Anschläger von Lasten müssen gründlich in Theorie und Praxis geschult werden, so wie es auch verschiedene Vorschriften vorsehen (ArbSchG, TRBS 1116 und 2111, DGUV R 109-017). Eine bestandene Qualif...
River catchments and reservoirs play a central role in water security, food supply, flood risk management, hydropower generation, and ecosystem services; however, they are now under increasing pres...
The present Special Issue proposes articles in the area of Additive Manufacturing with particular attention to the different employed technologies and the several possible applications. The main in...
There has been significant research progress in the area of pavement materials and paving technologies in the past decade. This includes the use of warm mix asphalt technologies, rubber asphalt, bi...
The rapid proliferation of the Internet has been driving communication networks closer and closer to their limits, while available bandwidth is disappearing due to an ever-increasing network load. ...
The depletion of fossil fuels, the increase of energy demands, and the concerns over climate change are the major driving forces for the development of renewable energy, such as solar energy and wi...
The use of lightweight structures across several industries has become inevitable in today's world given the ever-rising demand for improved fuel economy and resource efficiency. In the automotive ...
The overall objective of this Special Issue is to improve knowledge on developing and using advanced simulation tools in water supply and distribution systems. The final aim is to propose a suitabl...
This Special Issue "Advanced Nanoindentation in Materials" contains some of the latest developments in the field of small-scale contact mechanics for a wide range of materials and biological cells....
Nowadays, there are great concerns regarding the resistance demonstrated by many microorganisms towards conventional antibiotic therapies. The failure of traditional antimicrobials, and increasing ...
Micro-bioreactors offer unique opportunities to study biological systems under fluidic conditions. The concept of micro-bioreactors suggests that biological reaction conditions on a large scale can...
The information fusion technique can integrate a large amount of data and knowledge representing the same real-world object and obtain a consistent, accurate and useful representation of that objec...
Optofluidics a niche research field that integrates optics with microfluidics. It started with elegant demonstrations of the passive interaction of light and liquid media such as liquid waveguides ...
The Special Issue on Advances in Water Distribution Networks (WDNs) explores four important topics of research in the framework of WDNs, namely simulation and optimization modelling, topology and p...
Welding technology has been taken for granted as a mature and established technology for too long. However, many new welding technologies have been included among the alternatives to joining materi...
The purpose of this special issue is to highlight the latest advances in vibroacoustics and aeroacoustics applied to aerospace and automotive industries. In proposing this wide topic, we wanted to ...
Electric power systems around the world are changing in terms of structure, operation, management and ownership due to technical, financial, and ideological reasons. Power systems keep on expanding...
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This Special Issue is focused on breakthrough developments in the field of biosensors, as well as on the current scientific progress in biomedical signal processing. The papers address innovative s...
Mit textilintegrierten elektronischen Systemen können konventionelle Textilprodukte mit innovativen Funktionen aufgewertet und neue Marktnischen erschlossen werden. Trotz der Vorteile, die textilin...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being increasingly used in different applications in both military and civilian domains. These applications include surveillance, reconnaissance, remote sensing,...
Wie in Band 1 zur Ingenieurmathematik wird auch in diesem Band der Wert auf eine Konzentration auf ein bestimmtes Gebiet der Ingenieurmathematik gelegt. Damit versuchen wir insbesondere den Studier...
Modern robotic technologies have enabled robots to operate in a variety of unstructured and dynamically-changing environments, in addition to traditional structured environments. Robots have, thus,...
The subject of this book is "Biofuel and Bioenergy Technology". It aims to publish high-quality review and research papers, addressing recent advances in biofuel and bioenergy. State-of-the-art stu...
Climate change is one of the main threats to modern society. This phenomenon is associated with an increase in greenhouse gas (GHGs, mainly carbon dioxide--CO2) emissions due to anthropogenic activ...
As we all know, electrons carry both charge and spin. The processing of information in conventional electronic devices is based only on the charge of electrons. Spin electronics, or spintronics, us...
A topic of utmost importance in civil engineering is finding optimal solutions throughout the life cycle of buildings and infrastructural objects, including their design, manufacturing, use, and ma...
This volume provides unique views of combustion from many technical and international research perspectives. Combustion science is often considered from its negative environmental impact, where we ...
The combination of coastal climate change impacts and their effects on the ever-increasing human utilization of the coastal zone will invariably result in increasing coastal risk in the coming deca...
What we call the "color" of an object is the result of a very complicated and not yet fully understood mechanism that involves the interaction between the light reflected by the object surface and ...
Currently, the use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solutions is considered as the state-of-the-art in the modeling of unsteady nonlinear flow physics and offers an early and improved understa...
This book offers a collection of 17 scientific papers about the computational modeling of fracture. Some of the manuscripts propose new computational methods and/or how to improve existing cutting ...
The ever-increasing need for higher efficiency, smaller size, and lower cost make the analysis, understanding, and design of energy conversion systems extremely important, interesting, and even imp...
Oftmals ist die zerstörungsfreie Prüfung von Schweißverbindungen wünschenswert. Das vorliegende Normenkompendium vereint zum ersten Mal in einem Normenhandbuch alle notwendigen Prüf- und Bewertungs...
This book entitled Development and Application of Nonlinear Dissipative Device in Structural Vibration Control contains contributions that focus on the development and application of innovative non...
Micro and nano-electro-mechanical system (M/NEMS) devices constitute key technological building blocks to enable increased additional functionalities within Integrated Circuits (ICs) in the More-Th...
Naturnahe Auenlandschaften gelten insbesondere wegen der großen Vielfalt an aquatischen, semiaquatischen und terrestrischen Lebensräumen und wegen des hohen Artenreichtums, den sie beherbergen, als...
Information Society is advancing along a route of ecosystemic evolution. ICT and Internet advancements, together with the progression of the systemic approach for enhancement and application of Sma...
Das Vorlesungsskript behandelt die folgenden Themen: Warum Quanteninformationstheorie? Was ist Kommunikation? Was ist Information? Wie misst man Information? Gibt es einen Unterschied zwischen Entr...
Due to the influence of pore-throat size distribution, pore connectivity, and microscale fractures, the transport, distribution, and residual saturation of fluids in porous media are difficult to c...
While the study of vibration and energy dissipation is one of the oldest topics in engineering, it also encompasses some of the most exciting engineering problems of our time. From the exploration ...
HVAC systems, load shifting, indoor climate, and energy and ventilation performance analyses are the key topics when improving energy performance in new and renovated buildings. This development ha...
Dielectric liquids are used as impregnates of solid insulations or filling products in many kinds of equipment, such as transformers (power, rectifier, distribution, traction, furnace, potential, c...
This book contains the successful submissions to a Special Issue of Energies on the subject area of "Engineering Fluid Dynamics". The topic of engineering fluid dynamics includes both experimental ...
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There is an increasing acknowledgement in the engineering community that the response to this challenge, that is, prevention of catastrophic failure, generally requires a systems approach and neces...
Werkstoffe, HalbzeugeDie vielfältigen Einsatzbereiche von Federn machen sie zu einem unabdingbaren Bauteil in unzähligen Konstruktionen und Objekten. Sie werden zumeist aus Stahl oder Kupfer und Ku...
