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This volume presents an integrated approach of the common fundamentals of rail and road vehicles based on multibody system dynamics, rolling wheel contact and control system design. The mathematical methods presented allow an efficient and reliable analysis of the resulting state equations, and may also be used to review simulation results from commercial vehicle dynamics software. The book provides also a better understanding of the basic physical phenomena of vehicle dynamics most important for the engineering practice in research and in industry. Particular attention will be paid to developments of future rail and road vehicles including motorcycles.

Engineering. --- Automotive Engineering. --- Ingénierie --- Motor vehicles --- Dynamics. --- Dynamics --- Mathematical models. --- Automatic control. --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Automotive engineering.

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Nanocrystals and Their Mesoscopic Organization is an up-to-date monograph on an important aspect of nanoscience and technology. It opens with an elegant introduction including a brief historical account. Emphasis is then given to diverse synthetic methods, both chemical and physical, in addition to modern hybrid methods. The orientation shifts gradually to properties of nanocrystals that evolve with size; detailed discussions are to be found on mesoscalar assemblies in different dimensions, special cases of core-shell and magic nuclearity nanocrystals. The authors also address applications of nanocrystals, carefully separating out potential applications and those that have already emerged, and cite around 900 references from the literature, most from the last decade. Tables providing information at a glance and schematic diagrams at relevant places, make the monograph appealing to read. Occasionally, the reader is reminded of the contributions of celebrated past masters such as Michael Faraday. In summary, the monograph serves as a general introduction as well as a handy reference for the entire community of researchers and practitioners.

Nanotechnology --- Materials science --- Engineering --- Optical materials --- Electronic materials --- Physical chemistry --- Physics --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Chemistry, Theoretical --- Theoretical chemistry --- Chemistry --- Optics --- Materials --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Material science --- Molecular technology --- Nanoscale technology --- High technology

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Manufacturing in Europe is under great pressure from structural changes in the global economy. The high technical, social and cultural standards in Europe mean that our manufacturing enterprises lead the world but inevitably production and consumption continues to migrate to regions that allow higher profitability from lower costs of production with the promise of new markets. Structural changes in European industries will influence employment and welfare. However, there are signs of a new High-Adding-Value industrial revolution. This book has the answers that will allow us to avoid the negative consequences of this migration. A new model of future manufacturing - ManuFuture - has been forged in discussion with the world's leading scientists in manufacturing and many experts from research, industry and economic policy. The results of this, the road to competitive and sustainable manufacturing, are captured in this fundamental book. The generic Model of ManuFuture, a Vision 2020 and a Strategic Research Agenda and the proactive initiatives required are presented here. They show the approach to manufacturing in the age of knowledge and the actions that must be taken.

Industrial economics --- Production management --- industriële marketing --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- Plant and equipment --- ingenieurswetenschappen --- machines --- Manufacturing processes. --- 658.5 --- Industrial processing --- Manufacture --- Process engineering (Manufactures) --- Processes, Manufacturing --- Processing, Industrial --- Production processes --- Industrial arts --- Production engineering --- Machine-tools --- Materials --- 658.5 Production engineering and planning. Design. Production management and control --- Production engineering and planning. Design. Production management and control --- Manufacturing processes

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Whereas science, technology, and medicine have all called forth dedicated philosophical investigations, a fourth major contributor to the technoscientific world in which we all live - that is, engineering - has been accorded almost none of the philosophical attention it deserves. This volume thus offers a first characterisation of this important new field, by some of the primary philosophers and ethicists interested in engineering and leading engineers interested in philosophical reflections. The volume deals with such questions as: What is engineering? In what respect does engineering differ from science? What ethical problems does engineering raise? By what ethical principles are engineers guided? How do engineers themselves conceive of their profession? What do they see as the main philosophical challenges confronting them in the 21st century? The authors respond to these and other questions from philosophical and engineering view points and so illustrate how together they can meet the challenges and realize the opportunities present in the necessary encounters between philosophy and engineering - encounters that are ever more important in an increasingly engineered world and its problematic futures.

Philosophy. --- Philosophy of Technology. --- Engineering, general. --- Engineering Design. --- Modern Philosophy. --- Philosophy of Science. --- Ethics. --- Philosophy (General). --- Philosophy, modern. --- Science --- Technology --- Engineering. --- Engineering design. --- Morale --- Sciences --- Technologie --- Ingénierie --- Conception technique --- Philosophie --- Engineering --- Philosophie. --- Technik. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Ethics, Engineering --- Professional ethics --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Philosophy

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This book elucidates the methods of molecular gas dynamics or rarefied gas dynamics which treat the problems of gas flows when the discrete molecular effects of the gas prevail under the circumstances of low density, the emphases being stressed on the basis of the methods, the direct simulation Monte Carlo method applied to the simulation of non-equilibrium effects and the frontier subjects related to low speed microscale rarefied gas flows. It provides a solid basis for the study of molecular gas dynamics for senior students and graduates in the aerospace and mechanical engineering departments of universities and colleges. It gives a general acquaintance of modern developments of rarefied gas dynamics in various regimes and leads to the frontier topics of non-equilibrium rarefied gas dynamics and low speed microscale gas dynamics. It will be also of benefit to the scientific and technical researchers engaged in aerospace high altitude aerodynamic force and heating design and in the research on gas flow in MEMS.

Applied physical engineering --- Thermodynamics --- nanotechniek --- Fluid mechanics --- mechanica --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- ingenieurswetenschappen --- Electrical engineering --- BIT (biochemische ingenieurstechnieken) --- vloeistoffen --- thermodynamica --- Classical mechanics. Field theory --- Engineering. --- Chemical engineering. --- Nanotechnology. --- Rarefied gas dynamics. --- Gas dynamics. --- Molecular technology --- Nanoscale technology --- High technology --- Chemistry, Industrial --- Engineering, Chemical --- Industrial chemistry --- Engineering --- Chemistry, Technical --- Metallurgy --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Gasdynamics --- Fluid dynamics --- Superaerodynamics --- Fluid dynamics (Space environment) --- Gas dynamics