Special Structural Topics covers specialty structural situations for students and professional architects and engineers, such as soil mechanics, structural retrofit, structural integrity, cladding design, blast considerations, vibration, and structural sustainability. As part of the Architect’s Guidebooks to Structures series, it provides a comprehensive overview using both imperial and metric units of measurement with more than 150 images. As a compact summary of key ideas, it is...

This book is an insightful tool that provides a comprehensive understanding of solar power.  Equipped with engaging photos, graphs, and review sections, this book covers a range of topics from the basics of electricity to designing multiple types of solar electric systems.  This powerful resource delivers the education necessary to strengthen the future of clean energy.   This book has 7 easy-to-understand chapters: 1. Intro to Solar Energy 2....

FOLLOW THE SUN TO MORE EVIL FUN!Let the sun shine on your evil side - and have a wicked amount of fun on your way to becoming a solar energy master! In this guide, the popular Evil Genius format ramps up your understanding of powerful, important, and environmentally friendly solar energy - and shows you how to build real, practical solar energy projects you can use in your home, yard - even on the road!In Solar Energy Projects for the E...

The Industrial Design Reference & Specification Book is the first book to gather all the essential pieces of information industrial designers need on a daily basis in one concise handbook. It's a reference you'll turn to over and over again to efficiently create designs that work, last, and minimize unnecessary risk.To make designs that work and endure (and are also legal), designers need to know—or be able to find—an endless number of details. Whether it'...

Are you looking for creative ways to lower your energy costs, generate more of your own power, or become less reliant on the grid? Paul Scheckel offers practical advice for taking matters into your own hands. Explaining the fundamentals of solar, wind, water, and biofuel energy production, Scheckel shows you how to build and maintain a wide variety of energy-saving and energy-producing equipment, ranging from thermosiphon solar hot water collectors to bicycle-powered generators. Use less e...

Positive energy homes enable people to live healthy and comfortable lives with energy left over to share. Creating a house you love that produces surplus energy is surprisingly easy with a thorough understanding of how buildings work and careful attention to detail in construction. The Passive House standard, with its well-proven track record, forms the basis for creating positive energy homes. This book explores the Passive House ‘fabric first’ approach, as well as the science and practic...

Solve the machinery failure problems costing you time and money with this classic, comprehensive guide to analysis and troubleshooting - Provides detailed, complete and accurate information on anticipating risk of component failure and avoiding equipment downtime - Includes numerous photographs of failed parts to ensure you are familiar with the visual evidence you need to recognize - Covers proven approaches to failure definition and offers failure identification and analysis methods that...

Materials are the stuff of design. From the very beginning of human history, materials have been taken from the natural world and shaped, modified, and adapted for everything from primitive tools to modern electronics. This renowned book by noted materials engineering author Mike Ashby and Industrial designer, Kara Johnson, explores the role of materials and materials processing in product design, with a particular emphasis on creating both desired aesthetics and functionality. The new edi...

This book is about all the information Kyle learned over his 31 years of interest in solar power. This includes all the information you need to become 100% utility independent. The possibilities of sun electricity (solar power), rain, radiant heat, geothermal, battery banks, inverters, ac-dc lighting, water storage-recycling-filtration, water heating, wire sizing, refrigeration, cooking, fuses, conservation, photovoltaic solar panel positioning/placement, grid-tie, parallel, standalone sys...

Inside every issue of the "Solar Power Basics" newsletter you'll learn valuable information that will help you understand the benefits of using solar power! You learn things like: How solar power works, its benefits and uses as an alternative from of energy Solid information that will help you decide whether or not incorporating solar power into your lifestyle is the right option. The different types of solar power, including solar cookers, generat...

This notebook is a compilation of my best published articles on the subject of practical architectural acoustics. These articles appeared in Walls & Ceilings magazine in the United States and in SoundDesign magazine in India between 1998 and 2012. Not an exact reprint of the published and edited versions, this compilation is of the complete and unedited final drafts of these articles. Also included are questions from readers and miscellaneous notes and information relating to each article....

Passivhaus is the fastest growing energy performance standard in the world, with almost 50,000 buildings realised to date. Applicable to both domestic and non-domestic building types, the strength of Passivhaus lies in the simplicity of the concept. As European and global energy directives move ever closer towards Zero (fossil) Energy standards, Passivhaus provides a robust ‘fabric first’ approach from which to make the next step.The Passivhaus Designers Manual is the most...