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Composite and Composite Coatings: Mechanical and Tribology Aspects
by Sultan, Mohamed Thariq HameedApplications of composite materials and composite coatings have been increasing in the field of automobile and aerospace industries due to the versatility in their properties. Present book comprehensively reviews the composite materials and coatings with a focus on the mechanical and tribology applications. It covers type of fibres (natural and synthetic), reinforcements and their selection, matrix, and technologies used to produce composite materials. Various sections cover basics and associated failures of composites, strengthening mechanisms and background theories, composite manufacturing technologies, mechanical and tribology properties of past and currently used composites. Features:- Covers different types of fibers, reinforcements, matrix, and technologies used to produce composite materials. Details the tribology behavior of different novel composite coatings fabricated using different coating techniques. Reviews research on wear behavior of composite materials and coatings. Discusses reinforcement behavior with respect to the different processing routes. Illustrates rule of mixtures, failures, theories behind the strengthening mechanism. This book aims at professionals, graduate students and researchers in mechanical engineering, design engineering, composite materials, composite coatings, tribology, automobile, and aircraft.
Composite and Composite Coatings: Mechanical and Tribology Aspects
by Mohamed Thariq Hameed Sultan S. Arulvel K. JayakrishnaApplications of composite materials and composite coatings have been increasing in the field of automobile and aerospace industries due to the versatility in their properties. Present book comprehensively reviews the composite materials and coatings with a focus on the mechanical and tribology applications. It covers type of fibres (natural and synthetic), reinforcements and their selection, matrix, and technologies used to produce composite materials. Various sections cover basics and associated failures of composites, strengthening mechanisms and background theories, composite manufacturing technologies, mechanical and tribology properties of past and currently used composites. Features:- Covers different types of fibers, reinforcements, matrix, and technologies used to produce composite materials. Details the tribology behavior of different novel composite coatings fabricated using different coating techniques. Reviews research on wear behavior of composite materials and coatings. Discusses reinforcement behavior with respect to the different processing routes. Illustrates rule of mixtures, failures, theories behind the strengthening mechanism. This book aims at professionals, graduate students and researchers in mechanical engineering, design engineering, composite materials, composite coatings, tribology, automobile, and aircraft.
Advanced Composite Materials and Structures: Modeling and Analysis
by Mohamed Thariq Hameed Sultan Vishesh Ranjan Kar Subrata Kumar Panda Kandaswamy JayakrishnaThis book bridges the gap between the theoretical concepts and their implementations, especially for the high-performance structures/components related to advanced composite materials. It focusses on the prediction of various structural responses such as deformations, natural frequencies etc. of advanced composites under complex environments and/or loading conditions. In addition, it discusses micro-mechanical material modeling of various advanced composite materials including different structures ranging from basic to advanced, such as beam, flat and curved panel, shell, skewed, corrugated etc. and various solution techniques via analytical, semi-analytical and numerical approaches. Covers micro-mechanical material modeling of advanced composite materials Describes constitutive models of different composite materials and kinematic models of different structural configuration Discusses pertinent analytical, semi-analytical and numerical techniques Focusses on structural responses relating to deformations, natural frequencies, critical loads, under complex environments Presents actual demonstration of theoretical concepts applied to real examples using Ansys APDL scripts This book is aimed at researchers, professionals and graduate students in mechanical engineering, material science, material engineering, structural engineering, aerospace engineering, and composite materials.
Failure of Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Composites
by Mohamed Thariq Hameed Sultan M. Rajesh K. JayakrishnaThe proposed book focusses on the theme of failure of polymer composites, focusing on vital aspects of enhancing failure resistance, constituents and repair including associated complexities. It discusses characterization and experimentation of the composites under loading with respect to the specific environment and applications. Further, it includes topics as green composites, advanced materials and composite joint failure, buckling failure, and fiber-metal composite failure. It explains preparation, applications of composites for weight sensitive applications, leading to potential applications and formulations, fabrication of polymer products based on bio-resources. Provides exhaustive understanding of failure and fatigue of polymer composites Covers the failure of fiber reinforced polymer composites, composite joint failure, fiber-metal composite, and laminate failure Discusses how to enhance the resistance against failure of the polymer composites Provides input to industry related and academic orientated research problems Represents an organized perspective and analysis of materials processing, material design, and their failure under loading This book is aimed at researchers, graduate students in composites, fiber reinforcement, failure mechanism, materials science, and mechanical engineering.
Repair of Advanced Composites for Aerospace Applications
by Mohamed Thariq Hameed Sultan M. Rajesh K. JayakrishnaThis book focuses on the repair of polymer composites for critical components in aerospace industries. It also covers the complexities of failure and repair of composites, types of fiber reinforcement and bonding. It includes special topics on damage assessment using on-site inspection (NDT and THz techniques) and automated repair processes for reliability and repeatability. Repair of Advanced Composites for Aerospace Applications also describes the characterization, modelling and simulation of the composites' damage mechanisms with respect to specific environments and applications. Failures associated with various composite repairing techniques for aerospace applications are also covered. Key Features: • Addresses the composites development process including damage detection and repair for aerospace applications.• Covers research on the multi-scale process modelling, material modelling, self-healing, repairing and their analyses.• Concentrates on the repair of composites for weight-sensitive applications in automobiles and aerospace.• Analyses perspectives on materials processing and material design.• Details composite joints, their failure, and operations of aircraft component in various environments. This book is aimed at researchers, professionals and graduate students in composite materials, manufacturing, aerospace engineering, advanced materials design and manufacturing, composite materials repair, and hybrid materials repair.
Energy-Efficient Systems for Agricultural Applications (Green Energy and Technology)
by Muhammad Sultan Takahiko MiyazakiThis book reports thermodynamic investigation, analyses, and options of temperature/humidity control systems and their technologies for agricultural applications including (but not limited to) fruits and vegetable storage, poultry air-conditioning, livestock thermal comfort, and wet market air-conditioning. The optimum temperature and humidity requirements for these agricultural applications are identified. Consequently, energy-efficient heat pump options are explored accordingly. The book helps to understand and to apply the thermodynamic knowledge of the energy-efficient systems for agricultural applications.
The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles (Earthscan Water Text)
by Farhana Sultana Alex LoftusThe right to clean water has been adopted by the United Nations as a basic human right. Yet how such universal calls for a right to water are understood, negotiated, experienced and struggled over remain key challenges. The Right to Water elucidates how universal calls for rights articulate with local historical geographical contexts, governance, politics and social struggles, thereby highlighting the challenges and the possibilities that exist. Bringing together a unique range of academics, policy-makers and activists, the book analyzes how struggles for the right to water have attempted to translate moral arguments over access to safe water into workable claims. This book is an intervention at a crucial moment into the shape and future direction of struggles for the right to water in a range of political, geographic and socio-economics contexts, seeking to be pro-active in defining what this struggle could mean and how it might be taken forward in a far broader transformative politics. The Right to Water engages with a range of approaches that focus on philosophical, legal and governance perspectives before seeking to apply these more abstract arguments to an array of concrete struggles and case studies. In so doing, the book builds on empirical examples from Africa, Asia, Oceania, Latin America, the Middle East, North America and the European Union.
The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles (Earthscan Water Text)
by Farhana Sultana Alex LoftusThe right to clean water has been adopted by the United Nations as a basic human right. Yet how such universal calls for a right to water are understood, negotiated, experienced and struggled over remain key challenges. The Right to Water elucidates how universal calls for rights articulate with local historical geographical contexts, governance, politics and social struggles, thereby highlighting the challenges and the possibilities that exist. Bringing together a unique range of academics, policy-makers and activists, the book analyzes how struggles for the right to water have attempted to translate moral arguments over access to safe water into workable claims. This book is an intervention at a crucial moment into the shape and future direction of struggles for the right to water in a range of political, geographic and socio-economics contexts, seeking to be pro-active in defining what this struggle could mean and how it might be taken forward in a far broader transformative politics. The Right to Water engages with a range of approaches that focus on philosophical, legal and governance perspectives before seeking to apply these more abstract arguments to an array of concrete struggles and case studies. In so doing, the book builds on empirical examples from Africa, Asia, Oceania, Latin America, the Middle East, North America and the European Union.
Biodegradable Polymer-Based Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)
by naznin sultanaThis book addresses the principles, methods and applications of biodegradable polymer based scaffolds for bone tissue engineering. The general principle of bone tissue engineering is reviewed and the traditional and novel scaffolding materials, their properties and scaffold fabrication techniques are explored. By acting as temporary synthetic extracellular matrices for cell accommodation, proliferation, and differentiation, scaffolds play a pivotal role in tissue engineering. This book does not only provide the comprehensive summary of the current trends in scaffolding design but also presents the new trends and directions for scaffold development for the ever expanding tissue engineering applications.
Composite Synthetic Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (SpringerBriefs in Materials)
by Naznin Sultana Mohd Izzat Hassan Mim Mim LimThis book addresses important biomaterials which are commonly used to fabricate scaffolds and it describes two major protocols employed in scaffold fabrication. Tissue engineering or regenerative medicine aims at restoring ex-novo tissues and organs whose functionality has been compromised as a consequence of diseases or traumatic events. The innovative concept underlying tissue engineering is the use of autologous cells, obtained from a biopsy of the patient. Cells are seeded on a porous scaffold which has the role of supporting and guiding cells towards the development of tissue-like structures as well as providing a platform for the delivery under controlled condition of growth factor release, etc. The successful manufacture of scaffolds for tissue engineering applications is crucial. In this book, these biomaterials are discussed. The book also covers illustrated examples, structure and properties of scaffolds, cellular interactions and drug delivery.
Australian Native Plants: Cultivation and Uses in the Health and Food Industries (Traditional Herbal Medicines for Modern Times)
by Yasmina Sultanbawa Fazal SultanbawaAustralian Native Plants: Cultivation and Uses in the Health and Food Industries provides a comprehensive overview of native food crops commercially grown in Australia that possess nutritional and health properties largely unknown on a global basis. These native foods have been consumed traditionally, have a unique flavor diversity, offer significant health promoting effects, and contain useful functional properties. Australian native plant foods have also been identified for their promising antioxidant and antimicrobial properties that have considerable commercial potential. This book is divided into three parts: The first part reviews the cultivation and production of many Australian native plants (ANP), including Anise Myrtle, Bush Tomato, Desert Raisin, Davidson’s Plum, Desert Limes, Australian Finger Lime, Kakadu Plum, Lemon Aspen, Lemon Myrtle, Muntries, Native Pepper, Quandong, Riberry, and Wattle Seed. It then examines the food and health applications of ANP and discusses alternative medicines based on aboriginal traditional knowledge and culture, nutritional characteristics, and bioactive compounds in ANP. In addition, it reviews the anti-obesity and anti-inflammatory properties of ANP and discusses food preservation, antimicrobial activity of ANP, and unique flavors from Australian native plants. The third section covers the commercial applications of ANP. It focuses on native Australian plant extracts and cosmetic applications, processing of native plant foods and ingredients, quality changes during packaging, and storage of Australian native herbs. The final few chapters look into the importance of value chains that connect producers and consumers of native plant foods, new market opportunities for Australian indigenous food plants, and the safety of using native foods as ingredients in the health and food sectors.
Fluid Mechanics: An Intermediate Approach
by Bijay SultanianFluid Mechanics: An Intermediate Approach addresses the problems facing engineers today by taking on practical, rather than theoretical problems. Instead of following an approach that focuses on mathematics first, this book allows you to develop an intuitive physical understanding of various fluid flows, including internal compressible flows with s
Logan's Turbomachinery: Flowpath Design and Performance Fundamentals, Third Edition (Mechanical Engineering)
by Bijay SultanianLogan's Turbomachinery: Flowpath Design and Performance Fundamentals, Third Edition is the long-awaited revision of this classic textbook, thoroughly updated by Dr. Bijay Sultanian. While the basic concepts remain constant, turbomachinery design has advanced since the Second Edition was published in 1993. Airfoils in modern turbomachines feature three-dimensional geometries, Computational Fluid Mechanics (CFD) has become a standard design tool, and major advances have been made in the materials and manufacturing technologies that affect turbomachinery design. The new edition adresses these trends to best serve today's students, and design engineers working in turbomachinery industries.
Logan's Turbomachinery: Flowpath Design and Performance Fundamentals, Third Edition (Mechanical Engineering)
by Bijay SultanianLogan's Turbomachinery: Flowpath Design and Performance Fundamentals, Third Edition is the long-awaited revision of this classic textbook, thoroughly updated by Dr. Bijay Sultanian. While the basic concepts remain constant, turbomachinery design has advanced since the Second Edition was published in 1993. Airfoils in modern turbomachines feature three-dimensional geometries, Computational Fluid Mechanics (CFD) has become a standard design tool, and major advances have been made in the materials and manufacturing technologies that affect turbomachinery design. The new edition adresses these trends to best serve today's students, and design engineers working in turbomachinery industries.
Fluid Mechanics and Turbomachinery: Problems and Solutions
by Bijay K SultanianReflecting the author’s years of industry and teaching experience, Fluid Mechanics and Turbomachinery features many innovative problems and their systematically worked solutions. To understand fundamental concepts and various conservation laws of fluid mechanics is one thing, but applying them to solve practical problems is another challenge. The book covers various topics in fluid mechanics, turbomachinery flowpath design, and internal cooling and sealing flows around rotors and stators of gas turbines. As an ideal source of numerous practice problems with detailed solutions, the book will be helpful to senior-undergraduate and graduate students, teaching faculty, and researchers engaged in many branches of fluid mechanics. It will also help practicing thermal and fluid design engineers maintain and reinforce their problem-solving skills, including primary validation of their physics-based design tools.
Fluid Mechanics and Turbomachinery: Problems and Solutions
by Bijay K SultanianReflecting the author’s years of industry and teaching experience, Fluid Mechanics and Turbomachinery features many innovative problems and their systematically worked solutions. To understand fundamental concepts and various conservation laws of fluid mechanics is one thing, but applying them to solve practical problems is another challenge. The book covers various topics in fluid mechanics, turbomachinery flowpath design, and internal cooling and sealing flows around rotors and stators of gas turbines. As an ideal source of numerous practice problems with detailed solutions, the book will be helpful to senior-undergraduate and graduate students, teaching faculty, and researchers engaged in many branches of fluid mechanics. It will also help practicing thermal and fluid design engineers maintain and reinforce their problem-solving skills, including primary validation of their physics-based design tools.
Halide Perovskites: Photovoltaics, Light Emitting Devices, and Beyond
by Tze-Chien Sum Nripan MathewsReal insight from leading experts in the field into the causes of the unique photovoltaic performance of perovskite solar cells, describing the fundamentals of perovskite materials and device architectures. The authors cover materials research and development, device fabrication and engineering methodologies, as well as current knowledge extending beyond perovskite photovoltaics, such as the novel spin physics and multiferroic properties of this family of materials. Aimed at a better and clearer understanding of the latest developments in the hybrid perovskite field, this is a must-have for material scientists, chemists, physicists and engineers entering or already working in this booming field.
Halide Perovskites: Photovoltaics, Light Emitting Devices, and Beyond
by Tze-Chien Sum Nripan MathewsReal insight from leading experts in the field into the causes of the unique photovoltaic performance of perovskite solar cells, describing the fundamentals of perovskite materials and device architectures. The authors cover materials research and development, device fabrication and engineering methodologies, as well as current knowledge extending beyond perovskite photovoltaics, such as the novel spin physics and multiferroic properties of this family of materials. Aimed at a better and clearer understanding of the latest developments in the hybrid perovskite field, this is a must-have for material scientists, chemists, physicists and engineers entering or already working in this booming field.
Inventive Systems and Control: Proceedings of ICISC 2022 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #436)
by V. Suma Zubair Baig Selvanayaki Kolandapalayam Shanmugam Pascal LorenzThis book presents selected papers from the 6th International Conference on Inventive Systems and Control (ICISC 2022), held on 6–7 January 2022 at JCT College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India. The conference proceedings of ICISC 2022 includes an analysis of the class of intelligent systems and control techniques that utilizes various artificial intelligence technologies, where there is no mathematical models and system available to make them remain controlled. Inspired by various existing intelligent techniques, the primary goal of ICISC 2022 proceedings is to present the emerging innovative models to tackle the challenges faced by the existing computing and communication technologies.
Evolutionary Computing and Mobile Sustainable Networks: Proceedings of ICECMSN 2020 (Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies #53)
by V. Suma Noureddine Bouhmala Haoxiang WangThis book features selected research papers presented at the International Conference on Evolutionary Computing and Mobile Sustainable Networks (ICECMSN 2020), held at the Sir M. Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology on 20–21 February 2020. Discussing advances in evolutionary computing technologies, including swarm intelligence algorithms and other evolutionary algorithm paradigms which are emerging as widely accepted descriptors for mobile sustainable networks virtualization, optimization and automation, this book is a valuable resource for researchers in the field of evolutionary computing and mobile sustainable networks.
Evolutionary Computing and Mobile Sustainable Networks: Proceedings of ICECMSN 2021 (Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies #116)
by V. Suma Xavier Fernando Ke-Lin Du Haoxiang WangThis book mainly reflects the recent research works in evolutionary computation technologies and mobile sustainable networks with a specific focus on computational intelligence and communication technologies that widely ranges from theoretical foundations to practical applications in enhancing the sustainability of mobile networks. Today, network sustainability has become a significant research domain in both academia and industries present across the globe. Also, the network sustainability paradigm has generated a solution for existing optimization challenges in mobile communication networks. Recently, the research advances in evolutionary computing technologies including swarm intelligence algorithms and other evolutionary algorithm paradigms are considered as the widely accepted descriptors for mobile sustainable networks virtualization, optimization, and automation. To deal with the emerging impacts on mobile communication networks, this book discusses about the state-of-the research works on developing a sustainable design and their implementation in mobile networks. With the advent of evolutionary computation algorithms, this book contributes varied research chapters to develop a new perspective on mobile sustainable networks.
Inventive Systems and Control: Proceedings of ICISC 2021 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #204)
by V. Suma Joy Iong-Zong Chen Zubair Baig Haoxiang WangThis book presents selected papers from the 5th International Conference on Inventive Systems and Control (ICISC 2021), held on 7–8 January 2021 at JCT College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India. The book includes an analysis of the class of intelligent systems and control techniques that utilises various artificial intelligence technologies, where there are no mathematical models and systems available to make them remain controlled. Inspired by various existing intelligent techniques, the primary goal is to present the emerging innovative models to tackle the challenges faced by the existing computing and communication technologies. The proceedings of ICISC 2021 aim at presenting the state-of-the-art research developments, trends, and solutions for the challenges faced by the intelligent systems and control community with the real-world applications. The included research articles feature the novel and unpublished research works on intelligent system representation and control.
Inventive Systems and Control: Proceedings of ICISC 2023 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #672)
by V. Suma Pascal Lorenz Zubair BaigThis book presents selected papers from the 7th International Conference on Inventive Systems and Control (ICISC 2023), held on January 30–31, 2023, at JCT College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India. The conference proceedings of ICISC 2023 include an analysis of the class of intelligent systems and control techniques that utilizes various artificial intelligence technologies, where there are no mathematical models and system available to make them remain controlled. Inspired by various existing intelligent techniques, the primary goal of ICISC 2023 proceedings is to present the emerging innovative models to tackle the challenges faced by the existing computing and communication technologies.
Immunodiagnostic Technologies from Laboratory to Point-Of-Care Testing
by Pankaj Suman Pranjal ChandraThis book presents the timeline of immunodiagnostics evolution, including advancements in immunological/nucleic acid probes, assay design, labelling techniques, and devices for signal transduction and acquisition. In the past few years, enzyme and nanocatalyst-based immune assays have undergone numerous modifications to enhance their sensitivity and potential for automation. Further, to reduce production costs and the use of laboratory animals, engineering small antibodies and nucleic acid probes (aptamers) has become increasingly popular in the development of novel and powerful bioassays. In light of the notable advancements in immunodiagnostics, this book highlights the combined efforts of clinicians, biotechnologists, material scientists, nanotechnologists and basic scientists in a coherent and highly structured way. The book takes readers on the journey of immunodiagnostic technologies, from their introduction to the present.
Hospitality and Tourism: Synergizing Creativity and Innovation in Research
by Norzuwana Sumarjan Mohi Zurinawati Zainal Artinah Saiful Bakhtiar Mohd Hafizullah Mohd Hafiz Mohd Hanafiah Bakhtiar Mohd Faeez Saiful Hanafiah Mohd Hafiz Mohd Zahari Mohd Salehuddin Mohd Radzi Salleh MohdHospitality and Tourism - Synergizing creativity and innovation in research contains 116 accepted papers from the International Hospitality and Tourism Postgraduate Conference 2013 (Shah Alam, Malaysia, 2 3 September 2013). The book presents trends and practical ideas in the area of hospitality and tourism, and is divided into the sections below:-