Les forêts anciennes représentent aujourd’hui moins de 1 % des forêts du Québec, mais leur importance est capitale. En plus de leur valeur scientifique et biologique, elles sont l’un des rares endroits ayant été peu affectés par les activités humaines pour obéir aux impératifs du marché. Imaginez: les arbres qui s’y trouvent ont pris racine avant même que la voiture à combustion, les antibiotiques et le télégraphe ne soient inventés! Plonger dans une forêt ancienne, c’est donc entrer en quelque sorte dans un lieu hors du temps. Les arbres couverts de mousses et de lichens portent la marque des saisons dans leur tronc, leurs branches, leur cime. Le chant des oiseaux, les floraisons printa­nières, les traces d’animaux: tout y est légère­ment différent que dans les forêts plus jeunes. Mais quels sont les attributs d’une forêt ancienne? À quoi reconnaît-on un vieil arbre? Comment protéger ce précieux patrimoine collectif? Amoureux des arbres et partisan de la restau­ration écolo­gique, Gabriel Grenier propose ici de nombreuses pistes pour que les forêts anciennes regagnent du terrain. Ce livre, agrémenté de photos, de cartes et d’itinéraires de randonnée dans le nord-est de l’Amérique, s’adresse à tous ceux et celles qui entendent les sirènes du fond des bois et qui ont envie de renouer avec une nature sauvage et indomptée. En nous faisant vibrer avec la profonde mémoire de l’univers, ces cathédrales de biodiversité ont le pouvoir de transformer le regard que nous portons sur nous-même et sur le monde naturel.

Ce livre présente les régimes de réfraction anormale obtenus dans des matériaux artificiels, comme les métamatériaux et les cristaux photoniques avec :

• De nombreuses applications potentielles, des micro-ondes à l’optique, sont présentées
• Des défis technologiques à relever, pour transformer les concepts en prototypes mesurables
• Des exercices d’application
• Des QCM corrigés illustrant les thématiques abordées tout au long des chapitres 

Ce livre constitue une ressource complète et accessible, écrite pour répondre aux besoins des étudiants souhaitant comprendre, concevoir ou perfectionner les Systèmes de Transport Intelligents (STI) avec :

• un cours complet comprenant de nombreuses figures 
• des applications concrètes des STI avec l’utilisation d’outils tels qu’OR-Tools 
• un dernier chapitre sur la cybersécurité avec des exercices pratiques et des solutions de protection. 

Le fromage n’est pas seulement l'un des fleurons du « repas gastronomique des Français » inscrit à l’Unesco. C’est un aliment quasi universel. Pratiquée dans de nombreuses sociétés, la transformation du lait en fromage permet de prolonger sa conservation et de réduire sa teneur en lactose, le rendant ainsi plus facile à digérer.

Ce livre nous entraîne dans une histoire initiée avec les premières fabrications fromagères au Proche-Orient, il y a environ 10 000 ans. Quelle place cet aliment occupait-il dans les civilisations antiques ? Quel fut le rôle des communautés monastiques médiévales dans les techniques de fabrication ? De quelle manière le paysage fromager français s’est-il structuré à partir des années 1950, entre essor industriel et reconnaissance des AOP ?

Au fil des pages, se dévoilent les étapes de fabrication des fromages, les pratiques culturelles associées, les différentes familles, les savoir-faire et la patience de l’affineur… L’émergence récente du plateau de fromages — une exception française — ne fait pas oublier les traditions des autres pays. L’auteur évoque également l’évolution des consommations et les questions liées à la santé.

Cet ouvrage est une invitation à voyager dans les différentes régions fromagères et à nourrir de savoureux échanges.

Explains how operational-level commanders must make complex, forward-looking decisions based on incomplete information, treating their choices as hypotheses shaped by uncertainty and large-scale military dynamics. The number and importance of the decisions vary for each level of war. The higher the level of war, the fewer decisions are made and the larger the time window for making them. Operational commanders make fewer decisions, but the impact of these decisions is much greater than those made at the tactical level. The key for making sound operational decisions is to have an accurate picture of the operational situation. Such a picture cannot be obtained by a simple sum of tactical data or information. In fact, the operational situation should be built as a synthesis of strategic and tactical information pertaining to the operational commander’s area of responsibility plus his area of interest. It deals with both military and nonmilitary aspects of the situation. This is especially true for the operational commander and, to a lesser extent, for subordinate tactical commanders. The operational commander must make his decisions by considering trends in the operational situation several weeks or even months into the future. In contrast, the tactical commander is concerned with the developments of the tactical situation, from a few hours to 72 or 96 hours in the future. Information technologies should be considered as aids in making operational decisions, not as the masters of the entire decision-making process. The personality traits, professional education, experience, judgment, and wisdom of the operational commander are the key to making sound operational or strategic decisions. Psychological and social/cultural factors play a major role in making decisions not only by military commanders, but also political and business leaders, and other parts of society. Many books and articles/essays were published on that subject. Yet the role and importance of psychosocial factors are not adequately highlighted in military/naval doctrine and in the education of future military leaders. The principal categories of psychosocial factors in military decision-making are psychological, social/cultural, and situational. The most important psychological factors are stress, fatigue, self-efficacy, and heuristics. The main method in making a decision is by using an estimate of a military situation. In military terms, the commander’s estimate of the situation is understood as a logical process of reasoning by which a commander considers all the factors affecting a military situation to determine a course of action to accomplish a given mission. The estimate is a reasoned solution to a problem in which each step in the process incrementally leads to a decision that, without these steps, could be arrived at only by an accident. In the estimate, the commander assesses the situation and then tries to embark on a certain course of action aimed at changing the situation for the better or at least taking advantage of the given situation. The ultimate result of the estimate should be a sound decision. The estimate of the situation makes the chances of reaching a sound decision much higher than if an ad hoc method is used. One of the prerequisites for making a quick decision is to grasp the essential points of a given situation quickly and then evaluate them properly. It is in this determination that one’s reasoning and imaginative faculties come into play. In conducting the estimate of the situation, the commander should focus his mental efforts on the most important things. The facts of the situation should be clearly differentiated from assumptions or speculation. All the facts should have a proof. The commander should remain calm. He should think quickly but should not act in haste. He should rethink the situation and make the decision independently while receiving reports from his subordinates. The commander should express his decision in short, clear sentences. The estimate of the situation should not be conducted for the purpose of justifying a decision made beforehand. The analytic method of the commander’s estimate is extensively used in all militaries. It is especially valuable in the education and training of inexperienced commanders and staff officers. At the operational level, it is used in making a decision for planning campaigns/major operations as part of war (contingency) planning in peacetime. It is also applied in the case of an imminent outbreak of hostilities for planning a campaign or major operations. Mastery of the analytical method of the estimate is the main prerequisite for making intuitive decisions in combat when the time is short and knowledge of the situation is fragmentary and imprecise. The greater the certainty the more effective the analytical method is. The analytical method is not very suitable in combat. It is too time-consuming. It contains multiple and varied steps and substeps. By the time the operational commander makes the decision, it is most likely already overtaken by the events. In contrast to the analytic method, intuitive decision making relies on the commander’s experience and judgment to determine the best course of action. It is highly suitable when the time for making a decision is very short, information on the situation is insufficient, the staff is small or non-existent, the objectives are variable and ill-defined, and contact between the higher commander and subordinate commanders is missing. Intuitive method has proven superior to analytic method in combat, especially at the tactical level. Some studies show that the intuitive method is used 90 percent of the time. This method of decision-making does not seek to make the ideal solution. It is based on the commander’s judgment and experience.

Ce livre s'adresse s’adresse par ses différents niveaux de lecture, aussi bien aux étudiants de premier cycle (L2 et L3), en sciences mathématiques, en physique, CAPES, agrégation qu’aux étudiants en classes préparatoires des écoles d’ingénieurs. Il peut être aussi très utile (notamment pour les chapitres 11 et 12) aux étudiants en master (M1) ainsi qu’aux enseignants. Il a pour but de présenter plusieurs aspects importants concernant l'analyse. La géométrie différentielle et la géométrie symplectique.

Si la réduction des pertes et du gaspillage alimentaires apparaît aujourd’hui comme une nécessité, les moyens d’y parvenir sont plus controversés. 

À partir d’une approche pluridisciplinaire, cet ouvrage analyse les mécanismes qui conduisent aux pertes et au gaspillage, et examine les pistes de réduction au regard des tensions entre enjeux sanitaires, financiers, organisationnels et environnementaux. Il revient sur l’émergence de la notion de gaspillage dans les sociétés occidentales au cours du XXe siècle et en donne les définitions. 

Les conditions d’émergence des pertes dans les filières et du gaspillage aux stades de la distribution et de la consommation sont étudiées ainsi que la construction progressive des politiques publiques et des cadres réglementaires visant à les réguler. Les enjeux de prévention et de valorisation, les divergences d’intérêts et de priorités entre acteurs, ainsi que les effets indésirables que peuvent entraîner certaines solutions sont enfin interrogés. 

De la production agricole à la consommation, l’ouvrage propose des pistes de réflexion sur les défis à relever pour accompagner la transformation des systèmes alimentaires vers davantage de sobriété, de durabilité et d’inclusion. 

Consulter la préface de Sophie Nicklaus, directrice scientifique Alimentation et santé, INRAE

L’omniprésence du bleu dans le ciel et les océans contraste avec sa déficience dans le monde vivant où les pigments bleus se font rares. Pourquoi une telle parcimonie ? 

Dans le monde animal terrestre, le bleu résulte le plus souvent d’un jeu de lumière avec des microstructures spécifiques, d’où le nom de couleur structurelle : le bleu métallique du papillon morpho et le bleu mat du geai bleu en sont de jolis exemples. Dans les océans, les trois quarts des animaux émettent une lumière, appelée bioluminescence, qui est presque toujours bleue : comment et pourquoi certaines algues microscopiques en surface ou les poissons-lanternes dans les grands fonds la produisent-ils ? Peu répandues chez les végétaux, y compris chez les fleurs, les teintes bleues occupent également une place très limitée dans notre alimentation. Quant au monde minéral, il offre maintes pierres fines mais de rares saphirs et diamants bleus. La nature fournit également de belles matières colorantes bleues telles que l’indigo pour la teinture et l’outremer, pigment que tant de grands peintres ont vénéré.

Ce livre part à la quête de bleu, surabondant ou rare, commun ou insolite, pigmentaire ou structurel… une fascinante couleur d’exception !

Ce livre couvre l'intégralité du programme d'intégration et de probabilité de L3 Mathématiques et de la 1re  année en école d'ingénieur. Il pourra aussi être utile aux candidats à l'agrégation de Mathématiques. Il contient :

• Des exercices corrigés et indications afin d’assimiler progressivement les méthodes développées. 
• Des compléments en fin de chapitre afin de faire le lien avec le programme de M1

Les 4 vipères et 10 couleuvres vivant dans l’Hexagone et en Corse présentent des particularités biologiques et une diversité morphologique qui font l’objet de ce livre, illustré par d’exceptionnelles photographies : processus de mue, séquences de prédation, de naissance et d’éclosion, scènes de combats prénuptiaux, et même… simulation de mort en guise de technique antiprédation !

Emblèmes de la vie sauvage, ces animaux aux mœurs méconnues paient un lourd tribut aux croyances populaires. Des études scientifiques, conjointes aux actions d’associations, permettent de mieux les faire connaître et d’organiser leur sauvegarde, 5 espèces étant menacées et 12 en baisse d’effectifs. Les quelque 250 photos de cet ouvrage, prises sur le vif en respectant les conditions de vie des serpents dans la nature, plaident en faveur de ces bêtes splendides, patrimoine de notre biodiversité. Ces images reflètent la passion de l’autrice, qui leur consacre des observations régulières ainsi que de nombreuses conférences grand public.

Cet ouvrage est devenu un « classique » des beaux livres naturalistes de Françoise Serre Collet, et cette 3^e édition actualisée s’enrichit de 8 fiches pour distinguer des espèces ressemblantes pouvant être confondues.

Lire la préface d'Allain Bougrain Dubourg, président de la Ligue pour la protection des oiseaux

Ce livre s’adresse à toutes celles et ceux qui souhaitent acquérir une compréhension profonde et technique de la physique quantique moderne.

L’ouvrage propose une présentation rigoureuse et entièrement auto-contenue de la physique quantique, depuis les premiers postulats jusqu’aux bases de la théorie quantique des champs et ses applications à l’électrodynamique quantique. Au lieu d’admettre un nombre significatif de résultats intermédiaires sans les démontrer, toutes les démonstrations sont ici explicitées dans les moindres détails pour permettre un apprentissage autonome.

L’autre originalité de cet ouvrage réside dans son approche unifiée?: alors que la plupart des références traitent soit exclusivement de la mécanique quantique, soit de la théorie quantique des champs en supposant la première parfaitement acquise, ce livre développe l’intégralité du cadre conceptuel et mathématique en faisant apparaître la théorie quantique des champs comme le prolongement relativiste de la mécanique quantique.

Le lecteur est accompagné depuis les premières théories quantiques du début du XXe siècle jusqu’aux théories de jauge – clé de voûte du modèle standard des particules.

Avec les LLM (Large Language Models), une nouvelle technologie émerge  : la mise en réseau de plusieurs agents afin de résoudre des tâches plus complexes qu’un agent seul ne pourrait pas accomplir efficacement.
Ces réseaux d'agents LLM peuvent être composés d'agents conversationnels, orientés tâches, créatifs ou collaboratifs, qui interagissent entre eux. Les applications potentielles sont nombreuses  : industrie, commerce électronique, support client automatisé, finance, jeux vidéo, assistants personnels, logistique, gestion de données, véhicules autonomes, santé, etc.
Cet ouvrage a pour objectif d'accompagner la montée en puissance des intelligences artificielles collaboratives et de  proposer une approche structurée, technique et accessible pour concevoir des applications intelligentes reposant sur des réseaux d’agents autonomes.
Il apportera à tous les professionnels concernés  :

• les clés pour comprendre, structurer et implémenter des systèmes multi-agents intelligents;
• une vision claire des enjeux techniques et architecturaux des IA distribuées.

• une progression pédagogique claire : des fondements de l’IA aux architectures logicielles distribuées ;
• une approche pratique et orientée développement, avec des exemples concrets, des mini-implémentations et des outils open source ;
• une mise en perspective stratégique : choix des modèles, dimensionnement, sécurité, souveraineté technologique.

Ce livre d’informatique se veut le compagnon des programmeurs Java, de l’université ou des écoles d’ingénieurs jusqu’à l’entreprise.

Il propose une exploration progressive des concepts qui font de Java un langage moderne : généricité, fonctionnel, concurrence, asynchronisme et parallélisme.

Il contient de très nombreux programmes complets ainsi que les références essentielles aux documentations techniques du langage.

Un ouvrage pour comprendre, maîtriser et pratiquer le Java moderne.

Ce livre propose une introduction rigoureuse et progressive à la théorie des probabilités, en mettant l’accent sur les fondements théoriques nécessaires à une utilisation pertinente et éclairée des outils probabilistes. Il s’adresse à un public de niveau troisième année de licence ou première année de master en mathématiques, ainsi qu’aux élèves d’écoles d’ingénieurs.

La lecture de cet ouvrage suppose une bonne maîtrise des notions fondamentales d’analyse réelle, d’algèbre linéaire et de calcul différentiel, telles qu’elles sont enseignées en première et deuxième années de licence dans les universités.

AYEZ ENFIN DU SUCCÈS AUPRÈS DE VOS UTILISATEURS !

Tout service numérique doit réussir le pari difficile de satisfaire ses utilisateurs. Mais comment bien comprendre ces derniers et se mettre à leur place ? Comment concevoir un service efficace et agréable à utiliser ? Grâce aux conseils pratiques et méthodologiques de ce livre devenu désormais une référence francophone, appliquez l'ergonomie web sur le terrain.

• Règles et fondements théoriques de l'ergonomie (théories de la Gestalt, affordances, loi de Fitts...)

• Méthodes de recherche utilisateur (observations, interviews, tris de cartes, tests utilisateur, personas, cartes d'expérience...)

• Plus de 300 nouvelles illustrations pour décortiquer les bonnes et mauvaises pratiques

• 6 nouvelles interviews de professionnels du secteur : Qonto, Generali, Largow, The Game Bakers, Saint-Gobain, BforBank.

Pour ceux qui souhaitent découvrir l'UX Design ou approfondir leurs connaissances, cet ouvrage conjugue théorie, exemples concrets et interviews de professionnels et vous donne toutes les clés pour concevoir une expérience utilisateur optimale.

Le système GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) constitue la base des réseaux de téléphonie mobile de deuxième génération et reste incontournable pour  du réseau mobile mondial. 
Loin de se limiter à un récit technique de la norme GSM, cet ouvrage met en lumière le rôle des ingénieurs français dans cette révolution des télécommunications. Il s’attache à comprendre comment, dès le tournant des années 1980, une série d’acteurs français ont façonné, défendu puis diffusé des choix déterminants pour l’architecture des réseaux mobiles.
À travers des choix audacieux et des batailles stratégiques, ils ont façonné l’architecture des réseaux mobiles en conciliant enjeux technologiques, économiques et géopolitiques. Une histoire inspirante qui montre comment l’innovation « made in France » peut rayonner à l’échelle internationale.

Cet ouvrage propose une introduction approfondie aux équations aux dérivées partielles (EDPs) et à leurs applications dans les sciences de l’ingénieur. Il offre un panorama des principales méthodes d’analyse et de modélisation utilisées pour décrire divers phénomènes physiques, biologiques et économiques. Il privilégie une approche pédagogique, en évitant une rigueur théorique excessive, tout en présentant le cadre mathématique nécessaire à l’élève ingénieur ou au doctorant en ingénierie pour comprendre et appliquer ces outils.

Ce livre propose un voyage ludique où le plaisir de jouer devient une invitation à explorer les nombres et les formes. Il contient :

• La présentation de nombreux jeux où la logique mathématique joue un rôle primordial. 
• Des explications des règles pas-à-pas.
• Des concepts mathématiques appliqués aux jeux de plateau (divisions, suites, géométrie, probabilités).
• L'exploration de jeux anciens (morpion, casse-têtes, awélé) mais aussi de jeux réinventés pour plus de stratégies : morpion 4D, échecs 4D, échecs 6D, etc.

 L’habitat est au coeur des enjeux contemporains : transition écologique, crise énergétique, évolution des modes de vie et besoins sociétaux. Face à ces défis majeurs, la chimie joue un rôle clé en proposant des solutions innovantes pour construire, rénover et habiter autrement.
De la conception des matériaux durables à la décarbonation des processus de construction, en passant par l’optimisation énergétique et l’intégration des nouvelles technologies, cet ouvrage offre une vision complète des contributions de la chimie à l’habitat du futur. Il explique par exemple comment l’on pourrait s’inspirer des savoir-faire du passé – maisons en terre, en bois – pour adapter les constructions aux nouvelles contraintes environnementales. Il aborde des thèmes aussi variés que : les matériaux intelligents (vitrages, adhésifs, béton recyclé, bois de construction), les procédés de construction innovants (impression 3D, terre crue, isolation performante), les défis environnementaux (recyclage, économie circulaire, réduction de l’empreinte carbone) ou les enjeux sociétaux (accessibilité, bien-être, urbanisme inclusif).
À travers des exemples concrets et des retours d’expérience, les auteurs montrent comment la chimie permet de concilier performance, durabilité et qualité de vie.

Les concepts liés à l’ordinateur quantique généralisent la notion de variables mais conduisent à redéfinir la notion d'instruction (qui sont maintenant des portes quantiques) et de programmes (qui sont maintenant des circuits). Ces concepts sont différents des concepts usuels et il s'agit de manipuler avec un circuit, une distribution de probabilité de sorte qu’elle se concentre sur les solutions recherchées.

Ce livre s'intéresse à des méthodes évoluées qui concurrencent les méthodes classiques alors que nous ne sommes qu'au début des ordinateurs quantiques. La présentation du livre introduit au fur et à mesure les éléments théoriques indispensables et, chaque fois que cela est possible, donne une ou plusieurs implémentations Python avec la librairie Qiskit.

Les exemples du livre sont essentiellement des problèmes d’optimisation qui font référence et sont des problèmes « historiques ». Le livre inclut en particulier le problème du Voyageur de Commerce (TSP en Anglais).

Vous tentez d’imaginer le travail des scientifiques pour comprendre le monde? À la poursuite de l’horizon répond à vos questions sur la nature de la recherche scientifique et la quête du savoir. Quelle est la matière première sur laquelle travaillent les scientifiques? Quelle est la réalité des objets étudiés par les chercheurs? Comment se fait la perception du réel ? Les instruments scientifiques, comme le télescope et le microscope, aident à outrepasser les limites sensorielles. Chaque outil explore une tranche du réel, de sorte que notre perspective de ce réel est celle d’un feuilleté. Mais la réalité est « une ».

Le chercheur ou la chercheure a rarement un plan initial bien défini. Des hypothèses sont avancées. Ce sont souvent des échafaudages temporaires qu’on démantèle une fois l’édifice terminé. Comme les tiges de fer qui sortent du béton, certaines sont intégrées dans le nouveau bâtiment; c’est la théorie qui fait consensus. L’image scientifique peut servir de fondement à l’hypothèse ou à la théorie – comme pour illustrer la structure de l’ADN. La théorie encadre des concepts qu’on représente par des symboles que sont les mots; ces derniers peuvent demeurer les mêmes alors que les concepts changent au cours du temps, par exemple, ceux de masse ou d’évolution.

Structure decides everything. This book keeps that connection in view from the first bond to the final material selection.

Why does quenched steel crack, and annealed copper bend forever? Because the arrangement of atoms, defects, and phases controls every property an engineer can measure. Materials Science and Engineering Principles builds that understanding as one continuous argument rather than a catalogue of facts. You begin with atomic bonding, crystal structures, and crystallography, then examine imperfections and diffusion before using dislocations to explain yielding, work hardening, and every strengthening mechanism in real use.

The middle of the book turns theory into practice. You read phase diagrams with the lever rule, take the iron-carbon system through transformation curves into practical heat treatment, and follow the same logic into cast irons, aluminium alloys, ceramics, glasses, polymers, and composites. Failure chapters cover fracture toughness, fatigue crack growth, and creep, while the closing chapters address corrosion mechanisms, protection methods, and a structured procedure for choosing a material and its process together. Worked numbers appear throughout, from diffusion depths to laminate stiffness, so the equations stay tied to components you can picture.

What you will learn

• How atomic bonding and crystal structure set the stage for every later property
• How point, line, and planar defects control real material behaviour
• How diffusion drives processes from carburising to sintering
• How dislocations explain yielding, work hardening, and strengthening mechanisms
• How to read phase diagrams and apply the lever rule with confidence
• How iron-carbon transformation curves translate into practical heat treatment
• How fracture toughness, fatigue crack growth, and creep lead to failure
• How ceramics, glasses, polymers, and composites differ in structure and processing
• How to select a material and its manufacturing process as one integrated decision

Written for engineering undergraduates and design engineers specifying materials, this book assumes only introductory chemistry and mechanics. Each chapter connects structure to processing to performance, giving you the reasoning to predict behaviour instead of memorising tables. Whether you are preparing for a materials course, supporting a design project, or returning to the subject from industry, the integrated approach helps you choose alloys, treatments, and processes with evidence rather than habit.

L’histoire captivante d’une femme de science d’exception En 1930, à l’âge de 23 ans, Marcelle Gauvreau réalise un herbier dans le cadre d’un concours organisé par Le Devoir. On souligne dans les pages du quotidien que son projet, un premier effort de communication du savoir, « révèle une vraie vocation». Cette vocation la portera toute sa vie. Elle sera la première femme francophone à décrocher une maîtrise en science au Québec, contribuera à la Flore laurentienne et établira une école pour les tout-petits consacrée à la nature. Marcelle Gauvreau s’inscrit ainsi parmi les pionniers et pionnières d’une époque où la science en français au Québec est encore à se structurer. Or, ses accomplissements, réalisés dans un contexte où les femmes étaient souvent reléguées à des rôles subalternes, tombent peu à peu dans l’oubli. Pour donner à lire la richesse de la vie et de l’époque de Marcelle, cet ouvrage adopte la forme d’un journal intime imaginé, appuyé sur des documents d’archives et des entrevues inédites. Il met en lumière une scientifique québécoise de génie, trop longtemps restée dans l’ombre de son mentor et de ses pairs, et contribue à lui rendre aujourd’hui la place qui lui revient. Surtout, il nous montre le rôle que Marcelle Gauvreau et tant d’autres femmes ont joué, par de grands gestes comme par de minutieux labeurs, dans l’évolution du Québec.

A structure does not care whether you modelled it as a lumped mass or a continuum; it responds at the frequencies it has.

This book takes you from a single spring and mass to measured spectra on real hardware without breaking that chain. You will derive frequency response functions and extract damping from half-power bandwidth, design isolators against transmissibility targets, tune a mass damper, assemble and solve multi-degree-of-freedom systems in modal coordinates, and handle beams, plates and dispersive bending waves. Random vibration then gives you power spectral density, root-mean-square response and fatigue damage estimation, followed by the spectral analysis choices — sampling, windows, averaging — that decide whether your measurement means anything. Closing coverage includes modal testing and active control.

For graduate students, structural dynamicists and test engineers, the treatment balances theory, modeling, measurement and spectral analysis so that each concept connects directly to the next. Derivations are presented with enough detail to follow by hand, while numerical methods and finite element vibration are introduced where they become necessary. The result is a coherent path from first principles to practical implementation.

What you will learn:

• Derive the free vibration response of single-degree-of-freedom systems and identify natural frequency and damping ratio from physical parameters.
• Extract damping from half-power bandwidth and interpret frequency response functions for harmonic excitation.
• Design vibration isolators against transmissibility targets and analyze base excitation and unbalance.
• Tune a mass damper and solve two-degree-of-freedom systems for absorber performance.
• Assemble and solve multi-degree-of-freedom systems in modal coordinates, including numerical methods and finite element vibration.
• Model continuous systems, beams and plates, and analyze dispersive bending waves in structures.
• Estimate random vibration response using power spectral density, root-mean-square values and fatigue damage.
• Make spectral analysis choices — sampling, windows, averaging — that determine measurement validity.
• Apply modal testing and active control techniques to real hardware.

This book is for graduate students, structural dynamicists and test engineers who need a rigorous yet practical treatment of mechanical vibrations, from theory and modeling to measurement and spectral analysis.

You already know your organisation behaves in ways nobody intended. This book gives you the tools to show why.

System dynamics is not a software feature or a diagramming habit. It is a disciplined way of representing how accumulation, feedback, and delay produce the behaviour you observe—and of testing whether your explanation survives contact with data. This book teaches that discipline from the ground up, using the conventions and pitfalls that separate a model you can defend from a sketch that merely looks plausible.

You begin by drawing reference modes and framing a dynamic hypothesis, then learn causal loop diagrams properly, with polarity and naming rules that keep a diagram readable a month later. From there you convert structure to stocks, flows and equations, choose an integration step that does not fabricate behaviour, and model material and information delays. You build growth, oscillation and overshoot structures, calibrate nonlinear relationships, test models with extreme-condition and dimensional checks, and run sensitivity sweeps. Four complete models, from inventory and workforce to an energy transition, are developed end to end.

What you will learn:

• Frame a dynamic hypothesis and draw reference modes that define what a model must explain
• Build causal loop diagrams with correct polarity, loop naming, and readable layout
• Translate feedback structure into stocks, flows, and equations without losing meaning
• Select integration steps and time constants that do not manufacture oscillation or overshoot
• Represent material and information delays, including pipeline and perceptual delays
• Construct and diagnose growth, oscillation, and overshoot structures
• Calibrate nonlinear table functions and avoid common curve-fitting errors
• Validate models with extreme-condition, dimensional, and sensitivity tests
• Develop four complete models: inventory, workforce, and an energy transition

For analysts, operations managers and engineers who must model complex systems before deciding, this book is a practical bridge from whiteboard to simulation. If your decisions depend on how stocks accumulate, how feedback loops interact, and how delays surprise you, the methods here will change both what you build and what you trust.

Stop copying settings. Start understanding sound.

Most recording advice is a list of settings that worked once in someone else's room. This book gives you the reasons instead, so the settings follow. You will learn how level, wavelength and room modes decide what a microphone can capture, why two microphones on one source comb filter and how to place them so they do not, and how polar patterns and proximity effect change a tone before any processing happens.

From there you work through gain staging, converters, latency, compression time constants, filter behaviour, reverb parameters and a full mix structure with automation and monitoring discipline. Closing chapters cover loudspeaker directivity, monitor placement, live reinforcement, system alignment and gain before feedback. For audio engineers, students and studio operators who want the physics behind the practice.

What you will learn:

• How sound level, the decibel and psychoacoustics shape every recording decision
• How room acoustics and treatment control what reaches the microphone
• How polar patterns, proximity effect and microphone technique alter tone before processing
• How stereo and immersive capture techniques create width and depth without phase problems
• How signal flow, impedance and gain staging keep noise low and headroom intact
• How digital audio, converters and latency affect tracking in the DAW
• How compression time constants, equalisation and filters work on real sources
• How reverb, delay and modulation parameters build space and movement
• How to structure a mix with automation, monitoring discipline and loudspeaker directivity in mind

Whether you are an audio engineer, a student of recording, or a studio operator moving between the control room and live sound, this guide connects the physics to the practice. If you want to make decisions from understanding rather than memory, this book is for you.

A comprehensive guide to finite element theory and simulation with ANSYS Workbench, covering static, dynamic, and fluid analysis with practical case studies.

A hands-on guide to designing, installing, and maintaining off-grid and hybrid solar power systems for cabins, RVs, vans, and boats, with real numbers instead of guesswork.

You can pass a transport course and still freeze in front of a blank flowsheet. This book closes that gap.

Chemical engineering fundamentals are often taught as separate subjects—fluid mechanics here, heat transfer there, thermodynamics somewhere else—leaving students and early-career engineers without a clear path from theory to a working process design. Chemical Process Design Principles bridges that gap by walking through the elementary foundations of transport, separation, metallurgy, and plant economics in one coherent sequence. You will set up material balances with recycle and purge, carry energy balances through reacting systems, size pipe and pumps with real friction and suction-head limits, and design a shell-and-tube exchanger from an overall coefficient and a corrected log mean temperature difference.

Distillation is built from equilibrium to McCabe-Thiele stages, minimum reflux, and column hydraulics, then extended to absorption, extraction, evaporation, and drying. Reactor sizing, a metallurgy chapter on phase diagrams, reduction thermodynamics, and corrosion-resistant alloy choice, and a closing block on flowsheets, capital cost estimation, cash flow, and hazard review complete the design picture. Each chapter connects directly to the next, so you finish with a working understanding of how unit operations fit into a complete process rather than a collection of isolated equations.

What you will learn:

• Apply dimensional analysis and consistent units to process variables and design calculations
• Set up material balances on non-reacting and reacting systems, including recycle and purge streams
• Carry energy balances and thermochemistry through reacting and non-reacting processes
• Use phase equilibrium and physical property data to support separation and reactor design
• Size pipe, pumps, and fluid movers with real friction and suction-head limits
• Design shell-and-tube heat exchangers using overall coefficients and corrected LMTD
• Build distillation designs from equilibrium stages to McCabe-Thiele, minimum reflux, and column hydraulics
• Extend mass transfer fundamentals to absorption, stripping, extraction, leaching, evaporation, drying, crystallisation, and mechanical separation
• Size reactors and select materials using phase diagrams, reduction thermodynamics, and corrosion-resistant alloy choice
• Read and create flowsheets, estimate capital costs, evaluate cash flow, and apply hazard review

Written for chemical and process engineering students and early-career plant engineers, this book is for anyone who needs to move from passing exams to producing defensible process designs. If you are preparing for a design course, starting a plant assignment, or returning to fundamentals after time in the field, the chapters here give you the elementary foundations and the confidence to fill in that blank flowsheet.

Radar is not two subjects. It is one continuous path from field physics to detected target.

Most books treat antennas and signal processing as separate disciplines. This book connects them. You start with electromagnetic propagation and the radar range equation, then build aperture and phased-array design directly from radiation integrals. From there, you move into waveform choice, matched filtering, and the complete FMCW chirp chain—from sweep parameters to the range-Doppler map. The result is a single, coherent framework that shows how physics constrains algorithms and how algorithms exploit physics.

Later chapters extend the path to CFAR detection, monopulse and MIMO angle estimation, Kalman tracking, and SAR image formation. Every concept is reinforced with worked numbers you can check against your own designs. Whether you are optimizing an automotive radar sensor or simulating a synthetic aperture system, you will find the equations, block diagrams, and practical trade-offs needed to move from theory to implementation.

What you will learn:

• Apply electromagnetic foundations and the radar range equation to predict system performance
• Design aperture and array antennas using radiation integrals and pattern synthesis
• Implement phased-array beamforming and understand grating lobes, tapering, and scan loss
• Analyze radar cross section and scattering for target and clutter modeling
• Select waveforms using the ambiguity function and apply matched filtering for pulse compression
• Build the complete FMCW chirp chain, from sweep linearity to range-Doppler processing
• Mitigate clutter with Doppler processing and MTI filters
• Detect targets with CFAR and estimate angle using monopulse and MIMO techniques
• Track targets with Kalman filters and form SAR images for high-resolution sensing

Who this book is for: RF and DSP engineers, graduate students, and automotive sensing teams who need the physics and the algorithms in the same volume. If you work with radar hardware, write signal processing code, or study remote sensing, this book gives you the end-to-end understanding to design, simulate, and debug modern radar systems.

Start at a single logic gate and finish able to explain how a pipelined processor executes your C code.

This book never skips a layer. You build combinational blocks into an arithmetic logic unit, add flip-flops and timing constraints, design finite state machines, and model all of it in a hardware description language with testbenches. Then you meet the instruction set: register formats, encodings, assembly control flow, procedures and the stack, and the exact path from C source through compiler and linker to memory.

From there you construct a single-cycle datapath, pipeline it, resolve data and control hazards with forwarding and stalls, and measure the result. Caches, virtual memory, multicore parallelism and device input and output close the book. Every chapter connects the abstract model to the concrete hardware, so you always know which layer you are standing on and why the next one matters.

What you will learn:

• Convert between number systems and represent signed and unsigned values in binary
• Apply Boolean algebra to simplify expressions and build logic gates
• Combine gates into adders, multiplexers, decoders and other combinational blocks
• Use flip-flops, clocks and timing constraints to create reliable sequential logic
• Design finite state machines and implement them in a hardware description language with testbenches
• Read and write RISC-V assembly, including control flow, procedures and stack discipline
• Trace the path from C source through compiler and linker to machine code in memory
• Construct a single-cycle datapath and then pipeline it with forwarding and stalls
• Evaluate branch prediction, caches, virtual memory, parallelism and input-output

For computer engineering students and self-taught systems programmers who want a complete, hands-on path from digital logic to a working pipelined RISC-V processor. If you have basic programming experience and are ready to understand the hardware-software interface from the ground up, this book is for you.

Treatment plants run on numbers—and this book gives you all of them in order.

Water and wastewater treatment is a discipline of measured inputs and verified outputs. This practical guide walks you through the calculations, process fundamentals, and laboratory methods that decide compliance and plant performance. You will begin with source water demand and the permitting framework, then move into the chemistry and sampling protocols that underpin every operational decision—from oxygen demand and suspended solids to coliform testing and proper sample preservation.

Design chapters show you how to size flocculation basins by mixing energy, clarifiers by overflow rate, filters by loading and backwash, and disinfection systems by contact time and ultraviolet dose. Wastewater chapters cover screening and grit removal, activated sludge control by sludge age and mixed liquor solids, fixed-film and lagoon systems, nitrogen and phosphorus removal, and digestion with biogas recovery. Throughout, worked control calculations and end-of-part review questions reinforce each concept, preparing you for certification exams and real-world process decisions.

What you will learn:

• Estimate water demand and navigate the regulatory and permitting framework for treatment systems
• Apply water chemistry fundamentals and proper sampling, preservation, and laboratory examination methods
• Perform hydraulic and conveyance calculations for pipes, pumps, and open channels
• Design coagulation, flocculation, and sedimentation units using mixing energy and overflow rate
• Size filtration and membrane systems by loading rate and backwash requirements
• Calculate disinfection contact time and ultraviolet dose for pathogen inactivation
• Control activated sludge processes using sludge age, mixed liquor solids, and oxygen demand
• Evaluate fixed-film, lagoon, and nutrient removal processes for nitrogen and phosphorus
• Manage solids handling, digestion, and biogas recovery for resource recovery

Whether you are a plant operator preparing for certification, a process engineer refining treatment performance, or an environmental engineering student building a working knowledge of treatment design, this book provides the ordered calculations and clear explanations you need to operate and design with confidence.

A diagram-first engineering guide that turns half-remembered aerodynamics into calculable physics, from pressure distributions and boundary layers to drag polars, critical Mach number and shock waves.

Passing the journeyman exam is not a memory test—it is a speed test in a book you are allowed to bring.

This study guide teaches you to navigate the National Electrical Code the way the exam demands: find the article, read the exception, run the numbers, move on. Instead of memorizing isolated facts, you will learn a repeatable method for locating code requirements quickly, applying exceptions correctly, and performing the calculations that appear on every journeyman examination. The focus is on the skills that actually save time in the exam room: knowing how the Code is organized, recognizing which article governs a question, and working through the math without hesitation.

You will work through conductor ampacity and correction factors, voltage drop, raceway and box fill, branch circuits and required outlets, dwelling and commercial load calculations, services, grounding and bonding, overcurrent protection, motor and air conditioning circuits, transformers, and special occupancies. More than four hundred practice questions across four timed exams show the calculation and the article behind every answer, so you can see not only what the correct answer is but where it comes from in the Code. Each chapter builds the habits that separate candidates who finish from those who run out of time.

What you will learn:

• How the National Electrical Code is organized and how to find the right article fast
• Electrical theory the exam assumes you already know
• Conductor ampacity, correction factors, and adjustment for temperature and conduit fill
• Voltage drop calculations and conductor selection
• Wiring methods, raceway fill, boxes, conduit bodies, and enclosures
• Branch circuits, required outlets, and receptacle placement
• Dwelling, commercial, and multifamily load calculations
• Services, service equipment, grounding, bonding, and overcurrent protection
• Motors, air conditioning circuits, transformers, and special occupancies

Written for apprentices sitting the journeyman exam, electricians upgrading their licence, and instructors running exam-prep classes, this guide turns the Code into a working tool. If you need to build speed, accuracy, and confidence with the National Electrical Code before exam day, this book is designed for you.

L’algèbre linéaire occupe une place centrale dans les mathématiques contemporaines. Véritable langage universel, elle offre un formalisme rigoureux et un cadre conceptuel puissant, indispensables à tout étudiant souhaitant poursuivre des études approfondies en mathématiques. Au-delà de son importance théorique, elle constitue également un outil fondamental pour la modélisation et l’analyse de nombreux phénomènes issus de disciplines variées telles que la mécanique, l’électronique, l’économie ou encore l’informatique.

Cette nouvelle édition, soigneusement corrigée et enrichie de nombreux exercices supplémentaires, est le fruit de plusieurs années d’enseignement de l’algèbre générale, linéaire et bilinéaire, dispensé successivement en MPII puis en SMA. Elle s’adresse principalement aux étudiants de licence en mathématiques, aux élèves des classes préparatoires de la filière MP, ainsi qu’à toute personne préparant les concours de l’enseignement.

L’ouvrage est structuré de manière progressive en onze chapitres avec :

• Les démonstrations des théorèmes et des propositions, présentées avec rigueur et clarté afin de permettre au lecteur d’acquérir des méthodes de raisonnement solides.
• Des exemples explicatifs.
• De nombreux exercices résolus facilitant l’assimilation des notions fondamentales. Plusieurs exercices classiques ont été intégrés au corps du cours sous forme de propositions démontrées, renforçant ainsi la cohérence et la continuité de l’exposé.

On exam day you will not be rewarded for deriving anything. You will be rewarded for recognising the problem type, finding the right equation in the reference handbook and substituting cleanly under time pressure. This book trains exactly that.

Every worked solution names the handbook section it comes from, shows the substitution in full, checks units and explains why the near-miss answers are wrong. You get drilled coverage of circuits, linear systems, electronics, power, electromagnetics, digital and computer systems, control, mathematics, statistics, economics and ethics, with hundreds of problems timed to exam pace and a full-length practice exam to finish.

For electrical and computer engineering students and working engineers sitting the FE computer-based exam, this book is built around the way the CBT actually tests you: fast recall, confident handbook navigation and clean arithmetic. Instead of long derivations, each chapter walks through the problem types that appear on the exam, points to the exact reference handbook section, and shows the full substitution step by step. Unit checks are built into every solution, and the distractors are explained so you learn to spot the trap answers before you commit to them.

What you will learn:

• How the CBT exam is structured and how to navigate the supplied reference handbook quickly
• Mathematics and probability and statistics problems solved at exam pace
• Ethics and professional practice questions, plus engineering economics calculations
• Properties of electrical materials and how they are tested
• DC and AC circuit analysis, linear systems and signal processing
• Electronics, power systems and electromagnetics problem types
• Digital systems, computer systems and software questions
• Control systems problems and full-length timed practice under exam conditions

This book is for electrical and computer engineering students preparing for the FE exam, working engineers returning to the fundamentals before sitting the CBT, and anyone who wants a structured, solution-driven way to practise rather than a passive review of theory.

You can read a midship section, but could you build one?

This guide walks you through a steel hull from raw plate to sea trials. You will learn how class rules set scantlings, how plate is nested, cut and formed, and how to choose between stick, flux-cored, MIG and submerged arc welding for each joint in the yard. You will set preheat and heat input, qualify a procedure and a welder, control distortion with sequencing and flame straightening, and judge welds by ultrasonic and radiographic results.

Structural chapters take you through double bottoms, framing, bulkheads, stern frames and superstructure, then coatings, cathodic protection, launching and trials. Closing chapters cover work breakdown, scheduling and man-hour control. Written for naval architecture students, welding inspectors, hull trades supervisors and shipyard project engineers.

What you will learn:

• Interpret class rules and statutory requirements to determine scantlings and gain drawing approval
• Prepare, mark, cut and form steel plate efficiently in a shipyard production environment
• Select and apply arc welding processes—stick, flux-cored, MIG and submerged arc—for specific hull joints
• Qualify welding procedures and welders, and set preheat and heat input parameters
• Control distortion and residual stress using sequencing and flame straightening techniques
• Evaluate weld quality through ultrasonic and radiographic non-destructive examination
• Construct bottom structure, sides, frames, decks, bulkheads, bow, stern and appendages
• Install superstructure, outfit machinery, and apply corrosion protection and coatings
• Manage shipbuilding projects from work breakdown and scheduling to man-hour control and sea trials

Whether you are a naval architecture student, a welding inspector, a hull trades supervisor, or a shipyard project engineer, this book provides the practical knowledge to build and weld ships from the ground up.

You already know your codebase is hard to change. This book tells you which decisions made it that way and what to do next.

Software structure is not a matter of taste. It is a set of decisions about coupling, cohesion, and dependency direction that determine how much every future change will cost. Software Structure by Design is a practical handbook for developers, tech leads, and anyone inheriting a codebase they did not design. It shows you how to read the structure you have, understand why it resists change, and reshape it without stopping delivery.

The book moves from principles to boundaries to the hard work of making structure stick. You will learn to treat coupling and cohesion as a cost you can measure, invert dependencies so frameworks and databases sit at the edges instead of the centre, and draw component boundaries that survive a release. Separate chapters handle the database boundary, the web boundary, and the honest trade between a modular monolith and services. Then you make the structure durable with fitness checks, the humble object pattern, characterisation tests, strangler migrations, and decision records. A complete worked application runs through every boundary at the end, tying the techniques together.

What you will learn:

• Read coupling and cohesion as a cost, not an abstraction, and use that reading to prioritise refactoring
• Apply paradigms as constraints that shape design rather than as academic rules
• Put design principles to work in real code, including dependency inversion and stable abstractions
• Draw component boundaries that hold up across releases and team changes
• Design the domain layer so business rules stay independent of delivery mechanisms
• Place the database and the web/UI at the edges with clear, testable boundaries
• Choose between a modular monolith and services based on honest trade-offs, not fashion
• Test the architecture itself with fitness checks, characterisation tests, and the humble object pattern
• Refactor toward structure safely using strangler migrations and document decisions so the structure survives

Written for developers, tech leads, and architects who need to improve an existing system rather than start from a blank page, this book assumes you can write code and want to make the code you have easier to change. If you are responsible for a codebase that has grown beyond its original design, this handbook gives you a clear path from diagnosis to durable structure.

Every transistor specification is the consequence of a band diagram. This book makes that chain explicit, from crystal physics to the packaged chip.

You will build carrier statistics and transport from band structure, derive junction behavior and breakdown, and follow minority carriers through a bipolar transistor before constructing the metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitor that underlies everything modern. Transistor chapters carry you from long-channel current equations to subthreshold slope, drain-induced barrier lowering and the leakage that ended simple scaling, then into high-permittivity gate stacks, strain, fin and nanosheet devices. Memory, power and optoelectronic chapters widen the scope. Fabrication chapters connect the physics to lithography, etch, implantation and deposition, and closing chapters cover interconnect delay, advanced packaging, compact models, yield and reliability.

Written for electrical engineering students, device and process engineers, and semiconductor professionals, this book bridges the gap between abstract physics and practical chip design. Each chapter builds on the previous one, ensuring a coherent progression from fundamental principles to advanced topics. Whether you are new to the field or seeking to deepen your expertise, this text provides the rigorous foundation needed to understand and innovate in modern semiconductor technology.

What you will learn:

• How energy bands and carrier statistics govern semiconductor behavior
• The mechanisms of doping, drift, diffusion, and carrier transport
• Generation, recombination, and the role of excess carriers
• PN junction operation, including depletion, bias, and breakdown
• Metal-semiconductor contacts and heterojunctions
• Bipolar junction transistor physics and minority carrier action
• MOS capacitor behavior and threshold voltage determination
• MOSFET current-voltage characteristics and short-channel effects
• Modern device structures: high-permittivity gates, FinFET, and nanosheet
• Fabrication processes: lithography, etch, implant, and deposition
• Interconnect, packaging, compact models, yield, and reliability

This book is ideal for electrical engineering students at the advanced undergraduate or graduate level, device and process engineers in the semiconductor industry, and professionals seeking a comprehensive reference on semiconductor device fundamentals. It assumes a basic background in physics and calculus, but builds all necessary concepts from the ground up.

A backup system either carries your loads through the outage or it does not, and the difference is arithmetic you can do yourself.

This guide walks you through that arithmetic step by step, from the first load audit to the final commissioning check. You will measure real appliance draw and build an honest watt-hour budget, size an array from peak sun hours, correct string voltage for the coldest morning of the year, and choose a maximum power point controller that matches it. No hand-waving, no rule-of-thumb shortcuts that fail in February.

You will compare lithium iron phosphate and lead-acid banks, size amp-hours to your runtime, decide between 12, 24 and 48 volt buses, select inverter continuous and surge ratings, and size conductors, fuses, disconnects and bonding correctly. Closing chapters cover the critical loads subpanel, transfer switching, permits, commissioning and fault finding. Written for capable homeowners, cabin and van builders, and new solar installers who want a system that works when the grid does not.

What you will learn:

• Four ways to build a backup system and how to choose the right architecture for your site
• How to run a load audit that measures real appliance draw and produces an honest watt-hour budget
• How to size a solar array from peak sun hours and correct string voltage for the coldest morning of the year
• How to select and configure a maximum power point charge controller that matches your array and bank
• How to compare lithium iron phosphate and lead-acid batteries and size amp-hours to your required runtime
• How to choose between 12, 24 and 48 volt buses and select inverter continuous and surge ratings
• How to size conductors, overcurrent protection, disconnects, grounding and bonding correctly
• How to connect to the house with a critical loads subpanel and transfer switching, including permits
• How to commission, monitor, maintain and troubleshoot the system once it is running

This book is for capable homeowners, cabin and van builders, and new solar installers who want a backup system that carries the loads that matter. If you can read a multimeter and follow a wiring diagram, you can build and maintain the system described here.

Reinforced concrete design goes wrong in the details, not the formulas.

This book builds the mechanics first, deriving the stress block from strain compatibility so you know exactly why a section is tension-controlled, then carries each limit state through to a finished bar schedule. You will design beams in flexure, size stirrups for shear and torsion, calculate development lengths and place cutoffs correctly, control cracking and long-term deflection, construct column interaction diagrams, handle slenderness and moment magnification, and design one-way and two-way slabs including punching shear. Footings and retaining walls follow, with a closing set of licensing-exam problems worked in full under current code provisions.

Every chapter connects theory to practice: start with material behavior and design philosophy, move through flexural analysis and design of rectangular and flanged beams, then tackle shear, torsion, bond, development, and splices. Serviceability, short and slender columns, continuous beams, one-way and two-way slabs, footings, and retaining walls are covered with step-by-step procedures and code-referenced checks. The final chapter integrates systems and provides exam-style practice problems solved in full, so you can verify your understanding and build speed for the structural depth exam.

What you will learn:

• Derive the equivalent stress block from strain compatibility and identify tension-controlled, transition, and compression-controlled sections.
• Analyze and design rectangular and flanged beams for flexure, including reinforcement selection and detailing.
• Size stirrups and design for shear and torsion using ACI 318-25 provisions.
• Calculate development lengths, lap splices, and bar cutoffs, and apply proper detailing rules.
• Control cracking and long-term deflection through serviceability checks.
• Construct column interaction diagrams and handle slenderness and moment magnification.
• Design one-way and two-way slab systems, including punching shear reinforcement.
• Proportion footings and retaining walls for stability and strength.
• Work licensing-exam problems in full, from load takedown to final design.

For structural engineering students, design office engineers, and candidates preparing for the structural depth exam, this book provides a rigorous yet practical path to mastering reinforced concrete analysis and design under current code provisions.

La véranda est aujourd’hui un véritable espace de vie, ouvert vers l’extérieur, généralement chauffé, aménagé et parfaitement intégré à la maison.

Ouvrage à part entière, la véranda peut – et dans beaucoup de cas, doit – atteindre les mêmes performances d’habitabilité et de confort qu’un bâti classique : technique de toiture, parois verticales, stabilité, jonctions avec le gros œuvre, jonctions avec le sol, thermique d’hiver, thermique d’été, étanchéité à l’eau, perméabilité à l’air, performances acoustiques, sécurité, installation électrique, accessibilité, etc.

Autant de contraintes fortes à satisfaire pour obtenir un ouvrage de qualité permettant d’atteindre les performances attendues, de respecter l’usage prévu et de prévenir les désordres.

En matière de véranda, c’est donc essentiellement de la qualité de l’enveloppe que vient la qualité d’usage et d’habitabilité du local ainsi créé.

Cette nouvelle édition prend en compte les évolutions des règles de l’art de la profession. Elle propose une revue des normes et réglementations en vigueur, d’une part, et des exigences sur la conception thermique de la véranda, d’autre part.

Le guide s’intéresse à l’enveloppe de la véranda, à sa conception, à son implantation, à sa fabrication, à sa mise en œuvre et à son entretien.

Le guide s’appuie sur les Règles professionnelles « Vérandas à ossature aluminium » éditées par le SNFA et sur les Règles d’attribution de l’attestation de conformité de la conception des systèmes de vérandas mises au point et développées par le CSTB.

Fruit d’une collaboration entre enseignants-chercheurs de l'université Paris-Saclay et ingénieurs (Renault, Stellantis, Valéo…), cet ouvrage offre aux techniciens et étudiants en construction et maintenance automobile les ressources indispensables pour comprendre et intervenir sur les technologies des véhicules électriques. 
Richement illustré (un véhicule sera même démonté afin que ses différents composants puisse être photographiés) et structuré de manière à faciliter un apprentissage sans pré-requis spécifiques, il permet une découverte progressive des composants, des architectures et des principes de fonctionnement des véhicules électriques, du véhicule urbain léger au camion.
Il accompagnera ainsi les évolutions des métiers de la maintenance, de la conception et du diagnostic dans un secteur en pleine mutation.

Most systems fail at their seams, not their parts. This handbook teaches the discipline that holds the seams together.

Requirements Analysis and Model-Based Design is a practical handbook for designing complex systems using modern principles. It walks you from stakeholder needs and an operational concept through verifiable requirements, traceability, functional analysis, interface control, and architecture allocation. You then move into a full model-based treatment: block definition, internal block, activity, state machine, and parametric diagrams assembled into one coherent model instead of a shelf of documents that disagree.

Trade study chapters give you weighted decision analysis, and risk chapters give you registers and technical performance measures that track margin honestly. Verification chapters cover inspection, analysis, demonstration, and test, along with integration sequencing and review gates. One communications system runs through every chapter, so each method is shown in context rather than as an isolated technique. The result is a repeatable path from needs to a verified, integrated system.

What you will learn:

• Apply systems thinking across the full system life cycle
• Capture stakeholder needs and write a concept of operations
• Elicit and write requirements that can actually be verified
• Manage requirements, traceability, and baselines across a multi-year program
• Perform functional analysis and behavioural modelling
• Define architecture and synthesize design through allocation
• Control interfaces, boundary documents, and system seams
• Build SysML models: block definition, internal block, activity, state machine, and parametric diagrams
• Use parametric models, simulation, and the digital thread
• Run trade studies and weighted decision analysis
• Manage risk, opportunity, and technical performance measures
• Plan verification, validation, and test, including inspection, analysis, demonstration, and test
• Sequence integration, technical reviews, and configuration management
• Address reliability, specialty engineering, and life-cycle support

For engineering students and practitioners new to systems roles, this handbook provides a coherent method you can apply immediately. If you are moving from a component-focused role into systems engineering, or studying systems engineering and want a practical reference that connects requirements, architecture, and models, this book is for you.

A road fails where the design, the mixture and the roller meet, so this book covers all three.

Asphalt and Subgrade Pavement Design is a complete, practice-oriented guide to modern road materials, construction technology and durability analysis. It begins at the ground beneath the road, showing you how to classify and stabilise a subgrade, interpret California bearing ratio and resilient modulus results, and design drainage that keeps water out of the structure. From there it moves upward through aggregates and unbound layers, performance-graded binders, volumetric mixture design, and the performance tests that reveal rutting, fatigue, moisture damage and thermal cracking before they appear on the road.

Construction chapters follow the material from plant to pavement: production, warm-mix technology, segregation control, joints, rolling patterns and density acceptance. The book then shows how to size a structure by both empirical and mechanistic-empirical methods, compute equivalent axle loads, interpret deflection testing, identify distresses in the field, and design recycling, preservation and overlay treatments. Concrete pavements, traffic loading and load spectra, and pavement management complete the picture, giving engineers and students a single reference that connects soil, mix, construction and structural performance.

What you will learn:

• Classify and stabilise subgrade soils, and interpret CBR and resilient modulus results
• Design drainage and frost protection that keep water out of the pavement structure
• Select performance-graded asphalt binders for a given climate and traffic level
• Run a volumetric mixture design and test for rutting, fatigue, moisture damage and thermal cracking
• Manage plant production, warm-mix technology, segregation, joints, rolling patterns and density acceptance
• Size flexible pavements by empirical and mechanistic-empirical methods
• Compute equivalent axle loads and interpret deflection testing
• Identify pavement distresses in the field and plan recycling, preservation and overlay treatments
• Apply pavement management principles to maintenance and rehabilitation decisions

Written for highway and materials engineers, technicians and civil engineering students, this book is equally suited to practising professionals who need a current reference on pavement design and construction, and to students building a foundation in transportation infrastructure.

Recognize the problem type in ten seconds. Solve it in five minutes. That is the reflex this book builds.

The NCEES Civil PE Water Resources and Environmental depth exam rewards speed and judgment as much as calculation. Civil PE Water and Environmental Practice Exams trains you to see a problem, name the governing equation, and execute cleanly under time pressure. Compact reviews cover pipe and channel hydraulics, pump and system curves, rainfall-runoff and detention routing, groundwater drawdown, coagulation through disinfection contact time, activated sludge loading, collection systems, and engineering economics—each written to the depth the exam actually reaches, not to textbook excess.

Then you practice. Conceptual items test judgment rather than arithmetic. Two full-length depth examinations follow, with step-by-step solutions that name the equation, carry the units, and explain why the tempting wrong answer is wrong. Pacing guidance runs throughout, so you learn when to solve, when to estimate, and when to move on.

What you will learn:

• How the depth exam is structured and how to build a preparation plan that fits your schedule
• Fluid mechanics fundamentals as they appear in exam problems
• Closed conduit hydraulics: friction losses, minor losses, and pipe networks
• Open channel flow: Manning equation, specific energy, and hydraulic jumps
• Hydrology: rainfall-runoff relationships, unit hydrographs, and detention routing
• Groundwater and wells: drawdown, well hydraulics, and aquifer testing
• Water treatment: coagulation, sedimentation, filtration, and disinfection contact time
• Wastewater treatment and collection: activated sludge loading and collection system hydraulics
• Stormwater management and engineering economics for water projects

For civil engineering candidates sitting the water resources and environmental depth exam, this book is your focused, practical companion. If you need to convert knowledge into exam-day speed, this is the training you want.

Stop blaming your solver. Start understanding why it fails.

A solver that converges on the textbook problem and stalls on yours is the usual experience. This book explains why and what to do. You will see how conditioning wrecks steepest descent, how quasi-Newton updates recover curvature without a Hessian, and when a trust region beats a line search. You will compute derivatives by finite differences, complex-step, automatic differentiation and adjoints, then move into constrained problems through the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions, duality, augmented Lagrangians, sequential quadratic programming and interior-point methods. Later chapters cover surrogate and Bayesian search, Pareto trade-offs, structural and topology optimisation, dynamic programming, the linear quadratic regulator and model predictive control, and close on regularised inverse problems and the stochastic gradient methods behind modern learning.

Written for engineers, applied mathematicians and graduate students who build and tune solvers, this book connects numerical optimisation theory to the practical decisions that determine whether an algorithm converges, how fast, and to what. Each method is motivated by the failure mode it addresses, so you learn not just the update formula but the diagnostic reasoning that tells you which tool fits the problem in front of you.

What you will learn:

• Formulate optimisation problems with clear objectives, constraints and scaling
• Diagnose conditioning and choose between line search, Newton and quasi-Newton updates
• Apply conjugate gradient and trust-region methods to large and ill-behaved problems
• Compute derivatives by finite differences, complex-step, automatic differentiation and adjoints
• Solve constrained problems with KKT conditions, duality, SQP and interior-point methods
• Use derivative-free, stochastic and surrogate methods, including Bayesian search
• Optimise engineering designs, including structural and topology optimisation
• Apply dynamic programming, LQR and model predictive control to optimal control
• Regularise inverse problems and understand stochastic gradient methods for machine learning

This book is for engineers, applied mathematicians, quantitative scientists and graduate students who need to build, tune and trust optimisation solvers in real applications. If you work at the boundary of numerical methods, engineering design, control and machine learning, the chapters give you the theory and the practical judgement to move from a method that almost works to one that reliably does.

L'objectif de cet ouvrage est de présenter une liste de développements abordables pour l'oral de l'agrégation. La plupart des développements sont classiques.

Les 33 développements proposés sont généralement d'un niveau accessible : le but est de proposer une démonstration de son niveau et d'en maîtriser toutes les subtilités. Ils contiennent des démonstrations détaillées avec prérequis et approfondissements.

Downtime is rarely a mystery once the evidence is read properly.

This book gives you a complete reliability method, starting with the metrics that survive scrutiny and the asset hierarchy that makes failure history worth keeping. You will learn the failure mechanisms of bearings, gears, seals and couplings, run a structured root cause analysis using logic trees and preserved evidence, and read damage patterns straight off the failed component.

Lubrication chapters cover viscosity selection, contamination control, cleanliness coding and oil analysis interpretation. Condition monitoring chapters teach vibration spectra, thermography and ultrasound routes with practical alarm limits. Final chapters turn all of it into strategy: task selection, planning, spares policy and downtime accounting.

What you will learn:

• Reliability language and metrics that withstand scrutiny
• How to build an asset hierarchy that preserves failure history
• Failure modes of rotating equipment: bearings, gears, seals, couplings
• Structured root cause failure analysis using logic trees and evidence
• Component forensics: reading damage patterns from failed parts
• Lubrication fundamentals: viscosity selection, contamination control, cleanliness coding
• Lubricant degradation and oil analysis interpretation
• Vibration analysis, thermography, ultrasound, and motor testing with alarm limits
• Precision maintenance, maintenance strategy selection, planning, scheduling, spares, and downtime reduction

For reliability engineers, maintenance managers, planners and condition-monitoring technicians.