When Technology Fails
- Matthew Stein
- 2008-08-18
Author: Matthew Stein
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 9781603580953
Category: House & Home
Page: 493
View: 182
There’s never been a better time to “be prepared.” Matthew Stein’s comprehensive primer on sustainable living skills—from food and water to shelter and energy to first-aid and crisis-management skills—prepares you to embark on the path toward sustainability. But unlike any other book, Stein not only shows you how to live “green” in seemingly stable times, but to live in the face of potential disasters, lasting days or years, coming in the form of social upheaval, economic meltdown, or environmental catastrophe. When Technology Fails covers the gamut. You’ll learn how to start a fire and keep warm if you’ve been left temporarily homeless, as well as the basics of installing a renewable energy system for your home or business. You’ll learn how to find and sterilize water in the face of utility failure, as well as practical information for dealing with water-quality issues even when the public tap water is still flowing. You’ll learn alternative techniques for healing equally suited to an era of profit-driven malpractice as to situations of social calamity. Each chapter (a survey of the risks to the status quo; supplies and preparation for short- and long-term emergencies; emergency measures for survival; water; food; shelter; clothing; first aid, low-tech medicine, and healing; energy, heat, and power; metalworking; utensils and storage; low-tech chemistry; and engineering, machines, and materials) offers the same approach, describing skills for self-reliance in good times and bad. Fully revised and expanded—the first edition was written pre-9/11 and pre-Katrina, when few Americans took the risk of social disruption seriously—When Technology Fails ends on a positive, proactive note with a new chapter on "Making the Shift to Sustainability," which offers practical suggestions for changing our world on personal, community and global levels.AR 350-32 06/02/2015 ARMY FOUNDRY INTELLIGENCE TRAINING PROGRAM , Survival Ebooks
Author: Us Department Of Defense
Publisher: Delene Kvasnicka www.survivalebooks.com
ISBN:
Category: Reference
Page:
View: 115
AR 350-32 06/02/2015 ARMY FOUNDRY INTELLIGENCE TRAINING PROGRAM , Survival EbooksFoundry Technology
- Peter Beeley
- 2001-09-24
Author: Peter Beeley
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 0750645679
Category: Technology & Engineering
Page: 719
View: 363
Introduction; Liquid Metals and the Gating of Castings; Solidification 1 -- Crystallization and the development of cast structure; Solidification 2 -- the Feeding of Castings; The Moulding Material -- Properties, Preparation and Testing; Defects in Castings; Quality Assessment and Control; Casting Design; Production Techniques 1 -- the Manufacture of Sand Castings; Mould Production; Melting and Casting; Finishing Operations; Production Techniques 2 -- Shell, Investment and Die Casting Techniques; Production Techniques 3 -- Further Casting techniques; Environmental Protection, Health and Safety; Appendix; Index.Foseco Ferrous Foundryman's Handbook
- John Brown
- 2000-08-01
Author: John Brown
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 9780080506791
Category: Technology & Engineering
Page: 384
View: 443
The Foseco Ferrous Foundryman's Handbook is a practical reference book for all those concerned with making castings in any of the commonly used alloys, by any of the usual moulding methods. International SI units are used throughout, but in almost all cases conversions to the more familiar Metric and Imperial units are given. Wherever possible, Casting Alloy Specifications include equivalent specifications for several countries as well as international specifications. Individual chapters cover the casting of light alloys, copper-based alloys, all types of cast-iron and steel. For each group of alloys, specifications and typical applications are described, together with details of melting practice, metal treatment and casting practice. Sand moulding materials, including green sand and chemically bonded sands are also included.Foseco Non-Ferrous Foundryman's Handbook
- John Brown
- 1999-09-17
Author: John Brown
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 9780080531878
Category: Technology & Engineering
Page: 304
View: 730
The Non-Ferrous Foundryman's Handbook provides a practical reference book for all those concerned with dealing with aluminium, copper and magnesium casting alloys. International SI units are used throughout, but in almost all cases conversions to the more familiar Metric and Imperial units are given. Wherever possible, Casting Alloy Specifications include equivalent specifications for several countries as well as international specifications. Individual chapters cover the casting of all types of non-ferrous metals. For each group of alloys, specifications, and typical applications are described, together with details of melting practice, metal treatment and casting practice. Sand moulding materials, including green sand and chemically bonded sands are also included. Recently there have been many major technical developments including new sand binders, the adoption of metal filtration of castings and widespread use of computers for the optimisation of feeder design.Handbook of Metallurgical Process Design
- George E. Totten
- 2004-05-25
Author: George E. Totten
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0203970926
Category: Technology & Engineering
Page: 992
View: 539
Reviewing an extensive array of procedures in hot and cold forming, casting, heat treatment, machining, and surface engineering of steel and aluminum, this comprehensive reference explores a vast range of processes relating to metallurgical component design-enhancing the production and the properties of engineered components while reducing manufacturing costs. It surveys the role of computer simulation in alloy design and its impact on material structure and mechanical properties such as fatigue and wear. It also discusses alloy design for various materials, including steel, iron, aluminum, magnesium, titanium, super alloy compositions and copper.Metal Casting
- Steve Chastain
- 2004
Author: Steve Chastain
Publisher: Stephen Chastain
ISBN: 0970220324
Category: Founding
Page: 208
View: 360
An evaluation of occupational health hazard control technology for the foundry industry
- Envirex (Firm)
- 1978
Author: Envirex (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN: UCR:31210023564535
Category: Foundries
Page: 428
View: 446
NBS Special Publication
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015010875337
Category: Weights and measures
Page:
View: 391
Directory of United States Standardization Activities
- Joan E. Hartman
- 1967
Author: Joan E. Hartman
Publisher:
ISBN: UIUC:30112008973080
Category: Standardization
Page: 276
View: 827
Transactions of the American Foundrymen's Society
- American Foundrymen's Society
- 1996
Author: American Foundrymen's Society
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015047285971
Category: Founding
Page: 1000
View: 357
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: MINN:31951D00283891P
Category: Employment forecasting
Page:
View: 255
Describes 250 occupations which cover approximately 107 million jobs.