When Traces Melt: Figures 1 and 2 (Note 1) illustrate traces on two different boards. Each figure illustrates the trace at the moment it fuses (melts) due to a significant current overload. The fusing mechanisms are clearly different. So what was different? Here is the first hint. Assume there is a current that is just …
Reliability engineering and management primarily focuses on preventing and minimizing failures and their consequences, whether those failures gravely threaten safety, reduce mission effectiveness, or simply increase costs. Most engineering disciplines and systems can effectively use this body of knowledge. But statistical analysis of data is perhaps the area of reliability engineering that discourages the most people. …
The Long Read Every so often we find ourselves embarking on a small piece of research that explodes into a major project. This happened to me this month after a chance encounter with a neighbour who is a senior strategist for one of the oil majors. We were talking about the electric car that sits …
Waves, either electromagnetic (EM) or acoustic (AC) interact with objects and scatter. The addition of incident and scattered fields form the total fields. Scattered fields include (but not limited with) reflections, refractions, and diffractions. The Handbook of Next Generation Emergency Services by Barbara Kemp and Bart Lovett is about diffraction modeling and simulation. Scattering has gained …
Tom’s Low Gain Antenna (LGA) on Mars Pathfinder that landed on the surface of Mars on July 4, 1997. This is a real photograph of the LGA and landscape of Mars. Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech. March 21, 2009 Tom is age 78 years old Artech House supports its authors long after their books publish, and our …
CafeTele provides onsite and virtual trainings to organizations around the world. On Saturday, February 27, 2021, at 5:00, Artech House author Marcin Dryjanski is presenting a free live webinar about O-RAN. O-RAN is a new approach to building mobile networks. It offers promise and possibility for lowering cost and speeding innovation. In this webinar, Marcin …
Released in 2020, Davide Andrea’s two-volume set provides a thorough introduction to lithium ion (Li-ion) technology. Readers get a hands-on understanding of Li-ion technology, are guided through the design and assembly of a battery, through deployment, configuration and testing. The book covers dozens of applications, with solutions for each application provided. Read on for a …
A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computer system that gathers, analyses, stores, checks, manipulates, manages, and visualizes data related to spatial locations on Earth’s surface. A GIS works as a database with geographic information (alphanumeric data) that is associated by an identifier common to the graphic objects of digital maps. In this way, when …
Artech House (AH) and the Continuing Education Institute (CEI) have been providing training and education for engineers for almost four decades each. Artech House and CEI have been long time partners serving engineering professionals in either state companies, private corporations, universities and others. About Artech House Artech House (AH) Publishers is an international press that …
When Artech House authors write their books, we ask them what they want their readers to get out of the project. In this series, we show you what our authors, in their own words, wish to impart upon readers. Gökhan Apaydin and Levent Sevgi, authors of Electromagnetic Diffraction Modeling and Simulation with MATLAB, describe what their …
