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Written to bridge the technology gap between academia and industry, this book presents state-of-the-art fatigue theories and technologies alongside more commonly used practices, with working examples included to provide an informative, practical, complete toolkit of fatigue analysis. Prepared by an expert team with extensive industrial, research and professorial experience, the book will help to understand: critical factors that cause and affect fatigue in the materials and structures relating to your work; load and stress analysis in addition to fatigue damage-the latter being the sole focus of many books on the topic; how to design with fatigue in mind to meet durability requirements; how to model, simulate and test with different materials in different fatigue scenarios; and the importance and limitations of different models for cost effective and efficient testing. Whilst the book focuses on theories commonly used in the automotive industry, it is also an ideal resource for engineers and analysts in other disciplines such as aerospace engineering, civil engineering, offshore engineering, and industrial engineering.

\"The history of China's National Games reflects both the transformation of elite sport in China and wider Chinese society. This is the first book to describe the origins and development of the National Games through their dynamic relationship with Chinese politics, nationalism and identity in the modern era. Looking specifically at the role of the National Games in China's changing social, political and economic circumstances from 1910 to 2009, this book uncovers how the National Games reflected the shifts in state-led nationalist ideologies within three historical eras: the late Qing Dynasty and Republican China (1910-1948), the early People's Republic of China (1959-1979) and the People's Republic of China in the post-1980s (1983-2009). It also examines how the National Games were reformed to serve China's Olympic Strategy in the context of globalization and commercialization from the 1980s onwards. Full of original insights into archive material, each chapter sheds new light on the social, cultural and political significance of this sporting mega-event in the shaping of modern China. This is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the politics, history and culture of China\" -- Provided by publisher.

This book systematically synthesizes research achievements in the field of fuzzy neural networks in recent years. It also provides a comprehensive presentation of the developments in fuzzy neural networks, with regard to theory as well as their application to system modeling and image restoration. Special emphasis is placed on the fundamental concepts and architecture analysis of fuzzy neural networks. The book is unique in treating all kinds of fuzzy neural networks and their learning algorithms and universal approximations, and employing simulation examples which are carefully designed to help the reader grasp the underlying theory. This is a valuable reference for scientists and engineers working in mathematics, computer science, control or other fields related to information processing. It can also be used as a textbook for graduate courses in applied mathematics, computer science, automatic control and electrical engineering.

The Dirichlet distribution appears in many areas of application, which include modelling of compositional data, Bayesian analysis, statistical genetics, and nonparametric inference. This book provides a comprehensive review of the Dirichlet distribution and two extended versions, the Grouped Dirichlet Distribution (GDD) and the Nested Dirichlet Distribution (NDD), arising from likelihood and Bayesian analysis of incomplete categorical data and survey data with non-response. The theoretical properties and applications are also reviewed in detail for other related distributions, such as the inverted Dirichlet distribution, Dirichlet-multinomial distribution, the truncated Dirichlet distribution, the generalized Dirichlet distribution, Hyper-Dirichlet distribution, scaled Dirichlet distribution, mixed Dirichlet distribution, Liouville distribution, and the generalized Liouville distribution.

With 175 family businesses on the Fortune 500 list, from DuPont and Motorola to IBM, there is no doubt that family-run enterprises play an important role in global economic development. Their role is no less significant in China where, in keeping with the country's rapid economic growth, family businesses are emerging in increasing numbers. Unique characteristics, such as succession, management, staffing, family affairs, strategy planning and governance structure, set family businesses apart from other business types. As a result, they face particular challenges in survival and sustainability.

This book examines the role of institutions in China’s recent large-scale economic, social and political transformation. The book argues that, although the importance of institutions in China’s rapid economic growth and social development over the past 30 years is widely acknowledged, exactly how institutions affect changes in particular national and historical settings is less well understood. Unlike existing literature, it offers perspectives from a variety of disciplines - including law, economics, politics, international relations and communication studies – to consider whether institutions form, evolve and change differently according to their historical or cultural environments and if their utilitarian functions can, and should be, observed, identified and measured in different ways. The book discusses China’s political and legal institutions; the international institutions with which China engages; institutions promoting science and technology; media companies; and local institutions including the household registration system. It also examines how institutions themselves have been formed, changed and re-formed over recent decades, and suggests theoretical and methodological adjustments in institutional analysis to allow a fuller understanding of the institutional dynamics of China’s transformation. Xiaoming Huang is Professor of International Relations at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His recent publications include The Rise and Fall of the East Asian Growth System: Institutional Competitiveness and Rapid Economic Growth (also published by Routledge). 1. Introduction: Institutional Analysis and China’s Transformation: Issues and Concepts - Xiaoming Huang 2. China and International Institutions - Harry Harding 3. Institution Formation, Imitation and Borrowing: Zhongguancun as a Case Study on Mechanisms of Institutional Change - Sheng Hong 4. Science and Technology Institutions and Performance in China: The Semi-Conductor Industry - Keun Lee and Wang Rui 5. Power, Rights and Interests: A Law and Economic Analysis of Urban Housing Demolition and Relocation in China - Yujun Feng 6. China’s Road to a Rechtsstaat: Rule of Law, Constitutional Democracy and Institutional Change - Li Weisen 7. China's Evolving Institutional Exclusion: The Hukou System and Its Transformation - Fei-ling Wang 8. China’s Changing Hukou System: Institutional Objectives, Formal Arrangements and Informal Practices - Jason Young 9. State Capacity, Democratic Principles and Constitutional Order: Modern State-building in Post-Totalitarian Society - Qiang Li 10. Institutional Accumulation and Gradual Substitution: The Dynamics of Developmental Democracy in China - Dingping Guo 11. Propaganda vs. Promotion: The Political Economy of CCTV - Yong He 12. Village Elections and the Institutionalization of Legitimate Authority - C S Bryan Ho 13. Conclusion: The Institutional Dynamics of China’s Transformation: What We Have Learnt? - Xiaoming Huang