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In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley’s most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs—a real-life Tony Stark—and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new “makers.” Elon Musk spotlights the technology and vision of Elon Musk, the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, who sold one of his Internet com...

Date de sortie: 2015-05-19 7,49 €

Ace the Journeyman and Master Plumbing Exams! Featuring more than 400 practice questions and answers, Plumber's Licensing Study Guide , Third Edition, provides everything you need to prepare for and pass the Journeyman and Master Plumber's licensing exams on the first try. This practical, up-to-date resource is filled with study tips, detailed illustrations, calculations, conversion tables, and troubleshooting points. Both metric and U.S. units are included throughout. Fully revised for the 2012...

Date de sortie: 2012-10-08 20,99 €

Vous ne pouvez pas vous raccorder à un réseau collectif ? Vous ne savez que choisir comme méthode d'assainissement ? Que faire pour être aux normes et répondre aux exigences de la loi ? Cet ouvrage est fait pour vous. Grâce à ce livre, vous serez à même de faire le point sur les techniques existantes et de mieux choisir votre filière d'épuration des eaux. "Un guide pratique sur mesure pour des maisons plus économes, sûres et saines !"

Date de sortie: 2011-07-07 6,49 €

COMMEMORATING THE 100th BIRTHDAY OF TAIICHI OHNO Businesses worldwide are successfully implementing the Toyota Production System to speed up processes, reduce waste, improve quality, and cut costs. While there is widespread adoption of TPS, there is still much to be learned about its fundamental principles. This unique volume delivers a clear, concise overview of the Toyota Production System and kaizen in the very words of the architect of both of these movements, Taiicho Ohno, published to mark...

Date de sortie: 2012-12-13 17,99 €

The definitive, fully up-to-date guide to continuous improvement in the workplace "An updated version of a classic book that shares a wealth of new healthcare examples and case studies from around the world. The methods in this book will help you improve quality and safety, reduce waiting times, and improve the long-term financial position of your organization. Highly recommended!" --Mark Graban, author of Lean Hospitals and coauthor of Healthcare Kaizen "Every business faces the iron triangle o...

Date de sortie: 2012-06-22 21,99 €

Dans un style clair et accessible ce manuel de travaux publics livre une approche complète – terrassements, matériaux, dimensionnement, pathologies, techniques d’entretien et même… histoire – avec un renvoi systématique aux recommandations en vigueur et aux normes, dont la NF P98-086 de mai 2019 : Dimensionnement structurel des chaussées routières – Application aux chaussées neuves.   Au sein des équipes de maîtrise d’ouvrage et de maîtrise d’oeuvre ou dans les entre...

Date de sortie: 2020-04-09 26,99 €

Mis en oeuvre dans des lieux de nature très différente, installé comme équipement de sécurité provisoire ou définitif, le garde-corps fait l’objet d’un corpus  réglementaire et normatif particulièrement dense, complexe, voire contradictoire. À l’aide d’illustrations cotées commentées, et de tableaux synthétiques, cet ouvrage analyse l’ensemble de la réglementation encadrant la conception et la mise en oeuvre des garde-corps, et en explique toutes les ambiguïtés : a...

Date de sortie: 2020-05-20 Genre:Professionnel et technique 29,99 €

Cet ouvrage a pour objet la conception et le calcul des éléments de structures les plus fréquemment rencontrés, notamment dans les bâtiments, conformément à la norme ACNOR A23.3-04. Tout en utilisant une approche originale, l’auteur s’est efforcé de présenter la matière simplement et aussi clairement que possible. Amplement illustré, chaque point abordé fait l’objet d’un développement théorique complet, suivi de l’exposé détaillé des étapes à suivre lors du dimension...

Date de sortie: 2014-08-20 41,99 €

Depuis le légendaire Phare d'Alexandrie, les hommes n'ont cessé d'ériger des tours lumineuses afin d'indiquer aux marins les nombreux dangers maritimes et leur permettre de se repérer, surtout par mauvais temps. Ces points lumineux déchirant la nuit, tellement espérés par les navigateurs en détresse, ont été l'objet de toutes les attentions de la part des constructeurs qui les ont rendus de plus en plus performants pour résister aux assauts des mers et océans en f...

Date de sortie: 2017-12-04 Genre:Professionnel et technique > Ingénierie 9,99 €

Implement demand driven smart metrics to drive and sustain dramatic gains in flow and improve ROI performance What if the objective of minimizing unit product cost that is hard coded into all reporting and measurement systems is simply "bad math" that drives decisions and actions that destroy ROI? In today's volatile, globally competitive environment, new decision-making tools are required to monitor, measure, and improve total organizational performance. Adherence to "old" operational rules, to...

Date de sortie: 2013-10-22 54,99 €

* Each chapter is written by one or more invited world-renowned experts * Information provided in handy reference tables and design charts * Numerous examples demonstrate how the theory outlined in the book is applied in the design of structures Tremendous strides have been made in the last decades in the advancement of offshore exploration and production of minerals. This book fills the need for a practical reference work for the state-of-the-art in offshore engineering. All the basic backgroun...

Date de sortie: 2005-06-21 349,99 €

This brand new textbook by one of the leading engineering authors covers basic sheet-metal fabrication and welding engineering principles and applications in one volume - an unrivalled comprehensive coverage that reflects current working and teaching practice. It is fully up-to-date with the latest technical information and best practice and also includes chapters on non-technical but equally essential subjects such as health and safety, personal development and communication of technical inform...

Date de sortie: 2008-10-30 42,99 €

Je crois que la Transition énergétique constitue une véritable révolution silencieuse. Cette révolution est, selon moi, extrêmement profonde et riche d’opportunités. Une entreprise comme La Poste, qui possède un patrimoine immobilier très important, et une des premières flottes de véhicules éclectriques au monde : doit se poser la question de son autoproduction d’énergie. Le Projet GEPY (Gestion Électricité Postale Yvelines) est né de cette conviction. Ce proje...

Date de sortie: 2022-08-18 Genre:Professionnel et technique > Ingénierie 4,99 €

Henry Petroski’s previous bestsellers have delighted readers with intriguing stories about the engineering marvels around us, from the lowly pencil to the soaring suspension bridge. In this book, Petroski delves deeper into the mystery of invention, to explore what everyday artifacts and sophisticated networks can reveal about the way engineers solve problems. Engineering entails more than knowing the way things work. What do economics and ecology, aesthetics and ethics, have to do with the sh...

Date de sortie: 1998-09-01 Genre:Professionnel et technique > Ingénierie 23,99 €

More than any other technology, cars have transformed our culture. Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of freedom and mobility. They have transformed our sense of distance and made the world infinitely more available to our eyes and our imaginations. They have inspired cinema, music and literature; they have, by their need for roads, bridges, filling stations, huge factories and global supply chains, re-engineered the world. Almost everything we now need, want, imagine or aspir...

Date de sortie: 2022-03-17 Genre:Professionnel et technique 3,99 €

Innerstädtische Schienenverkehrssysteme stoßen bei steigender Verkehrsnachfrage zunehmend an ihre Grenzen. Die Sicherheit und die Leistungsfähigkeit dieser Verkehrssysteme werden wesentlich durch die eingesetzte Leit- und Sicherungstechnik bestimmt. Eine Ausweitung des Verkehrsangebots erfordert leistungsfähige signaltechnische Systeme, die als Communications-Based Train Control Systeme (CBTC) bezeichnet werden. In diesem Buch stellt der Autor die Systemumgebung dar, in die sich die CBTC-Sys...

Date de sortie: 2021-03-02 Genre:Professionnel et technique > Ingénierie 54,99 €

Cathodic protection of reinforced concrete structures is a technique for rescuing corrosion damaged structures and, in certain instances, preventing them from corroding in the first place, and its use is growing. This book is for specialist contractors, large consultants and owners of corrosion damaged structures, and looks at international experience with this technique. It examines why corrosion is occurring, the differences in the application of CP with the stark dichotomy in its success and ...

Date de sortie: 2018-10-12 18,99 €

The leading wood design reference—thoroughly revised with the latest codes and data Fully updated to cover the latest techniques and standards, the eighth edition of this comprehensive resource leads you through the complete design of a wood structure following the same sequence used in the actual design/construction process. Detailed equations, clear illustrations, and practical design examples are featured throughout the text. This up-to-date edition conforms to both the 2018 International B...

Date de sortie: 2019-09-13 67,99 €

This book introduces concepts and technologies of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). It describes state of the art safety communication protocol called Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC), currently being considered for adoption by the USDOT and automotive industry in the US. However, the principles of this book are applicable even if the underlying physical layer protocol of V2X changes in the future, e.g. V2X changes from DSRC to cellular-based conne...

Date de sortie: 2018-10-24 119,99 €

This volume elucidates the design criteria and principles for steel structures under seismic loads according to Eurocode 8-1. Worked Examples illustrate the application of the design rules. Two case studies serve as best-practice samples.

Date de sortie: 2018-05-25 48,99 €

Major accidents are rare events due to the many barriers, safeguards and defences developed by modern technologies. But they continue to happen with saddening regularity and their human and financial consequences are all too often unacceptably catastrophic. One of the greatest challenges we face is to develop more effective ways of both understanding and limiting their occurrence. This lucid book presents a set of common principles to further our knowledge of the causes of major accidents in a w...

Date de sortie: 2016-01-29 36,99 €

This book explores the opportunities and challenges of the sharing economy and innovative transportation technologies with regard to urban mobility. Written by government experts, social scientists, technologists and city planners from North America, Europe and Australia, the papers in this book address the impacts of demographic, societal and economic trends and the fundamental changes arising from the increasing automation and connectivity of vehicles, smart communication technologies, multimo...

Date de sortie: 2017-01-04 97,99 €

This book explains and illustrates the rules that are given in the Eurocodes for designing steel structures subjected to fire. After the first introductory chapter, Chapter 2 explains how to calculate the mechanical actions (loads) in the fire situation based on the information given in EN 1990 and EN 1991. Chapter 3 is dedicated to the models which represent the thermal actions created by the fire. Chapter 4 describes the procedures to be used to calculate the temperature of the steelwork from ...

Date de sortie: 2016-10-10 62,99 €

This book details the basic concepts and the design rules included in Eurocode 3 Design of steel structures: Part 1-8 Design of joints Joints in composite construction are also addressed through references to Eurocode 4 Design of composite steel and concrete structures Part 1-1: General rules and rules for buildings. Attention has to be duly paid to the joints when designing a steel or composite structure, in terms of the global safety of the construction, and also in terms of the overall cost, ...

Date de sortie: 2016-06-22 62,99 €

Operations research techniques are extremely important tools for planning airline operations. However, much of the technical literature on airline optimization models is highly specialized and accessible only to a limited audience. Allied to this there is a concern among the operations research community that the materials offered in OR courses at MBA or senior undergraduate business level are too abstract, outdated, and at times irrelevant to today's fast and dynamic airline industry. This book...

Date de sortie: 2016-03-23 44,99 €

This book introduces the design concept of Eurocode 3 for steel structures in building construction, and their practical application. It especially comments on the regulations of the british National Annexes. Following a discussion of the basis of design, including the limit state approach, the material standards and their use are detailed. The fundamentals of structural analysis and modeling are presented, followed by the design criteria and approaches for various types of structural members. T...

Date de sortie: 2015-08-24 62,99 €

This book outlines the underlying principles on which modern road lighting is based, and provides the reader with knowledge of how these principles should be applied in practice. It offers a completely fresh approach to the subject, reflecting how the technology of road lighting has progressed to keep up with the changes in lamp technology, especially in solid state light sources, and the increasing awareness of energy use and environmental issues. The book is divided into three parts. Part One ...

Date de sortie: 2014-11-21 72,99 €

Offshore Risk Assessment was the first book to deal with quantified risk assessment (QRA) as applied specifically to offshore installations and operations. Risk assessment techniques have been used for more than three decades in the offshore oil and gas industry, and their use is set to expand increasingly as the industry moves into new areas and faces new challenges in older regions. This updated and expanded third edition has been informed by a major R&D program on offshore risk assessment...

Date de sortie: 2013-10-01 Genre:Professionnel et technique > Ingénierie 62,99 €

Offshore Risk Assessment was the first book to deal with quantified risk assessment (QRA) as applied specifically to offshore installations and operations. Risk assessment techniques have been used for more than three decades in the offshore oil and gas industry, and their use is set to expand increasingly as the industry moves into new areas and faces new challenges in older regions. This updated and expanded third edition has been informed by a major R&D program on offshore risk assessment...

Date de sortie: 2013-08-24 Genre:Professionnel et technique > Ingénierie 42,99 €

A Complete, Hands-on Guide to Programmable Logic Controllers Programmable Logic Controllers: Industrial Control offers a thorough introduction to PLC programming with focus on real-world industrial process automation applications. The Siemens S7-1200 PLC hardware configuration and the TIA Portal are used throughout the book. A small, inexpensive training setup illustrates all programming concepts and automation projects presented in the text. Each chapter contains a set of homework questions and...

Date de sortie: 2013-07-22 77,99 €

An introduction to the principles of aircraft digital and electronic systems, this book is written for anyone pursuing a career in aircraft maintenance engineering or a related aerospace engineering discipline. Suitable for those studying towards licensed aircraft maintenance engineer status as part of an EASA Part-66 or FAR-147 approved course, or those taking Aerospace Engineering City & Guilds modules, EDEXCEL National Units, EDEXCEL Higher National Units or a Degree in aircraft engi...

Date de sortie: 2013-07-18 Genre:Professionnel et technique > Ingénierie 72,99 €

• Diagrams and illustrations are included in colour to make explanations easier to understand • Ideal for students taking City and Guilds 2357 and 2391 as a companion volume to their textbooks • Up-to-date for the 17th Edition IEE Wiring Regulations Get instant access to all the words, phrases and abbreviations you are likely to come across while studying or working in the electrical industry. Entries are described in detail with diagrams and illustrations used to explain complicated topic...

Date de sortie: 2011-05-26 Genre:Professionnel et technique > Ingénierie 46,99 €

Advanced Motorsport Engineering is an essential textbook for students on Motorsports Engineering courses and a handy reference those already working in the industry. The book covers advanced topics in motorsport such as diagnosing and rectifying faults in engines, chassis and transmission. Sections on composite materials and advanced engine management systems provide a complete coverage of level 3 courses. Each unit in the IMI and EAL syllabus is covered in full and illustrated with photos, diag...

Date de sortie: 2012-07-26 46,99 €

The third edition of Carpentry and Joinery 1 is the first in a series of three books which together provide an authoritative but thoroughly practical guide to carpentry and joinery for students following City & Guilds and CITB courses, NVQ candidates, and a wide range of amateurs and professionals. Carpentry and Joinery 1 deals with the fundamentals of the subject from topics such as timber and wood preservation and protection, to a detailed outline of the tools available and information on ...

Date de sortie: 2012-06-25 Genre:Professionnel et technique > Ingénierie 42,99 €

The definitive guide to manufacturing planning and control--FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED FOR THE CPIM EXAM Improve supply chain effectiveness, productivity, customer satisfaction, and profitability with help from this authoritative resource. Completely up-to-date, Manufacturing Planning and Control for Supply Chain Management: APICS/CPIM Certification Edition offers comprehensive preparation for the challenging CPIM exam with hundreds of practice exam questions and detailed case studies. In-depth c...

Date de sortie: 2011-05-06 43,99 €

In-depth Details on Piping Systems Filled with examples drawn from years of design and field experience, this practical guide offers comprehensive information on piping installation, repair, and rehabilitation. All of the latest codes, standards, and specifications are included. Piping Systems Manual is a hands-on design and engineering resource that explains the reasons behind the designs. You will get full coverage of materials, components, calculations, specifications, safety, and much more. ...

Date de sortie: 2009-10-05 77,99 €

Carpentry and Joinery 2 is the second in a series of three books, which together provide an authoritative and thoroughly practical guide to carpentry and joinery for students following City & Guilds and CITB courses, NVQ candidates, and students working towards an Institute of Carpenters qualification. This book is also ideal for a wide range of amateur and professional woodworkers. Volume 2 builds on the fundamental knowledge introduced in volume 1, by covering more advanced topics and proc...

Date de sortie: 2012-06-14 Genre:Professionnel et technique > Ingénierie 42,99 €

Designing and building structures that will withstand the unique challenges that exist in Subsea operations is no easy task. As deepwater wells are drilled to greater depths, engineers are confronted with a new set problems such as water depth, weather conditions, ocean currents, equipment reliability, and well accessibility, to name just a few. A definitive reference for engineers designing, analyzing and instilling offshore structures, Subsea Structural Engineering Handbook provides an expert ...

Date de sortie: 2012-01-25 149,99 €

Innovation in product design starts with materials. Developing successful commercial products demands a sound understanding of the materials that go into those products—their uses, their costs, their lifetime performance. However, the valuable knowledge of materials engineers is often not fully leveraged in the creative phase of the product design cycle. Gessinger seeks to bridge this gap that exists in many companies. Written from the bottom-up perspective of the engineer or scientist on a pr...

Date de sortie: 2009-06-29 62,99 €

Creating your dream home is an exciting idea, but it's also a major project and one where you need to be an expert on everything from planning laws to landscape design, and all that's in between. Self Build and Renovation For Dummies takes you through every step of the process, from choosing and buying a plot of land, through to the building's design and on to the actual build – plus all the financial and legal stuff – using plain English in an easy-to-understand format. Here is everything y...

Date de sortie: 2011-02-14 14,99 €