EARTHQUAKES, TSUNAMIS AND NUCLEAR RISKS : PREDICTION AND ASSESSMENT BEYOND TH…

This book covers seismic probabilistic risk assessment (S-PRA) and related studies which have become more important to increase the safety of nuclear facilities against earthquakes and tsunamis in the face of the many uncertainties after the Fukushima accident. The topics are (1) Active faults and active tectonics important for seismic hazard assessment of nuclear facilities,(2) Seismic source …

THE SUSTAINABILITY OF MEAT AND CURED MEATS IN ITALY : NUTRITIONAL ASPECT, FOO…

From the mid-1980s, meat consumption in Italy and the western world have stabilised and, in the face of a well-established food security, we have witnessed a changed sensitivity for ethical issues, such as animal welfare and environmental impacts of farms. Analysing the sustainability of meat and cured meats means studying in the most objective way possible different topics concerning both the …

BEYOND SAFETY TRAINING:EMBEDDING SAFETY IN PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

This book investigates why, despite more and more resources devoted to safety training, expectations are not entirely met, particularly in the industrial sectors that have already achieved a high safety level. It not only reflects the most precious viewpoints of experts from different disciplines, different countries, with experiences in various industrial fields at the cutting edge of theories…

THE ILLUSION OF RISK CONTROL : WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO LIVE WITH UNCERTAINTY?

This book explores the implications of acknowledging uncertainty and black swans for regulation of high-hazard technologies, for stakeholder acceptability of potentially hazardous activities and for risk governance. The conventional approach to risk assessment, which combines the likelihood of an event and the severity of its consequences, is poorly suited to situations where uncertainty and am…

RESILIENCE : A NEW PARADIGM OF NUCLEAR SAFETY : FROM ACCIDENT MITIGATION TO R…

This book summarizes presentations and discussions from the two-day international workshop held at UC Berkeley in March 2015, and derives questions to be addressed in multi-disciplinary research toward a new paradigm of nuclear safety. The consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in March 2011 have fuelled the debate on nuclear safety: while there were no casualties due to radiati…

TEXTBOOK OF PATIENT SAFETY AND CLINICAL RISK MANAGEMENT

Implementing safety practices in healthcare saves lives and improves the quality of care: it is therefore vital to apply good clinical practices, such as the WHO surgical checklist, to adopt the most appropriate measures for the prevention of assistance-related risks, and to identify the potential ones using tools such as reporting & learning systems. The culture of safety in the care enviro…

SNOW SPORTS TRAUMA AND SAFETY : CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL S…

This book covers the latest in snow sport epidemiology, snow sport injuries and treatment, and biomechanical/mechanical engineering related to snow sports injuries (mechanisms of injury, injury prevention by equipment design, injury prevention by design of resort features, and more). It brings together a collection of papers from the International Congress on Ski Trauma and Safety (the biennal …

ADVANCES IN THE FIELD OF ELECTRICAL MACHINES AND DRIVES

Electrical machines and drives dominate our everyday lives. This is due to their numerous applications in industry, power production, home appliances, and transportation systems such as electric and hybrid electric vehicles, ships, and aircrafts. Their development follows rapid advances in science, engineering, and technology. Researchers around the world are extensively investigating electrica…

ANNALS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY FOR ASSEMBLY, HANDLING AND INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS

This Open Access proceedings presents a good overview of the current research landscape of industrial robots. The objective of MHI Colloquium is the successful networking at both academic and management level. Thereby, the colloquium focuses an academic exchange at a high level in order to distribute the obtained research results, to determine synergy effects and trends, to connect the actors i…

PROGRESS IN GAS TURBINE PERFORMANCE

There has been a remarkable difference in the research and development regarding gas turbine technology for transportation and power generation. The former remains substantially florid and unaltered with respect to the past as the superiority of air-breathing engines compared to other technologies is by far immense. On the other hand, the world of gas turbines (GTs) for power generation is inde…

ENERGY-EFFICIENT AND SEMI-AUTOMATED TRUCK PLATOONING

This open access book presents research and evaluation results of the Austrian flagship project “Connecting Austria,” illustrating the wide range of research needs and questions that arise when semi-automated truck platooning is deployed in Austria. The work presented is introduced in the context of work in similar research areas around the world. This interdisciplinary research effort cons…

Product Development within Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Legal Risk :Ex…

This open-access-book synthesizes a supportive developer checklist considering sustainable Team and agile Project Management in the challenge of Artificial Intelligence and limits of image recognition. The study bases on technical, ethical, and legal requirements with examples concerning autonomous vehicles. As the first of its kind, it analyzes all reported car accidents state wide (1.28 milli…

ADVANCES IN THE FIELD OF ELECTRICAL MACHINES AND DRIVES

Electrical machines and drives dominate our everyday lives. This is due to their numerous applications in industry, power production, home appliances, and transportation systems such as electric and hybrid electric vehicles, ships, and aircrafts. Their development follows rapid advances in science, engineering, and technology. Researchers around the world are extensively investigating electrica…

ANNALS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY FOR ASSEMBLY, HANDLING AND INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS

This Open Access proceedings presents a good overview of the current research landscape of industrial robots. The objective of MHI Colloquium is the successful networking at both academic and management level. Thereby, the colloquium focuses an academic exchange at a high level in order to distribute the obtained research results, to determine synergy effects and trends, to connect the actors i…

PROCEEDING OF 2021 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, NETWO…

This open access proceedings includes original, unpublished, peer-reviewed research papers from the International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Applications (WCNA2021), held in Berlin, Germany on December 17-19th, 2021. The topics covered include but are not limited to wireless communications, networking and applications.The papers showcased here share the latest finding…

DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS AND DATA FOR AUTOMATED DRIVING : ROBUSTNESS, UNCERTAINTY…

This open access book brings together the latest developments from industry and research on automated driving and artificial intelligence. Environment perception for highly automated driving heavily employs deep neural networks, facing many challenges. How much data do we need for training and testing? How to use synthetic data to save labeling costs for training? How do we increase robustne…

AVENUE21. CONNECTED AND AUTOMATED DRIVING: PROSPECTS FOR URBAN EUROPE

This open access publication examines the impact of connected and automated vehicles on the European city and the conditions that can enable this technology to make a positive contribution to urban development. The authors argue for two theses that have thus far received little attention in scientific discourse: as connected and automated vehicles will not be ready for use in all parts of the c…

DATA-DRIVEN FAULT DETECTION AND REASONING FOR INDUSTRIAL MONITORING

This open access book assesses the potential of data-driven methods in industrial process monitoring engineering. The process modeling, fault detection, classification, isolation, and reasoning are studied in detail. These methods can be used to improve the safety and reliability of industrial processes. Fault diagnosis, including fault detection and reasoning, has attracted engineers and scien…

DIGITAL INTERACTION AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE : PROCEEDINGS OF MIDI’2021 –…

This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access. This book presents the Proceedings of the 9th Machine Intelligence and Digital Interaction Conference. Significant progress in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and its wider use in many interactive products are quickly transforming further areas of our life, which results in the emergence of various…

ENERGY-EFFICIENT AND SEMI-AUTOMATED TRUCK PLATOONING : RESEARCH AND EVALUATION

This open access book presents research and evaluation results of the Austrian flagship project “Connecting Austria,” illustrating the wide range of research needs and questions that arise when semi-automated truck platooning is deployed in Austria. The work presented is introduced in the context of work in similar research areas around the world. This interdisciplinary research effort cons…

DROPLET DYNAMICS UNDER EXTREME AMBIENT CONDITIONS

This open access book presents the main results of the Collaborative Research Center SFB-TRR 75, which spanned the period from 2010 to 2022. Scientists from a variety of disciplines, ranging from thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and electrical engineering to chemistry, mathematics, computer science, and visualization, worked together toward the overarching goal of SFB-TRR 75, to gain a deep phy…

SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY FOR ISLAND DESTINATIONS

This open access book presents the findings of the CIVITAS DESTINATIONS project regarding the link between mobility and tourism in urban areas and the complications tourist destinations face in becoming more sustainable. It integrates the tourist mobility needs and the associated fluctuation impacts in the design of mobility solutions in order to enforce the accessibility, attractiveness, effic…

SYSTEMIC CIRCULAR ECONOMY SOLUTIONS FOR FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITES

This open access book provides an overview of the work undertaken within the FiberEUse project, which developed solutions enhancing the profitability of composite recycling and reuse in value-added products, with a cross-sectorial approach. Glass and carbon fiber reinforced polymers, or composites, are increasingly used as structural materials in many manufacturing sectors like transport, const…

CONTRACTING AND SAFETY : EXPLORING OUTSOURCING PRACTICES IN HIGH-HAZARD INDUS…

This open access book examines the increase in outsourcing, contracting and subcontracting as ways of organising work. It explores the impact of these employment arrangements on public safety, particularly when they are linked to complex supply networks in a range of engineering industries including oil and gas, nuclear power and aviation. The brief provides practical recommendations on how …

ANNALS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY FOR ASSEMBLY, HANDLING AND INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS 2021

This Open Access proceedings presents a good overview of the current research landscape of assembly, handling and industrial robotics. The objective of MHI Colloquium is the successful networking at both academic and management level. Thereby, the colloquium focuses an academic exchange at a high level in order to distribute the obtained research results, to determine synergy effects and t…

THE ROAD TO GENERAL INTELLIGENCE

Humans have always dreamed of automating laborious physical and intellectual tasks, but the latter has proved more elusive than naively suspected. Seven decades of systematic study of Artificial Intelligence have witnessed cycles of hubris and despair. The successful realization of General Intelligence (evidenced by the kind of cross-domain flexibility enjoyed by humans) will spawn an industry …

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2021 DIGITALFUTURES : THE 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON …

This open access book is a compilation of selected papers from 2021 DigitalFUTURES—The 3rd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2021). The work focuses on novel techniques for computational design and robotic fabrication. The contents make valuable contributions to academic researchers, designers, and engineers in the industry. As well, readers encoun…

SPECIAL TOPICS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

This open access book presents thirteen outstanding doctoral dissertations in Information Technology from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Information Technology has always been highly interdisciplinary, as many aspects have to be considered in IT systems. The doctoral studies program in IT at Politecnico di Milano emphasizes this inte…

A GUIDE TO ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

This open access book gives both a theoretical and practical overview of several important aspects of additive manufacturing (AM). It is written in an educative style to enable the reader to understand and apply the material. It begins with an introduction to AM technologies and the general workflow, as well as an overview of the current standards within AM. In the following chapter, a more in-…

PERENCANAAN TRANSPORTASI UNTUK MAHASISWA,PERENCANA DAN PRAKTISI

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INNOVATIVE TOOLS AND METHODS USING BIM FOR AN EFFICIENT RENOVATION IN BUILDINGS

This open access book describes a BIM-based toolkit that has been developed according to the latest research activities on building information modelling and semantic interoperability to optimize the building process. It highlights the impacts of using such new tools to fast renovation activities starting from the decision-making and design stages to the construction site management with the po…

FOUNDATIONS OF ROBOTICS : A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH WITH PYTHON AND ROS

This open access book introduces key concepts in robotics in an easy to understand language using an engaging project-based approach. It covers contemporary topics in robotics, providing an accessible entry point to fundamentals in all the major domains. A section is dedicated to introducing programming concepts using Python, which has become a language of choice in robotics and AI. The book al…

VISUALISING SAFETY, AN EXPLORATION : DRAWINGS, PICTURES, IMAGES, VIDEOS AND M…

This open access book explores the role visual tools and graphical models play in safety management. It explains the importance of visualising safety, for teaching concepts, communicating ideas to peers, and raising awareness of potential threats through posters. Visualising Safety, an Exploration introduces graphical models which have been influential in promoting ideas of safety, and impac…

SAFETY IN THE DIGITAL AGE : SOCIOTECHNICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ALGORITHMS AND MAC…

This open access book gathers authors from a wide range of social-scientific and engineering disciplines to review challenges from their respective fields that arise from the processes of social and technological transformation taking place worldwide. The result is a much-needed collection of knowledge about the integration of social, organizational and technical challenges that need to be tack…

SLIDING BASE STRUCTURES : ANALYSIS AND DESIGN

This open access book is an efficient and economic approach for mitigating the seismic damage of low-rise buildings. This book presents various aspects of SB structures, including their fundamentals, dynamic analysis procedures, seismic response characteristics, design methods, and practical applications. It contains a comprehensive study on the influence of various structural and ground motion…

EVALUASI KESESUAIAN LAHAN & PERENCANAAN TATAGUNA LAHAN

Dalam buku ini disajikan dasar-dasar pemikiran mengenai konsep evaluasi lahan dan penerapannya untuk perencanaan tataguna tanah. Dalam penyusunannya telah diusahakan digunakan bahasa yang sederhana yang mudah difahami oleh mahasiswa, meskipun beberapa istilah bahasa asing yang biasa dipergunakan dalam bidang ini tetap disampingkan pula, dengan maksud agar konteks pemahamannya tetap terjaga.

BIODIESEL BAHAN BAKU PROSES DAN TEKNOLOGI

Buku biodiesel ini ditulis dengan harapan pembaca mempunyai wawasan yang komprehensif terkait biodiesel mulai dari bahan baku, proses, teknologi, sampai aspek kesehatan. Pada Bab 1 dipaparkan sejarah pemakaian biodiesel serta gambaran status biodiesel. Juga disajikan proses dan katalis yang digunakan pada pembuatan biodiesel. Pada Bab 2 dan 3 dipaparkan teknologi terkini yang dikembangkan untuk…

TRADISI-TRADISI PENELITIAN KUALITATIF : APLIKASI RISET DI LAYANAN PRIMER

Penelitian kualitatif semakin sering dilakukan untuk menghasilkan inovasi, pemeca han masalah, dan peningkatan keberhasilan layana n kesehatan, khususnya di klinik layanan primer dan komunitas. Para mahasiswa yang menulis tesis dan disertasi, serta peneliti pemula, membutuhkan bahan bacaan yang dapat membantu dalam memilih metode kualitatif yang sesuai dengan tujuan dan pertanyaan penelitian. D…

TATA KELOLA PEMERINTAHAN YANG BAIK DAN PENGADAAN BARANG JASA PEMERINTAH: PEND…

Buku ini diawali dengan mengulas problem ketidakpercayaan (distrust) yang jamak terjadi di antara para pemangku kepentingan di sektor pengadaan barang/jasa pemerintah Indonesia. Uniknya, kecurigaan terjadi bukan saja karena ASN yang terlibat pengadaan dituding oleh aneka pihak bahwa mereka telah melakukan penyimpangan, tetapi juga karena terdapat aneka oknum aparat penegak hukum (APH) yang diin…

PEMELIHARAAN JALAN RAYA : PERKERASAN - DRAINASE - LONGSORAN

Mengapa perkerasan jalan cepat rusak? Buku ini menjawab pertanyaan tersebut. Pemeliharaan jalan tanpa pemahaman masalah kerusakan dan penanganannya, hanya akan membuang-buang biaya, tanpa menyelesaikan masalahnya. Buku ini merupakan penyempurnaan dari buku Pemeliharaan Jalan Raya–Perkerasan-Drainase-Longsoran Edisi I yang telah terbit sejak tahun 2007. Dalam edisi II ini terdapat penyempurna…

PERANCANGAN AKSESIBILITAS UNTUK FASILITAS PUBLIK

Permasalahan aksesibilitas telah menjadi permasalahan yang tidak kunjung terselesaikan dalam kurun waktu dua puluh tahun bahkan lebih. Perjuangan masyarakat difabel untuk memperoleh hak yang sama sebagai warga negara masih belum sampai pada kondisi yang seharusnya didapatkan. Permasalahan aksesibilitas mau tidak mau harus disadari sebagai permasalahan yang sangat kompleks dan melibatkan banyak …

KAWASAN PUSAT KOTA: KOMPLEKSITAS DAN DINAMIKA PERKEMBANGANNYA

Pusat kota merupakan kawasan penting bagi setiap kota. Pusat kota sering kali menjadi tujuan utama kunjungan ke setiap kota. Berbagai kegiatan dan layanan perkotaan berlokasi di kawasan ini. Sebagai konsekuensinya, pusat kota memiliki fungsi dan peran yang spesifik. tetapi cenderung bersifat campuran antara beberapa fungsi, di antaranya sebagai pusat administrasi pemerintahan, pusat perdagangan…

FENOMENAL IKLIM GLOBAL, PERUBAHAN IKLIM, DAN DAMPAKNYA DI INDONESIA

Kejadian-kejadian yang melanda Indonesia pada sepuluh tahun terakhir ini seperti kekeringan, kebakaran hutan, banjir, dan longsor menjadi keprihatinan kita semua. Kejadian-kejadian tersebut tidak terlepas dari fenomena iklim yang terjadi di Indonesia, seperti El Nino dan La Nina. Pemahaman kejadian-kejadian fenomena alam tersebut tidak bisa langsung, tetapi harus dimulai dari dasar-dasar pemaha…

NANOMATERIAL: APLIKASINYA DALAM PEMBUATAN BIOFUEL

Hingga saat ini, di kalangan para ahli material, definisi nanomaterial masih belum ada kesepakatan, tetapi terminologi nanomaterial sering dikaitkan dengan material yang memiliki struktur berdimensi 1–100 nm serta sifat-sifat yang berbeda secara tipikal dengan molekul atau material dalam keadaan meruahnya. Realisasi nanomaterial memerlukan pendekatan nanoteknologi. Nanoteknologi didefinisika…

TERMODINAMIKA UNTUK TEKNIK MESIN

Diawali dengan Bab 1 tentang konsep dasar termodinamika, buku ini menjelaskan istilah-istilah baku yang banyak dijumpai pada pembahasan selanjutnya, misalnya definisi termodinamika, energi, sistem tertutup dan terbuka, transfer energi, konversi energi, proses perubahan, siklus, dan ditutup dengan pembahasan tentang dimensi dan satuan termodinamika. Selanjutnya Bab 2 menunjukkan hubungan antara …

ANALISIS MENGENAI DAMPAK LINGKUNGAN PEMBANGUNAN PELABUHAN

Indonesia merupakan negara bahari. Sebagai negara bahari dan juga negara kepulauan, peran pelabuhan sangat penting dalam banyak aspek. Pelabuhan yang dibangun di wilayah kepesisiran ini mempunyai fungsi yang makin lama makin penting dalam menentukan perkembangan wilayah. Keberadaan pelabuhan akan meningkatkan perkembangan ekonomi, sosial, budaya masyarakat. Secara tidak langsung pelabuhan juga …

MANAJEMEN RISIKO

Suatu organisasi didirikan untuk mencapai tujuan-tujuan para pemangku kepentingannya (stakeholders). Perubahan lingkungan internal dan eksternal organisasi yang semakin pesat dan kompleks (turbulen) mengharuskan manajemen untuk menerapkan manajemen risiko. Risiko adalah potensi kejadian, yang dapat atau tidak dapat diantisipasikan, yang merugikan atau berdampak negatif terhadap pencapaian tujua…

MEKATRONIKA

Mekatronika adalah suatu istilah yang masih tergolong baru, yaitu gabungan antara Mekanik (mesin) dan Elektronika. Hampir di semua peralatan industri selalu berhubungan dengan komponen mesin mekanik dan elektronik. Buku Mekatronika ini membahas tentang beberapa hal dasar dan aplikasi mekatronika, sehingga bisa membekali mahasiswa dalam mengaplikasikan ilmu Teknik Mesin dalam dunia nyata. …

MANAJEMEN PROYEK DARI PERSPEKTIF STRATEGIS

Buku ini disusun untuk mengisi kekurangan literatur berbahasa Indonesia dalam bidang manajemen proyek dari sudut pandang strategis (strategic project management). Penekanan diberikan pada aspek berpikir sistem melalui perspektif senior management yang biasanya berperan sebagai enablers/mentors/sponsors bagi manajer proyek dan tim proyek. Buku ini merefleksikan rangkaian perjalanan pemikiran,…

LOGISTIK PERKOTAAN DI INDONESIA

City logistics terdiri atas dua kata, city dan logistics. Logistics berasal dari bahasa Latin logisticus yang berarti ilmu komputasi dan kalkulasi. Pada zaman dahulu istilah ini lebih banyak berhubungan dengan seni pergerakan tentara dan suplai makanan serta senjata di medan perang. Sekarang, logistik telah memiliki makna lebih luas dan digunakan dalam bidang bisnis untuk pergerakan bahan menta…