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This book is the proceedings of the International Conference on Power Engineering-2007. The fields of this book include power engineering and relevant environmental issues. The recent technological advances in power engineering and related areas are introduced. This book is valuable for researchers, engineers and students majoring in power engineering.

Engineering. --- Energy Technology. --- Electric engineering. --- Ingénierie --- Electric power production --Congresses. --- Heat engineering --Congresses. --- Nuclear engineering --Congresses. --- Power (Mechanics) --Congresses. --- Electric power production --- Power (Mechanics) --- Energy. --- Electric power production. --- Electrical engineering. --- Electrical Engineering. --- Energy, general. --- Computer engineering. --- Energy Systems. --- Computers --- Design and construction --- Energy systems. --- Electric engineering --- Engineering

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This book guides through general and fundamental problems of pressure vessel design. It moreover considers also problems which seem to be of lower importance but which turn out to be crucial in the design phase. The basic approach is rigorously scientific with a complete theoretical development of the topics treated, but the analysis is always pushed so far as to offer concrete and precise calculation criteria that can be immediately applied to actual designs. This is accomplished through appropriate algorithms that lead to final equations or to characteristic parameters defined through mathematical equations. The first chapter describes how to achieve verification criteria, the second analyzes a few general problems, such as stresses of the membrane in revolution solids and edge effects. The third chapter deals with cylinders under pressure from the inside, while the fourth focuses on cylinders under pressure from the outside. The fifth chapter covers spheres, and the sixth is about all types of heads. Chapter seven discusses different components of particular shape as well as pipes, with special attention to flanges. The eighth chapter discusses the influence of holes, while the ninth is devoted to the influence of supports. Finally, chapter ten illustrates the fundamental criteria regarding fatigue analysis. Besides the unique approach to the entire work, original contributions can be found in most chapters, thanks to the author’s numerous publications on the topic and to studies performed ad hoc for this book.

Pressure vessels --- High pressure (Science) --- Design and construction. --- Pressure --- Engineering. --- Mechanics. --- Mechanics, Applied. --- Engineering design. --- Machinery and Machine Elements. --- Solid Mechanics. --- Engineering Design. --- Design, Engineering --- Engineering --- Industrial design --- Strains and stresses --- Applied mechanics --- Engineering, Mechanical --- Engineering mathematics --- Classical mechanics --- Newtonian mechanics --- Physics --- Dynamics --- Quantum theory --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Design --- Machinery. --- Machinery --- Machines --- Manufactures --- Power (Mechanics) --- Mechanical engineering --- Motors --- Power transmission --- Curious devices

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Ancient China was outstanding in mechanical technology before the 15th century. Numerous ingenious machines were invented. However, due to incomplete documentation and loss of finished objects, most of the original machines cannot be verified and many of the inventions did not pass down to later generations. This book, based on the author’s research and teaching experiences over the last 20 years, is devoted to presenting an innovative methodology in the area of mechanical historiography for the systematic reconstruction design of ancient Chinese machines that have been lost to time. Its purpose is to generate all possible design concepts of lost machines. If the defined and/or concluded design specifications, topological characteristics, and - sign requirements and constraints are feasible, one of the resulting reconstruction designs should be the original design. Such an approach provides a logical tool for historians in ancient mechanical engineering and technology to further identify the possible original designs according to proven historical archives. However, this work will not deal with the credibility of historical literary works. It supposes that the lost machines existed, and tries to demonstrate the feasibility of reconstructing the lost designs. The book is organized in such a way that it can be used for teaching, research or self-study. Chapter 1 introduces the study, classifications, and process for the reconstruction design of ancient machinery.

Machinery --- Machine design --- History. --- Engineering design --- Machines --- Manufactures --- Power (Mechanics) --- Technology --- Mechanical engineering --- Motors --- Power transmission --- Design --- Design and construction --- Curious devices --- Engineering. --- Mechanical engineering. --- Machinery and Machine Elements. --- History of Science. --- Mechanical Engineering. --- Engineering, Mechanical --- Engineering --- Steam engineering --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Machinery.

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This is the ?rst volume of a series of edited books whose aim is to collect contributed papers in a framework that can serve as a dictionary of names of individuals who have made contributions to the discipline of MMS (Me- anism and Machine Science). This dictionary project has the peculiarity that, through descriptions of the ideas and work of these individuals, the papers will illustrate mainly technical developments in the historical evolution of the individual ?elds that today de?ne the scope of MMS. Thus the core of each contribution will be a survey of biographical notes describing the efforts and experiences of these people. Finding appropriate technical experts as authors for such papers and - couraging them to write them has been a challenge; it is a demanding and time-consuming effort to produce such in-depth articles that delve deeply into the historical background of their topics of expertise. This ?rst volume of the dictionary project has been possible thanks to the invited authors who have enthusiastically shared the initiative and have spent time and effort in prep- ing papers that have the novel characteristics of survey and historical notes. The papers in this volume cover the wide ?eld of the History of Mechanical Engineering with speci?c focus on MMS. I believe that a reader who takes advantage of the papers in this book, as well as future ones, will ?nd further satisfaction and motivation for her or his work (historical or not).

Production management --- Machine elements --- Pure sciences. Natural sciences (general) --- DFMA (design for manufacture and assembly) --- Materials sciences --- wetenschapsgeschiedenis --- machines --- Mechanical engineering --- Mechanical engineers --- History. --- Engineers --- Engineering design. --- Engineering. --- Engineering Design. --- Machinery and Machine Elements. --- History of Science. --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Design, Engineering --- Engineering --- Industrial design --- Strains and stresses --- Design --- Machinery. --- Machinery --- Machines --- Manufactures --- Power (Mechanics) --- Motors --- Power transmission --- Curious devices

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Engineering sciences. Technology --- History of civilization --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Machinery --- History --- 930.85.44 --- Cultuurgeschiedenis: Renaissance --- Maschine --- Maschine. --- Motiv (Literatur) --- Technik --- Renaissance. --- Literatur. --- Maschine --- Renaissance --- History. --- Geschichte --- Geschichte 1420-1600 --- Renaissance (Epoche). --- Geschichte 1450-1500. --- Geschichte 1500-1600. --- Motiv (Literatur). --- Technik . --- Maschine . --- Geschichte. --- Geschichte 1420-1600. --- 930.85.44 Cultuurgeschiedenis: Renaissance --- Machines --- Manufactures --- Power (Mechanics) --- Technology --- Mechanical engineering --- Motors --- Power transmission --- Curious devices --- Machinery - History