Technology & Engineering

Highway hydraulic structures perform the vital function of conveying, diverting, or removing surface water from the highway right-of-way. They should be designed to be commensurate with risk,...

Bridges are a vital component of the transportation network. Evaluating their stability and structural response after a flood event is critical to highway safety. Bridge studies are usually designed...

Storm drains generally collect storm runoff from streets, parking lots, and other structures and convey this water to a desired outfall. Access holes (or manholes), which allow staff to inspect,...

Hydraulics and scour hazards cause over half of the bridge failures in the United States and have been identified by State bridge authorities as one of the top issues in bridge design and maintenance...

A basic engineering design theory is created that includes the development of a generalized engineering design procedure. A specific objective is to find the best design that satisfies a given design...

A technical aid for instrumentation and controls technicians, engineers, fitters and supervision.Author: Craig Jay RileyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Feb 15,...

In view of the potential and significant hazards associated with matrix contamination, the United States Fire Administration, through the Federal Emergency Management Agency sponsored this...

The Center for Cryptologic History (CCH) is proud to publish the first title under its own imprint, Thomas L. Burns's The Origins of NSA.* In recent years, the NSA history program has published a...

This document presents the results of surface-water-quality data retrievals for Badlands National Park (BADL) from six of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) national databases:...

This primer accompanies the release of BAGS, software developed to calculate sediment transport rate in gravel-bed rivers. BAGS and other programs facilitate calculation and can reduce some errors,...

Transformers have been used at power plants since the inception of alternating-current generation, a century ago. While operating principles of transformers remain the same, the challenges of...

A Safety Management System (SMS) is essentially a quality management approach to controlling risk. It provides the organizational framework to construct and support a sound safety culture that...

as this paper goes to press, Iran has just come through its longanticipated presidential election. despite predictions of a victory for a well-known clerical "moderate," former president and...

In a Defense and Technology Paper (DTP) entitled "A Methodology for Assessing the Military Benefits of Science and Technology Investments,"1 the National Defense University (NDU) Center for...

Steven Magee has combined his three top selling books on solar power systems into one edition. Complete Solar Photovoltaics will train you on solar photovoltaics and show you how to design grid...

The initial years of the 21st century have witnessed numerous large-scale crises, from the Indian Ocean tsunami and the Kashmir earthquake to longer-term, multi-faceted emergencies, such as those in...

The purpose of this manual is to assist fire service leaders in examining the future, the role of the fire service in that future, and ways to "get there from here." It is designed to provide a fire...

This report identifies relationships between city characteristics and the causes of residential fires, with special emphasis on climate, demographic, and socioeconomic factors.Author: U. S. Fire...

Trees provide many valuable ecosystem services: they reduce energy consumption, they trap and filter stormwater, they help clean the air by intercepting air pollutants, and they help in the fight...

The Douglas D-558-1 Skystreak and D-558-2 Skyrocket were, with the Bell XS-1, the earliest transonic research aircraft built in this country to gather data so the aviation community could understand...

The purpose of this report is to identify practices that have the potential to decrease the risk, as well as to reduce the number of injuries and deaths that occur while responding to and returning...

Popular Technology; or, Professions and Trades (Volume 1), a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions...

Este libro est? escrito en tres partes: En la primera parte se describen los cambios m?s significativos de la historia de la manufactura para entender su evoluci?n y su matrimonio con la tecnolog?a...

Las telecomunicaciones en Venezuela vivieron entre 1950 y el 2000 cuatro eventos importantes: los intentos de modernizaci?n de CANTV en los a?os sesenta y setenta del siglo XX; los intentos de...

Carlos Enrique Guill?n Valero es oriundo de Lagunillas de M?rida, e mail: cguillen@cementoscatatumbo.com; carlosguillen56@gmail.com / celular 58-414-3644819, Ing. Forestal graduado en la Universidad...

A evolu??o do torno universal levou ? cria??o do torno rev?lver, do torno copiador e torno autom?tico, com programa??o el?trica ou mec?nica, com emprego de cames, etc. Em paralelo ao desenvolvimento...

Con la m?nima teor?a y a trav?s de 28 ejercicios progresivos, se van introduciendo poco a poco las situaciones m?s frecuentes: ramificaciones, uni?n de fuentes, paso de valles, zonas de presi?n e...

Mettre en oeuvre les fonctions avanc?es d'Excel 2003.Author: Patrick Mori?Publisher: Eyrolles GroupPublication Date: Jan 01, 2004Number of Pages: 206 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Allez au-del? des fonctions courantes.Author: SupinfoPublisher: Eyrolles GroupPublication Date: Jan 01, 2007Number of Pages: 312 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 2212122047ISBN-13:...

Over the past years, controversies about plant intelligence became featured in scientific journals in ecology and plant biology. Could plants be intelligent? Could it be true that they talk to each...