This book presents the proceedings of a high-level invited workshop in Mainz, Germany in June 1991, held under the auspices of RILEM, The US National Science Foundation, the German Research Community and the American Concrete Instit... more »

Written by a tribological expert with more than thirty years of experience in the field, this Second Edition compiles an extensive range of graphs, tables, micrographs, and drawings to illustrate wear, friction, and lubrication behavior in modern engineering applications. This volume promotes a clear ... more »

This 600 page textbook must be a good candidate for being the authoritative reference on its subject....This book reveals all through a good, clear text amply illustrated... The authors and publisher are to be congratulated on an excellent production.--The Naval Review Well organized, clear and easy ... more »

The need for a comprehensive book on spillways and energy dissipators has been increasing for a long time. This book explores all aspects of spillways and energy dissipators with adequate coverage of recent advances in the field and brings out a comprehensive treatise in research and design. Drawing ... more »

This comprehensive reference presents an introduction and review of the optics and methods of microoptic elements with particular emphasis on lenses and lens arrays. Microoptics Technology, Second Edition includes new information that has emerged in the five years since the first edition. With two new ... more »

This book surveys the broad field of mechanical alloying from a scientific and technological perspective to form a timely and comprehensive resource valuable to both students and researchers. The treatment progresses from the historical background through a description of the process, the different metastable ... more »

The second edition of this bestseller continues to serve as a primary source of information on the assessment, remediation, and control of contamination on and below the ground surface. Practical Handbook of Soil, Vadose Zone, and Ground-Water Contamination: Assessment, Prevention, and Remediation, Second ... more »

This handbook presents the outlook for future production and consumption of MTBE and other oxygenates worldwide and studies new catalytic systems and modern methods for the synthesis and commercial production of methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) and related ethers. The scope of this sophisticated guide ... more »

The Handbook delivers an authoritative and practical account of methods that incorporate human capabilities and limitations, environmental factors, human-machine interaction, and other factors into system design. It describes 83 methods in a standardized format, promoting the use of methods that may ... more »

This book is a comprehensive manual, which gives costs for both general and civil engineering works and highway works, and shows a full breakdown of labour, plant and material elements. more » more »

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Nonlinear Optics probes in great depth quadratic and cubic nonlinearities, photorefractive nonlinear optics, the nonlinear optical properties of nematic liquid crystals, and photonic bandgap structures. This reference places core physical principles and theoretical concepts in dialogue with contemporary ... more »