Publications
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Applied Fracture Mechanics
(2012)
The book "Applied Fracture Mechanics" presents a collection of articles on application of fracture mechanics methods to materials science, medicine, and engineering. In thirteen chapters, a wide range of topics is discussed, ...
Practical Concepts of Quality Control
(2012)
This book aims to provide a concise account of the essential elements of quality control. It is designed to be used as a text for courses on quality control for students of industrial engineering at the advanced undergraduate, ...
Processing of Heavy Crude Oils
(2019)
Unconventional heavy crude oils are replacing the conventional light crude oils slowly but steadily as a major energy source. Heavy crude oils are cheaper and present an opportunity to the refiners to process them with ...
Mechanics of Functionally Graded Materials and Structures
(2020)
The Functionally Graded Materials (FGM) concept originated in Japan in 1984 during the spaceplane project, in the form of a proposed thermal barrier material capable of withstanding a surface temperature of 2000 K and a ...
Protected Areas, National Parks and Sustainable Future
(2020)
This book aims to examine the context and practice of national parks regarding a countries’ obligations to safeguard biodiversity through the protection and management of forest-protected areas. The book examines the wider ...
Rotating Machinery
(2020)
Rotating machinery or turbomachinery is a machine with a rotating component that transfers energy to a fluid or vice versa. Rotating machines are one of the most widely used machines. They are used in everyday life, at ...
Antiquity and Its Reception
(2020)
What do we talk about when we talk about antiquity? For the majority of the population, the term immediately transports us to the notion of an ancient age or ancient world (the Parthenon, Athens, and the Coliseum of Rome), ...
Digestive System
(2020)
The book focuses on the recent advances in the digestive system. It is composed of 3 sections: gastrointestinal duct, liver, and biliary system. There are 9 chapters: peptic ulcers; mid-gastrointestinal bleeding; ...
Environmental Health
(2020)
It took a long time for humans to recognize the existence of a direct link between environmental pollution and health deterioration. In the 1990s, scientists demonstrated the existence of this link through epidemiological ...
Essential Oils
(2020)
Essential oils were used globally as a folk medicine for the treatment of a number of diseases because of the high content of natural compounds. Therefore, this book looks at research topics dealing with isolation, ...