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"The Aviation Maintenance Technician: Powerplant is the third book of Dale Crane's AMT Series, textbooks that were created to set the pace for maintenance technician training and attain a level of quality that surpasses all other maintenance textbooks on the market. Powerplant is now in its fourth edition and has been updated to today's practices and procedures, featuring full-color illustrations throughout with new information on DC generator and alternator system inspection, maintenance, and troubleshooting. The Technical Editor for this Fourth Edition is David Scroggins (LeTourneau University). Powerplant details the technical maintenance of turbine and reciprocating engines, covering the final section of the FAA's required curriculum. Theory and construction of aircraft engines are discussed along with propellers, development of aircraft powerplants, and powerplant auxiliary systems. The Dale Crane AMT textbooks consist of the most complete and up-to-date material for A&P training. The curriculum meets 14 CFR Part 147 requirements and Learning Statement Codes from the FAA mechanics knowledge tests. The books are designed for at-home, classroom, or university-level training. These comprehensive textbooks include explanatory charts, tables and illustrations along with an extensive glossary, index, and additional career information. Margin definitions and notes highlight important facts on each page of text. A study guide is included within each textbook in the form of study question sections placed throughout, with answer keys printed at the end of each chapter. These can be used for evaluation by an instructor or for self-testing. ASA's mechanic textbooks are all-inclusive--no separate, inconvenient workbook is needed by the student or instructor."--Provided by publisher.

Airplanes --- Aircraft engines --- Airplane engines --- Motors --- Aeroplanes --- Aircraft, Fixed wing --- Fixed wing aircraft --- Planes (Airplanes) --- Flying-machines --- Aircraft industry --- Maintenance and repair. --- Motors. --- Engines

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This book aims to develop systematic design methodologies to model-based nonlinear control of aeroengines, focusing on (1) modelling of aeroengine systemsboth component-level and identification-based models will be extensively studied and compared; and (2) advanced nonlinear control designsset-point control, transient control and limit-protection control approaches will all be investigated. The model-based design has been one of the pivotal technologies to advanced control and health management of propulsion systems. It can fulfil advanced designs such as fault-tolerant control, engine modes control and direct thrust control. As a consequence, model-based design has become an important research area in the field of aeroengines due to its theoretical interests and engineering significance. One of the central issues in model-based controls is the tackling of nonlinearities. There are publications concerning with either nonlinear modelling or nonlinear controls; yet, they are scattered throughout the literature. It is time to provide a comprehensive summary of model-based nonlinear controls. Consequently, a series of important results are obtained and a systematic design methodology is developed which provides consistently enhanced performance over a large flight/operational envelope, and it is thus expected to provide useful guidance to practical engineering in aeroengine industry and research.

Aerospace engineering. --- Airplanes --- Nonlinear control theory. --- Motors. --- Control theory --- Nonlinear theories --- Aircraft engines --- Airplane engines --- Motors --- Aeronautical engineering --- Aeronautics --- Astronautics --- Engineering --- Engines

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Recent advances in microfabrication technologies have enabled the development of entirely new classes of small-scale devices with applications in fields ranging from biomedicine (portable defibrillators, drug delivery systems, etc.), to wireless communication and computing (cell phones, laptop computers, etc.), to reconnaissance (unmanned air vehicles, microsatellites etc.), and to augmentation of human function (exoskeletons etc.). In many cases, however, what these devices can actually accomplish is limited by the low energy density of their energy storage and conversion systems. This breakthrough book brings together in one place the information necessary to develop the high energy density combustion-based power sources that will enable many of these devices to realize their full potentials.

Internal combustion engines --- Combustion --- Microfabrication. --- Manufacturing processes --- Thermochemistry --- Heat --- Smoke --- Combustion. --- Industrial applications. --- microscale combustion --- flameless combustion --- combustion limits --- combustion instability --- excess enthalpy combustion --- small-scale liquid film combustors --- micro-tubes and porous combustors --- Swiss-roll combustors --- catalytic reactors --- micro-heat engines --- micro-reactors --- micro-power generators --- micro-thrusters --- model aircraft engines --- 2-stroke engines --- piston engines --- heterogeneous combustion --- catalytic combustion --- conjugate heat transfer --- scale-effects on combustion --- thermoelectric power generation --- micro gas turbine engine --- micro-rotary engine --- micro-rockets --- microfabrication --- MEMS