03657nam 2200577 450 991046091010332120200520144314.00-7844-7905-4(CKB)3710000000454555(EBL)3425656(SSID)ssj0001532190(PQKBManifestationID)12582608(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001532190(PQKBWorkID)11474160(PQKB)11059947(MiAaPQ)EBC3425656(Au-PeEL)EBL3425656(CaPaEBR)ebr11083286(OCoLC)919732363(EXLCZ)99371000000045455520150815h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGrounded! amazing classroom demonstrations in soil mechanics /David J. Elton, Ph.D., P.EReston, Virginia :American Society of Civil Engineers,2015.©20151 online resource (206 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7844-1392-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments and Contributors""; ""Soils Magician Accreditation Procedure""; ""Video Demonstrations""; ""Magic Demonstrations""; ""1 Exploding Soils (Extreme Slaking)""; ""2 Rice Is Nice (an Exercise in Pile Capacity)""; ""3 Break that Block (the Power of Bentonite)""; ""4 A Retaining Wall Made of Paper""; ""5 Slip Slidin' away with Effective Stress""; ""6 Magic Beaker (Sand Defies Gravity)""; ""7 Effective Potato Chips""; ""8 Foam Balls in a Pipe (Soil Arching)""""9 Geotechnical Rorschach Test (Water Flows around a Drain, instead of into the Drain)""""10 Hairy Soil""; ""11 Sand Cylinder Hoisting""; ""12 Water That Won't Go through a Sieve (and Water That Does)""; ""13 Dilation in Someone's Hand (Silty Soil Identification)""; ""14 Piping Under a Sheetpile Dam""; ""Non-Magic Demonstrations""; ""15 Jar of Rocks (Soil Void Ratio, Porosity, Unit Weight, and Water Content of Soils)""; ""16 Liquefaction by Upward Gradient""; ""17 Blow It Out (Critical Hydraulic Gradient) and Flowlines""; ""18 Relative Density of Soil in a Graduated Cylinder""""19 Soil Filter Demonstration Using Marbles""""20 Sand in a Jar (Strong as You Are)""; ""21 Shear and Compression Waves""; ""22 Soil Bridge in a Tube""; ""23 Capillarity and Cotton Balls (Bonus: Nonwoven Geotextile Strength Demonstration)""; ""24 Stick-Slip Behavior""; ""25 Tilt Me up Scotty (Interface Friction)""; ""26 Soils Relaxing (the Angle of Repose)""; ""27 Falling Head over Heels for Permeability (the Permeability of Oobleck)""; ""28 Bulking of Soils (AKA: Less Soil for Your Money)""; ""29 Geotextile Puncture Test""; ""30 Soil Dilation and Compaction Using Ping Pong Balls""""31 Campus Geology Tour""""32 Settlement Rates of Soils in Jars""; ""33 Bearing Capacity (Bigger Is Better)""; ""34 Retaining Wall in a Box""; ""35 Rockfall Simulator Lab""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""L""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""About the Author""SoilsExperimentsSoil mechanicsExperimentsElectronic books.SoilsExperiments.Soil mechanicsExperiments.631.4078Elton David J.743289MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460910103321Grounded1478401UNINA01031nam 2200361 450 991077325360332120230814220458.01-78735-248-X(CKB)4950000000162398(MiAaPQ)EBC5977511(EXLCZ)99495000000016239820191209d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe spectral Arctic a history of dreams and ghosts in polar exploration /Shane McCorristineLondon :UCL Press,[2018]©20181 online resource (x, 265 pages) illustrations1-78735-247-1 ShamanismArctic regionsShamanism001.94McCorristine Shane1983-983877MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910773253603321The spectral Arctic3661024UNINA04264nam 22005415 450 991029931580332120200705034527.0981-10-8642-710.1007/978-981-10-8642-7(CKB)4100000007158989(MiAaPQ)EBC5601969(DE-He213)978-981-10-8642-7(PPN)232469164(EXLCZ)99410000000715898920181119d2018 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPrinciples in Noisy Optimization Applied to Multi-agent Coordination /by Pratyusha Rakshit, Amit Konar1st ed. 2018.Singapore :Springer Singapore :Imprint: Springer,2018.1 online resource (379 pages)Cognitive Intelligence and Robotics,2520-1956981-10-8641-9 Chapter 1. Foundations in Evolutionary Optimization Algorithms -- Chapter 2. Multi-agent Coordination -- Chapter 3. Evolutionary Algorithms in Presence of Noise -- Chapter 4. Learning based Noisy Optimization -- Chapter 5. Noisy Coordination in Multi-objective Settings -- Chapter 6. Integrating Principles of Noisy Optimization with Evolutionary Optimization -- Chapter 7. Conclusion and Future Direction.Noisy optimization is a topic of growing interest for researchers working on mainstream optimization problems. Although several techniques for dealing with stochastic noise in optimization problems are covered in journals and conference proceedings, today there are virtually no books that approach noisy optimization from a layman’s perspective; this book remedies that gap. Beginning with the foundations of evolutionary optimization, the book subsequently explores the principles of noisy optimization in single and multi-objective settings, and presents detailed illustrations of the principles developed for application in real-world multi-agent coordination problems. Special emphasis is given to the design of intelligent algorithms for noisy optimization in real-time applications. The book is unique in terms of its content, writing style and above all its simplicity, which will appeal to readers with a broad range of backgrounds. The book is divided into 7 chapters, the first of which provides an introduction to Swarm and Evolutionary Optimization algorithms. Chapter 2 includes a thorough review of agent architectures for multi-agent coordination. In turn, Chapter 3 provides an extensive review of noisy optimization, while Chapter 4 addresses issues of noise handling in the context of single-objective optimization problems. An illustrative case study on multi-robot path-planning in the presence of measurement noise is also highlighted in this chapter. Chapter 5 deals with noisy multi-objective optimization and includes a case study on noisy multi-robot box-pushing. In Chapter 6, the authors examine the scope of various algorithms in noisy optimization problems. Lastly, Chapter 7 summarizes the main results obtained in the previous chapters and elaborates on the book’s potential with regard to real-world noisy optimization problems.Cognitive Intelligence and Robotics,2520-1956Artificial intelligenceMathematical optimizationComputersArtificial Intelligencehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/I21000Optimizationhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/M26008Theory of Computationhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/I16005Artificial intelligence.Mathematical optimization.Computers.Artificial Intelligence.Optimization.Theory of Computation.006.3Rakshit Pratyushaauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut941430Konar Amitauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autBOOK9910299315803321Principles in Noisy Optimization2123474UNINA