Engineering and Health in Compressed Air Work
Engineering and Health in Compressed Air Work

Author: F.M. Jardine

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-10-27

Total Pages: 680

ISBN-13: 1135826080

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This book is the record of the conference held in Oxford in 1992 organised by CIRIA, and co-sponsored by the Health and Safety Executive, The British Tunnelling Society and the Medical Research Council's Hyperbaric Sciences Panel. The book consolidates international medical and engineering knowledge and experience on the use of compressed air and hyperbaric techniques, and looks to how they can be safely used in the future.

Comparative High Pressure Biology
Comparative High Pressure Biology

Author: Philippe Sebert

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2016-04-19

Total Pages: 575

ISBN-13: 1439843619

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High pressure biology is an old, fascinating and stimulating field of research. One of the major reasons for the interest in studying high pressure is that this environmental factor also plays an important role in thermodynamics and consequently in biology. Pressure, from a biological perspective, has a bearing on all living creatures. The book pre

Engineering and Health in Compressed Air Work
Engineering and Health in Compressed Air Work

Author: Roy Slocombe

Publisher: Inst of Civil Engineers Pub

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780727732545

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Presents the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Engineering and Health in Compressed Air Work. This volume talks about the experience with oxygen decompression in the UK, and research related to the introduction of oxygen decompression. It is for those, involved with the engineering or medical aspects of compressed air working.

Developments in Geotechnical Engineering: from Harvard to New Delhi 1936-1994
Developments in Geotechnical Engineering: from Harvard to New Delhi 1936-1994

Author: A.S. Balasubramaniam

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2021-06-30

Total Pages: 593

ISBN-13: 1000443604

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This book reviews the developments that have taken place in the field of geotechnical engineering since the first international conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering was held in Harvard University in 1936 until the January 1994 conference in New Delhi, India.

The Bends
The Bends

Author: John L. Phillips

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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This book is a wide-ranging history of the wonders compressed air brought about and the suffering its unknown hazards inflicted. John L. Phillips explores the intertwining roles of science, technology, engineering, medicine, and politics in the invention of compressed air, the recognition and identification of decompression sickness, and the hundred-year-long process of learning to understand and treat the bends.