Because the existing terms used in specifying nano precision mechanisms (accuracy, precision, linearity) are subject to ambiguous international standards, this book defines and clarifies the terms in a full glossary and includes general descriptions of the core technologies involved.

Nanopositioning Book: Moving and Measuring to Better Than a Nanometre

Engineering & Transportation

Hicks, Thomas R.

Engineering

Kogan Page Science

Originally published in 2000, this book seeks to identify the basis of calculations concerned with composite structures. It uses continuum mechanics to facilitate the treatment of more elaborate theories dealing with individual layers in laminated composites, both of anisotropic and orthotropic materials. Multi-layer plates are also considered, and beam behavior is described as it changes under various conditions. Decolon teaches mechanics at the Conservatoire National des Arts et MTtiers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Analysis of Composite Structures

DECOLON, Christian

This volume is from the "Mechanical Vibration and Shock" five-volume study. The relative and absolute response of a mechanical system to one degree with freedom is considered for arbitrary excitation, and its transfer function defined in various forms. The characteristics of sinusoidal vibration are placed in the context both of the real world and of laboratory tests, and transient and steady state response of the single-degree-of-freedom system. First viscous damping and then non-linear damping is considered. The various types of sine-sweep and their properties are described and, for the one-degree-of-freedom system, the consequences of an inappropriate choice of sweep rate are considered. From the latter, rules governing the choice of suitable sweep rates are developed.

Mechanical Vibrations and Shocks (Mechanical Vibration & Shock) (v. 1)

Christian Lalanne

Three leading areas of information about turbo codes, a new type of correction code, are examined: the construction of concatenated codes and their properties, the problems of decoding, and the extension of turbo codes to other applications.

Turbo Codes: Error-Correcting Codes of Widening Application (Innovative Technology Series: Information Systems and Networks)

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

Recent developments to wireless networks bring with them the questions of service offers, service management, service control, and quality of service that are examined in this collection of perspectives on emerging wireless technologies.

Applications & Services in Wireless Networks (Innovative Technology Series: Information Systems and Networks)

Certification

Various uses of intelligent agent software within a production system are examined, as are their applications to practical industrial problems.

Intelligent Agent-Based Operations Management (Prentice Hall Series in Innovative Technology,)

Business Technology

The range of recent developments in the field of ‘mechatronics’—devices that combine mechanical structures with electronic controls—is demonstrated in these descriptions of fingertip manipulation, obstacle detection, micromanipulation of biological objects, ultra-high precision microrobotics, and an insect-like robot.

Recent Trends in Mechatronics

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