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Unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) are revolutionizing the way we explore our global environment. Whether it's to monitor severe weather events or used in a military operation, these machines and the components that operate them are changing the way we approach flight. In his book, Designing Unmanned Aircraft Systems: A Comprehensive Approach, Jay Gundlach investigates all elements of UAS design, including architectural options, and design drivers across diverse systems classes. As the most authoritative single reference on UAS design, the book provides readers a solid understanding of the end-to-end unmanned aircraft system and gain a deeper appreciation for the multidisciplinary nature of UAS design. Topics Discussed Approach for developing competitive, balanced unmanned aircraft systems through a multidisciplinary systems philosophy Extensive survey and analysis of unmanned aircraft launch and recovery techniques, along with selection and design processes Communication systems Derivations of electric aircraft performance equations Overview of mission planning system and control station software functionality Design of aircraft geometry and payload placement Overview of ground control station types and functionality Cost analysis Special Features Equations with solutions at the chapter level Graphics such as line drawings, plots, and images illustrate the problem formulation, communicate data, or highlight system design features Use of examples Case histories

Game Theoretic Risk Analysis of Security Threats introduces reliability and risk analysis in the face of threats by intelligent agents. More specifically, game-theoretic models are developed for identifying optimal and/or equilibrium defense and attack strategies in systems of varying degrees of complexity. The book covers applications to networks, including problems in both telecommunications and transportation. However, the book''s primary focus is to integrate game theory and reliability methodologies into a set of techniques to predict, detect, diminish, and stop intentional attacks at targets that vary in complexity. In this book, Bier and Azaiez highlight work by researchers who combine reliability and risk analysis with game theory methods to create a set of functional tools that can be used to offset intentional, intelligent threats (including threats of terrorism and war). These tools will help to address problems of global security and facilitate more cost-effective defensive investments.

Written by experts from the world s leading institutions in the field, this is the only book to cover virtual and augmented reality in manufacturing from a manufacturing perspective, rather than a computer science angle. It details applications of state-of-the-art technologies in real industrial situations.

Con motivo del Año Internacional de la Energía Sostenible se publica este libro en el que, en un tono divulgativo pero riguroso, se reconstruye una página de la historia del progreso y desarrollo de la humanidad, la evolucion de la energia desde la antiguedad hasta nuestros dias. En los primeros capitulos se tratan cuestiones tales como las fuentes naturales de energia y el origen quimico de la vida. Despues se habla de las manifestaciones de la energia, del descubrimiento de sus distintas formas y de las tecnicas que a lo largo de los siglos han permitido obtenerla, desde los primitivos procedimientos mecanicos, como los molinos de agua y de viento, hasta las modernas energias renovables, pasando por la maquina de vapor, las pilas electricas, la radiactividad y la energia nuclear. El volumen se cierra con la exposicion de una serie de iniciativas para llegar a construir un mundo energeticamente sostenible.

In this book, original and comprehensive studies discuss shielding effectiveness as related to conductivity, and the relationship of material chemistry to conductivity and corrosion are demonstrated. It is explained how to optimize shielding effectiveness for aircraft and other vehicles. Electrically conductive corrosion prevention materials capable of maintaining EMI/EMP protection of aircraft and weapon systems are identified.

Composite structures are most efficient in performance and production cost when combined with smart materials making them adaptable to changing operational conditions. The specific production processes of composites offer the possibility to integrate more functions thus making the structure more valuable. Active functions can be realized by smart materials, e.g. morphing, active vibration control, active structure acoustic control or structure health monitoring. The foundation is a sound understanding of materials, design methods, design principles, production technologies and adaptronics. Along the complete process chain this disciplines together deliver advanced lightweight solutions for applications ranging from mechanical engineering to vehicles, airframe and finally space structures. This book provides the scientific foundations as well as inspiring new ideas for engineers working in the field of composite lightweight structures.

Manufacturing is the basic industrial activity generating real value. Cutting and abrasive technologies are the backbone of precision production in machine, automotive and aircraft building as well as of production of consumer goods. We present the knowledge of modern manufacturing in these technologies on the basis of scientific research. The theory of cutting and abrasive processes and the knowledge about their application in industrial practice are a prerequisite for the studies of manufacturing science and an important part of the curriculum of the master study in German mechanical engineering. The basis of this book is the lecture Basics of cutting and abrasive processes (4 semester hours/3 credit hours) at the Leibniz University Hannover, which was offered to the diploma and master students specializing in manufacturing science.

The aim of the book is to present the emerging environmental issues in organization and management of transport logistics. The scope of the book includes set of solutions which show different stakeholders'' viewpoints on sustainability. It points out how the transport operations organized and conducted in companies and regions might be consistent with the concept of sustainable development. The scope of the book takes into consideration trade-off relations between actors directly and indirectly involved in transport networks. Therefore, the authors present, in individual chapters, innovative approach to eco-friendly organization and coordination of transport processes, as well as management of transport networks.

The demands of the modern economic climate have led to a dramatic increase in the industrial application of model-based predictive control. Apart from PID, predictive control is probably the most popular control approach in use today. Predictive functional control (PFC) was first used to develop a model-based predictive controller that was easy to understand, implement and tune from an instrumentation engineer's perspective. In the forty years since, there have been thousands of successful applications of PFC controllers in a large and diverse group of industries. Predictive Functional Control provides readers with: a fundamental understanding of the principles associated with PFC; the basic PFC control equations to be implemented in all programmable logic controllers or digital control systems in block programming form; and tuning rules and implementation procedures. Some new features arising from the needs of the process industries are reported along with many examples of industrial applications.

Los contenidos de este libro se corresponden con los de la unidad formativa 0219, del módulo "Montaje y mantenimiento de instalaciones de energía eólica", perteneciente al certificado de profesionalidad "Gestion del montaje y mantenimiento de parques eolicos". El montaje y mantenimiento de una instalacion de energia eolica implica, como es logico, amplios conocimientos de electrotecnia y electromagnetismo. Este libro contiene, ademas de nociones en ambos campos, informacion sobre los elementos electricos de un parque eolico, prestando especial atencion a las redes electricas, los generadores y motores electricos y, por supuesto, los aerogeneradores.

This volume contains eight state of the art contributions on mathematical aspects and applications of fast boundary element methods in engineering and industry. This covers the analysis and numerics of boundary integral equations by using differential forms, preconditioning of hp boundary element methods, the application of fast boundary element methods for solving challenging problems in magnetostatics, the simulation of micro electro mechanical systems, and for contact problems in solid mechanics. Other contributions are on recent results on boundary element methods for the solution of transient problems. This book is addressed to researchers, graduate students and practitioners working on and using boundary element methods. All contributions also show the great achievements of interdisciplinary research between mathematicians and engineers, with direct applications in engineering and industry.

Salir del ensimismamiento, experimentar las potencialidades de la formación y la cultura, abrir caminos por el mundo, tales podrían ser los enunciados de una de las más fructíferas líneas del movimiento regenerador surgido de la gran crisis española de final del siglo XIX. Algunos de sus resultados son ya bien conocidos, entre los cuales destaca con luz propia el de las pensiones en el extranjero, muy en particular de las gestionadas por la JAE desde 1907. El presente libro aborda esa misma tematica en el campo de la formacion y el desarrollo de la ciencia aplicada. Desde esa misma fecha, en efecto, iniciativas semejantes cristalizaron en pensiones de ampliacion de estudios para ingenieros y de formacion en nuevas tecnicas y procedimientos empiricos para obreros manuales procedentes de fabricas, talleres y granjas nacionales. Su organizacion fue confiada poco despues a un organismo estatal autonomo, la Junta de Patronato de Pensiones de Ingenieros y Obreros en el Extranjero (JPIOE), que desarrollara su obra ininterrumpidamente, bajo diferentes nombres, hasta mas aca de la guerra civil. Pero sobre este esqueleto basico, el trabajo se adentra ademas en un amplio espectro de cuestiones que le son inseparables. Como telon de fondo esta todo el desarrollo de la enseñanza profesional, la eclosion de las politicas sociales desarrolladas desde 1920 por el nuevo Ministerio de Trabajo, la aparicion de un nuevo tipo de reflexiones sobre la gestion del Estado y sobre la manera de abordar los problemas de la productividad del trabajo y su organizacion ante las nuevas exigencias de competitividad de la segunda revolucion industrial, las vicisitudes de la innovacion tecnica y de su transferencia y adaptacion a nuevos contextos y, en fin, los interrogantes mas generales acerca de las relaciones entre educacion y desarrollo economico.

"Stepped-up competition in the airline industry over the past 40 years profoundly changed how carriers set fares. Chapters in this volume contribute to our understanding of fare determination in this industry by examining carrier pricing behavior, such as non-linear pricing, pricing decisions associated with strategic alliances, competition from low cost carriers, and the challenges faced by carriers experiencing financial distress. These contributions present nuanced analyses of fare determination that include new ways of examining whether the prices charged by carriers are consumer welfare-enhancing. Examination of airline carrier pricing only tells part of the story of firm behavior, as analysis of carriers¿ ability to provide quality services is also significant in understanding the economics of this industry. This volume includes chapters examining non-price characteristics of business operations, such as frequency of service, passenger safety, availability of aircraft types for different transportation services, and the geographic distribution of air transportation-related noise by aircraft departures and arrivals at airports. "

Transcontinental Infrastructure Needs to 2030/50 explores the long-term opportunities and challenges facing major gateway and transport hub infrastructures -- ports, airports and major rail corridors - in the coming decades. The report uses projections and scenarios to assess the broader economic outlook and future infrastructure requirements, and examines the options for financing these, not least against the backdrop of the economic recession and financial crisis which have significantly modified the risks and potential rewards associated with major infrastructure projects. Building on numerous in-depth case studies from Europe, North America and Asia, the report offers insights into the economic prospects for these key facilities and identifies policy options for improved gateway and corridor infrastructure in the future..