As national priorities have been focused both on reducing fuel consumption and improving air qual...

This book includes an assessment of the global minerals and metals industry; a review of technolo...

Contaminated marine sediments threaten ecosystems, marine resources, and human health. They can h...

Manufacturing, reduced to its simplest form, involves the sequencing of product forms through a n...

Traditionally, engineering education books describe and reinforce unchanging principles that are ...

The reduction of the fire hazard of fuel is critical to improving survivability in impact-surviva...

In 1994 the National Research Council published Recommendations for the Disposal of Chemical Agen...

This volume surveys the complex relationships between economic activity and electricity use, show...

Manufacturing process controls include all systems and software that exert control over productio...

U.S. oceangoing vessels have half the crew size of 30 years ago, thanks to automation and mechani...