-1-4822-4169-3. Technology and economics are two areas that have the capacity to transform our world. Petroleum technology from the engineering point of view is subject of this book, along with economic analysis. Technology is the great enabler that has made exploration for oil more effective, drilling more efficient, and...
MDPI, 2019. – 144 p. – ISBN: 978-3-03897-627-1. Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Micromachines. Micro-resonators have reached a distinctive level of maturity due to the accumulated wealth of knowledge on their design, modeling, and manufacturing during the past few decades. Alongside this tremendous scientific progress, micro-resonators are now commonly found in...
Springer, 2020. — 190 p. — (Advances in Oil and Gas Exploration & Production). — ISBN 978-3-030-32947-1. This book examines the effects of incoherent noise and how it leads to the misinterpretation of seismic data. It also reviews common noise reduction approaches and their drawbacks, focusing on developments that have occurred in the past decade. The main features of this book...
Springer, 2019. — 152 p. — ISBN: 978-3-658-25147-5. Omar Abu Mohareb proposes a novel dynamic inductor control (DIC) that can be generally applied to various DC DC converter types. The aim is to improve the converter efficiency throughout controlling the inductance value at all operating points without consequential complexity or increase in the inductor cost and size. The...
Adamo C.B., Flacker A., Freitas W., Teixeira R.C., da Silva M.O., Rotondaro A.L.P.. Journal of Integrated Circuits and Systems. — Vol. 10, No. 1, 2015. — pp. 21-29. Multi-chip Module (MCM) is a technology that can be applied to silicon and alumina modules allowing advantages in the integration complexity. This paper reports a MCM-D (D for deposition) technology suitable to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 207 p. — ISBN: 978-1-137-52696-0. Winner – CMI Management Book of the Year 2017 – The Commuter’s Read category. Culture is the game changer. Get the culture right, and a company and its people thrive. Miss the mark, and you lose. Culture is the set of values that drive the thinking and the actions of an organization and its people day in and day out....
Springer, 2018. — 72 p. — ISBN: 978-981-10-5290-3. This book introduces some alternative methods for enhancing the performance of In(Ga)As/GaAs-based quantum dot infrared photodetectors (QDIPs). In(Ga)As/GaAs-based QDIPs and focal plane array (FPA) cameras have wide application in fields such as military and space science. The core of the study uses a combination of quaternary...
MDPI, 2020. — 425 p. — ISBN: 978-3-03928-409-2. This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Human Health Engineering that was published in Applied Sciences. In this Special Issue on human health engineering, we invited submissions exploring recent contributions to the field of human health engineering, which is the technology used for monitoring the physical or mental...
2nd Edition. — Elsevier, 2015. — 780 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-801363-2. Physics and Engineering of Radiation Detection presents an overview of the physics of radiation detection and its applications. It covers the origins and properties of different kinds of ionizing radiation, their detection and measurement, and the procedures used to protect people and the environment from their...
Woodhead Publishing Limited, 2010. — 777 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84569-978-9. Geological disposal has been internationally adopted as the most effective approach to assure the long-term, safe disposition of the used nuclear fuels and radioactive waste materials produced from nuclear power generation, nuclear weapons programs, medical, treatments, and industrial applications....
2nd Edition. — John Wiley & Sons, 1994. — 516 p. — ISBN: 0-471-59168-8. Using a systems perspective, this updated version concentrates on the planning, scheduling and control factors of a project needed to bring it in on time and on or under cost. This edition contains expanded coverage of computer simulation and applications, information management and expert systems in...
Elsevier / Woodhead Publishing, 2015. — 626 p. — (Woodhead Publishing in Materials Series). — ISBN: 978-0-85709-217-5. This book provides an overview of the fabrication methods for anti-abrasive nanocoatings. The connections among fabrication parameters, the characteristics of nanocoatings and the resulting properties (i.e. nanohardness, toughness, wear rate, load-bearing...
Springer, 2024. — 517 p. — (Advances in Oil and Gas Exploration & Production). — ISBN 978-3-031-50437-2. This book demonstrates different stages of hydrocarbon deposit localization in a tectonically complex region—the South Caspian Mega-Basin (SCMB). Each of the stages: tectonics, sedimentation, lithology, structural analysis, and geophysical method application is described in...
IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology. — Part B, Vol. 21, No. 1, Feb 1998. — pp. 2-14. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art in three-dimensional (3-D) packaging technology for very large scale integration (VLSI). A number of bare dice and multichip module (MCM) stacking technologies are emerging to meet the ever increasing demands for low...
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Adaptive Science & Technology (ICAST 2009). — Accra, Ghana, 14-16 Jan. 2009. — pp. 146-153. The development of new high temperature electronics (HTE)/systems is the key to achieving high reliability safety critical operations in aerospace, automotive and well-logging applications. Reliability issues associated with the...
2nd Edition. – Wiley, 2002. – 422 p. – ISBN: 0-470-49871-8. ESD in Silicon Integrated Circuits Ajith Amerasekera Charvaka Duvvury Texas Instruments Inc, Dallas, USA Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) effects in silicon integrated circuits have become a major concern as today's high circuit density technologies shrink to sub-micro dimensions. This book provides an understanding of...
Springer, 2018. — 246 p. — ISBN: 978-981-13-2257-0. This edited work presents useful methods in experimenting in the area of Bioprocessing and Biotechnology. The four sections cover the area of Bioprocess, Whole Cells & Isolated Biocatalyst, Characterization of Biochemical Products and Cell Isolation & Culture. Its enable researchers to choose a suitable method and plan their...
Scrivener Publishing / Wiley, 2019. — 315 p. — (Sustainable Energy Engineering Series). — ISBN: 978-1-119-55569-8. Hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) has been a source of both achievement and controversy for years, and it continues to be a hot-button issue all over the world. It has made the United States an energy exporting country once again and kept the price of gasoline...
CRC Press, 2009. — 432 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4200-6630-2. During the upgrading of heavy petroleum, asphaltene is the most problematic impurity since it is the main cause of catalyst deactivation and sediments formation. Exploring many aspects related to asphaltenes composition and conversion, Asphaltenes: Chemical Transformation during Hydroprocessing of Heavy Oils highlights the...
CRC Press, 2019. — 166 p. — ISBN: 978-1-138-38999-1. The book briefly describes the structure, properties and applications of various grades of steel, primarily aimed at non-metallurgical students from other engineering streams. The book consists of nine chapters covering most of the important types of steels and their physical metallurgy, microstructure and engineering...
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2014. — 123 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84919-656-7. The unavoidable element in the development of flight control systems (to date) has been in hydraulic actuators. This has been the case primarily because of their proven reliability and the lack of alternative technologies. However, the technology to build electromechanically actuated...
Macmillan, 1979. — 244 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-02971-6. This book is the founding work on Strategic Management, a concept that lies at the core of modern business. It has a focus upon the behaviour of complex organizations in turbulent environments and upon what determines success. The book is a ground-breaking approach to modelling strategic capability and strategic choice that...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 266 p. — ISBN: 978-0-230-59060-1. This classic edition is the original text by H. Igor Ansoff, the pioneer of Strategic Management. This is the founding work on Strategic Management, a concept at the core of modern business. This book is a ground-breaking approach to modelling strategic capability and strategic choice that has influenced an entire...
Cornell University Press, 2015. — 412 p. — ISBN 978-0-8014-7986-1. The scale and reach of the global oil and gas industry, valued at several trillions of dollars, is almost impossible to grasp. Despite its vast technical expertise and scientific sophistication, the industry betrays a startling degree of inexactitude and empirical disagreement about foundational questions of...
Springer, 2016. — 194 p. — (Engineering Materials). — ISBN 978-3-319-35139-1. Aradhana Dutta, Bidyut Deka, Partha Pratim Sahu. This textbook is an outcome of doctoral research carried out in the development of optical sensing techniques using planar optical waveguide by Aradhana Dutta, at Tezpur Central University, Tezpur, Assam, India. Tremendous investigation expanded in the...
Nova Science Publishers, 2014. — 196 p. — ISBN: 978-1-63321-877-2. This book provides a central vehicle for the exchange and dissemination of knowledge on project management issues relevant to the built environment of developed and developing countries. It brings a great mix of quality papers presenting a global perspective of construction project management planning, including...
2nd Edition. — Elsevier / William Andrew, 2019. — 500 p. — (Materials and Processes for Electronic Applications Series). — ISBN: 978-0-12-811978-5. Encapsulation Technologies for Electronic Applications, Second Edition, offers an updated, comprehensive discussion of encapsulants in electronic applications, with a primary emphasis on the encapsulation of microelectronic devices...
Wiley, 2010. — 407 p. — ISBN: 978-3-527-32475-0. This book contains highlights of the research carried out during the past 20 to 30 years or so, with emphasis placed not only on fundamental concepts but also on applications to synthetic chemistry and the development of new processes based on metal - catalyzed conversion reactions. The collection of review material gathered here...
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2007. — 457 p. — ISBN: 978-0-86341-743-6. The first book to deal with a broad spectrum of process and device design, and modelling issues related to semiconductor devices, bridging the gap between device modelling and process design using TCAD. Presents a comprehensive perspective of emerging fields and covers topics ranging from...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 164 p. — ISBN: 978-1-137-41259-1. Global Business Transcendence focuses on both empirical studies with practical application and examinations of theoretical and methodological developments in the field of business studies. By drawing on important research and case study material from contributors all over the world, this collection offers genuinely...
Springer, 1993. — 625 p. — ISBN: 978-3-7091-9247-4. Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) transistors are the basic building block of MOS integrated circuits (IC). Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) circuits using MOS technology have emerged as the dominant technology in the semiconductor industry. Over the past decade, the complexity of MOS ICs has increased at an astonishing rate....
World Scientific, 2007. — 633 p. — ISBN: 978-981-256-862-5. The author of this book, a well-known specialist of the leading company Cadence Design Systems in the field of computer modeling, presents compact modeling of electronic and semiconductor devices and components for college and graduate-school classrooms, and manufacturing engineering. The coverage is device-physics...
Artech House, 2006. — 217 p. — ISBN: 978-1-58053-340-9. Ranging from basic principles to advanced concepts and real-world applications, this comprehensive reference offers you expert guidance in radiation dosimetry. The book thoroughly examines the physics of radiation, its biological effects, commercial products, device design, and measurement methods. You find critical...
Wiley, 2019. — 504 p. — (Wiley Series in Materials for Electronic & Optoelectronic Applications). — ISBN: 978-1-119-35500-7. Covers both the fundamentals and the state-of-the-art technology used for MBE. Written by expert researchers working on the frontlines of the field, this book covers fundamentals of Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) technology and science, as well as...
CRC Press, 2015. — 263 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4665-8247-7. This book is the result of many years of ground experience in the field of building acoustics. This certainly makes it today the most living material in this field. It is both a classical course and a contemporary work in the sense that is closely related to modern technical developments in building architecture. Bad...
The National Academies Press, 2009. — 178 p. — ISBN: 978-0-309-11703-6. The threat from the degradation of materials in the engineered products that drive our economy, keep our citizenry healthy, and keep us safe from terrorism and belligerent threats has been well documented over the years. And yet little effort appears to have been made to apply the nation's engineering...
Springer, 2016. — 253 p. — (Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics). — ISBN: 978-3-319-27338-9. Displays the effect of technology scaling on the optical receiver performance. Explains the needed basics and the state-of-the-art of laser drivers, modulator drivers, transimpedance. amplifiers, equalizers, and limiting amplifiers fabricated in nanometer CMOS technologies....
CRC Press, 2015. — 225 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4987-0043-6. Project managers who lead globally dispersed teams face unique challenges in managing project stakeholders, scope, knowledge sharing, schedules, resources, and above all team execution in a global business environment. Finding timely solutions to challenging events becomes more difficult in a global project environment. This...
CRC Press, 2017. — 311 p. — (Leading Works from the French School of Management). — ISBN: 978-1-4822-0882-5. The growing complexity of projects today, as well as the uncertainty inherent in innovative projects, is making obsolete traditional project management practices and procedures, which are based on the notion that much about a project is known at its start. The current...
Springer, 1983. — 312 p. — ISBN: 978-94-009-7261-2. This book presents the fundamental principles of drilling engineering, with the primary objective of making a good well using data that can be properly evaluated through geology, reservoir engineering, and management. It is written to assist the geologist, drilling engineer, reservoir engineer, and manager in performing their...
Springer, 2019. — 137 p. — ISBN: 978-981-13-5746-6. Air pollution policy is closely connected with climate change, public health, energy, transport, trade, and agriculture, and generally speaking, the Earth has been pushed to the brink and the damage is becoming increasingly obvious. The transport sector remains a foremost source of air pollutants – a fact that has stimulated...
Elsevier, 2015. — 365 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-420151-4. Seismic Exploration of Hydrocarbons in Heterogeneous Reservoirs: New Theories, Methods and Applications is based on the field research conducted over the past decade by an authoring team of five of the world’s leading geoscientists. In recent years, the exploration targets of world's oil companies have become more complex. The...
Elsevier / Woodhead Publishing, 2016. — 538 p. — (Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials). — ISBN 978-0-08-100165-3. Advances in Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) provides the latest information on a mainstream process that is critical for high-volume, high-yield semiconductor manufacturing, and even more so as device dimensions continue to shrink....
2nd Edition. — Wiley / Athena Academic, 2015. — 274 p. — ISBN: 978-11-1897-339-4. Fundamentals of Gas Dynamics, Second Edition isa comprehensively updated new edition and now includes a chapter on the gas dynamics of steam. It covers the fundamental concepts and governing equations of different flows, and includes end of chapter exercises based on the practical applications. A...
CRC Press, 2008. — 321 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8493-8773-9. Book of the Month Award – Industrial Engineering Magazine. Whatever your business, getting the work done on time can make or break your organization. The faster the world moves, the more this becomes important. The expanding utility and relevance of project management has lead to its emergence as a separate body of knowledge...
Second Edition. — CRC Press, 2014. — 1425 p. — (Systems Innovation Book). — ISBN: 978-1-4665-1505-5. A new edition of a bestselling industrial and systems engineering reference, Handbook of Industrial and Systems Engineering , Second Edition provides students, researchers, and practitioners with easy access to a wide range of industrial engineering tools and techniques in a...
CRC Press, 2012. — 580 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4200-8320-0. As organizations realize the benefits of PM, the need to develop effective management tools rises with the increasing complexity of new technologies and processes. Taking a systems approach to accomplishing goals and objectives, Project Management: Systems, Principles, and Applications covers contemporary tools and techniques...
CRC Press, 2009. — 407 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4200-7235-8. While the project management body of knowledge is embraced by disciplines ranging from manufacturing and business to social services and healthcare, the application of efficient project management is of particularly high value in science, technology, and engineering undertakings. STEP Project Management: Guide for Science,...
CRC Press, 2016. — 391 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4987-2260-5. Ionizing Radiation Effects in Electronics: From Memories to Imagers delivers comprehensive coverage of the effects of ionizing radiation on state-of-the-art semiconductor devices. The book also offers valuable insight into modern radiation-hardening techniques. The text begins by providing important background information on...