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Neil W. Polhemus - Process Capability Analysis: Estimating Quality

CRC Press, 2018

pdf, 285 pages, english

ISBN: 978-1-138-03015-2

Process Capability Analysis: Estimating Quality presents a systematic exploration of process capability analysis and how it may be used to estimate quality. The book is designed for practitioners who are tasked with insuring a high level of quality for the products and services offered by their organizations. Along with describing the necessary statistical theory, the book illustrates the practical application of the techniques to data that do not always satisfy the standard assumptions. The first two chapters deal with attribute data, where the estimation of quality is restricted to counts of nonconformities. Both classical and Bayesian methods are discussed. The rest of the book deals with variable data, including extensive discussions of both capability indices and statistical tolerance limits. Considerable emphasis is placed on methods for handling non-normal data. Also included are discussions of topics often omitted in discussions of process capability, including multivariate capability indices, multivariate tolerance limits, and capability control charts. A separate chapter deals with the problem of determining adequate sample sizes for estimating process capability.

CRC Press, 2018
pdf, 634 pages, english
ISBN: 978-1-138-06858-2 (Hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-15777-1 (eBook)

Practical Channel Hydraulics is a technical guide for estimating flood water levels in rivers using the innovative software known as the Conveyance and Afflux Estimation System (CES-AES). The stand alone software is freely available at HR Wallingford’s website www.river-conveyance.net. The conveyance engine has also been embedded within industry standard river modelling software such as InfoWorks RS and Flood Modeller Pro. This 2nd Edition has been greatly expanded through the addition of Chapters 6-8, which now supply the background to the Shiono and Knight Method (SKM), upon which the CES-AES is largely based.

With the need to estimate river levels more accurately, computational methods are now frequently embedded in flood risk management procedures, as for example in ISO 18320 (‘Determination of the stage-discharge relationship’), in which both the SKM and CES feature. The CES-AES incorporates five main components: A Roughness Adviser, A Conveyance Generator, an Uncertainty Estimator, a Backwater Module and an Afflux Estimator. The SKM provides an alternative approach, solving the governing equation analytically or numerically using Excel, or with the short FORTRAN program provided.

Special attention is paid to calculating the distributions of boundary shear stress distributions in channels of different shape, and to appropriate formulations for resistance and drag forces, including those on trees in floodplains. Worked examples are given for flows in a wide range of channel types (size, shape, cover, sinuosity), ranging from small scale laboratory flumes (Q = 2.0 1s-1) to European rivers (~2,000 m3s-1), and large-scale world rivers (> 23,000 m3s-1), a ~ 107 range in discharge. Sites from rivers in the UK, France, China, New Zealand and Ecuador are considered.

Topics are introduced initially at a simplified level, and get progressively more complex in later chapters. This book is intended for post graduate level students and practising engineers or hydrologists engaged in flood risk management, as well as those who may simply just wish to learn more about modelling flows in rivers.

Pinliang Dong, Qi Chen - LiDAR Remote Sensing and Applications

pdf, 221 pages, english

ISBN: 978-1-4822-4301-7

This is a unique book in that it smoothly combines LiDAR principles, data processing methods, applications, and hands-on practices, following an overview of remote sensing. An index map of LiDAR data and a list of abbreviations are also included to improve the readability of the book. For forest applications, readers can find examples such as creating leaf-on and leaf-off canopy height models in Susquehanna Shale Hills, PA; identifying disturbances from lightning and hurricane in mangrove forests in Florida; and estimating aboveground biomass in tropical forests in Ghana. For urban applications, readers can see examples such as road extraction, powerline corridor mapping, and population estimation in Denton, TX; parcel-based building change detection in Surrey, Canada; and road blockage detection in Port-au-Prince after the 2010 Haiti earthquake. For geoscience applications, readers can explore samples such as measuring dune migration rates in White Sands, NM; analysis of offset channels associated with the San Andreas Fault in California; and trend surface analysis and visualization of rock layers in Raplee Ridge, UT. Undergraduate and graduate students will find that the 11 step-by-step GIS projects with LiDAR data can really help them understand LiDAR data processing, analysis, and applications, while professionals and researchers will benefit from various topics on LiDAR remote sensing and applications, along with over 500 references in the book.

pdf, 513 pages, english

ISBN 9781439849996

In industry, complicated problems are often not solved by hand for two reasons: human error and time constraints. There are many different simulation programs used in industry, depending on field, application, and desired simulation products. When software is used to its full capabilities, it is a very powerful tool for a chemical engineer in a variety of fields, including oil and gas production, refining, chemical and petrochemical processes, environmental studies, and power generation. Although most of the software packages are user friendly, considerable effort must be expended to master these softwares.

Software packages, such as PRO/II, Hysys/Unisim, Aspen Plus, and Design Pro, have been developed to perform rigorous solutions of most unit operations in chemical engineering. However, as a design engineer, one always needs to know the fundamental theory and methods of calculation to enable one to make decisions about the validity of these black box packages to verify the results. Most software packages are interactive process simulation programs. They are user-friendly and powerful programs that can be used to solve various kinds of chemical engineering processes. However, various conditions and choices have to be provided in order to solve a problem; good knowledge about the process is needed to be used effectively. The objective of this book is to introduce chemical engineering students to the most commonly used simulation softwares and the theory in order to cover core chemical engineering courses. The book is very useful in covering the application parts in various core chemical engineering courses such as chemical engineering thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, material and energy balances, mass transfer operations, reactor design, computer applications in chemical engineering, and also in graduation projects and in industrial applications.

Each chapter in Computer Methods in Chemical Engineering contains a theoretical description of process units followed by numerous examples solved by hand calculations and simulation with the four software packages, Hysys/Unisim, PRO/II, Aspen Plus, and SuperPro Designer, through step-by-step instructions. The book is perfect for students and professionals and gives them the tools to solve real problems involving mainly thermodynamics and fluid phase equilibria, fluid flow, material and energy balances, heat exchangers, reactor design, distillation, absorption, and liquid–liquid extraction.

Multilayered Aquifier Systems: Fundamentals and Applications

(Civil and Environmental Engineering, Book 3)

CRC Press; 2000
pdf, 399 pages, english
ISBN-10: 0824798759

Offers a systematic and unified approach to the classical theories and recent techniques of multilayered aquifer systems. Clarifies governing principles and facilitates industrial problem solving. Uses the automated numerical Laplace inversion procedure to simplify mathematical materials.

The chapters in this book contain information on:

Fundamentals, Superstructure, Substructure, Seismic Design, Construction and Maintenance

CRC Press, 2014
pdf, 614+734+378+722+644 pages, english
ISBN 9781439852071, 9781439852217, 9781439852194, 9781439852187, 9781439852088

Over 140 experts, 14 countries, and 89 chapters are represented in the second edition of the Bridge Engineering Handbook. This extensive collection highlights bridge engineering specimens from around the world, contains detailed information on bridge engineering, and thoroughly explains the concepts and practical applications surrounding the subject.

Superstructure, Substructure, Seismic Design, Construction and Maintenance

CRC Press, 2014
pdf, 734+378+722+644 pages, english
ISBN 9781439852217, 9781439852194, 9781439852187, 9781439852088