Basic Metaverse

David Shrier

What is the metaverse? Quite simply, it's a digital platform to help people collaborate, work and play in new ways, in an immersive 3D environment. In Basic Metaverse, leading futurist David L. Shrier explains how the technology works, unpacks its potential uses -...

Advances in Automotive Production Technology – Towards Software-Defined Manufacturing and Resilient Supply Chains

Clemens Ackermann , Daniel Holder , Niklas Kiefl , Frederik Wulle

This volume of the series ARENA2036 compiles the outcome of the 2nd Stuttgart Conference on Automotive Production (SCAP2022).  The peer-reviewed contributions in this book are arranged thematically in three parts and cover a wide variety of topics: (A)...

Rainfall Infiltration in Unsaturated Soil Slope Failure

Lizhou Wu , Jianting Zhou

This is an open access book. The aim of this book is to provide a thorough grounding in rainfall-induced landslides from three aspects: the coupling effect of hydraulic and mechanic; the analytical, numerical, and physical simulation methods, and the controlling factors...

Proceedings of the 61st International Conference of Machine Design Departments (ICMD 2020)

David Herák , Jaroslav Homišin , Michal Petru , Ladislav Ševcík

This is an open access book.The 61st International Conference of Machine Design Departments is mainly focused on sharing professional experience and discussing new theoretical and practical findings. The objective of the conference is to identify the current situation,...

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Green Technology (ICGT 2022)

Mohammad Nafie Jauhari , Juhari Juhari , Elly Susanti

This is an open access book. The International Conference of Green Technology (ICGT) is an annual multidisciplinary forum for promoting and fostering interactions between researchers, scientists, academia, and related industrial communities in studying the development...

Proceedings of the International Renewable Energy Storage Conference (IRES 2022)

Peter Droege , Antonia Riemer , Peter Schossig , Martin Speer

This is an open access book.Energy storage systems are the key to the successful energy transition to full renewable energy supply and are more relevant today than ever before. They address numerous challenges of the energy transition at once:  stabilise the...

Proceedings of the International Conference on Mechanical Engineering (ICOME 2022)

Ilie Dumitru , Lucian Matei , Laurentiu Daniel Racila , Adrian Sorin Rosca

This is an open access book.Faculty of Mechanics is organizing International Conference of Mechanical Engineering, ICOME 2022 that will be held on 18th–20th of May 2022.The aim of the conference is to provide opportunities for the participants...

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agriculture (ICA 2022)

Hanilyn Aguilar Hidalgo , Hisaaki Kato , Fitri Diana Riana , Risqi Firdaus Setiawan

This is an open access book.The global economy is by definition the movement of resources (goods, services and capital) across national borders. The more open relations between countries will affect changes in the regional and global regions, this condition is...

Materialising the Future

Venere Ferraro , Pirjo Kääriäinen , Paz Morer-Camo , Anke Pasold

This open access book offers a host of theoretical knowledge at the basis of new EM&Ts (namely, Interactive Connected Smart Materials, Wearables (ICS), Nanomaterials, Advanced Growing Materials, and Experimental Wood-Based Materials), as communicated through the unique...

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Innovative Solutions in Hydropower Engineering and Civil Engineering

Xingxian Bao , Kui Hu , Jingan Li , Shuren Wang

This open access book is compilation of selected papers from 2nd International Conference on Innovative Solutions in Hydropower Engineering and Civil Engineering (HECE 2022). The work focuses on novel techniques for topics in hydropower and sustainable development,...

Topological Obstructions to Stability and Stabilization

Wouter Jongeneel , Emmanuel Moulay

This open access book provides a unified overview of topological obstructions to the stability and stabilization of dynamical systems defined on manifolds and an overview that is self-contained and accessible to the control-oriented graduate student. The authors review...

The Everything Blueprint

James Ashton

GeomInt—Discontinuities in Geosystems From Lab to Field Scale

Collectif

This is an open access book. In view of growing conflicts over strategic georesources, the use of the geological subsurface in the sense of a regional resource is becoming increasingly important. In this context, georeservoirs are playing an important role for the...

Manufacturing Driving Circular Economy

Franz Dietrich , Holger Kohl , Günther Seliger

This is an open access book. It gathers the proceedings of  the 18th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing, held on October 5-7, 2022, as a hybrid event, in/from Berlin, Germany. With a focus on manufacturing advances and practices driving...

The 6th Mechanical Engineering, Science and Technology (MEST 2022) International Conference

Collectif

This is an open access book.MEST2022 invites all potential authors from universities and various organisations to submit papers in the area of  mechanical, manufacturing, materials sciences and related interdisciplinary engineering fields. This conference...

Autonomous Trajectory Planning and Guidance Control for Launch Vehicles

Zhengyu Song , Stephan Theil , Dangjun Zhao

This open access book highlights the autonomous and intelligent flight control of future launch vehicles for improving flight autonomy to plan ascent and descent trajectories onboard, and autonomously handle unexpected events or failures during the...

Proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference, Volume 1

Chengmin Liu

This is the first in a series of three volumes of proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference (PBNC 2022) which was held by Chinese Nuclear Society. As one in the most important and influential conference series of nuclear science and technology, the...

Space–Time Conservation Element and Solution Element Method

Yazhong Jiang , Lisong Shi , Chih-Yung Wen

This open access book introduces the fundamentals of the space–time conservation element and solution element (CESE) method, which is a novel numerical approach for solving equations of physical conservation laws. It highlights the recent progress to establish various...

Hybrid Intelligence

Collectif

This open access book is a compilation of selected papers from DigitalFUTURES 2022—The 4th International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2022). The work focuses on novel techniques for computational design and robotic fabrication. The...

Proceedings of the International Conference on Railway and Transportation (ICORT 2022)

Moch. Agus Choiron , Dian M. Setiawan , Willy Artha Wirawan

This is an open access book.Politeknik Perkeretaapian Indonesia Madiun, Indonesia, presents ICORT 2022 “Innovative for Smart, Sustainable and Safe Transportation Systems,” as its main focus. In response to several world challenges, such as sustainable...