Wednesday 30 November 2011

Modelling and Management of Engineering Processes


Peter Heisig, P. John Clarkson, Sandor Vajna, "Modelling and Management of Engineering Processes" 
Springer | 2010 | ISBN: 1849961980 | 213 pages | PDF | 4,1 MB

Modelling for Business Improvement contains the proceedings of the First International Conference on Process Modelling and Process Management (MMEP 2010) held in Cambridge, England, in March 2010. It contains contributions from an international group of leading researchers in the fields of process modelling and process management.

This conference will showcase recent trends in the modelling and management of engineering processes, explore potential synergies between different modelling approaches, gather and discuss future challenges for the management of engineering processes and discuss future research areas and topics.

Modelling for Business Improvement is divided into three main parts:

1. Theoretical foundation of modelling and management of engineering processes, and achievements in theory.

2. Experiences from management practice using various modelling methods and tools, and their future challenges.

3. New perspectives on modelling methods, techniques and tools.


Tolley's Workplace Accident Handbook



Occupational safety and health management theory is now rightly focused on pro-activity, risk assessment and management. But it remains important that organizations know what they need to do when accidents happen, both to comply with legislation and to extract all the information from the incident to improve their health and safety management.

Tolleys Workplace Accident Handbook presents in a single volume what needs to be done when an accident occurs from emergency procedures and legal reporting requirements through to formal investigations and possible legal proceedings. In this new edition, chapters on first aid and accident investigation reports have been added and the rehabilitation chapter has been updated to cover the latest insurance industry initiatives. The Handbook also shows how to learn from the accident data gathered and how to implement recommendations into a company's health and safety management system. The text is supported by checklists, case studies and ready-to-use forms and templates.

Health and Safety practitioners in all industries will find this Handbook is packed full of practical and legal advice. It will also be of use to lawyers dealing with accident claims, insurance risk managers, emergency planning, first aid, and enforcement officers, as well as to students on health and safety and specialist accident investigation courses.

Mark Tyler is a Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner and a leading Solicitor in the area of health and safety law who has worked on numerous high profile cases such as rail crashes and legionnaires disease. His expertise is supplemented with the practical knowledge of other experts in their individual subject areas.

* Shows how to learn from accidents and improve H&S management
* All legal requirements and processes are covered - from reporting and investigating accidents to court cases
* Includes checklists, case studies, and ready-to-use forms and templates to help put best practice in place

Key Vocabulary for a Safe Workplace


Key Vocabulary for a Safe Workplace
Publisher: New Readers Pr (Sep 2001) | ISBN 1564201775 | 109 Pages | pdf | 7 mb


Key Vocabulary for a Safe Workplace
* Warning signs and first aid items
* Safe use of tools and machinery
* Health and ergonomics
* Safety information on labels and tags
An accessible picture-dictionary format introduces vocabulary and helps students recognize even complicated or technical terms and relate them to their own workplace.
Practice and application activities link core vocabulary with related terms and phrases. Flexible format allows learners to relate what they learn to personal experience and create their own workplace-specific safety vocabulary lists.



Photovoltaic Design and Installation For Dummies


Photovoltaic Design and Installation For Dummies
For Dummies | 2010 | ISBN-10: 047059893X | 384 Pages | PDF | 6 Mb


The fun and easy way to get a grip on photovoltaic design and installation
Designing and installing solar panel systems is a trend that continues to grow. With 'green collar' jobs on the rise and homeowners looking for earth-friendly ways to stretch their dollars and lesson their carbon imprint, understanding photovoltaic design and installation is on the rise.
Photovoltaic Design & Installation For Dummies gives you a comprehensive overview of the history, physics, design, installation, and operation of home-scale solar-panel systems. You'll also get an introduction to the foundational mathematic and electrical concepts you need to understand and work with photovoltaic systems. 


Guidelines for Process Hazards Analysis (PHA, HAZOP)


Nigel Hyatt, "Guidelines for Process Hazards Analysis (PHA, HAZOP), Hazards Identification, and Risk Analysis" 
CRC | 2003-03-03 | ISBN: 0849319099 | 474 pages | PDF | 24,1 MB

This unique manual is a comprehensive, easy-to-read overview of hazards analysis as it applies to the process and allied industries. The book begins by building a background in the technical definition of risk, past industrial incidents and their impacts, ensuing legislation, and the language and terms of the risk field. It addresses the different types of structured analytical techniques for conducting Process Hazards Analyses (PHA), provides a "What If" checklist, and shows how to organize and set up PHA sessions. Other topics include layout and siting considerations, Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA), human factors, loss of containment, and PHA team leadership issues. 




Practical Hazops, Trips and Alarms


Practical Hazops, Trips and Alarms
Publisher: Newnes | 352 pages | September 23, 2004 | ISBN 0750662743 | PDF | 4 MB

Do you have trips and safety interlocks in your plant? Are they good enough or are they perhaps over-designed and much more expensive than necessary? Are you or your company aware of how Hazard Studies should define risk reduction requirements? Are you actually using Hazard Studies at all?
The answer is the integrated approach to safety management. New international standards combined with well-proven hazard study methods can improve safety management in your company.

Practical Hazops, Trips and Alarms for Engineers and Technicians describes the role of hazard studies in risk management, and then proceeds with basic training in Hazop techniques.
A number of practical exercises support the reference information and allow you to test your understanding of the material in the book.

This book aims to bridge the discipline gap between hazard studies and the provision of safety-related alarm and trip systems. It provides training in hazard and operability methods (Hazops) and in the principles of safety instrumented systems as defined by international standard IEC 61508. 


Tuesday 29 November 2011

Chemical Hazards of the Workplace, 5th Edition


Proctor and Hughes' Chemical Hazards of the Workplace, 5th Edition by Gloria J. Hathaway
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; 5 edition (June 25, 2004) | ISBN: 0471268836 | Pages: 800 | PDF | 4 MB

Proctor and Hughes’ Chemical Hazards of the Workplace, Fifth Edition provides a comprehensive reference text for health professionals who need toxicology data on chemicals that may be encountered in various work settings. Building on the success of the Fourth Edition--already a standard text--this new edition updates and revises the more than 600 entries of that text, and also adds monographs on new compounds.

Introductory chapters cover toxicological concepts, clinical manifestations of exposure, the diagnosis of occupational disease, and industrial hygiene aspects of chemical exposures. The rest of the text consists of more than 625 alphabetically arranged entries on individual compounds, each of which includes:

* Chemical formula
* CAS number
* 2003 ACGIH (American Conference of Government Industrial Hygienists) threshold limit value
* Synonyms
* Physical properties
* Sources of exposure
* Routes of exposure
* Toxicological data

The toxicological data includes both acute and chronic effects, especially as related to any known exposure levels. The data emphasizes human studies and cases over animal data whenever sufficient information is available, and addresses any known carcinogenic, mutagenic, fetotoxic, or other reproductive effects. Clinical information is presented in a succinct narrative form to aid in understanding.

Easy to use, in-depth, and comprehensive, Proctor and Hughes’ Chemical Hazards of the Workplace, Fifth Edition offers occupational health physicians, nurses, industrial hygienists, and other safety professionals an invaluable and up-to-date resource. 



A Manager's Guide to OSHA


Neville C. Tompkins, "A Manager's Guide to OSHA" 
Crisp Publications | 1997 | ISBN: 1560521805 | 89 pages | PDF | 1 MB

This book clearly explains rights and responsibilities under OSHA. Topics include how to manage inspections, handle citations and get penalties reduced. Most important, the book shows how to help managers understand and exercise their own responsibilities for maintaining a safe working environment.

Explains the provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Act. Discusses protocols for an OSHA inspection. Explains citations, penalties and the appeal process. Provides information on help available from OSHA. 





Environmental Health: From Global to Local


Environmental Health: From Global to Local
Jossey-Bass; 1 edition | August 31, 2005 | ISBN-10: 0787973831 | 1168 pages | PDF | 12 Mb

Environmental Health: From Global to Local offers students a comprehensive introduction to environmental health. It provides an overview of methods and paradigms used in this exciting field, ranging from ecology to epidemiology, from toxicology to environmental psychology, from genetics to ethics to religion. The authors survey the major issues in contemporary environmental health, ranging from global issues such as climate change and war to regional issues such as air, water, transportation, and energy to local issues such as food safety, pest control, and occupational health. The book includes a strong focus on the real-world practice of environmental public health, offering chapters on such applied topics as risk assessment, risk communication, health services, regulations, and legal remedies. While Environmental Health is grounded in the U.S. experience, it emphasizes global issues and perspectives on such topics as economic development, population, urbanization, and sanitation.



Basic Guide to System Safety


Basic Guide to System Safety 
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience | ISBN: 0471722413 | edition 2006 | PDF | 223 pages | 13,4 mb


Provides a nuts-and-bolts understanding of current system safety practices. Basic Guide to System Safety is an ideal primer for practicing occupational safety and health professionals and industrial safety engineers needing a quick introductionto system safety principles. Designed to familiarize the reader with the applicationof scientific and engineering principles for the timely identification of hazards, thisbook efficiently outlines the essentials of system safety and its impact on day-to-dayoccupational safety and health.
The Second Edition reflects current industry practices with a new chapter on the basic concepts, utility, and function of HAZOP and what-if analyses, two analytical techniques that have been routinely and successfully used in the petrochemical industry for decades. In addition, expanded coverage on the use of the job safety analysis (JSA) adds practical examples emphasizing its value and understanding. 


Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene


Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene 
Publisher: National Safety Council | ISBN: 0879122161 | edition 2001 | PDF | 1105 pages | 66,6 mb

This comprehensive, fully illustrated 5th Edition offers all-new chapters on ventilation of industrial workplaces, respiratory protection, particulates, the occupational medicine physician and the occupational health nurse.
All other chapters are extensively revised and updated. They include: Recognition of biological hazards; Anatomy; Physiology and pathology; Recognition, evaluation and control of hazards; Occupational health and safety professions; and Government regulations and their impact, and resources, exposure indices and glossary. Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene provides a reference for those who seek to recognize, evaluate and control occupational hazards. It s a must-have manual for anyone involved in environmental, community or occupational health or related fields. 


Chemical Safety


Chemical Safety 
Publisher: VCH Publishing | ISBN: 1560818158 | edition 1994 | PDF | 619 pages | 32,3 mb

This book provides a pragmatic guide to the basic tools of chemical safety assessment, from information retrieval, through hazard and risk assessment to safety evaluation and legal aspects. It is truly global in coverage with contributors drawn from East and West, North and South. It covers natural and artificial hazards to the environment, including the potentially catastrophic effects of modern warfare, and encompasses pollution of air, water and soil as well as occupational exposure to chemicals. 


Occupational Safety and Health Simplified for the Chemical Industry


Frank R. Spellman, Revonna M. Bieber, "Occupational Safety and Health Simplified for the Chemical Industry" 
Gov ernment Instit utes | 2009 | ISBN: 0865871868 | 204 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB



Occupational and Environmental Health


Occupational and Environmental Health: Recognizing and Preventing Disease and Injury
By Barry S. Levy, David H. Wegman, Sherry L. Baron, Rosemary K. Sokas
Oxf..d Univ..sity Press; 6 edition | 2011 | ISBN: 0195397886 | English | 888 pages | PDF | 14.35 MB

Occupational and environmental health is the public health and multidisciplinary approach to the recognition, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and control of disease, injuries, and other adverse health conditions resulting from hazardous environmental exposures in the workplace, the home, or the community. These are essential elements of public health practice and the core course in Environmental Health in Masters of Public Health programs.

Thoroughly updated and expanded upon, the sixth edition of Occupational and Environmental Health provides comprehensive coverage and a clear understanding of occupational and environmental health and its relationships to public health, environmental science, and governmental policy. New chapters include Toxicology, Risk Communication, Health Equity and Social Justice, Occupational and Environmental Health Surveillance, Food Safety, Protecting Disaster Rescue and Recovery Workers, Implementing Programs and Policies for a Healthy Workforce, and Addressing the Built Environment and Health. The authors also expand on chapters included in previous chapters, and the book features practical case studies, numerous tables, graphs, and photos, and annotated bibliographies.


Occupational Health: A Practical Guide for Managers


Occupational Health: A Practical Guide for Managers
Routledge; 1 edition | August 8, 1995 | ISBN-10: 0415106281 | 240 pages | PDF | 1.3 Mb

New legislation and recommended working practices demand that every organisation considers carefully the health of its workforce. Occupational Health: A Practical Guide for Managers offers a comprehensive view of health and safety issues at work. The range of people it aims to appeal to reflects the interdisciplinary nature of this subject. Personnel professionals, managers and occupational health practitioners alike will find it an invaluable resource.



The McKinsey Way


The McKinsey Way by Ethan Rasiel
Publisher: McGraw-Hill | Number Of Pages: 187 | Publication Date: 1999-02-01 | ISBN-10: 0070534489 | PDF | 1 Mb

The McKinsey Way, by former McKinsey & Company associate Ethan M. Rasiel, provides a through-the-keyhole perspective on the way this worldwide consulting institution approaches - and solves - the myriad professional problems encountered by its high-powered clientele. His goal, Rasiel writes, is simple: to communicate "new and useful skills to everyone who wants to be more useful in their business." He then does so by explaining the highly structured, fact-based proprietary methodology that McKinseyites are taught to employ with their Fortune 100 clients, complete with details on the entire process from first considering the basic situation at hand through finally selling a solution to the appropriate powers that be.


McKinsey's Marvin Bower: Vision, Leadership, and the Creation of Management Consulting"


Elizabeth Haas Edersheim "McKinsey's Marvin Bower: Vision, Leadership, and the Creation of Management Consulting"
Wiley | 2004-04-12 | ISBN: 0471652857 | 320 pages | File type: PDF | 2 mb

A wonderful book about a wonderful man. In many ways, Marvin's McKinsey framed the hypotheses in our own search for excellence-for example, passion for values, belief in people as the prime resource, and willingness to let people experiment. As well as I thought I knew Marvin, however, this remarkable book, drawing on the collective memories of those who worked most closely with him, taught me a ton about how extraordinary the man really was and what made him that way. Many have called Drucker the man who invented management; I think history will conclude that both he and Marvin Bower share that pedestal.
Marvin Bower became a legend, not just within McKinsey Company, but within professional services and the business world more broadly. In everything he did and said, he embodied the professional approach and the importance of values. This book sheds remarkable insight on a remarkable man and on the power of constancy of purpose.



The McKinsey Mind Understanding and Implementing the Problem-Solving Tools and Management


Ethan Rasiel, Ph.D., Paul N. Friga, "The McKinsey Mind: Understanding and Implementing the Problem-Solving Tools and Management Techniques of the World's Top Strategic Consulting Firm" 
MgH | 2001 | ISBN: 0071374299 | 272 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB


The First Step-by-Step Manual for Achieving McKinsey-Style Solutionsand Success

International bestseller The McKinsey Way provided a through-the-keyhole look at McKinsey & Co., history's most prestigious consulting firm. Now, the follow-up implementation manual, The McKinsey Mind, reveals the hands-on secrets behind the powerhouse firm's successand discusses how executives from any field or industry can use those tactics to be more proactive and successful in their day-to-day decision-making.

Structured around interviews and frontline anecdotes from former McKinsey consultantsas well as the authors, themselves McKinsey alumniThe McKinsey Mind explores how McKinsey tools and techniques can be applied to virtually any business problem in any setting. Immensely valuable in today's crisis-a-minute workplace, it discusses:
Techniques for framing problems and designing analyses
Methods for interpreting results and presenting solutions
Keys for managing teams, managing clients, and managing yourself

The ability to think in a rigorous, structured mannera McKinsey manneris not a birthright. It can, however, be a learned behavior. Let The McKinsey Mind show you how to approach and solve problems with the skill of a McKinsey consultant and obtain the positive results that have been delivered to McKinsey clients for over a century.

McKinsey & Co. is renowned throughout the world for its ability to arrive at sharp, insightful analyses of its clients' situations then provide solutions that are as ingenious as they are effective. McKinsey succeeds almost as well as shielding its revolutionary methods from competitors' scrutiny.

Now, The McKinsey Mind pulls back the curtain to reveal the ways in which McKinsey consultants consistently deliver their magic and how those methods can be used to achieve exceptional results in companies from 10 employees to 10,000. Packed with insights and brainstorming exercises for establishing the McKinsey mind-set, this book is an in-depth guidebook for applying McKinsey methods in any industry and organizational environment.

Taking a step-by-step approach, The McKinsey Mind looks at the McKinsey mystique from every angle. Owners, executives, consultants, and team leaders can look to this comprehensive treatment for ways to:
Follow McKinsey's MECE (mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive) line of attack
Frame business problems to make them susceptible to rigorous fact-based analysis
Use the same fact-based analysisin conjunction with gut instinctto make strategic decisions
Conduct meaningful interviews and effectively summarize the content of those interviews
Analyze the data to find out the "so what"
Clearly communicate fact-based solutions to all pertinent decision makers
Capture and manage the knowledge in any organization to maximize its value

Because organizational problems rarely exist in a vacuum, The McKinsey Mind discusses these approaches and more to help you arrive at usable and sensible solutions. It goes straight to the sourceformer McKinsey consultants now in leadership positions in organizations throughout the worldto give you today's only implementation-based, solution-driven look at the celebrated McKinsey problem-solving method.

"The McKinsey Mind provides a fascinating peek at the tools, practices, and philosophies that have helped this much-admired firm develop generations of bright young MBAs into trusted corporate advisors. But the book's practical, down-to-earth advice is not just for consultants. The disciplined way in which McKinsey consultants frame issues, analyze problems, and present solutions offers valuable lessons for any practicing or aspiring manager."
Christopher A. Bartlett, Daewoo Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

"McKinsey and Co. rescues the biggest companies from disaster by addressing every problem with its own mixture of logic-driven, hypothesis-tested analysis. The McKinsey Mind helps everyone learn how to think with the same discipline and devotion to creating business success. According to the maxim, giving a man a fish may feed him for a day, but teaching him to fish will feed him for a lifetime. Paying McKinsey to solve your problem may help you for a day, but learning how they do it should help you for a lifetime."
Peter Wayner, Author of Free For All: How Linux and the Free Software Movement Undercut The High-Tech Titans

"The McKinsey Mind unlocks the techniques of the world's preeminent consulting firm and presents them in a format that is easy to understand and even easier to implement."
Dan Nagy, Associate Dean, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University 



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The McKinsey Engagement: A Powerful Toolkit For More Efficient and Effective Team Problem Solving


Paul N. Friga - The McKinsey Engagement: A Powerful Toolkit For More Efficient and Effective Team Problem Solving
Publisher: McGraw-Hill | 2008-11-24 | ISBN: 0071497412 | File type: PDF | 272 pages | 54.08 mb

The third volume in the internationally bestselling McKinsey Trilogy, The McKinsey Engagement is an action guide to realizing the consistently high level of business solutions achieved by the experts at the worlds most respected consulting firms.
Former consultant Dr. Paul Friga distills the guiding principles first presented in the bestselling The McKinsey Way and the tested-in-the-trenches methodologies outlined in The McKinsey Mind, and combines them with many of the principles and procedures implemented by the military and other organizations. The result is nothing less than the business equivalent of a Special Forces Field Manual.
True to its stated goal of arming consultants and corporate problem solvers with a blueprint for achieving consistently phenomenal results, The McKinsey Engagement is short on theory and long on action. Each chapter focuses on one element in the celebrated TEAM FOCUS problem-solving model and features a concise discussion of a key concept or principle, followed by:
Clear rules of engagement 
A set of operating tactics 
Sophisticated problem solving tools 
Easy-to-follow action steps 
Exercises, checklists, and training tips 
War stories and best practices case studies
A toolkit for bringing clarity, discipline, and purpose to all your problem-solving and change management initiatives, The McKinsey Engagement is an indispensable guide for consultants, as well as for executives, managers, students, and corporate trainers.


Bentley AutoPLANT P&ID V8i 32bit & 64bit


Bentley AutoPLANT P&ID is an AutoCAD-based program that lets you create intelligent piping and instrument diagrams, process flow diagrams and other Piping Schematics.

About Bentley

Bentley is the global leader dedicated to providing architects, engineers, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure. Founded in 1984, Bentley has nearly 3,000 colleagues in more than 45 countries, $500 million in annual revenues, and, since 1999, has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.

About Bentley AutoPLANT P&ID V8i

Using AutoCAD with an external relational database environment, Bentley's AutoPLANT P&ID creates intelligent plant schematics. With it, engineers can learn more about their plant design in a fraction of the time required to study hundreds of layout drawings or 3D models.
This cost-efficient application reduces the design and documentation time for capturing process information for system design and plant studies (such as HAZOP studies), ensuring compliance to OSHA 1910 and ISO standards. Through its scaleable design, AutoPLANT P&ID is suitable for large, midsized and small engineering companies and plant operators, providing a key tool for the lifecycle design and documentation of process plants.

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Enhancements made to the Bentley Process & Instrumentation Workgroup V8i (SELECTseries 3) include:

- AutoCAD 2010 (64-bit) and AutoCAD 2011 (64-bit) support
- Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit) support
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and ORACLE 11g (11.2.0.1.0) support
- Encryption of SQL Server Authentication Credentials
- Microsoft Office 2010 support
- Bentley ProjectWise V8i (SELECTseries 2) and (SELECTseries 3) support
- Bentley View V8i (SELECTseries 2) support
- MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries 2) support
- “1D” i-models published to iRING
- Data Manager and I&W reports Published to ProjectWise

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Problem Solving for Process Operators and Specialists


J. M. Bonem, "Problem Solving for Process Operators and Specialists" 
Wil ey-AI ChE | 2011 | ISBN: 0470627743 | 344 pages | PDF | 3,2 MB


A dependable five-step problem-solving technique for chemical plant and refinery process operators and engineers

As chemical engineering processes increase in size, scale, and intricacy, industrial problem solvers need to embrace new strategies for resolving complex or chronic plant operating issues. Too often, these professionals rely on intuition and experience-based solutions for tackling problems that require rigid procedural standards, resulting in approaches that routinely fail to fix—or even define—what's gone wrong. To institute a more effective industrial problem-solving environment, Problem Solving for Process Operators and Specialists combines cause-and-effect thinking with the formulation of theoretically correct hypotheses to create a five-step technique for overcoming the most challenging operational stumbling blocks. Discussion includes:

Techniques to find, define, and solve process problems and to create a daily monitoring system before they progress to the critical level

Methods for formulating corrective remedies for typical process equipment such as pumps, compressors, heat exchangers/furnaces, fractionating towers, and reactors

A thorough, well-balanced mix of underlying theory and practical field applications

Helpful tips on reducing repeat failure risk by teaching how to determine the root cause of a problem

Presenting pragmatic calculation techniques, real-world examples, and insight from an author with more than fifty years of industrial experience, this practical resource hones greater awareness and responsiveness to problems related to processes in operating plants, and helps establish a protocol these facilities can implement to attain—and maintain—peak performance.





Design and Safety Assessment of Critical Systems


Marco Bozzano and Adolfo Villafiorita, "Design and Safety Assessment of Critical Systems" 
Au bach Pub tions | 2010 | ISBN: 1439803315 | 297 pages | PDF | 1,9 MB


Safety-critical systems, by definition those systems whose failure can cause catastrophic results for people, the environment, and the economy, are becoming increasingly complex both in their functionality and their interactions with the environment. Unfortunately, safety assessments are still largely done manually, a time-consuming and error-prone process. The growing complexity of these systems requires an increase in the skill and efficacy of safety engineers and encourages the adoption of formal and standardized techniques.


An introduction to the area of design and verification of safety-critical systems, Design and Safety Assessment of Critical Systems focuses on safety assessment using formal methods. Beginning with an introduction to the fundamental concepts of safety and reliability, it illustrates the pivotal issues of design, development, and safety assessment of critical systems.


The core of the book covers traditional notations, techniques, and procedures, including Fault Tree Analysis, FMECA, HAZOP, and Event Tree Analysis, and explains in detail how formal methods can be used to realize such procedures. It looks at the development process of safety-critical systems, and highlights influential management and organizational aspects. Finally, it describes verification and validation techniques and new trends in formal methods for safety and concludes with some widely adopted standards for the certification of safety-critical systems.


Providing an in-depth and hands-on view of the application of formal techniques to advanced and critical safety assessments in a variety of industrial sectors, such as transportation, avionics and aerospace, and nuclear power, Design and Safety Assessment of Critical Systems allows anyone with a basic background in mathematics or computer science to move confidently into this advanced arena of safety assessment.


Physics of Solar Energy


Physics of Solar Energy by C. Julian Chen

W,.,.ey | 2011 | ISBN: 0470647809 | 352 pages | PDF | 41,3 MB

The definitive guide to the science of solar energy
You hold in your hands the first, and only, truly comprehensive guide to the most abundant and most promising source of alternative energy—solar power.

In recent years, all major countries in the world have been calling for an energy revolution. The renewable energy industry will drive a vigorous expansion of the global economy and create more "green" jobs. The use of fossil fuels to power our way of living is moving toward an inevitable end, with sources of coal, petroleum, and natural gas being fiercely depleted.

Solar energy offers a ubiquitous, inexhaustible, clean, and highly efficient way of meeting the energy needs of the twenty-first century. This book is designed to give the reader a solid footing in the general and basic physics of solar energy, which will be the basis of research and development in new solar engineering technologies in the years to come.

As solar technologies like solar cells, solar thermal power generators, solar water heaters, solar photochemistry applications, and solar space heating-cooling systems become more and more prominent, it has become essential that the next generation of energy experts—both in academia and industry—have a one-stop resource for learning the basics behind the science, applications, and technologies afforded by solar energy. This book fills that need by laying the groundwork for the projected rapid expansion of future solar projects.

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Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting


Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting by Alper Erturk, Daniel J. Inman

W,.,.ey | 2011 | ISBN: 047068254X | 412 pages | PDF | 27,2 MB

The transformation of vibrations into electric energy through the use of piezoelectric devices is an exciting and rapidly developing area of research with a widening range of applications constantly materialising. With Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting, world-leading researchers provide a timely and comprehensive coverage of the electromechanical modelling and applications of piezoelectric energy harvesters. They present principal modelling approaches, synthesizing fundamental material related to mechanical, aerospace, civil, electrical and materials engineering disciplines for vibration-based energy harvesting using piezoelectric transduction.
Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting provides the first comprehensive treatment of distributed-parameter electromechanical modelling for piezoelectric energy harvesting with extensive case studies including experimental validations, and is the first book to address modelling of various forms of excitation in piezoelectric energy harvesting, ranging from airflow excitation to moving loads, thus ensuring its relevance to engineers in fields as disparate as aerospace engineering and civil engineering.

Coverage includes:
Analytical and approximate analytical distributed-parameter electromechanical models with illustrative theoretical case studies as well as extensive experimental validations
Several problems of piezoelectric energy harvesting ranging from simple harmonic excitation to random vibrations
Details of introducing and modelling piezoelectric coupling for various problems
Modelling and exploiting nonlinear dynamics for performance enhancement, supported with experimental verifications
Applications ranging from moving load excitation of slender bridges to airflow excitation of aeroelastic sections
A review of standard nonlinear energy harvesting circuits with modelling aspects.

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Quantitative Risk Management: Concepts, Techniques, and Tools


Alexander J. McNeil, Rüdiger Frey, Paul Embrechts - Quantitative Risk Management: Concepts, Techniques, and Tools
Publisher: Princеton Univеrsity Prеss | 2005-09-26 | ISBN: 0691122555 | PDF | 538 pages | 6.66 MB

The implementation of sound quantitative risk models is a vital concern for all financial institutions, and this trend has accelerated in recent years with regulatory processes such as Basel II. This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the theoretical concepts and modelling techniques of quantitative risk management and equips readers--whether financial risk analysts, actuaries, regulators, or students of quantitative finance--with practical tools to solve real-world problems. The authors cover methods for market, credit, and operational risk modelling; place standard industry approaches on a more formal footing; and describe recent developments that go beyond, and address main deficiencies of, current practice.
The book's methodology draws on diverse quantitative disciplines, from mathematical finance through statistics and econometrics to actuarial mathematics. Main concepts discussed include loss distributions, risk measures, and risk aggregation and allocation principles. A main theme is the need to satisfactorily address extreme outcomes and the dependence of key risk drivers. The techniques required derive from multivariate statistical analysis, financial time series modelling, copulas, and extreme value theory. A more technical chapter addresses credit derivatives. Based on courses taught to masters students and professionals, this book is a unique and fundamental reference that is set to become a standard in the field.