Resilience engineering depends on four abilities: the ability a) to respond to what happens, b) to monitor critical developments, c) to anticipate future threats and opportunities, and d) to learn ...from past experience - successes as well as failures. They provide a structured way of analysing problems and proposing practical solutions. This book is divided into four sections which describe issues relating to each of the four abilities. The section's chapters emphasise practical ways of engineering resilience, featuring case studies and real applications.
Design research is a fast-growing field of inquiry with significant importance in terms of helping society to create products and processes of improved quality and for enhancing the environment in ...which we live. The step-wise, hands-on approach of DRM studies the ways in which design research can best be undertaken to address specific questions. This study gives rise, for the first time, to a generic and systematic design research methodology intended to improve the quality of design research – its academic credibility, industrial significance and societal contribution – by enabling more thorough, efficient and effective procedures. Professors Blessing and Chakrabarti provide a comprehensive list of types of design research linked to appropriate research methods – familiar as well as new – and supported by illustrative examples throughout the text. Furthermore, the book points the way to more detailed sources of various established research methods that can be applied. The practical emphasis of the text is reinforced by a whole section of design research project examples contributed by eminent design researchers and placed in the context of the proposed methodology to demonstrate the application of the variety of approaches available in a structured fashion. DRM, a Design Research Methodology, speaks to a broad readership: it will provide the graduate student with an excellent grounding in good design research practice, inculcating good habits of research for the future and showing how the process of understanding and improving design can become more effective and efficient, it will interest the academic and industrial researcher as a source of useful and well-ordered methods within a common design research ethos, as well as a methodological framework for research projects and programmes, it will attract the supervisors of young researchers by offering research methods and a well-thought-out and logically structured research process for u
Dieses Buch ist eine „Open Access“-Publikation zum Stand der Entwicklung der Elektromobilität. Ohne Zweifel: Die Automobilindustrie befindet sich in einem tiefgreifenden Wandel. Mit der ...Elektromobilität verändern sich bisherige Fahrzeug- und Antriebskonzepte grundlegend. Bestimmt durch neue Fahrzeugkomponenten wie die Batterie, die Leistungselektronik, der Elektromotor und die Brennstoffzelle, verändert sich der gesamte Wertschöpfungsprozess. Dieses Werk liefert einen umfassenden Überblick zu den Herausforderungen und Lösungen in sämtlichen Bereichen: von der Produktentwicklung über die Herstellung von Elektrofahrzeugen bis hin zum Aufbau einer Infrastruktur, zu neuartigen Geschäftsmodellen und den Potentialen der Nachhaltigkeit. Wie weit reicht die Geschichte der Elektromobilität zurück? Welche spezifischen Systeme finden sich im Elektromobil wieder und wie werden sie bis hin zum gesamten Fahrzeug hergestellt? Welchen technischen und gesetzlich-regulatorischen Rahmenbedingungen unterliegt die E-Mobilität? Wie ist es um die notwendige Infrastruktur bestellt? Welche neuen Geschäftsmodelle entstehen entlang der elektromobilen Wertschöpfungskette? Und wie nachhaltig ist die Elektromobilität tatsächlich? Antworten auf diese und andere Fragen liefert dieses Buch in sieben informativen Kapiteln. Für die dritte Auflage wurden sämtliche Inhalte neu strukturiert und auf den aktuellen Stand der technologischen Entwicklung gebracht. ; Hier finden Sie das Grundlagenwissen sowie Zukunftsfragen der Elektromobilität Lesen Sie Beiträge von hoch anerkannten Experten der Elektromobilität Mit eigenem Kapitel zur Produktion von Antriebskomponenten
Dieses Open Access Buch befasst sich in 22 Kapiteln von 41 Autoren aus Wissenschaft und Praxis mit einer Sammlung unabhängiger Beiträge, die den heutigen Stand der Forschung und Technik im Bereich ...der Echtzeitsimulation von Maschinen und Anlagen aufzeigen. Neben Forschungsergebnissen wird der erfolgreiche Transfer in die Praxis anhand ausgewählter Beispiele vorgestellt. Das Sammelwerk umfasst das Themenspektrum von der Echtzeitsimulation für die Virtuelle Inbetriebnahme über deren Einsatz in der Entwicklungs- und Betriebsphase bis hin zur Nutzung von Simulationsmodellen in Steuerungsfunktionen.
This proven and internationally recognized text teaches the methods of engineering design as a condition of successful product development. It breaks down the design process into phases and then into ...distinct steps, each with its own working methods.
In the process industries, stiction is the most common performance-limiting valve problem and over the last decade numerous different techniques for overcoming it have been proposed.This book ...represents a comprehensive presentation of these methods, including their principles, assumptions, strengths and drawbacks. Guidelines and working procedures are provided for the implementation of each method and MATLAB®-based software can be downloaded from www.ualberta.ca/~bhuang/stiction-book enabling readers to apply the methods to their own data. Methods for the limitation of stiction effects are proposed within the general context of: oscillation detection in control loops, stiction detection, diagnosis and stiction quantification and diagnosis of multiple faults.The state-of-the-art algorithms presented in this book are demonstrated and compared in industrial case studies of diverse origin - chemicals, building, mining, pulp and paper, mineral and metal processing.
Soft sensors are inferential estimators, drawing conclusions from process observations when hardware sensors are unavailable or unsuitable, they have an important auxiliary role in sensor validation ...when performance declines through senescence or fault accumulation. The non-linear behaviour exhibited by many industrial processes can be usefully modelled with the techniques of computational intelligence: neural networks, fuzzy systems and nonlinear partial least squares. Soft Sensors for Monitoring and Control of Industrial Processes underlines the real usefulness of each approach and the sensitivity of the individual steps in soft-sensor design to the choice of one or the other. Design paths are suggested and readers shown how to evaluate the effects of their choices. All the case studies reported, resulting from collaborations between the authors and a number of industrial partners, raised challenging soft-sensor-design problems. The applications of soft sensors presented in this volume are designed to cope with the whole range from measuring system backup and what-if analysis through real-time prediction for plant control to sensor diagnosis and validation. Some of the soft sensors developed here are implemented on-line at industrial plants. Features: soft-sensor design, advice on data selection and choice of model structure, model validation, strategies for the improvement of soft-sensor performance, uses of soft sensors in fault detection and sensor validation, soft sensors in use in industrial applications such as a debutanizer column and a sulfur recovery unit. This monograph guides interested readers - researchers, graduate students and industrial process technologists - through the design of their own soft sensors. It is self-contained with full references and appraisal of existing literature and data sets for some of the case studies can be downloaded from springer.com.
This open access book offers a timely guide to challenges and current practices to permanently plug and abandon hydrocarbon wells. With a focus on offshore North Sea, it analyzes the process of plug ...and abandonment of hydrocarbon wells through the establishment of permanent well barriers. It provides the reader with extensive knowledge on the type of barriers, their functioning and verification. It then discusses plug and abandonment methodologies, analyzing different types of permanent plugging materials. Last, it describes some tests for verifying the integrity and functionality of installed permanent barriers. The book offers a comprehensive reference guide to well plugging and abandonment (P&A) and well integrity testing. The book also presents new technologies that have been proposed to be used in plugging and abandoning of wells, which might be game-changing technologies, but they are still in laboratory or testing level. Given its scope, it addresses students and researchers in both academia and industry. It also provides information for engineers who work in petroleum industry and should be familiarized with P&A of hydrocarbon wells to reduce the time of P&A by considering it during well planning and construction.
Vehicle Propulsion Systems Guzzella, Lino; Sciarretta, Antonio
2007, 2005, 2005-08-02, 2007-09-28, 20050401, c2005
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In this book the longitudinal behavior of road vehicles is analyzed. The main emphasis is on the analysis and minimization of the fuel and energy consumption. Most approaches to this problem enhance ...the complexity of the vehicle system by adding components such as electrical motors or storage devices. Such a complex system can only be designed by means of mathematical models. This text gives an introduction to the modeling and optimization problems typically encountered when designing new propulsion systems for passenger cars. It is intended for persons interested in the analysis and optimization of classical and novel vehicle propulsion systems. Its focus lies on the control-oriented mathematical description of the physical processes and on the model-based optimization of the system structure and of the supervisory control algorithms. This text has evolved from a lecture series at ETH Zurich. Prerequisites are general engineering topics and a first course in optimal control theory.
