Early applications of Navier's beam theory to the rational design of structures are documented in the Annales of the French Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées and refer to the design of three wooden bridges built in France in the 1840's. Revisiting these examples, the book provides do…
Sustainable sources of energy and a supply of good quality water are two major challenges facing modern societies across the globe. Biomass from cultivated plants may be used to generate energy, but at the cost of contaminated surface waters from pesticide and fertiliser use. Th…
This book is divided into two parts. The first covers biomass modification to facilitate the industrial degradation processing and other characteristics of feedstocks. These include reduction in the general recalcitrance of plant cell wall and downstream processing costs. The se…
"Argues that 100% coverage of the global energy needs by renewable technology is much more probable than previously thought; explains how energy efficiency technologies will be able to drastically reduce the energy consumption for the same quality of life; demonstrates that trad…
Synthetic biology is a new area of biological research that combines science and engineering in order to design and build novel biological functions and systems. The definition of synthetic biology has been generally accepted as the engineering of biology: the synthesis of compl…
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Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 4th International Conference on Machinery, Materials Science and Engineering Applications (MMSE 2014), June 28-29, 2014, Wuhan, Hubei, China. The 117 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Advanced Materials and Materials …
Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 3rd International Conference on Mechanical, Control, and Electronic Information (ICMCEI 2014), June 27 -29, 2014, Taiwan. The 283 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Materials Science and Processing, Chapter 2: General …
Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 3rd International Conference on Mechanical, Control, and Electronic Information (ICMCEI 2014), June 27 -29, 2014, Taiwan. Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).The 283 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Mat…