A collection of papers from an IMechE event held in February 2004. Materials are critical to the safety, reliability, performance and total life cycle costs of machines, and are therefore of great importance to both users and suppliers.

The papers in this volume review:

• The increasing availability and improvements of superior materials over the last decade, moving from niche markets to a wide field of applications
• The advancement of materials from the experimental stage to the point where they can make real contributions to machine life and reliability
• New...

Dealing exclusively with underwater instrumentation, control, and communication technology for subsea oil and gas production, Subsea Control and Data Acquisition has been structured to cover relevant experience and challenges in frontier subsea developments.

Aimed at professionals active in subsea production systems, in particular those engaged in the control and monitoring of such installations, and engineers keen to keep abreast of current practice and technologies, this volume covers operational experience of long offset control and monitoring, as well as enhanced oil recovery...

This important collection of papers from a conference organised by the University of Sussex presents you with twenty-four papers, which Peter Childs and Richard Stobart have collectively drawn together. They present you with distinct areas of automotive design and engineering in order to broaden the perspectives of designers frequently engaged in narrow, specialized activities and therefore, contribute to the advancement of vehicle technology.

The papers individually address aspects of:

• Vehicle dynamics and control
• Control and design of the power train
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Fluid machinery is essential for the movement of oil and gas in the extraction and hydrocarbon processing industries. Improvements and innovations in fluid machinery result in improved reliability, and increased efficiency, as well as totally new approaches to business itself.

These latest IMechE conference transactions showcase the latest in technology and provide an excellent forum for sharing valuable experiences.

Topics covered in this indispensable edition include:

Fluid Machinery Design

Turbo-process Machinery

Developments in Pumps...

Presents a selection of informative papers authored by representatives from 18 countries. This work is a result of a group of worldwide contributors who came from a collection of equipment manufacturers, suppliers, users, research organisations and academi