Jeom Kee Paik & Anil Kumar Thayamballi 
Ship-Shaped Offshore Installations 
Design, Building, and Operation

Completely updated for a new edition, this book introduces reliability and risks analysis, for both practicing engineers and engineering students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Since relia …

This book provides detail on pneumatic directional control valve and regulator and pneumatic circuitry. It emphasizes on component construction and function, as well as the installation, maintenance, …

This text methodically demonstrates the basic rules for the design criteria of earthfill and rockfill dams. It expertly guides the reader from preliminary work through the design of various …

Discusses all the major aspects of automotive and engine lubrication – presenting state-of-the-art advances in the field from both research and industrial perspectives. This book should be of …

This practical handbook features an overview of the importance of physical properties and thermodynamics; and the use of thermo-dynamics to predict the extent of reaction in proposed new chem-ical …

Solar Cooling Technologies presents a detailed study of the potential technologies for coupling solar energy and cooling systems. Unifies all the various power based solar techniques into one book, …

Within manufacturing, welding is by far the most widely used fabrication method used for production, leading to a rise in research and development activities pertaining to the welding and joining of …

Here is a comprehensive resource that compiles extensive descriptions of friction stir processing, fabrication of surface metal matrix composites, and friction surfacing into one volume. The book is …

This book is written more for the practitioner than the casual reader. Although a high mathematical level is not needed, for much of the material some engineering knowledge is desirable. Noise …