Название: Multicriteria Decision Making: Systems Modeling, Risk Assessment, and Financial Analysis for Technical Projects
Автор: Timothy Havranek, Doug MacNair
Издательство: De Gruyter
Год: 2023
Страниц: 242
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 21.1 MB

Public corporations and private businesses operate in an increasingly complex, uncertain, and interconnected world. When evaluating investment decisions, business managers can no longer base their decisions primarily on expected financial return. They now must now consider a host of performance value measures (i.e., criteria) pertaining to issues such as environmental and social governance, sustainability, and stakeholder satisfaction. In addition, corporate managers must ensure that their investment decisions are aligned with the company's vision, mission, and values in order to maintain investor confidence and protect brand image. Lastly, to be truly successful, business managers must assess the risks associated with each performance measure and manage their impacts during project implementation. This book takes a pragmatic business and economics view towards evaluating competing investment alternatives and/or capital project strategies. It provides a practical step-by-step process using a structured decision analysis framework to evaluate, understand, quantify, and measure project invesment strategies in light of multiple stakeholder objectives and success criteria.

Название: Energy-Efficient Electrical Systems for Buildings, 2nd Edition
Автор: Moncef Krarti
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 581
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 28.4 MB

Energy-Efficient Electrical Systems for Buildings, Second Edition offers a systematic and practical approaches to design and analyze electrical distribution and utilization systems in buildings. It considers safety and energy efficiency, while also focusing on sustainability and resiliency, to design electrical distribution systems for buildings. In addition, the second edition provides guidelines on how to design electrified and energy-resilient buildings. Utilizing energy efficiency, sustainability, and resiliency as important criteria, this book discusses how to meet the minimal safety requirements, set by the National Electrical Code (NEC), to select electrical power systems for buildings. It also considers the impact of building electrification on the design of electrical power systems. The second edition features a new chapter on the optimal design energy-efficient and resilient power systems. In addition, this book includes new end-of-chapter problems, examples, and case studies to enhance and reinforce student understanding. This book is intended for senior undergraduate mechanical, civil, and electrical engineering students taking courses in Electrical Systems for Buildings and Design of Building Electrical Systems.

Название: Laser-based Technologies for Sustainable Manufacturing
Автор: Avinash Kumar, Ashwani Kumar, Abhishek Kumar
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 271
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 15.4 MB

This book provides scientific and technological insights on novel techniques of design and manufacturing using laser technologies. It showcases applications of laser micromachining in the biomedical industry, laser-based manufacturing processes in aerospace engineering, and high-precision laser-cutting in the home appliance sector. The main objective of the book is to provide researchers and students an intensive study material in the book Laser-Based Technologies for Sustainable Manufacturing. The book explains the Lasers applications in advanced materials, cutting-edge manufacturing techniques, innovative design, etc. It covers new evolving trends in engineering related to green technologies, biomedical, computer-aided design, smart manufacturing, AI systems, and sustainability in manufacturing. The present book adopts a balanced approach between academics research and industrial applications.

Название: Nanogenerators and Self-Powered Systems
Автор: Bhaskar Dudem, Vivekananthan Venkateswaran, Arunkumar Chandrasekhar
Издательство: ITexLi
Год: 2023
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 16.8 MB

This publication aims at providing a thorough overview of the latest research efforts by international authors on nanotechnology and nanomaterials and opening new possible research paths for further novel developments. This volume is a collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters, offering a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the field of nanotechnology and nanomaterials. The book comprises single chapters authored by various researchers and edited by an expert active in harnessing the ubiquitously available biomechanical energies to power portable electronics research area. All chapters are complete in themselves but united under a common research study topic. Photovoltaics usually produce low voltage at their outputs. So, in order to inject their power into utility grids, the output voltage of solar panels should be increased to grid voltage level. Usually, the boost DC-DC converters will be connected between solar panels and grid-connected inverters to boost the panels’ output voltage to more than 320 V (for 380/220 utilities).

Название: Performance Analysis and Optimization of Parallel Manipulators
Автор: Qinchuan Li, Chao Yang, Lingmin Xu, Wei Ye
Издательство: Springer
Серия: Research on Intelligent Manufacturing
Год: 2023
Страниц: 303
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.5 MB

This book investigates the performance analysis and optimization design of parallel manipulators in detail. It discusses performance evaluation indices for workspace, kinematic, stiffness, and dynamic performance, single- and multi-objective optimization design methods, and ways to improve optimization design efficiency of parallel manipulators. This book collects the authors’ research results previously scattered in many journals and conference proceedings and presents them in a unified form after the methodical edition. As a result, numerous performance analyses and optimization of parallel manipulators are presented, in which the readers in the robotics community may be greatly interested. More importantly, readers can use the methods and tools introduced in this book to carry out performance evaluation and optimization of parallel manipulators by themselves. The book can provide important reference and guideline for undergraduate and graduate students, engineers, and researchers who are interested in design and application of parallel manipulators.

Название: Очерки по истории металлических конструкций
Автор: Перельмутер А.В.
Издательство: СКАД Софт, ИД АСВ
Год: 2015
Страниц: 257
Формат: djvu
Размер: 11 мб

В книге собраны отдельные очерки по истории развития металлических конструкций. Она отличается от обычных вступительных глав учебника по курсу стальных конструкций тем, что рассматривает более широкий круг вопросов. Основное внимание уделяется развитию конструкторских идей, а не отдельным примерам удачных конструктивных решений.

Название: Газоснабжение. Учебник. 5-е изд.
Автор: Ионин А.А.
Издательство: Лань
Год: 2022
Страниц: 440
Язык: русский
Формат: pdf
Размер: 24.9 MB

В учебнике изложены основы проектирования, расчета и эксплуатации городских и промышленных систем газоснабжения. Описаны режимы работы газовых сетей и оборудования, методики расчета для решения отдельных задач. Рассмотрены основы теории сжигания газа, газогорелочные устройства и их расчет, экономное использование газа для отопления котлов и промышленных печей, Системно изложен гидравлический расчет сетей и их надежности. Учебник предназначен для студентов вузов, обучающихся по направлению «Строительство» профиля «Теплогазоснабжение и вентиляция».

Название: 3D Printing Advances
Автор: Ashutosh Sharma
Издательство: ITexLi
Год: 2023
Страниц: 417
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 56.1 MB

This volume presents an overview of various types of advances in 3D printing. It discusses current research trends, problems, and applications of 3D printing processes and materials. It discusses advances in bioprinting, tissue generation, radiotherapy, and safety issues in health care. The book showcases applications of 3D printing in digital design, body part surrogates, rheological models, airway stents, 3D-printed cermets, and more. It also discusses advances in biomimetic nanocomposite materials, intellectual property concerns, and safety issues in 3D printing technology. 3D printing’s rapid technological development is starting to impact the art field because, for the first time, it has become possible to exactly reproduce and reconstruct artworks without any loss of their physical features. Yet, a coherent overview of how 3D printing is used within the art field while paying attention to ethical considerations does not exist. This study will provide an overview of the current developments of 3D printing in the art world, its use, and the direction it is moving toward. Within this study, the technologies that enable, influence, and will continue to affect the 3D reproduction of artworks, namely technologies necessary to capture an artwork’s materials on a chemical and physical level, Artificial Intelligence (AI), 3D printing technology itself, and the rise of the non-fungible token (NFT) are analyzed to be able to understand what 3D printing implies for our changing perception of art in the future.

Название: Integrated Process Planning, Scheduling, and Due-Date Assignment
Автор: Halil Ibrahim Demir, Abdullah Hulusi Kokçam, Caner Erden
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2024
Страниц: 153
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 11.8 MB

Traditionally, the three most important manufacturing functions are process planning, scheduling, and due-date assignment, which are handled sequentially and separately.This book integrates these manufacturing processes and functions to increase global performance along with manufacturing and production cost savings. Integrated Process Planning, Scheduling, and Due-Date Assignment combines the most important manufacturing functions to use manufacturing resources better, reduce production costs, and eliminate bottlenecks with increased production efficiency. The book covers how the integration will help eliminate scheduling conflicts and how to adapt to irregular shop floor disturbances. It also explains how other elements, such as tardiness and earliness, are penalized and how prioritizing helps improve weight performance function. This book will draw the interest of professionals, students, and academicians in process planning, scheduling, and due-date assignment. It could also be supplemental material for manufacturing courses in industrial engineering and manufacturing engineering departments.

Название: Engineering Noise Control, 6th Edition
Автор: David A. Bies, Colin H. Hansen, Carl Q. Howard
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2024
Страниц: 922
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 12.6 MB

This classic and authoritative textbook contains material that is not over-simplified and can be used to solve real-world noise control engineering problems. Engineering Noise Control, 6th edition covers theoretical concepts, and practical application of current noise control technology. Topics extensively covered or revised from the 5th edition include: beating; addition and subtraction of noise levels; combining multi-path noise level reductions; hearing damage assessment and protection; speech intelligibility; noise weighting curves; instrumentation, including MEMS, IEPE and TEDS sensors; noise source types, including transportation noise and equipment noise estimations; outdoor sound propagation, including noise barriers, meteorological effects and sloping ground effects; sound in rooms, muffling devices, including 4-pole analysis, self noise and pressure drop calculations; sound transmission through single, double and triple partitions; vibration measurement and control, finite element analysis; boundary element methods; and statistical energy analysis.