Advanced Applications of Rapid Prototyping Technology in Modern Engineering

Rapid prototyping (RP) technology has been widely known and appreciated due to its flexible and customized manufacturing capabilities. The widely studied RP techniques include stereolithography apparatus (SLA), selective laser sintering (SLS), three-dimensional printing (3DP), fused deposition modeling (FDM), 3D plotting, solid ground curing (SGC), multiphase jet solidification (MJS), laminated object manufacturing (LOM). Different techniques are associated with different materials and/or processing principles and thus are devoted to specific applications. RP technology has no longer been only for prototype building rather has been extended for real industrial manufacturing solutions. Today, the RP technology has contributed to almost all engineering areas that include mechanical, materials, industrial, aerospace, electrical and most recently biomedical engineering. This book aims to present the advanced development of RP technologies in various engineering areas as the solutions to the real world engineering problems

Safety and Reliability - Safe Societies in a Changing World

The contributions cover a wide range of methodologies and application areas for safety and reliability that contribute to safe societies in a changing world. These methodologies and applications include: - foundations of risk and reliability assessment and management - mathematical methods in reliability and safety - risk assessment - risk management - system reliability - uncertainty analysis - digitalization and big data - prognostics and system health management - occupational safety - accident and incident modeling - maintenance modeling and applications - simulation for safety and reliability analysis - dynamic risk and barrier management - organizational factors and safety culture - human factors and human reliability - resilience engineering - structural reliability - natural hazards - security - economic analysis in risk managemen

Selected papers on Hands-on Science II

This second volume of the "Selected Papers on Hands-on Science" the Hands-on Science Network is publishing, reunites some of the most relevant works presented at the 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 editions of the annual International Conference on Hands-on Science. From pre-school science education to lifelong science learning and teacher training, in formal non-formal and informal contexts, the large diversified range of works that conforms this book surely renders it an important tool to schools and educators and all involved in science education and on the promotion of scientific literacy.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Handbook of Mathematical Geosciences

This Open Access handbook published at the IAMG's 50th anniversary, presents a compilation of invited path-breaking research contributions by award-winning geoscientists who have been instrumental in shaping the IAMG. It contains 45 chapters that are categorized broadly into five parts (i) theory, (ii) general applications, (iii) exploration and resource estimation, (iv) reviews, and (v) reminiscences covering related topics like mathematical geosciences, mathematical morphology, geostatistics, fractals and multifractals, spatial statistics, multipoint geostatistics, compositional data analysis, informatics, geocomputation, numerical methods, and chaos theory in the geosciences

Joining the dots

SEED Foundation (Social Environmental Enterprise + Design), established by Brass in 2007, was invited to present a paper to the House of Lords Science and Technology sub-committee following a response to a call for evidence. At the time, the design approach to sustainability still focused predominantly on products and different ways of reducing their environmental impact. Jonathan Chapman had recently published Emotionally Durable Design, presenting a means to extend the life of products, and Cradle-to-Cradle explored the design of products for infinite cycles. SEED, in contrast, spearheaded a drive to address the underlying issue of consumption and hypothesised that designers should address systems rather than products to effect positive social and environmental change. The paper set out a new agenda for design in light of the government’s waste plans. Reflecting SEED’s manifesto, it highlighted the need for cross-disciplinary working, and opportunities to develop design-led entrepreneurial solutions to existing waste problems. Furthermore, it stressed the importance of embedding these principles in design education through schools, universities and continuous professional development programmes. It explored the relevance of various design approaches to waste, suggesting that reducing the amount of waste being generated, e.g. through a service approach, could be more effective than designing better systems for waste management. It built on leading service design thinking (Engine/Live|Work) highlighting the value and relevance of service design methodologies (e.g. co-creation, mapping) to the sustainability agenda, and cited relevant case studies (Ford, Electrolux, Interface Flor) where focusing on service rather than product led to the implementation of new business models. Design methods such as visualisation, prototyping and the staging of real-world scenarios were suggested as vital in the waste agenda to achieve the critical engagement described by the Sustainable Development Commission’s paper, I Will if You Will: Towards Sustainable Consumption, between business, government and people