Advances in Human Factors, Software, and Systems Engineering
Advances in Human Factors, Software, and Systems Engineering

Author: Ben Amaba

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-26

Total Pages: 109

ISBN-13: 3319419358

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This book provides a platform for addressing human factors challenges in software and systems engineering, both pushing the boundaries of current research and responding to new challenges, fostering new research ideas in the process. This book is intended for researchers, professional software and systems engineers, and human factors and human systems integration experts to help them address societal challenges for next-generation systems with applications for meeting them. Topics include evolutionary and complex systems, human systems integration, smart grids and infrastructure, workforce training requirements, systems engineering education, and defense and aerospace. Based on the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Human Factors, Software, and Systems Engineering, held on July 27-31, 2016, in Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA. This book represents an inspiring guide for all researchers and professionals in the field of Human Factors, Software, and Systems Engineering.

Check Weigher
Check Weigher

Author: Fouad Sabry

Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable

Published: 2024-05-04

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13:

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What is Check Weigher The weight of packaged goods can be determined with the help of a checkweigher, which can be either an automatic or manual machine.The offgoing end of a production process is typically where it is located, and its purpose is to guarantee that the weight of a pack of the commodity is within the limitations that have been defined. Any packs that are outside of the tolerance are automatically removed from the line of sight. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Check weigher Chapter 2: Conveyor belt Chapter 3: Weigh in motion Chapter 4: Belt (mechanical) Chapter 5: Beltweigher Chapter 6: Conveyor system Chapter 7: In-motion scale Chapter 8: Multihead weigher Chapter 9: Mettler Toledo Chapter 10: Packaging machinery (II) Answering the public top questions about check weigher. (III) Real world examples for the usage of check weigher in many fields. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Check Weigher.

Protocols for Collecting and Using Traffic Data in Bridge Design
Protocols for Collecting and Using Traffic Data in Bridge Design

Author: Bala Sivakumar

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 0309155479

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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 683: Protocols for Collecting and Using Traffic Data in Bridge Design explores a set of protocols and methodologies for using available recent truck traffic data to develop and calibrate vehicular loads for superstructure design, fatigue design, deck design, and design for overload permits. The protocols are geared to address the collection, processing, and use of national weigh-in-motion (WIM) data. The report also gives practical examples of implementing these protocols with recent national WIM data drawn from states/sites around the country with different traffic exposures, load spectra, and truck configurations. The material in this report will be of immediate interest to bridge engineers. This report replaces NCHRP Web-Only Document 135: Protocols for Collecting and Using Traffic Data in Bridge Design. Appendices A through F for NCHRP Report 683 are available only online.

Bridge Traffic Loading
Bridge Traffic Loading

Author: Eugene OBrien

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2021-12-03

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1000459918

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There is considerable uncertainty about what level of traffic loading bridges should be designed for. Codes specify notional load models, generally to represent extreme levels of normal traffic, but these are often crude and have inconsistent levels of safety for different load effects. Over the past few decades, increasing quantities of reliable truck weight data has become available and it is now possible to calculate appropriate levels of bridge traffic loading, both for specific bridges and for a road network. Bridge Traffic Loading brings together experts from all over the world to deliver not just the state-of-the-art of vertical loading, but also to provide recommendations of best-practice for all the major challenges in the field – short-span, single and multi-lane bridge loading, dynamic allowance and long-span bridges. It reviews issues that continue to be debated, such as which statistical distribution is most appropriate, whether free-flowing or congested traffic governs and dealing with future traffic growth. Specialist consultants and bridge owners should find this invaluable, as will regulators.