5 Engineering Technology eBooks

Linux Server Security: Hack and Defend by Chris Binnie
Simply Electrifying: The Technology that Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk by Craig R. Roach
Compressors: How to Achieve High Reliability & Availability (Electronics) by Heinz P. Bloch, Fred K. Geitner
Unmanned Aircraft Design: A Review of Fundamentals
Atomistic Simulation Of Quantum Transport In Nanoelectronic Devices

Linux Server Security: Hack and Defend by Chris Binnie
English | May 3rd, 2016 | ASIN: B01F69YSFW, ISBN: 1119277655 | 130 pages | EPUB | 1.73 MB
Learn how to attack and defend the world's most popular web server platform!
Linux Server Security: Hack and Defend presents a detailed guide for experienced admins, aspiring hackers and other IT professionals seeking a more advanced understanding of Linux security. Written by a 20-year veteran of Linux server deployment this book provides the insight of experience along with highly practical instruction.
The topics range from the theory of past, current, and future attacks, to the mitigation of a variety of online attacks, all the way to empowering you to perform numerous malicious attacks yourself (in the hope that you will learn how to defend against them). By increasing your understanding of a hacker’s tools and mindset you're less likely to be confronted by the all-too-common reality faced by many admins these days: someone else has control of your systems. * Master hacking tools and launch sophisticated attacks: perform SQL injections, deploy multiple server exploits and crack complex passwords.
• Defend systems and networks: be confident of your security with penetration testing, repel unwelcome attackers and harden your servers.
• Increase your background knowledge of attacks on systems and networks and improve all-important practical skills required to secure any Linux server.
The techniques presented apply to almost all Linux distributions including the many Debian and Red Hat derivatives and some other Unix-type systems. Further your career with this intriguing, deeply insightful, must-have technical book. Diverse, broadly-applicable and hands-on practical, Linux Server Security: Hack and Defend is an essential resource which will sit proudly on any techie's bookshelf.

Simply Electrifying: The Technology that Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk by Craig R. Roach
English | July 25th, 2017 | ISBN: 1944648267 | 481 pages | PDF | 4.36 MB
Imagine your life without the internet. Without phones. Without television. Without sprawling cities. Without the freedom to continue working and playing after the sun goes down.
Electricity is at the core of all modern life. It has transformed our society more than any other technology. Yet, no book offers a comprehensive history about this technological marvel.
Until now.
Simply Electrifying: The Technology that Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk brings to life the 250-year history of electricity through the stories of the men and women who used it to transform our world: Benjamin Franklin, James Watt, Michael Faraday, Samuel F.B. Morse, Thomas Edison, Samuel Insull, Albert Einstein, Rachel Carson, Elon Musk, and more. In the process, it reveals for the first time the complete, thrilling, and often-dangerous story of electricity’s historic discovery, development, and worldwide application.
Electricity plays a fundamental role not only in our everyday lives but in history’s most pivotal events, from global climate change and the push for wind- and solar-generated electricity to Japan’s nuclear accident at Fukushima and Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.
Written by electricity expert and four-decade veteran of the industry Craig R. Roach, Simply Electrifying marshals, in fascinating narrative detail, the full range of factors that shaped the electricity business over time—science, technology, law, politics, government regulation, economics, business strategy, and culture—before looking forward toward the exhilarating prospects for electricity generation and use that will shape our future.

Compressors: How to Achieve High Reliability & Availability (Electronics) by Heinz P. Bloch, Fred K. Geitner
English | February 4th, 2013 | ISBN: 0071772871, 9780071772877 | 289 pages | True PDF | 78.56 MB
Practical techniques for optimizing compressor performance. Written by experts with more than 100 combined years of industry experience in machinery failure avoidance, Compressors: How to Achieve High Reliability & Availability offers proven solutions to a pervasive and expensive problem in modern industry–compressor failure.
This succinct, on-the-job guide addresses elusive causes of compressor failure and clearly maps out permanent remedies you can put to use right away. With a focus on centrifugal and reciprocating compressors, this accessible reference is based on real-world processes and procedures used by successful global companies.
Coverage includes:
• Compression principles and internal labyrinths
• Selection factors for process compressors
• Operation characteristics of turbocompressors
• Wet and dry gas seals
• Bearings, stability, and vibration guidance
• Lube and seal oil systems
• Impellers and rotors
• Compressor maintenance and surveillance
• Inspection and repair of rotors
• Machinery quality assessment (MQA)
• Failure analysis and troubleshooting
• Reciprocating compressor operation, control, maintenance, and rebuilding
• Maintenance and operations interfaces
• Reciprocating compressor monitoring and surveillance
• Training competent compressor engineers

Unmanned Aircraft Design: A Review of Fundamentals
Morgan & Claypool | English | Sep 2017 | ISBN-10: 1681731681 | 193 pages | PDF | 14.53 mb
by Mohammad Sadraey (Author)
This book provides fundamental principles, design procedures, and design tools for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with three sections focusing on vehicle design, autopilot design, and ground system design. The design of manned aircraft and the design of UAVs have some similarities and some differences. They include the design process, constraints (e.g., g-load, pressurization), and UAV main components (autopilot, ground station, communication, sensors, and payload). A UAV designer must be aware of the latest UAV developments; current technologies; know lessons learned from past failures; and they should appreciate the breadth of UAV design options.
The contribution of unmanned aircraft continues to expand every day and over 20 countries are developing and employing UAVs for both military and scientific purposes. A UAV system is much more than a reusable air vehicle or vehicles. UAVs are air vehicles, they fly like airplanes and operate in an airplane environment. They are designed like air vehicles; they have to meet flight critical air vehicle requirements. A designer needs to know how to integrate complex, multi-disciplinary systems, and to understand the environment, the requirements and the design challenges and this book is an excellent overview of the fundamentals from an engineering perspective.
This book is meant to meet the needs of newcomers into the world of UAVs. The materials are intended to provide enough information in each area and illustrate how they all play together to support the design of a complete UAV. Therefore, this book can be used both as a reference for engineers entering the field or as a supplementary text for a UAV design course to provide system-level context for each specialized topic.

Atomistic Simulation Of Quantum Transport In Nanoelectronic Devices
World Scientific | English | 2016 | ISBN-10: 9813141425 | 436 pages | PDF | 25.38 mb
by Yu Zhu (Author), Lei Liu (Author)
Computational nanoelectronics is an emerging multi-disciplinary field covering condensed matter physics, applied mathematics, computer science, and electronic engineering. In recent decades, a few state-of-the-art software packages have been developed to carry out first-principle atomistic device simulations. Nevertheless those packages are either black boxes (commercial codes) or accessible only to very limited users (private research codes). The purpose of this book is to open one of the commercial black boxes, and to demonstrate the complete procedure from theoretical derivation, to numerical implementation, all the way to device simulation. Meanwhile the affiliated source code constitutes an open platform for new researchers. This is the first book of its kind. We hope the book will make a modest contribution to the field of computational nanoelectronics.