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...

Engineering for Profit from Waste VI brings together a collection of reviewed papers that highlight opportunities for new products, technologies, systems and operating techniques, and their implementation. This volume provides examples of current technologies, on-going research and development, and feedback from case studies.

Topics covered include:

• Incineration
• Pyrolysis
• Alternatives
• Materials recovery
• Organic processes

This book provides an update in new legislation and regulations, alternative methods of...

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
...

e-Engineering and digital enterprise technology are becoming the catalysts and prime enablers for the most radical changes in industry since the industrial revolution. Advances in e-Engineering and Digital Enterprise Technology includes international papers from experts and practitioners in industry and academia providing an information exchange on all aspects of engineering and management.

Providing significant contributions from practitioners, researchers, educators, and end-users, the reader will find information on the latest innovations and techniques, including,

• ...

The papers included in this volume were presented at the 5th international conference on Quality, Reliability and
Maintenance which took place at the University of Oxford in April 2004. They highlight the importance of the QRM disciplines and represent the latest developments, trends and progress, and are essential reference material for all reasearch academics, quality planners, maintenance executives and personnel who have the responsibility to implement the findings of quality audits and maintenance policy.

Quality, Reliabilty, and Maintenance - be it in industry, commerce,...

Tribology in Environmental Design is an indispensable collection of chapters exploring the life cycle of all stages of tribological issues for product design. The contributors for this edition are from a wide range of disciplines and countries ensuring a comprehensive overview of Tribology in Environment Design.

This well-renowned second international conference explores the role of tribology in the context of product design and how this influences environmental, as well as product life cycle, consequences.

Topics covered include:

• Sustainable...

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