Empirical Traffic Data -- Lane-Change Maneuvers Consuming Freeway Capacity -- Empirical Description of Car-Following -- Optimization Potential of a Highway Network: An Empirical Study -- Observation, Theory and Experiment for Freeway Traffic as Physics of Many-Body System -- Fluctuation in Expressway Traffic Flow -- Calibration and Validation of Microscopic Traffic Flow Models -- Real Highway T…
Cultural Rationality and Moral Principles -- Morality and Culture: Are Ethics Culture-Dependent? -- Neither Golden Nugget nor Frankenstein. The need to Re-embed Food Biotechnologies in Sociocultural Contexts -- Beyond GM Foods: Genomics, Biotechnology and Global Health Equity -- Patents on Biomaterial — A New Colonialism or a Means for Technology Transfer and Benefit-Sharing? -- From the Corp…
The Flight Environment -- The Thermal State of the Surface -- Transport for Momentum, Energy and Mass -- Real-Gas Aerothermodynamic Phenomena -- Inviscid Aerothermodynamic Phenomena -- Attached High-Speed Viscous Flow -- Laminar-Turbulent Transition and Turbulence in High-Speed Viscous Flow -- Strong Interaction Phenomena -- Simulation Means -- The RHPM-Flyer -- Governing Equations for Flow in …
Topology Optimization with the Homogenization and the Level-Set Methods -- Thin Films of Active Materials -- The Passage from Discrete to Continuous Variational Problems: a Nonlinear Homogenization Process -- Approaches to Nonconvex Variational Problems of Mechanics -- On G-Compactness of the Beltrami Operators -- Homogenization and Optimal Design in Structural Mechanics -- Homogenization and D…
Review of Newtonian Dynamics -- Motion and Constraints -- Virtual Displacement and Virtual Work -- Variational Principles -- Generalized Coordinates -- Lagrange’s Equations -- Formulation of Equations -- Integration of Equations -- Examples -- Central Force Motion -- Gyroscopic Motion -- Stability Of Motion -- Impulsive Motion -- Gibbs-Appell Equations -- Hamilton’s Equations -- Contact Tra…
Keynotes -- A Virtual Research Lab for a Knowledge Community in Production (VRL-KciP) -- Integrated Design for Manufacture, Service and Environment -- Design Strategies and Methodologies -- The Challenge of Environmental Improvement in Different Types of Innovation Projects -- Evolution of Collective Practices in Design by Integration of New Methods -- Effective Strategies in the Redesign Proce…
Papers -- Model Reduction Based on Spectral Projection Methods -- Smith-Type Methods for Balanced Truncation of Large Sparse Systems -- Balanced Truncation Model Reduction for Large-Scale Systems in Descriptor Form -- On Model Reduction of Structured Systems -- Model Reduction of Time-Varying Systems -- Model Reduction of Second-Order Systems -- Arnoldi Methods for Structure-Preserving Dimensio…
Transformations of the Plane -- Homogeneous Coordinates and Transformations of the Plane -- Homogeneous Coordinates and Transformations of Space -- Projections and the Viewing Pipeline -- Curves -- Bézier Curves I -- Bézier Curves II -- B-splines -- Surfaces -- Curve and Surface Curvatures -- Rendering.Focusing on the manipulation and representation of geometrical objects, this book explores …
Sensor Design -- Measurement System -- Characterization -- Applications -- Conclusions and Outlook.This monograph is intended for wire bonding and flip-chip packaging professionals and for scientists and engineers working in the field of mechanical microsensors. New measurement technologies are introduced that allow in situ and real-time examination of physical processes during the packaging pr…
Overview of CCD -- CCD Imaging in the Ultraviolet (UV) Regime -- Silicon -- Silicon Dioxide -- Si-SiO2 Interface -- General Effects of Radiation -- Effects of Radiation on CCDs -- UV-Induced Effects in Si -- UV Laser Induced Effects in SiO2 -- UV Laser Induced Effects at the Si-SiO2 Interface -- CCD Measurements at 157nm -- Design Optimizations for Future Research -- Concluding Remarks.As the d…