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Break down : explosions, implosions, crashes, crunches, cracks and more... a how things work look at how things don't / by Grunbaum, Mara,author.(CARDINAL)408262;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-199) and index.Another one bites the dust -- Out with a bang: Building demolition -- We've got a job to do: Demolition engineer -- Crushing it: Car crushers -- Timber!: Taking down giant trees -- Smash it up: Wrecking balls -- Lesson learned!: Demolition disaster -- Look out below: Breaking bridges -- Try this!: Da Vinci Bridge: make a bridge out of craft sticks -- Built to break -- Crash compactor: Safe car design -- We've got a job to do: Crash-test Engineer -- Shock absorber: Electrical fuses -- Big bangs: Exploding fireworks -- Lesson learned!: Fireworks fail -- Head protector: Helmet technology -- Burn, baby, burn: Self-destructing spacecraft -- Try this!: Snack smasher: build a package to protect a precious treat -- Famous failures -- The Titanic: Iceberg encounter -- Sticky situation: The Great Molasses Flood -- We've got a job to do: Forensic engineer -- Up in flames: the Hindenburg -- Lesson learned!: Buckling Bridge -- Tippy tower: The Leaning Tower of Pisa -- Sinking stadium: The Minneapolis Metrodome -- Not-so-great Pyramids: Failed wonders of the world -- Try this!: Incredible edible edifice: Build a strong tower, then watch it fall -- Destructive by nature -- Swallowed up: Sinkholes -- Shake it up: Earthquakes -- Lesson learned!: One big quake -- Gone to rot: How things decompose -- Avalaaaaanche!: Fast-moving snow slides -- We've got a job to do: Storm chaser -- Plague of pests: Locusts -- Try this! Apple mummies: Keep apples from decomposing -- Everyday chaos -- The big burst: Popping balloons -- Screen saver: Shattering smartphones -- We've got a job to do: Skateboard smasher -- Say "Aaaaah!": Tooth decay -- Super skeleton: Broken bones -- Metal destroyer: Rust -- All backed up: Clogged toilets -- Lesson learned!: The great sink -- Try this! A bit rusty: Discover how to make rust, and stop it from forming in the first place."Boom! Crash! Crumble! Demolition experts bring down a massive building within its own footprint; the hood of a car crumples in a crash, exactly as planned; and a wave of molasses covers a city in sticky goo. What is going on? From quick answers to in-depth explanations, we've got you covered. Discover all about the mighty -- and mightily controlled -- explosions responsible for demo'ing old buildings, producing awesome fireworks, and more. Dig into a world of things -- like your bike helmet -- that are actually designed to break. Peer inside awe-inspiring natural disasters like sinkholes and avalanches, and marvel at the fascinating science of how things break down." -- Back cover."In this book, kids will learn the fascinating ways that things work by learning how they come apart"--Ages 8-12Grades 4-6
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Trivia and miscellanea.; Failure analysis (Engineering); Structural failures; Wrecking; Failure analysis (Engineering); Structural failures.; Wrecking.;
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Fantastic feats and failures /
960LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Structural analysis (Engineering); Structural design; Structural failures;
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Epic engineering failures and the lessons they teach [videorecording] / by Ressler, Stephen J.,teacher.; Teaching Company,publisher.(CARDINAL)349444;
Presenter, Stephen Ressler.When a structure fails, the fallout can be frightening, disruptive, and even deadly. And yet, these disasters also teach us valuable lessons about the possibilities of engineering--and how to make our future projects safer. In the same way that a military defeat might provoke strategic changes and new approaches, engineering failures pave the way for improvement in the ways that we design, build, and maintain our technological systems. But first, we must figure out what went wrong. On the evening of Friday, July 17, 1981, a band was playing in the atrium of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel. About 1,600 people had gathered for that night's popular tea dance. Women in elegant dresses and men in pressed suits danced on the atrium floor, while observers admired the festivities from walkways suspended above. Suddenly, the highest walkway tore loose and, along with the walkway two levels below, crashed to the atrium floor. Over 100 people were killed, and many others were injured. Speculation began immediately as to the cause of this tragedy, which remains to this day one of the worst structural failures in US history. In the aftermath of the accident, United Press International sent word to its thousands of news outlets that "foot-tapping revelers" might have touched off a rhythmic vibration which caused the walkways to collapse. The New York Times story was headlined: "Before Hotel Disaster, Walkway Swayed to the Rhythm of Dancers." Some officials were quoted as saying the walkways might have been overcrowded and unable to bear the combined stressors of weight and movement. None of that turned out to be true. In Epic Engineering Failures and the Lessons They Teach, you will go behind the scenes of painstaking and captivating investigations that not only reveal what actually caused the tragedy in the Hyatt Regency that night, but also explore the catalysts for more than 24 other epic engineering failures. Your professor, civil engineer and award-winning educator Stephen Ressler, PhD, reveals the story behind each disaster by demonstrating the scientific and engineering issues involved with easy-to-follow explanations accompanied by fascinating videos, live demonstrations, and hundreds of custom-made models and graphics. Professor Ressler also examines the less technical and more human components of error--the individual personalities and sometimes dysfunctional organizations that led to catastrophe. In addition, he asks a startling question: Can we move forward as a civilization without these engineering failures?Not rated.DVD.
Subjects: Lectures.; Educational films.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Structural failures.; Bridge failures.; Structural analysis (Engineering); Strains and stresses.; Engineering design.; Structural design.; Design and technology.; Constructions;
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A technical review and analysis of crane boom and turret drive failures at NC DOT / by Bernold, Leonhard E.(Leonhard Emil),1952-; Lucas, Erick F.; North Carolina.Department of Transportation.; North Carolina State University.Department of Civil Engineering.;
Subjects: Hoisting machinery.; Earthmoving machinery.; Building;
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Trails of evidence [videorecording] : how forensic science works / by Murray, Elizabeth A.(Elizabeth Ann),1958-(CARDINAL)815446; Reay, Alisha.(CARDINAL)554670; Leven, Jon.(CARDINAL)554917; Allen, Jim M.;
DVD.Taught by Elizabeth A. Murray.Includes bibliographical references (Course guidebook, pages 268-285).
Subjects: Instructional films.; Lectures.; Video recordings.; Forensic sciences.;
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Mechanical engineers' handbook / by Kutz, Myer.(CARDINAL)752662;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Mechanical engineering;
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Home generator selection, installation, and repair / by Dempsey, Paul(Paul K.),author.(CARDINAL)723959;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-205) and index.Preface -- Selecting The Right Generator: -- Outages -- What's available -- Power output -- Power quality: -- Voltage -- Frequency -- Distortion -- Engines or prime movers -- Fuel options -- Other features worth having: -- Instrumentation -- Circuit breakers -- Ground-fault circuit interrupters -- Automatic idle control -- Noise -- Sizing -- Powering Up: -- Location -- Hookup: -- Power cords -- Power inlet box -- Transfer switches -- Transfer switches and neutral grounds -- Electrical safety: -- Grounding rods -- Fuels: -- Gasoline -- Propane -- Natural gas -- Diesel -- Planning ahead -- Generator Repairs: -- Conventional generators: -- Brushed generators -- Brushless generators -- Power quality -- Tools -- Measurements -- Output tests -- Resistance tests -- Ohmmeter tests -- Megaohmmeter tests -- Rotor excitation test -- Inverter generators: -- Operation -- Troubleshooting -- Engine Electrical: -- Engine management controls: -- Power sources -- Fuel cutoff valves -- Idle control -- Automatic choke -- Oil-pressure sensor -- Oil-level sensor -- Solid-state ignition: -- Ignition myths -- Starter motors -- Emergency Repairs: -- Tools and supplies -- No power: -- No power from any receptacle -- No power from one receptacle -- Genset slows under load -- Storage batteries -- Gasoline engine malfunctions: -- Preliminaries -- No start -- Loss of power as engine warms -- Sudden shutdowns -- Insufficient power -- Weak compression -- Diesel engine malfunctions: -- No or slow starting -- Runaway -- Fuel Systems: -- Basic carburetor theory -- Tools and supplies: -- Parts and materials -- Removal and installation -- Cleaning -- Float carburetor service: -- Needle and seat -- Float adjustments -- Jets -- Primer -- Diaphragm carburetor service: -- Diaphragm carburetor operation -- Plumbing -- Troubleshooting -- Pressure test -- Mixture-adjustment screws -- Fuel pumps -- Metering -- Idle circuits -- Check valves -- Final pressure check: -- Mixture adjustments: all carburetors -- Fuel injection -- Diesel: -- Wet stacking -- Safety -- Tools -- Fuel system checks -- Injectors -- High-pressure pump -- Timing -- Major Engine Repairs: -- Some basics -- What's needed -- Torque limits -- Evaluation -- Excessive compression -- No or barely perceptible compression -- Compression test -- Leak-down test: -- Leak-down test-four-cycle engine -- Leak-down test-two cycle engine -- Blowby gauge -- Cylinder head casting -- Valves -- Valve guides -- Valve springs -- Pushrods -- Pistons -- Rings: -- Installation -- Piston installation: -- Integral bores -- Detachable cylinders -- Connecting rods: -- Construction -- Orientation -- Bearings -- Micrometers -- Plastigage -- Failure analysis -- Rod assembly -- Cylinders: -- Glaze breaking -- Inspection -- Boring -- Sleeving -- Flywheel -- Crankcase -- Crankshalfts -- Antifriction main bearings -- Camshafts -- Balance shafts -- Oil seals -- Oil circuits -- Rewind starters: -- Starter troubleshooting -- Preload release and Restoration -- Brake -- Dogs -- Recoil springs -- Final word -- A: Generator websites -- B: National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) plug and receptacle configurations -- Index.Overview: Select, set up, and maintain a reliable home generator. This complete and practical guide shows you, step by step, how to choose the best generator for your needs, safely and properly install it, and handle troubleshooting and maintenance. Home Generator Selection, Installation, and Repair covers a wide variety of models, including those from the most popular manufacturers - Briggs and Stratton, Coleman, and Honda. Nearly 150 photos and diagrams help you to identify the various electrical components. This hands-on resource also describes the tools you'll need and provides sources for additional information and discount parts. Home Generator Selection, Installation, and Repair explains: How to decipher the technical terminology used in generator manuals; Different types of fuels-gasoline, propane, natural gas, and diesel; How to evaluate a generator's quality. Essential features, including instrumentation, protection from electroshock, and large pneumatic tires for mobility. How to safely connect generator output to home or office circuits; Portable generator support requirements, including: proper fuel storage and an inventory of parts, such as oil and air filters; Emergency fixes; Generator troubleshooting and repair procedures; Engine overhaul.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Electric generators; Dwellings; Electric generators;
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Teaching Web search skills : techniques and strategies of top trainers / by Notess, Greg R.(CARDINAL)208677;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-326)and index.1. Web searching and the teaching paradox -- Online searching background -- Internet information growth -- Origins of the Web -- Instructional background -- The teaching connection -- Teaching simplicity -- The state of Web searching today -- Changing patterns -- 2. Understanding our audience -- General audience characteristics -- Novices -- Know-it-alls -- Experienced users -- Pairing strategies for hands-on workshops -- Audience assessment -- Navigation versus search confusion -- Remembering what we did not know -- Box confusion -- Address confusion -- Button confusion -- Browser differences and problems -- Operating system and hardware issues -- Adaptability and change -- 3. Choosing the instructional session type -- Hands-on sessions -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- Facilities -- Planning -- Exercises -- Lecture and demonstration sessions -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- Facilities -- Planning -- Semi-online tutorials -- Capturing a screen shot within PowerPoint -- Course coverage and distance education -- Other settings and approaches --10. The search engines -- The starting point -- Ask -- Exalead -- Gigablast -- Google -- MSN search -- Windows Live -- Yahoo! -- Directories -- 11. Creating a framed workshop Web page -- Advantages and disadvantages of frames -- Frames code and explanation -- Top page with frameset -- Left frame table of contents -- Content pages -- Exercise pages frame set -- Exercise one top frame : JavaScript and a form -- Other exercise pages -- Solutions for frame breakers -- 12. Presentation tips, tricks, and shortcuts -- Keyboard shortcuts -- General Windows shortcuts -- Browser shortcut keys -- Shortcuts for filling out forms -- Other shortcuts -- Quick links and the personal toolbar -- Bookmarklets -- Zapping images, animations, and more -- Bookmarklets for Web searching -- The pop-up presence -- The shortcut advantage -- 13. Tales from the trenches : anecdotes, examples, and exercises -- Analogies, sayings, and terminology tales -- Boolean examples -- Exercises -- Unexpected answers -- Limitations of search engines -- Failures -- Facilities failures -- The team teaching danger -- Web site instruction and the Web searching paradox -- Lost interest -- Formulas for success -- Afterword -- Appendix A. The trainers : introduction to the interviewees -- Appendix B. Sample handouts and other training material -- Appendix C. URL list.4. Online tutorials : friend or foe? -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- Issues with online tutorials for Web searching -- Search engine inconsistencies -- Search feature changes -- Databases changes -- Online tutorial examples -- Web search guide tutorial : research, Web searching -- Finding information on the Internet : a tutorial -- Internet tutorials -- LearnAndGo, searching the Web -- Quick tutorial on searching the Internet -- Net.TUTOR : using Web search tools -- Interactive tutorials : Internet search tips and mouse exercise -- Tutorial : site clustering and filtering -- The information cycle -- Information literacy online tutorials -- Finding tutorials -- Tutorials : worth the effort? -- 5. Organization : focus, length, and goals -- Primary session focus -- Pure Web searching -- Basic Internet training -- Advanced Internet training -- Part of multiple sessions -- Course-integrated bibliographic instruction -- Session length -- Variations in length -- Ideal length -- The burnout paradox -- Goal setting -- A collection of goals -- How many main goals? -- Specific objectives -- Bringing it all together --6. Terminology -- Importance of terminology -- Definitions -- Search engine -- Directory -- Portal -- Metasearch engine -- Ad bidding engine -- Answer engine -- Metasite -- News search engine -- Opinion engine -- Site search engine -- Invisible Web -- Other terminology distinctions -- Final thoughts on terminology -- 7. Content : Web search features -- Search features -- Phrase searching -- Boolean searching -- Truncation -- Field searching -- Limits -- Stop words and case sensitivity -- Sorting -- The teaching choice -- 8. Content : primary concepts -- Research process -- Question analysis -- Using more than one search tool -- Search engines versus directories -- Evaluation -- Which primary concepts to teach -- Recent changes in teaching topics -- Additional concepts to consider -- Identifying ads -- Understanding Web addresses (or URLs) -- Understanding databases -- Teaching change -- 9. Additional content : image searching, news, Usenet, and more -- News -- Usenet newsgroups and opinions -- Pictures and images -- Multimedia -- Phone numbers -- Bibliographic databases -- Subject-specific sites -- Invisible Web -- The lost obvious --This comprehensive and readable guide presents a variety of approaches to instructional design and methodology, lists a range of essential training resources, and features dozen of helpful figures, search screens, worksheets handouts, and sample training materials.
Subjects: Internet searching;
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Applied machine learning and AI for engineers : solve business problems that can't be solved algorithmically / by Prosise, Jeffauthor.(CARDINAL)879138; Prosise, Adam,writer of foreword.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Part 1. Machine learning with Schikit-learn. Machine learning -- Regression models -- Classification models -- Text classification -- Support vector machines -- Principal component analysis -- Operationalizing machine learning models -- Part 2. Deep learning with Keras and TensorFlow. Deep learning -- Neural networks -- Image classification with convolutional neural networks -- Face detection and recognition -- Object detection -- Natural language processing -- Azure cognitive services.While many introductory guides to AI are calculus books in disguise, this one mostly eschews the math. Instead, author Jeff Prosise helps engineers and software developers build an intuitive understanding of AI to solve business problems. Need to create a system to detect the sounds of illegal logging in the rainforest, analyze text for sentiment, or predict early failures in rotating machinery? This practical book teaches you the skills necessary to put AI and machine learning to work at your company.
Subjects: Artificial intelligence.; Machine learning.;
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Where is my flying car? / by Hall, J. Storrs,author.(CARDINAL)477201;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Profiles of the past. The world of tomorrow ; The graveyard of dreams ; The conquest of the air ; Waldo and Magic, Inc. ; Cold fusion? ; A Machiavelli effect ; The age of Aquarius ; Forbidden fruit -- Profiles of the present. Ceiling and visibility unlimited ; Dialogue concerning the two great systems of the world ; The atomic age ; When worlds collide ; When the sleeper wakes -- Profiles of the future. The dawn of robots ; The second atomic age ; Tom Swift and his flying car ; Escape velocity ; Metropolis ; Engineers' dreams ; Rocket to the renaissance.From an engineer and futurist, an impassioned account of technological stagnation since the 1970s and an imaginative blueprint for a richer, more abundant future The science fiction of the 1960s promised us a future remade by technological innovation: we'd vacation in geodesic domes on Mars, have meaningful conversations with computers, and drop our children off at school in flying cars. Fast-forward 60 years, and we're still stuck in traffic in gas-guzzling sedans and boarding the same types of planes we flew in over half a century ago. What happened to the future we were promised? In Where Is My Flying Car?, J. Storrs Hall sets out to answer this deceptively simple question. What starts as an examination of the technical limitations of building flying cars evolves into an investigation of the scientific, technological, and social roots of the economic stagnation that started in the 1970s. From the failure to adopt nuclear energy and the suppression of cold fusion technology to the rise of a counterculture hostile to progress, Hall recounts how our collective ambitions for the future were derailed, with devastating consequences for global wealth creation and distribution. Hall then outlines a framework for a future powered by exponential progress--one in which we build as much in the world of atoms as we do in the world of bits, one rich in abundance and wonder. Drawing on years of original research and personal engineering experience, Where Is My Flying Car? is an urgent, timely analysis of technological progress over the last 50 years and a bold vision for a better future.
Subjects: Technology and civilization.; Technology;
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