The paucity of the historical record confounds the efficient probabilistic characterization of storm surge hazards. This book presents efficient parametric and nonparametric simulation techniques for evaluating the frequency-of-occurrence of storm surge hazards under stationary and non-stationary climate scenarios. Given the prohibitive computational requirements of state-of-the-art basin-scale hydrodynamic simulations, the effective implementation of a stochastic simulation framework requires the introduction of a new paradigm: optimal function recovery, rather than repeated direct hydrodynamic simulations, via sparse grid-supported multivariate regression functions. The methods presented in the book are directly applicable to other...
ISBN: 978-3-8443-0277-6
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The straight-six engine or inline-six engine (often abbreviated I6, L6 or R6) is a six cylinder internal combustion engine with all six cylinders mounted in a straight line along the crankcase. The single bank of cylinders may be oriented in either a vertical or an inclined plane with all the pistons driving a common crankshaft. Where it is inclined, it is sometimes called a slant-six engine. The straight-six layout is the simplest engine layout that possesses both primary and secondary mechanical engine balance, resulting in relatively low manufacturing cost combined with much less vibration than engines with fewer cylinders. Данное издание не является...
ISBN: 978-6-1311-2012-1
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Pressure measurement using a strain gauge bonded with epoxy adhesive to a metallic mechanical support has been, and still is, extensively employed, however, for some applications the use of an epoxy is inadequate. There is therefore particular interest in the use of thin film techniques to vacuum deposit strain gauges directly on metallic substrates. Such devices are highly cost effective when produced in large quantities due to the manufacturing techniques involved. This makes them ideally suited for use in large-volume products such as electronic weighing scales and pressure transducers. In this book, techniques for fabricating thin film vapour deposited strain gauge transducers on metal substrates for application as pressure sensors...
ISBN: 978-3-6392-2259-3
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This investigation is focused on the evaluation of stress corrosion cracking (SCC), localized corrosion, and hydrogen embrittlement (HE) susceptibility of martensitic Alloy EP-823 in neutral and acidic solutions at ambient and elevated temperatures. While no failures were observed in smooth specimens in the neutral solution, failures were noticed in the 90°C acidic solution at constant-load (CL) leading to a threshold stress (?th) of 102 ksi. The presence of a notch reduced the ?th value to 91 ksi in a similar environment. The ductility (%El and %RA), time-to-failure (TTF), and true failure stress (?f) were gradually reduced in both environments with increasing temperature during SSR testing. The presence of a notch, however, enhanced...
ISBN: 978-3-8383-6016-4
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Polarization management is crucial to the design, implementation, and operation of optical devices. This thesis explores the use of stress engineering for manipulating birefringence in silicon-on-insulator based waveguide systems. Two schemes are proposed: one is to implement polarization insensitive waveguides using a stressed cladding overlayer, the other adapts the polarization diversity approach by introducing novel stress-based polarization splitters. Both theoretical study and experimental demonstrations of stress-based waveguide devices are presented. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после...
ISBN: 978-3-6392-3653-8
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HEALTH MONITORING OF OFFSHORE STRUCTURES This Book explores the structural health monitoring of offshore structures subjected to harsh environments using major search techniques of artificial intelligence (AI) "neural networks, and fuzzy logic". Evaluation of the marine environment as represented by waves, wind, and currents is explained. For each marine environment, the natural frequency and deck drifts, which may approximately represent a defectedcriterion is calculated. Modeling of offshore structures with finite elements is illustrated for offshore steel structures. The effective application of modern and standard computer software NASTRAN package to model the offshore structures is presented. The motivation in this study is to...
ISBN: 978-3-8383-9353-7
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Any Structure can be classified as B(Beam or Bernoulli)regions and D(disturbed/discontinuity) regions. B-regions are in which Bernoulli's hypothesis of straight-line strain profile applies. D-regions are parts of structure with a complex variation in strain profile. D-regions include portions near abrupt changes in geometry or concentrated forces. Based on St.Venant's principle, the extent of D-region spans about one section depth of the region on either side of the discontinuity. In conventional design practice, B-regions are designed accurately but D regions are designed using rules of thumb.This project aims to give a design procedure which is equally applicable for designing both B and D regions.The idea of Strut and Tie Model (STM)...
ISBN: 978-3-6392-8709-7
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Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) are synthetic polymers possessing specific recognition sites designed for a template molecule. These artificially-generated recognition sites have their shapes, sizes or functionalities complementary to the template, and are capable of rebinding the template in preference to other closely analogue. The main propose of this study is to prepare a series of the molecularly imprinted polymers based on siloxanes for recognized sulfonamide by sol-gel process and to investigate systematically their preparation conditions and the various fundamental properties. This book contains three parts as follows: in first part, the sol-gel molecularly imprinted polymers based on tetramethoxysilane (TMOS) and...
ISBN: 978-3-8383-6258-8
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Meat and meat products make important nutritional contribution to the diet of the people. Significant percentage of the recommended dietary allowances for proteins, vitamins-B, magnesium, phosphorous, iron and zinc are contributed by red meat and poultry (Pearson and Brooks, 1978). Primitive men recognized that a meat rich food was for more concentrated than vegetable foods and in early days mankind survived on animal foods, which now a days after development of food science are claimed to be more nutritious than other foods. It is recognized as a highly nutritious food having high quality proteins, a good balance of the essential amino acids and high biological value.The meat is the center of attraction for microorganism especially...
ISBN: 978-3-8433-5265-9
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Aroma compounds are widely used as additives in many products (food, pharmacy and cosmetics). Most industries applied extraction and distillation to recover aroma compounds from natural sources; however, both suffer from disadvantages (product contamination and energy consumption). Pervaporation (PV), a membrane separation process, is considered as a promising technique to overcome above challenges. This book contains both experimental and parametric studies dealing with the application of PV for aroma compound recovery from aqueous solutions using poly (ether-block-amide) (PEBA) membranes. The effect of process conditions on PV performance (permeation flux and selectivity) were investigated. The solubility and diffusivity of the aroma...
ISBN: 978-3-6390-8322-4
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The theoretical principles of anelastic phenomena in solids were formulated for the first time by C. Zener in 1937 – 1938. Virtually at the same time N. N. Davidenkov formulated the principles of the nonlinear mechanics of materials. Special literature operates with various terms for describing inelastic phenomena in solids, for example, internal friction, physical acoustics, absorption of ultrasound, static and dynamic hysteresis loops, internal dissipation of energy, and damping of oscillations. In 1990 De Batist and Magalas suggested a generalized concept for the description of these phenomena known today as mechanical spectroscopy of materials. Mechanical spectroscopy (MS) studies absorption spectra of mechanical energy under the...
ISBN: 978-3-6392-5402-0
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A submarine tender is a type of ship that supplies and supports submarines. Submarines are small compared to most oceangoing vessels, and generally do not have the ability to carry large amounts of food, fuel, torpedoes, and other supplies, nor to carry a full array of maintenance equipment and personnel. The tender carries all these, and either meets up with the submarines at sea to replenish them or provides these services while docked at a port near the area where the submarines are operating. In some navies, the tenders were equipped with workshops for maintenance, and as floating dormitories with relief crews. Unable to operate conventional surface tenders during World War II, the German...
ISBN: 978-6-1303-9919-1
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sugarloaf Point Light, also known as Seal Rocks Lighthouse is an active lighthouse located on Sugarloaf Point, a point about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) southeast of Seal Rocks, New South Wales, Australia. It guards Seal Rocks, a treacherous rock formation to the south. It is the first lighthouse designed by James Barnet. It is also one of only two towers in Australia with an external stairway. The light is operated by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, while the structures are maintained and operated by the Land and Property Management Authority. Sugarloaf Point is part of Myall Lakes National Park, managed by...
ISBN: 978-6-1338-0412-8
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX: SU, NYSE: SU) is a Canadian integrated energy company in Calgary, Alberta. It specializes in production of synthetic crude from oil sands. Suncor ranks number 159 in the Forbes Global 2000 list.Suncor markets products and services to retail customers in Ontario through a network of 280 Sunoco-branded retail sites, and 200 customer-operated retail and diesel sites. It also sells oil products under Petro-Canada brand. Suncor also markets through a retail network of Phillips 66-branded outlets in Colorado. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...
ISBN: 978-6-1333-7827-8
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! SunPower Corporation designs and manufactures high-efficiency silicon solar cells, roof tiles and solar panels based on a silicon all-back-contact solar cell invented at Stanford University. SunPower Corporation is publicly traded on the NASDAQ as SPWRA and SPWRB. SunPower Corporation is a component of the Dow Jones Oil and Gas Index DJUSEN.SunPower 125mm-wide single-crystal silicon solar cells are based on a rear-contact design that eliminates front-side metallization, maximizes the working cell area, eliminates redundant wires and makes automated production easier. Forming the junction at the rear of the cell, combined with a clever surface...
ISBN: 978-6-1305-2507-1
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Sunset Limited is a passenger train that for most of its history has run between New Orleans and Los Angeles, California, and that from early 1993 through late August 2005 also ran east of New Orleans to Florida, making it during that time the only true transcontinental passenger train in American history. From late August 2005 to the present, the train has remained officially a Florida-to-Los Angeles train, being considered temporarily truncated due to the lingering effects of Hurricane Katrina. Service between Orlando and New Orleans has been suspended. Future service has not been determined. It uses cars of Amtrak's double-deck Superliner fleet. Данное издание не...
ISBN: 978-6-1304-7255-9
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During the last decades, supercritical fluid extraction has received especial attention mainly due to its direct application in food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries. Regarding to environmental and processing regulations, supercritical fluids are a very attractive alternative to conventional extraction and refining methods. Agricultural processes result in large quantities of several by-products, which are often under utilized. Several organic natural components can be found in food processing by-products and, with additional treatment, can change from a low-value status to a high revenue stream of nutraceutical materials, such as phytosterols, oryzanol, triglycerides, vitamins and aromatic components, which can be used in the...
ISBN: 978-3-6390-2458-6
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Supertram is a tram network in Sheffield, England. It is owned and operated in partnership between South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, who own the infrastructure, and Stagecoach Group who operate and maintain the trams, through their Stagecoach Supertram branded subsidiary. Following a parliamentary act in 1985 authorising the scheme, the system was built by SYPTE at a cost of 240 million, and opened in stages between 1994 and 1995. It was initially operated by South Yorkshire Supertram Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary company of SYPTE. After lower than expected passenger revenue, SYSL was sold to Stagecoach for 1.15 million at the end of 1997. With the sale of SYSL, Stagecoach gained...
ISBN: 978-6-1303-7744-1
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Nowadays the importance of environmental logistics is increasing while organizations are trying to pay more attention to their transport activities. Since PNL is a famous logistics company in Nordic countries and transport activates are done by sub contractors they intend to make sound environmental choices by assessing their suppliers from environmental performance in order to identify the best suppliers which is comply with the PNL environmental policy. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-3-8433-8646-3
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Surface-mount technology (SMT) is a method for constructing electronic circuits in which the components (SMC, or Surface Mounted Components) are mounted directly onto the surface of printed circuit boards (PCBs). Electronic devices so made are called surface-mount devices or SMDs. In the industry it has largely replaced the through-hole technology construction method of fitting components with wire leads into holes in the circuit board. An SMT component is usually smaller than its through-hole counterpart because it has either smaller leads or no leads at all. It may have short pins or leads of various styles, flat contacts, a matrix of solder balls (BGAs), or terminations on the body of the...
ISBN: 978-6-1310-0151-2
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The development of composites using carbon fibers as the reinforcement requires surface activated carbon fibers with a durable surface composition. In this work, sized polyacrylonitrile (PAN)-based carbon fibers were modified by Oxy- Plasma treatment, Oxy- fluorination, and Nitric acid treatment in order to improve the interaction between carbon fiber surface and matrix. The effect of different surface treatments was observed by means of contact angle, surface free energy measurement. Surface roughness were seen by the help of Scanning electron microscopy (SEM).The lower contact angle proved the surface hydrophilicity of treated carbon fiber.XPS, Zeta-potential measurements revealed changes in surface chemistry of treated carbon fibers....
ISBN: 978-3-6393-2233-0
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