Hi Engineering Collection 4 E Book!.

Hi Engineering Collection 4 E Book!.

1A. Engineering Thermodynamics:

2B. Manufacturing Processes and Materials: Exercises:

3C. Engineering Fluid Mechanics Solution Manual:

4D. Introduction to Mechanics of Materials: Part I:

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Hi New! Humidity Theory eBook.

Hi New! Humidity Theory eBook.

Topics covered in this 26 page ebook include:

• What is Humidity?
• Effects of pressure and temperature on relative humidity.
• Capacitive sensor technology.
• Wet bulb/dry bulb technology.
• Other measurement technologies.
• How to choose the right technology for your application.

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Hi Cold Chain: Best Practices & Innovations & More...,

Hi Cold Chain: Best Practices & Innovations & More...,

With technological and operational advancements, supply chain professionals are more equipped to efficiently manage their operations.

Evolving the Cold Chain: Best Practices and Innovations explores these developments, details the recent evolution of the refrigerated supply chain, and discusses how supply chain professionals benefit by implementing these practices.

Across warehousing, transportation, container technology, and other areas, learn how to progress your operation to better address the sensitivities and complexities of handling and transporting temperature-sensitive freight.

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Incorporating Quality Management in a Logistics Environment - FREE White Paper!

The concepts of total quality management and continuous improvement have been around for decades but have only recently been successfully applied in logistics environments.

Today, many companies are finding that they can strengthen their businesses by making total quality management (TQM) part of their logistics operations.

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Are you getting the most out of your WMS Reference? - FREE White Paper.

When searching for a warehouse management system, it is important to get all of the facts before making an investment.

Sure, in-depth knowledge of what a WMS offers in terms of functionality and flexibility is valuable but will only get you so far. Speaking to WMS references is an invaluable part of the process and can be key to narrowing down your vendor list.

Whether you’re just starting to look at implementing a WMS system or are considering moving systems, it’s important to get all of the facts and ask the right questions. How do you make sure you ask the RIGHT questions to get the most out of your reference?

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As more companies look to grow their revenues in foreign markets, the need has arisen for greater visibility in the supply chain.

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• An industrial company achieved inventory savings of 20%

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Building Environmentally Responsible Supply Chains.

61% of consumers said their perception of a company is strongly influenced by the company’s environmental and sustainability policies.

Environmentally responsible supply chains not only have the potential to sway brand loyalty, but to simultaneously reduce the carbon footprint and bottom line costs through improved efficiency.

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Postpone product customization and get a jump on demand.

You know how unpredictable business can be. Responding to changing consumer demand is a constant challenge. It can also be costly if you’re maintaining huge inventories of products.

By making product completion centers part of your supply chain strategy, you can avoid unnecessary costs and customize products to your customers’ unique needs. Recent research from Peerless reveals that companies in every industry - from retail to electronics - are missing out on a major supply chain opportunity: postponing product customization.

In fact, 50 percent of companies share the same challenge in cutting supply chain costs: lowering inventory costs. Only 12 percent identified product customization as a priority.

Ready to unlock one of the most overlooked, cost-saving opportunities by adding product completion centers to your supply chain strategy?

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23 Ways to Improve Projects.

We asked manufacturers from around the world, “What advice would they give peers to better manage the scope, budget and timelines of advanced projects?

Find out what they said.

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Hi World Trade Center 7 Report Puts 9/11 Conspiracy Theory to Rest.

Hi World Trade Center 7 Report Puts 9/11 Conspiracy Theory to Rest.

Conspiracy theorists have long claimed that explosives downed World Trade Center 7, north of the Twin Towers. The long-awaited report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conclusively rebuts those claims. Fire alone brought down the building, the report concludes, pointing to thermal expansion of key structural members as the culprit. The report also raises concerns that other large buildings might be more vulnerable to fire-induced structural failure than previously thought.

World Trade Center 7 stands amid the rubble of the recently collapsed Twin Towers. (Photograph by New York Office of Emergency Management).

GAITHERSBURG, Maryland -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released its long-awaited report on the collapse of World Trade 7 following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. "Our take-home message today is that the reason for the collapse of World Trade Center 7 is no longer a mystery," NIST lead investigator Shyam Sunder told journalists at this morning's press conference in Gaithersburg, Md. "WTC 7 collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishings. It did not collapse from explosives or from diesel fuel fires." 

Conspiracy theorists have long pointed to the collapse of the 47-story structure as key evidence that the U.S. government orchestrated or abetted the 9/11 attacks. No planes struck the building, and the commonly available views of the exterior didn't show significant damage. Yet, at 5:20 pm, 7 hours after the collapse of the Twin Towers (WTC 1 and 2), WTC 7 rapidly fell in on itself. Since WTC 7 housed Secret Service and CIA offices, conspiracy theorists claimed that the building was destroyed in a controlled demolition in order to obliterate evidence of the U.S. government's complicity in the terrorist attacks. "It is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved," stated actress and TV personality Rosie O'Donnell of ABC's The View in March 2007. "For the first time in history, steel was melted by fire. It is physically impossible," she said. 

Today's report confirms that a fire was, indeed, the cause. "This is the first time that we are aware of, that a building taller than about 15 stories has collapsed primarily due to fires," Sunder told reporters at the press conference. "What we found was that uncontrolled building fires--similar to fires experienced in other tall buildings--caused an extraordinary event, the collapse of WTC7." The unprecedented nature of the event means that understanding the precise mechanism of the collapse is important not just to answer conspiracy theorists' questions, but to improve safety standards in the engineering of large buildings. 

The final report describes how debris from the collapse of WTC 1 ignited fires on at least 10 floors of WTC 7 at the western half of the south face. Fires on Floors 7 through 9 and 11 through 13 burned out of control, because the water supply to the automatic sprinkler system had failed. The primary and backup water supply to the sprinkler systems for the lower floors relied on the city's water supply. Those water lines were damaged by the collapse of WTC 1 and 2. These uncontrolled fires in WTC 7 eventually spread to the northeast part of the building, where the collapse began. 

After 7 hours of uncontrolled fires, a steel girder on Floor 13 lost its connection to one of the 81 columns supporting the building. Floor 13 collapsed, beginning a cascade of floor failures to Floor 5. Column 79, no longer supported by a girder, buckled, triggering a rapid succession of structural failures that moved from east to west. All 23 central columns, followed by the exterior columns, failed in what's known as a "progressive collapse"--that is, local damage that spreads from one structural element to another, eventually resulting in the collapse of the entire structure. 

The report clarifies a number of widely debated issues concerning the collapse, particularly the role of the building's many diesel fuel tanks and the importance of structural damage from falling WTC 1 debris. Both of those factors have been cited by investigators as possibly contributing to the collapse; the 2006 Popular Mechanics book Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts mentions both hypotheses. However, the final NIST report downplays both scenarios, concluding that the diesel fuel stored in tanks (and intended to power backup generators) did not burn long enough or hot enough to account for structural failures. And, while debris damage to WTC 7's southern exterior was considerable (and initiated the destructive fires), the collapse originated in the northeast portion of the building. In fact, the report concludes: "Even without the structural damage, WTC 7 would have collapsed from fires." 

The report determines that the actual culprit in the collapse was the combustion of ordinary building furnishings: "These uncontrolled fires had characteristics similar to those that have occurred previously in tall buildings." If the sprinkler system in WTC 7 had been working, it is likely that "the fires in WTC 7 would have been controlled and the collapse prevented." The report also suggests that current engineering standards for coping with fire-induced thermal expansion need to be re-examined, particularly for buildings like WTC 7 that have long, unsupported floor spans. A key factor in the collapse, NIST concluded, was the failure of structural "connections that were designed to resist gravity loads, but not thermally induced lateral loads." According to Sunder: "For the first time we have shown that fire can induce a progressive collapse." 

Spurred by conspiracy theorists' questions, investigators did look specifically at the possibility that explosives were involved. "Hypothetical blast events did not play a role in the collapse of WTC 7," the report states, adding that investigators "found no evidence whose explanation required invocation of a blast event." Moreover, the smallest charge capable of initiating column failure "would have resulted in a sound level of 130 dB [decibels] to 140 dB at a distance of at least half a mile." Witnesses did not report hearing such a loud noise, nor is one audible on recordings of the collapse. 

NIST will accept public comment on the final report until Sept. 15, 2008. 

NIST's press release and other material on the report can be found here. Click here to download the full report in pdf form. 

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Hi Realizing the Supply Chain of the Future.

Hi Realizing the Supply Chain of the Future.

In the Supply Chain of the Future, operational planning and the fulfillment process will connect seamlessly; orders, inventory, and transportation will be optimized concurrently; and systems will be able to optimize large-scale problems on a daily basis. 

Instead of optimizing operational silos, you will tightly-couple Planning systems to Execution systems and turn optimized plans directly into action. 

This becomes Closed-Loop Operational Management. Solvoyo's customers enjoy the Closed-Loop Operational Management process today. 

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Hi Technical article: users' guide to adhesives from Intertronics.

Hi Technical article: users' guide to adhesives from Intertronics.

Almost everything that is made by industry has component pieces, and these have to be fixed together. 

Often mechanical connections are chosen, such as screws, rivets or spot welds, but engineers now often choose to use adhesive bonding. 

This guide from Intertronics sets out to remove the reservations that engineers sometimes have about adhesive; it includes a survey of modern adhesives and shows how joints should be designed and pre-treated in order to make the best use of adhesive bonding.

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Hi Overcoming the Challenge of the Polar Vortex.

Hi Overcoming the Challenge  of the Polar Vortex.

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For those managers in the business of transporting sensitive freight, the Polar Vortex now holds significant meaning to them, and the 2014 winter will go down as one of the most challenging winters on record. 

With refrigerated equipment at maximum capacity and quotas needing to be fulfilled, leaving your product to sit idle on the warehouse floor was not an option-and neither was shipping your cargo in a dry van and risking catastrophic losses. 

In order to overcome the increasing worry, savvy shippers are turning to passive temperature protection to increase the reliability in their surface transportation and even reduce their transportation costs. 

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Hi Research report: the state of research management and capacity planning.

Hi Research report: the state of research management and capacity planning.

‘The 2014 State of Resource Management and Capacity Planning Report’

Over committing and under-utilising resources has a domino effect of business impact on project timelines, business opportunities, customer satisfaction, innovation speed, cost containment and resource efficiency. 

For years, organisations have pointed to the dilemma of overcommitting their resources as their top pain point. This dilemma is often characterised as an insatiable demand for new projects to grow the business, while sustaining the current state of business, all with a finite supply of shared human resources.

While over-commitment is not always the culprit, many companies still wonder whether they are employing their resources to their highest potential or on the most strategic efforts. 

In Planview’s 2014 benchmark study on resource management and capacity planning, 480 planning and resource leaders from around the globe assessed their maturity in each of these two areas.

Hi Rockefeller Brothers Fund evaluates clean-tech and sustainability investments.

Hi Rockefeller Brothers Fund evaluates clean-tech and sustainability investments.

The $860m Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) is evaluating a range of sustainable investments that will address greenhouse gas emissions, as it looks to reduce its exposure to fossil fuels to less than one per cent, vice president of Finance and Operations, Geraldine Watson, told Clean Energy Pipeline.

Last month, the RBF announced it would divest a significant volume of its investments in fossil fuels and reinvest the capital in clean energy, which is particularly significant as the Rockefeller family initially made its fortune in the oil industry.

RBF aims to reduce its exposure to coal and tar sands – two of the most carbon-intensive fuels – to less than one per cent of the fund’s total portfolio by the end of 2014.

‘We are now embarking on a deeper analysis of our holdings in other fossil fuel investments and will then be developing a strategy with our investment committee and trustees for the next steps for further divestment,’ Watson said.

The fund hired independent advisory and asset management firm Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP) as its outsourced chief investment manager in February, according to Watson.

‘We have been working closely with them to transition the management of the endowment and to integrate programmatic considerations into our investment strategies,’ she said. ‘This will take some time to fully assess and develop across the whole portfolio.’

The fund has earmarked 10 per cent of its assets for investments consistent with the goals of its sustainable development programme, which aims to make ‘ecologically based, economically sound, socially just, and culturally appropriate’ investments, according to the fund’s website.

‘The RBF has exposure to clean technology through actively managed public and private mandates,’ Watson said. ‘In addition, the fund has a 10 per cent target for impact investments that align with the organisation’s mission and programmatic activities. PWP has emphasised sustainable investments, to include clean technology, within its diligence on impact investments, but will also consider a range of other strategies that align with the RBF’s mission.’

Those investments are likely to support clean energy technologies and other business strategies that advance energy efficiency, decrease dependence on fossil fuels, and mitigate the effects of climate change, according to RBF’s divestment statement. Watson said that the fund is considering a range of technologies and investment strategies, across a variety of geographies, but declined to disclose how much the fund will invest in clean technology or sustainability.

This article originally appeared on www.cleanenergypipeline.com a clean energy news service operated by VB Research, a sister publication to The Engineer. 

Hi Design Principles of In-Plant Trailers.

Hi Design Principles of In-Plant Trailers.

n-plant trailers represent a tried and true method of moving materials through plants safely and efficiently. While trailers look alike at first glance, there are some significant differences that greatly affect performance and cost. 

The wise purchaser will study the differences and select the system that makes the best sense for the specific application. 

This complimentary white paper addresses the most important design factors to consider when specifying in-plant trailers.

Hi Top 5 investment opportunities for GCC nations in Africa.

Hi Top 5 investment opportunities for GCC nations in Africa.

Day one of the Africa Global Business Forum 2014, taking place until October 2, saw key global political and business leaders discussing Africa’s growth potential.

Reporting from the forum, the highlights key opportunities that Middle Eastern investors’ businesses should look out for when considering African states as their next investment destination:

Infrastructure:

Gulf countries are already major infrastructure investors in Africa, contributing more than $30 billion to the continent’s growth over the past decade, or approximately ten per cent overall in foreign exchange inflows. Companies and governments can find huge investment opportunities in developing Africa’s road, rail and port capabilities.

Aviation:

Africa’s huge market and growing population are massive opportunities for the GCC’s aviation giants. Given their robust expansion strategies, geographical proximity and the reality that traditional European airlines haven’t made a significant impact on the market, GCC airlines have an immense opportunity to connect Africa with the rest of the world.

Tourism:

Speaking at the opening of the AGBF 2014, president and CEO of Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Hamad Baumim, notes that the future of Africa lies in its untold opportunities. Africa’s vast natural beauty and landscape, which has been stained by socio-political instabilities, relates precisely to this. The chairman at DP World, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, adds: “Dubai can provide extensive experience to its African partners in developing a strong tourism industry.”

Telecom:

Telecommunications are the prime example of how economic relations between the UAE and Africa have flourished lately. With a market of more than one billion people, president of Ghana,  John Mahama, says: “While the telecom sector has already exploded, the potential for growth is still enormous.” In recent years UAE’s telecom giant Etisalat has been a key driver in developing its business in the continent, as well as acquiring stakes in key providers from Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Nigeria, Tanzania, as well as a 50 per cent stake in Atlantique Telecom/Moov, which operates in Ivory Coast, Benin, Burkina Faso, Togo, Niger, CAR and Gabon.

Power:

Despite its vast natural resources, nearly 70 per cent of Africa’s population lives without regular electricity supply. Steven Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone, one of the world’s largest private equity firms, says power, according to him, would be the next boom in Africa, considering its desperate need. Blackstone itself is committed to the $900 million construction of Uganda’s Bujagali Hydroelectric Dam. It should be noted that the continent, particularly in the West, is oil rich and developing its refinery and manufacturing capabilities will be crucial in the coming years.

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