(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Mar-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262051200)
An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada.Throughout the modern period, nations defined themselves through the relationship between nature and machines. Many cast themselves as...Loe edasi...
A missing two-cent cotter pin, smaller than a paperclip, can bring down a four-engine airliner and kill hundreds of people. In 1961, only 17 days and 17 miles apart, Trans World Airlines Flight 529 and Northwest Airlines Flight 706 suffered fat...Loe edasi...
This book has unique features that set it apart from conventional books on the prevention of system failures in that it provides a method that views human activities from a meta-methodological perspective based upon an inter-disciplinary understan...Loe edasi...
This book provides the reader with a domain-independent method for reducing risk through maximizing reliability, reducing epistemic uncertainty, reducing aleatory uncertainty, ranking the reliabilities of systems and processes, minimizing the risk of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Sep-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262551014)
From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts.Included in BILL GATESs 2023 Holiday Reading List Included in Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated B...Loe edasi...
The world might be a different place if people gave up on these transportation innovations after they first failed. Fantastic Failures: From Flops to Fortune takes readers through the unexpected origins of popular products and innovations. With a foc...Loe edasi...
Technology rules the world, but some tech products succeeded only after failure. Fantastic Failures: From Flops to Fortune takes readers through the unexpected origins of popular products and innovations. With a focus on persistence and creative thi...Loe edasi...
What do you do with a failed product? Make it a best-selling toy! Fantastic Failures: From Flops to Fortune takes readers through the unexpected origins of popular products and innovations. With a focus on persistence and creative thinking, this hi-l...Loe edasi...
Technology rules the world, but some tech products succeeded only after failure. Fantastic Failures: From Flops to Fortune takes readers through the unexpected origins of popular products and innovations. With a focus on persistence and creative thin...Loe edasi...
What do you do with a failed product? Make it a best-selling toy! Fantastic Failures: From Flops to Fortune takes readers through the unexpected origins of popular products and innovations. With a focus on persistence and creative thinking, this hi-...Loe edasi...
The world might be a different place if people gave up on these transportation innovations after they first failed. Fantastic Failures: From Flops to Fortune takes readers through the unexpected origins of popular products and innovations. With a fo...Loe edasi...
This book has unique features that set it apart from conventional books on the prevention of system failures in that it provides a method that views human activities from a meta-methodological perspective based upon an inter-disciplinary understan...Loe edasi...
This book presents a comprehensive study covering the design and application of models and algorithms for assessing the joint device failures of telecommunication backbone networks caused by large-scale regional disasters. At first, failure models...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Feb-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262048057)
Smil presents the long history and modern infatuation with invention and innovation. Meticulous as always, these vast realms of human ingenuity are organized into sensible categories: inventions that went from welcome to undesirable, inventions that...Loe edasi...
This textbook takes a distinctively systems approach to the principles of risk, uncertainty and risk management, outlining a series of applications and more specialist tools and approaches. It offers a rational treatment of risk and risk managemen...Loe edasi...
This textbook takes a distinctively systems approach to the principles of risk, uncertainty and risk management, outlining a series of applications and more specialist tools and approaches. It offers a rational treatment of risk and risk managemen...Loe edasi...
Since the 1970s, the IAEA has been involved in the analysis of fuel failures in water cooled reactors in normal (nonaccident) operational conditions. This updated version of IAEA Nuclear Energy Series No. NFT2.1 provides information on all aspects o...Loe edasi...
Fault Analysis and its Impact on Grid-connected Photovoltaic Systems Performance explains how fault analysis can be used to estimate the reliability of the product; ensuring that the product is reliable is an important step to avoid any failure or i...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Oct-2022, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9781501524783)
The book presents a unique view of failure analysis of high technology devices. It describes capabilities and limitations of many analytical techniques and testing paths and decisions best followed in example failure analysis studies. ...Loe edasi...
Sari: World Scientific Series On Emerging Technologies: Avram Bar-cohen Memorial Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Sep-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789811256844)
Sustainment (As Commonly Defined By Industry And Government), Is Comprised Of Maintenance, Support, And Upgrade Practices That Sustain Or Improve The Performance Of A System And Maximize The Availability Of Goods And Services While Minimizing...Loe edasi...
