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Stanford University

During the almost thousand-year history of universities, campuses have always been physical spaces. As we end the twentieth ...

Statistical Analysis and Optimization for VLSI: Timing and Power

Statistical Analysis and Optimization for VLSI: Timing and Power is the first book summarizing the state-of-the-art in the ...

Statistical Design

Although statistical design is one of the oldest branches of statistics, its importance is ever increasing, especially in ...

Statistical Models of Shape : Optimisation and Evaluation

This book gives a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the optimisation approach to shape correspondence, and the question ...

Statistics in the health sciences : theory, applications, and computing / Albert Vexler, Alan D. Hutson

Introduces classical and novel statistical methods that can be used by theoretical and applied biostatisticians to develop ...

Steam Generators : Description and Design

The first part of the book presents the different types of generators which are installed either in industrial plants like ...

Steel Designers' Handbook / Branko E. Gorenc, A. Syam, Ron Tinyou

Steel–concrete composite bridges

Steel Concrete Composite Bridges outlines the various forms that modern steel-concrete composite bridges take, from simple ...

Stepping into Virtual Reality

The first part of the book reviews the basic theoretical and practical concepts involved in the visual aspect of virtual ...

Stochastic Modeling of Manufacturing Systems

This volume is devoted to the development of analytical methods aiming at responding to variability in a way that limits ...

Strand Corrosion in Prestressed Concrete Structures / Lei Wang

Focuses on the durability problems of existing prestressed concrete (PC) structures caused by strand corrosion, clarifies ...

Strategic Supply Chain Management in Process Industries

More and more often practitioners in process industry have to adapt their global production networks to changes in the competitive ...

Street-Level Architecture : The Past, Present and Future of Interactive Frontages / Conrad Kickert, Hans Karssenberg

Provides the tools to maintain and rebuild the interaction between architecture and public space. Despite the best intentions ...

Strengthening of Concrete Structures : Unified Design Approach, Numerical Examples and Case Studies / Amr Abdelrahman

Presents unified design approach for strengthening concrete members with different techniques such as concrete, steel, and ...

Stress Ribbon and Cable-supported Pedestrian Bridges

Stress-ribbon bridges' is the term used to describe structures formed by a very slender concrete deck in the shape of a ...

Structural Analysis with Finite Elements

Structural Analysis with Finite Elements, 2nd Edition provides a solid introduction to the foundation and the application ...

Structural Appraisal of Iron Framed Textile Mills

Begins with a broad overview of mill building structures and their development, illustrated with examples of mill construction ...

Structural Design of Buildings / Paul Smith

Covering common problems, likely failures and their remedies, this is an essential on-site guide to the behaviour of a building’s ...

Structural Sensitivity Analysis and Optimization 1

Book I Linear Systems introduces structural design concepts that include the CAD-based design model, design parameterization, ...

Structural Sensitivity Analysis and Optimization 2

Structural design sensitivity analysis concerns the relationship between design variables available to the design engineer ...