When it comes to electronics, demand grows as technology shrinks. From consumer and industrial markets to military and aerospace applications, the call is for more functionality in smaller and smaller devices. Culled from the second edition of the best-selling Electronics Handbook,...
Cockpit Engineering provides an understandable introduction to cockpit systems and a reference to current concepts and research. The emphasis throughout is on the cockpit as a totality, and the book is accordingly comprehensive. The first chapter is an overview of how the modern cockpit has evolved...
The purpose of this standard is to provide general guidelines for procedures, equipment, physical conditions, and terminology for determining the ballistic resistance of metallic, nonmetallic and composite armor against small arms projectiles. The ballistic test procedure described in this standard...
This Part of this Standard discusses both 'structural' and 'functional' anthropometric and their relationship to the design of the workspace. This Part of this Standard deals with the important concept of body linkages and the use made, by designers, of two-dimensional manikins and computer...
Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae is both the biography of an extraordinary human being and the story of the greatest quest in the history of astronomy since the Copernican revolution. The book is a revealing portrait of scientific genius, an incisive engaging history of ideas, and a shimmering...
BACKGROUND Advanced defence and aerospace systems which have had a profound effect upon both military conflicts and civil transport over the last 50 years, have been underpinned by progress in Electronic Materials and Device (EMD) technology. The GulfWar and Operation Corporate in the...