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This work presents a universal decentralized control strategy for grid-based high-density material flow systems with automated guided vehicles and gives insights into the system behavior as well as the solution quality.

compact --- Materialflusssysteme --- storage systems --- kompakt --- hochdicht --- automated guided vehicles --- material flow systems --- high density --- Lagersysteme --- Fahrerlose Transportsysteme

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This book makes the case for why we should care about islands and their sustainability. Islands are hotspots of biocultural diversity and home to 600 million people that depend on one-sixth of the earth’s total area, including the surrounding oceans, for their subsistence. Today, they are at the frontlines of climate change and face an existential crisis. Islands are, however, potential “hubs of innovation” that are uniquely positioned to be leaders in sustainability and climate action. This volume argues that a full-fledged program on “island industrial ecology” is urgently needed, with the aim of offering policy-relevant insights and strategies to sustain small islands in an era of global environmental change. The nine contributions in this volume cover a wide range of applications of socio-metabolic research, from flow accounts to stock analysis and their relationship to services in space and time. They offer insights into how reconfiguring patterns of resource use will allow island governments to build resilience and adapt to the challenges of climate change.

Research & information: general --- Biology, life sciences --- Ecological science, the Biosphere --- plastics --- Trinidad and Tobago --- institutional --- metabolism --- waste management --- islands --- public-private partnerships --- social metabolism --- island metabolism --- quiet sustainability --- Faroe Islands --- landesque capital --- historical political ecology --- overgrazing --- soil erosion --- rural abandonment --- sedentary extensive livestock systems --- Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) --- socio-ecological systems --- material flow analysis (MFA) --- mixed methods approach --- material stock analysis --- demolition of buildings --- GIS --- climate change --- global warming --- island sociometabolic regime --- transdisciplinary research --- real-world learning lab for sustainability transition --- livestock herding, subsidies and overgrazing --- tourism infrastructure --- UNESCO Biosphere Reserves --- MFA --- nexus approach --- industrial waste --- metabolic profile --- holarchy --- holon --- industrial ecology --- material flow analysis --- hurricane Irma --- territorial metabolism --- island waste management --- post-disaster stock and flow evolution --- Antigua and Barbuda --- tourism --- small island developing states (SIDS) --- island sustainability --- resource use and efficiency --- construction materials --- geographical information systems (GIS) --- island industrial ecology --- socio-metabolic research --- metabolic risk --- socio-metabolic collapse

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This book makes the case for why we should care about islands and their sustainability. Islands are hotspots of biocultural diversity and home to 600 million people that depend on one-sixth of the earth’s total area, including the surrounding oceans, for their subsistence. Today, they are at the frontlines of climate change and face an existential crisis. Islands are, however, potential “hubs of innovation” that are uniquely positioned to be leaders in sustainability and climate action. This volume argues that a full-fledged program on “island industrial ecology” is urgently needed, with the aim of offering policy-relevant insights and strategies to sustain small islands in an era of global environmental change. The nine contributions in this volume cover a wide range of applications of socio-metabolic research, from flow accounts to stock analysis and their relationship to services in space and time. They offer insights into how reconfiguring patterns of resource use will allow island governments to build resilience and adapt to the challenges of climate change.

Research & information: general --- Biology, life sciences --- Ecological science, the Biosphere --- plastics --- Trinidad and Tobago --- institutional --- metabolism --- waste management --- islands --- public-private partnerships --- social metabolism --- island metabolism --- quiet sustainability --- Faroe Islands --- landesque capital --- historical political ecology --- overgrazing --- soil erosion --- rural abandonment --- sedentary extensive livestock systems --- Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) --- socio-ecological systems --- material flow analysis (MFA) --- mixed methods approach --- material stock analysis --- demolition of buildings --- GIS --- climate change --- global warming --- island sociometabolic regime --- transdisciplinary research --- real-world learning lab for sustainability transition --- livestock herding, subsidies and overgrazing --- tourism infrastructure --- UNESCO Biosphere Reserves --- MFA --- nexus approach --- industrial waste --- metabolic profile --- holarchy --- holon --- industrial ecology --- material flow analysis --- hurricane Irma --- territorial metabolism --- island waste management --- post-disaster stock and flow evolution --- Antigua and Barbuda --- tourism --- small island developing states (SIDS) --- island sustainability --- resource use and efficiency --- construction materials --- geographical information systems (GIS) --- island industrial ecology --- socio-metabolic research --- metabolic risk --- socio-metabolic collapse --- plastics --- Trinidad and Tobago --- institutional --- metabolism --- waste management --- islands --- public-private partnerships --- social metabolism --- island metabolism --- quiet sustainability --- Faroe Islands --- landesque capital --- historical political ecology --- overgrazing --- soil erosion --- rural abandonment --- sedentary extensive livestock systems --- Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) --- socio-ecological systems --- material flow analysis (MFA) --- mixed methods approach --- material stock analysis --- demolition of buildings --- GIS --- climate change --- global warming --- island sociometabolic regime --- transdisciplinary research --- real-world learning lab for sustainability transition --- livestock herding, subsidies and overgrazing --- tourism infrastructure --- UNESCO Biosphere Reserves --- MFA --- nexus approach --- industrial waste --- metabolic profile --- holarchy --- holon --- industrial ecology --- material flow analysis --- hurricane Irma --- territorial metabolism --- island waste management --- post-disaster stock and flow evolution --- Antigua and Barbuda --- tourism --- small island developing states (SIDS) --- island sustainability --- resource use and efficiency --- construction materials --- geographical information systems (GIS) --- island industrial ecology --- socio-metabolic research --- metabolic risk --- socio-metabolic collapse

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The demand for aluminum alloys is increasing because of their lightness, high specific strength and other attractive properties, which can exploited in improved products for a greener environment. This book gives a correlation between the processing, microstructure and properties of several aluminium alloys. Some of them are well established and used in an enormous number of applications, while others are still under development. The processing spans from casting, rapid solidification, additive manufacturing, forming, heat-treatment and welding, which can produce interesting microstructures and a useful combination of properties.

Al alloy --- laser induced arc hybrid welding --- heat treatment --- microstructure --- wrought aluminium alloy --- homogenization annealing --- thermodynamic equilibrium --- intermetallic phases --- differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) --- characterization methods --- scalability --- mechanical properties --- aluminium alloys --- aluminium --- ageing --- quasicrystal --- transmission electron microscopy --- aluminium alloy --- SLM --- auxetic structures --- numerical analysis --- fatigue --- Al alloy 7075-T6 --- ultrasonic fatigue --- artificial pits --- pre-corrosion --- crack initiation --- 7xxx aluminum series --- early precipitation stages --- corrosion --- Al3(Sc,Zr) particles --- annihilation of positrons --- activation energy --- material flow --- asymmetric weld --- tensile strength --- VPPA --- aluminum alloy AA5083 --- rapid solidification --- melt spinning --- high-strength aluminum --- extrusion --- bimodal microstructure --- precipitations

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The demand for aluminum alloys is increasing because of their lightness, high specific strength and other attractive properties, which can exploited in improved products for a greener environment. This book gives a correlation between the processing, microstructure and properties of several aluminium alloys. Some of them are well established and used in an enormous number of applications, while others are still under development. The processing spans from casting, rapid solidification, additive manufacturing, forming, heat-treatment and welding, which can produce interesting microstructures and a useful combination of properties.

Technology: general issues --- Al alloy --- laser induced arc hybrid welding --- heat treatment --- microstructure --- wrought aluminium alloy --- homogenization annealing --- thermodynamic equilibrium --- intermetallic phases --- differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) --- characterization methods --- scalability --- mechanical properties --- aluminium alloys --- aluminium --- ageing --- quasicrystal --- transmission electron microscopy --- aluminium alloy --- SLM --- auxetic structures --- numerical analysis --- fatigue --- Al alloy 7075-T6 --- ultrasonic fatigue --- artificial pits --- pre-corrosion --- crack initiation --- 7xxx aluminum series --- early precipitation stages --- corrosion --- Al3(Sc,Zr) particles --- annihilation of positrons --- activation energy --- material flow --- asymmetric weld --- tensile strength --- VPPA --- aluminum alloy AA5083 --- rapid solidification --- melt spinning --- high-strength aluminum --- extrusion --- bimodal microstructure --- precipitations --- Al alloy --- laser induced arc hybrid welding --- heat treatment --- microstructure --- wrought aluminium alloy --- homogenization annealing --- thermodynamic equilibrium --- intermetallic phases --- differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) --- characterization methods --- scalability --- mechanical properties --- aluminium alloys --- aluminium --- ageing --- quasicrystal --- transmission electron microscopy --- aluminium alloy --- SLM --- auxetic structures --- numerical analysis --- fatigue --- Al alloy 7075-T6 --- ultrasonic fatigue --- artificial pits --- pre-corrosion --- crack initiation --- 7xxx aluminum series --- early precipitation stages --- corrosion --- Al3(Sc,Zr) particles --- annihilation of positrons --- activation energy --- material flow --- asymmetric weld --- tensile strength --- VPPA --- aluminum alloy AA5083 --- rapid solidification --- melt spinning --- high-strength aluminum --- extrusion --- bimodal microstructure --- precipitations