This book covers the details of the specialized advanced refractories, their essentiality, functions, materials used, properties, degradation and possibilities for improvements. Elaborated details with various schematic figures and real-life photographs are included with special focus on iron and steel industries.

Advanced Research and Design Tools for Architectural Heritage: Unforeseen Paths rethinks how to analyse, preserve, and adapt Architectural Heritage and its surroundings along unforeseen paths using a broad spectrum of advanced research and design tools.

Focusing on the modeling, analysis, and management of risk in today’s complex engineering enterprise systems, this book provides advanced methods for tackling risk problems at the enterprise level. The text presents a risk analytical framework for engineering enterprise systems and covers capability portfolio risk management, functional dependen

Advanced Propulsion Techniques is a detailed version of the technology related to space travel, connecting the past with the present and beyond, and the past being the rocketry and the latter deep-space drives. A compelling reference work for the science and breakthroughs propelling the future of space exploration.

This book presents advances in control technologies for efficient operation of permeant magnet synchronous machines (PMSMs) and linear induction machines (LIMs) based on sliding mode control (SMC).

This book comprehensively reviews the advanced modification techniques of starch and applications in food packaging and 3D/4D printing. The initial chapter provides an overview of the primary sources of starch, including cereals, tubers, and roots, and discusses global trends in starch production and consumption.