Metal Swarm

Author : Kevin J. Anderson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849835190

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Metal Swarm by Kevin J. Anderson Pdf

The alien hydrogues have been defeated, driven back into the cores of their gas-giant planets by an alliance of the Earth Defence Forces, the ancient Ildiran Empire, the gypsy-like Roamer clans and gigantic living 'treeships'. The various factions try to recover - but the deep-seated wounds may prove fatal. The Hansa's brutal Chairman Basil Wenceslas struggles to crush any resistance even as King Peter breaks away to form his own new Confederation among the green priests on Theroc, the Roamer clans and an ever-growing number of colonies who have declared their independence. Like jackals smelling wounded prey, swarms of ancient black robots built by the lost insectoid Klikiss race continue their depredations on helpless worlds with stolen Earth battleships. A race of terrifying fiery elementals, the faeros, has joined with an Ildiran madman to declare war against all life. And the original, voracious Klikiss race - long thought to be extinct - have returned, intent on conquering their former worlds and willing to annihilate anyone who happens to be in the way.

Author : Kevin J. Anderson
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316024044

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Metal Swarm by Kevin J. Anderson Pdf

In the aftermath of a devastating war, swarms of ancient black robots built by the lost insectoid Klikiss race continue their depredations on helpless worlds with stolen and heavily armed Earth battleships. Among the humans, the Hansa's brutal Chairman struggles to crush any resistance even as King Peter breaks away to form his own new Confederation among the colonies who have declared their independence. And meanwhile, the original, voracious Klikiss race, long thought to be extinct, has returned, intent on conquering their former worlds and willing to annihilate anyone in the way. Praise for the Saga of Seven Suns? "A soaring epic? A space opera to rival the best the field has ever seen." -- Science Fiction Chronicle "Kevin Anderson has created a fully independent and richly conceived venue for his personal brand of space opera, a venue that nonetheless raises fruitful resonances with Frank Herbert's classic Dune series." -- Scifi.com

Author : Ganesh M. Kakandikar,Vilas M. Nandedkar
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351652186

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Sheet Metal Forming Optimization by Ganesh M. Kakandikar,Vilas M. Nandedkar Pdf

Automotive and aerospace components, utensils, and many other products are manufactured by a forming/drawing process on press machines of very thin sheet metal, 0.8 to 1.2 mm. It is imperative to study the effect of all involved parameters on output of this type of manufacturing process. This book offers the readers with application and suitability of various evolutionary, swarm, and bio-inspired optimization algorithms for sheet metal forming processes. Book initiates by presenting basics of metal forming, formability followed by discussion of process parameters in detail, prominent modes of failure, basics of optimization and various bioinspired approaches followed by optimization studies on various industrial components applying bioinspired optimization algorithms. Key Features: • Focus on description of basic investigation of metal forming, as well as evolutionary optimization • Presentation of innovative optimization methodologies to close the gap between those formulations and industrial problems, aimed at industrial professionals • Includes mathematical modeling of drawing/forming process • Discusses key performance parameters, such as Thinning, Fracture, and Wrinkling • Includes both numerical and experimental analysis

Author : Li Zhang,Shihao Yang,Qianqian Wang,Dongdong Jin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789819930364

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Magnetic Micro and Nanorobot Swarms: From Fundamentals to Applications by Li Zhang,Shihao Yang,Qianqian Wang,Dongdong Jin Pdf

This book is focused on the attractive emerging field of micro-/nanorobot swarms (microswarms). It introduces fundamental understandings of various microswarms, including pattern generation, transformation, locomotion, and imaging. This book also demonstrates applications of micro-/nanorobot swarms in different fields, such as biomedical, environmental, and electrical applications. The detailed theoretical analysis and experimental demonstrations in this book provide readers ranging from students to researchers with a realistic picture of progress achieved in the field of micro-/nanorobot swarms. ​

Author : Jing Liu,Lei Sheng,Zhi-Zhu He
Publisher : Springer
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811327094

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Liquid Metal Soft Machines by Jing Liu,Lei Sheng,Zhi-Zhu He Pdf

This book discusses the core principles and practical applications of a brand new machine category: liquid-metal soft machines and motors. After a brief introduction on the conventional soft robot and its allied materials, it presents the new conceptual liquid-metal machine, which revolutionizes existing rigid robots, both large and small. It outlines the typical features of the soft liquid-metal materials and describes the various transformation capabilities, mergence of separate metal droplets, self-rotation and planar locomotion of liquid-metal objects under external or internal mechanism. Further, it introduces a series of unusual phenomena discovered while developing the shape changeable smart soft machine and interprets the related mechanisms regarding the effects of the shape, size, voltage, orientation and geometries of the external fields to control the liquid-metal transformers. Moreover, the book illustrates typical strategies to construct a group of different advanced functional liquid-metal soft machines, since such machines or robots are hard to fabricate using rigid-metal or conventional materials. With highly significant fundamental and practical findings, this book is intended for researchers interested in establishing a general method for making future smart soft machine and accompanying robots.

Author : Marvin Hardt
Publisher : Apprimus Wissenschaftsverlag
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783985550616

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Modeling the Material Behavior under Metal Cutting Conditions by Marvin Hardt Pdf

The scientific goal of the present work was to model the workpiece material behavior of steels in the metal cutting process depending on the occurring thermo-mechanical loads. The results of this work shall make a significant contribution to the predictive process design of the cutting process by means of Finite Element (FE) simulations for the virtual representation of the reality in the sense of the digital twin. To achieve the objective, extensive empirical examinations were conducted in a first step, which included conventional material scientific and orthogonal cutting tests. This enabled the establishment of a database of the workpiece response with increasing thermo-mechanical loads. During the orthogonal cutting examinations, integral and locally resolved process results were measured, which were used as calibration and validation variables in the modeling of the workpiece material behavior. By extending an established friction test bench with a workpiece pre-heating system, the friction conditions between tool and workpiece could be investigated under conditions equivalent to the cutting process. Based on the experimental results, a friction model was derived, in which the observed effects of thermal softening and the localized adhesion-induced increase in the apparent friction coefficient were superposed. A phenomenological material model was developed to describe the workpiece material behavior in the cutting process. The formulation of the material mode was developed based on empirical examinations as well as results from the state of the art. The material model was implemented in an FE-chip formation simulation using a subroutine. A hybrid optimization algorithm was developed to inversely determine the material model parameters. By means of the optimization algorithm, the material model parameters could be systematically determined inversely, taking the experimentally determined process observables into account. An automated procedure linked to a user interface lowered the entry hurdle for industrial companies and unexperienced users of FE-simulations and reduced the computational effort for the inverse parameter determination to about 10 days of computational execution time. The quality of the developed models and the determined model parameters were further verified by a final deduction step using the industrial example of face turning.

Author : Melinda Kucsera
Publisher : Melinda Kucsera
Page : 1054 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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His Angelic Keeper Books 1-3 by Melinda Kucsera Pdf

His Angelic Keeper Books 1-3 is an epic fantasy adventure set in an immersive world of intrigue and adventure, featuring the following books: His Angelic Keeper Sovvan is dead but doesn't know it because the creatures who run the place don't want her to remember anything. They take every thought in her head, making it hard to outsmart them. But a demon threatens her twin, and she can't save him if she can't remember him, so those memory-eating creatures must go. Too bad no one will lend her a sword. A ghost can't die again, but Fate isn't kind to the women who thwart it. Sovvan might cease to exist if she saves her twin, but if she doesn't, that demon will drag him to Hell and separate them forever. His Angelic Keeper Hidden Sovvan needs to stop her ex-guardian angel from completing a spell that could destroy the repository of all memory and with it, the last fourteen years of her strange existence. If only this bizarre band of creatures would stop kidnapping her, she could make a start on that. But those creatures have plans, and they won’t take no for an answer. There’s no rest for the dead, especially not for someone who’s caught between angels and demons in a world where magic is real and just using it can kill you. The afterlife is turning into more of an epic fantasy adventure than Sovvan expected. But one thing will never change. Family comes first. His Angelic Keeper Fallen Rejected by the other angels, she's betrayed by the one person who should be on her side, her guardian angel. Sovvan will take on the most powerful villain in the world alone for a chance to reunite with her twin and save her family. But she's got a secret. When the devil challenges her to a game, she'll risk it all for one shot at defeating him. If Sovvan loses, everyone dies, and the devil will drag her to Hell. Get His Angelic Keeper Books 1-3 today, a humorous sword and sorcery series starring Sovvan from the Curse Breaker series in a death-defying adventure through the afterlife. Readers also enjoyed books by: Robert Jordon, Mercedes Lackey, Nicholas Eames, Will Wight, Brandon Sanderson, Andrzej Sapkowski, J.R.R. Tolkien, Robin Hobb, Anne McCaffrey, Terry Brooks, Morgan Rice, Jonathan Moeller, Melissa Caruso, Terry Pratchet, N. K. Jemisin, Kevin J. Anderson, Jenn Lyons, David Gaider, Myke Cole, Brian McClellan, John Marco, Michael A. Stackpole, George R. R. Martin, Brent Weeks, A. K. Larkwood, Michelle Sagara

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RMS:RMSICVIN000000168$$$A

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Classified Index of Subjects of Invention Adopted in the U. S. Patent Office, March 1, 1872 by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368165802

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Classified Index of Subjects of Invention by Anonymous Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Bee culture
ISBN : UCAL:C3115497

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American Bee Journal by Anonim Pdf

Includes summarized reports of many bee-keeper associations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Bee culture
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030034259954

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Novices' Gleanings in Bee Culture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Bee culture
ISBN : UCAL:B4243641

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Gleanings in Bee Culture by Anonim Pdf

Author : L. G. Christophorou
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Science
ISBN : UCAL:B4516748

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Electron and Ion Swarms by L. G. Christophorou Pdf

Author : Kevin J. Anderson
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 031600345X

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A Forest of Stars by Kevin J. Anderson Pdf

Five years after attacking the human-colonized worlds of the Spiral Arm, the hydrogues maintain absolute control over stardrive fuel...and their embargo is strangling human civilization. On Earth, mankind suffers from renewed attacks by the hydrogues and decides to use a cybernetic army to fight them. Yet the Terran leaders don't realize that these military robots have already exterminated their own makers - and may soon turn on humanity. Once the rulers of an expanding empire, humans have become the galaxy's most endangered species. But the sudden appearance of incredible new beings will destroy all balances of power. Now for humans and the myriad alien factions in the universe, the real war is about to begin...and genocide may be the result.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Bee culture
ISBN : WISC:89047924576

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The American Apiculturist by Anonim Pdf