Introduction to Transportation Engineering

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The second edition of Introduction to Transportation Engineering has been developed to provide a concise yet thorough introduction to intermodal transportation. One of its underlying concepts is that the basic techniques and principles of transportation engineering are of wide application. For practical reasons, the major emphasis is often on highways, but care is taken to show how basic concepts and techniques apply to different modes.

The book strives to provide a background in transportation planning, analysis, and design while emphasizing the social, economic, and political context of transportation engineering. It places major emphasis on important practical topics such as geometric design, Highway Capacity Manual methods, and traffic signal timing, and also emphasizes important theoretical topics such as the fundamental techniques of traffic analysis and the economic theory underlying transportation demand modeling.

The text has been revised and updated to reflect the 2000 revision of the Highway Capacity Manual. The numbers of flow charts, diagrams, and photos have been increased from the previous edition. The text also offers new open-ended design exercises pertaining to common design problems in transportation such as horizontal and vertical alignment of roads, railways, or runways; traffic design for highways; planning and design of traffic control; and design of bus routes and schedules. These exercises respond to ABET-2000 accreditation requirements, particularly to civil engineering program criteria that require “design experiences integrated throughout the professional component of the curriculum.”

On the Surface of Things
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Fantastic. A joy to look at and to read

Great photography book !

Intriguing pictures and understandable explanations

On the Surface of Things
Felice Frankel
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
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ASIN: 0811813940

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Fantastic. A joy to look at and to read.......1999-06-10

This book consists of a number of fascinating photos drawn from the world of science. The pictures are works of art in themselves, and include a simple scale indicator to give you a clue whether what you're looking at is microscopic or full sized. The accompanying prose explains in a short description what you're looking at and why it's so interesting. The prose is brilliantly written and easy to read.

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Great photography book !.......1998-10-11

This is not a science book ! The photos are really great, but the name fooled me...it is not a book on surface science ! Just a photography book that have some phothos that were taken with the help of scientific media.....

Intriguing pictures and understandable explanations.......1998-03-31

As a student in Material Science and Engineering, I couldn't resist when I heard of this book, and I was not disappointed. Mrs. Frankel's photography is beautiful and illustrative without losing an artful touch as far as composition is concerned, and Mr. Whitesides' explanations can be easily grasped due to their intuitive approach. For someone who wants to know more about the science behind the effects the explanations may not be detailed enough, which is why I don't rate this book a ten, but whoever desires to gain an overview of surface effects and understand the basics of it, this is the book to read. I sincerely recommend this book.

Response Surfaces (Statistics: a Series of Textbooks and Monogrphs)

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excellent material

Response Surfaces (Statistics: a Series of Textbooks and Monogrphs)
Andre I. Khuri , and John A. Cornell
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Response Surfaces: Designs and Analyses; Second Edition presents techniques for designing experiments that yield adequate and reliable measurements of one or several responses of interest, fitting and testing the suitability of empirical models used for acquiring information from the experiments, and for utilizing the experimental results to make decisions concerning the system under investigation. This edition contains chapters on response surface models with block effects and on Taguchi's robust parameter design, additional details on transformation of response variable, more material on modified ridge analysis, and new design criteria, including rotatability for multiresponse experiments. It also presents an innovative technique for displaying correlation among several response. Numerical examples throughout the book plus exercises--with worked solutions to selected problems--complement the text.

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excellent material.......2002-01-07

In a very simple and concise approach, explains the essentials with complete theoretical background and good illustrating examples. Will be very useful for both the novice and the advanced reader.

Surface and Underground Excavations - Methods, Techniques and Equipment

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Surface and Underground Excavations - Methods, Techniques and Equipment
Ratan Raj Tatiya
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Excavation is a multi-disciplinary activity in the areas of civil, construction, and mining engineering. The excavation industry is booming because of the yearly creation of thousands of kilometers of tunnels, many mine openings, and millions of cubic meters of large underground excavations for transportation, mineral mining, oil and gas storage, hydroelectric power station construction, defense facilities, and for the disposal of hazardous waste. Surface and Underground Excavations: Methods, Techniques and Equipment provides a comprehensive text on the latest technologies and developments in excavation for any type of surface or underground excavation. The book's opening chapters address unit operations, including drilling, explosives and blasting, mucking, haulage, hoisting, supports, and reinforcement. Subsequently, the author describes excavation techniques for various operations, such as tunneling, raising, sinking, drifting, stoping, quarrying and surface mining, underground mining, pillar blasting, and liquidation. In addition, the design, planning, and development of excavations encompass a separate chapter. Special attention is paid to the construction of surface and subsurface excavations, including caverns, as well as to new methodologies to select stoping methods through incremental analysis. For practical illustration, the final chapter contains case studies dealing with heavy underground blasting during pillar recoveries. With thorough and practical coverage, Surface and Underground Excavations is an ideal guide for both novices and experienced professionals in civil, construction, and mining engineering.

Electron Microscopy of Interfaces in Metals and Alloys (Electron Microscopy in Materials Science Series)

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Electron Microscopy of Interfaces in Metals and Alloys examines the structure of interfaces in metals and alloys using transmission electron microscopy. The book presents quantitative methods of analysis and reviews the most significant work on interface structure over the last 20 years. It provides the first book description of the methods used for quantitative identification of Burgers vectors of interfacial dislocations, including the geometric analysis of periodicities in interface structure and the comparison of experimental and theoretical electron micrographs. The book explores low- and high-angle grain boundaries and interphase interfaces between neighboring grains, emphasizing interfacial dislocations and rigid-body displacements to the structure and properties of interfaces. It also analyzes the use of two-beam images and diffraction patterns for analysis and studies n-beam lattice imaging. The book includes numerous worked examples of the analysis of the structure of grain boundaries and interphaseinterfaces, which are particularly useful to those who need to consider the nature of intercrystalline interfaces.

Decorative Painting Techniques: Whisper Painting (Decorative Painting Techniques)

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The first in a brand-new series, each focusing closely on a specific faux finish. Whisper Painting is a popular style that’s soft, subtle, and easy to do, and with these ample photos as a guide, anyone can give plain walls, furniture, and home accessories beautifully understated decorative finishes. The projects showcase 30 different techniques, and start with such simple, unintimidating processes as tracing, decoupaging, ragging, and dragging. Add texture to a mantelpiece with dimensional paint; antique a brand-new mirror so that it looks like a Renaissance work of art; and reproduce an aged stone wall. Introductory sections provide paint and color basics, and each project is labeled with one, two, or three paintbrushes according to difficulty.

Silicon Surfaces and Formation of Interfaces: Basic Science in the Industrial World

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Silicon Surfaces and Formation of Interfaces: Basic Science in the Industrial World
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Silicon, the basic material for a multibillion-dollar industry, is the most widely researched and applied semiconductor, and its surfaces are the most thoroughly studied of all semiconductor surfaces. Silicon Surfaces and Formation of Interfaces may be used as an introduction to graduate-level physics and chemical physics. Moreover, it gives a specialized and comprehensive description of the most common faces of silicon crystals as well as their interaction with adsorbates and overlayers. This knowledge is presented in a systematic and easy-to-follow way. Discussion of each system is preceded by a brief overview which categorizes the features and physical mechanisms before the details are presented. The literature is easily available, and the references are numerous and organized in tables, allowing a search without the need to browse through the text.

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Surface analysis deals with the characterisation and understanding of the outer layers of substrates. How they react, look and function are all of interest to the surface scientists. From the basic principles of surface analysis this book considers the various techniques used to analyse surfaces and the theory required to understand the results. The book begins with a general introduction to the sometimes complex area of surface analysis, and continues with chapters by leading experts on the many different techniques currently used, including, for example, SIMS, ESCA, Auger and vibrational spectroscopy. Anyone with a basic understanding of the subject will discover, in one single volume, the rudiments of any particular technique and the answers to commonly asked questions.

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An excellent review from the most used techniques.......2004-08-23

When I began my phD I've had to learn a lot about different techniques that I worked with. This book was an excellent help, since, despite it is written by specialists, it has an approach that even a beginner can understand.
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Experimental Innovations in Surface Science: A Guide to Practical Laboratory Methods and Instruments (AIP-Press)

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In modern surface science, hundreds of new physical and chemical measurement methods have come to form a vital foundation for experimental research. This book presents many practical and widely used laboratory methods, but which have thus far not been communicated coherently to students or practitioners entering the field. Approximately 250 methods and principles, selected from information supplied by more than 100 experts as well as the literature from the past thirty years, and arranged in topical groupings for easy reference, are described succinctly with drawings and text. Providing a veritable gold mine of clever ideas and tricks of the trade, the book will serve not only as a useful reference for those starting experimental research in surface science, but also as a handbook for established researchers, providing new ideas for using basic materials and components effectively for surface science research and measurement. Updated information on American, English, German, and Japanese suppliers of materials and components used in surface science research is featured at the end of the book.

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Quantitative Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces

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