Bøger af Alec Feinberg

Thermodynamic degradation science is a new and exciting discipline. It contributes to both physics of failure and as a new area in thermodynamics. There are many different ways to approach the science of degradation. Since thermodynamics uses an energy perspective, it is a great way to analyze such problems. There is something in this book for everyone who is concerned with degradation issues. Even if you are just interested in reliability or accelerated testing, there is a lot of new and highly informative material. We also go beyond traditional physics of failure methods and develop conjugate work models and methods. It is important to have new tools. a conjugate work approach to solving physics of failure problems. We cover a number of original key topics in this book, including: -thermodynamic principles of degradation-predicting life using the free energy-conjugate work, entropy damage, and free energy degradation analysis;-physics of failure using conjugate work approach;-complex systems degradation analysis using noise analysis;-mesoscopic noise entropy measurement for disorder in operating systems;-human heart degradation noise measurements;-cumulative entropy damage, cyclic work, and fatigue analysis;-Miner's rule derivation for fatigue and Miner's rule for batteries;-engines and efficiency degradation;-aging laws, cumulative accelerated stress test (CAST) plans, and acceleration factors for: creep; wear; fatigue; thermal cycle; vibration (sine and random); temperature; humidity and temperature;-transistor aging laws (bipolar and FET models);-new accelerated test environmental profiling CAST planning method;-vibration cumulative damage (sine and random);-chemical corrosion and activations aging laws;-diffusion aging laws;-reliability statistics;-how aging laws affect reliability distributions;-human engine degradation;-human heart versus metal cyclic fatigue;-human growth and repair model;-negative entropy and spontaneous negative entropy; and-environmental degradation, climate change, and pollution.When we think of thermodynamic degradation, whether it be for complex systems, devices, or even human aging, we begin to realize that it is all about "order" being converted to "disorder" due to the natural spontaneous tendencies described by the Second law of thermodynamics to come to equilibrium with the neighboring environment. Although most people who study thermodynamics are familiar with its second law, not many think of it as a good explanation of why a product degrades over time. However, we can manipulate and rephrase it as follows. The second law in terms of system thermodynamic degradation: the spontaneous irreversible degradation processes that take place in a system interacting with its environment will do so in order to go towards thermodynamic equilibrium with its environment.We see that the science presents us with a gift, for its second law actually explains the aging processes. This is a second edition, prior to the first edition, a preview chapter was as an invited contributor to a book edited with Professor Swingler at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, entitled The Physics of Degradation in Engineered Materials and Device. We see that this science is starting to catch on. This book presents the fundamentals and goes beyond including new ways to make measurements, and provides many examples so the reader will learn the value of how this science can be used. I believe this science will significantly expand soon and it is my hope that this book will provide the spark to inspire others. Thermodynamic degradation science offers new tools, new ways to solve physics of failure problems, and new ways to do prognostics and prevent failure.

Make no mistake about it; foreigners receive U.S. dollars from America's unbalanced free trade called the trade deficit and use this money to buy up the U.S., this is a Free Trade Disaster. If you are not aware of the rate at which foreign ownership is occurring, you must be living on the moon. This book calls for it to stop. About 10% of America that we built, fought and died for, is lost, sold and con-trolled by foreign ownership, mostly communist China, as of July 2014. This loss occurred mostly within the last 9 years. This is illegal and unconstitutional. We outline a court case against free trade policy that any American group can use to judge and consider suing our government for what we show is immoral, illegal, and unconstitutional free trade policy, to force change. This book is written for the layperson to help everyone understand the economic and financial unjust effects of U.S. unbalanced free trade. Facts and issues are presented in a succinct manner that provides reasonable data to back up each statement. The fact is, the U.S. accounting office does not even account properly for the amount of foreign ownership, they underestimate it by as much as $8 trillion (explained in the first chapter). The book nicely explains and provides verification on why unbalanced free trade 1) causes the selling of America with excessive yearly increase in foreign ownership of U.S assets, 2) supports organized international trading crimes such as currency manipulation, product counterfeiting and other unjust manufacturing problems, 3) forces corporations to ship jobs and manufacturing abroad, 4) cause higher national debt due to serious tax losses of outsourced jobs, which impose these tax losses unfairly onto U.S. citizens, 5) creates a competitive disadvantage for manufacturing in the U.S., 6) and creates strong separation of wealth. As a solution, the book offers that only balanced trade provides a true competitive advantage and is a very feasible alternative to free trade. We explain how balance trade is the only just alternative and would stop all this illegal activity.

This book is written for the layperson to help citizens and their representatives understand the economic and financial unjust effects of the U.S. trade deficit. The reader will find that their time is not wasted as the issues are presented in a succinct manner that provides a reasonable amount of facts and data to back up each statement on trade deficit effects. These effects are not simply unjust but likely boarders on unlawful activity. A court like case is presented to help the reader understand the serious nature of these trade deficit effects and also helps the layperson more easily digest the unjust economic facts. There are numerous supportive facts for each accusation, but the book does not try and over burden the reader with every possible available fact, focusing on reasonable key evidence. The book nicely explains and provide verifications on why the trade deficit effects 1) cause higher national debt due to serious tax losses of outsourced jobs, which impose these tax losses unfairly onto U.S. citizens, 2) cause yearly increases in foreign ownership of U.S assets (where it is projected that in 25 years foreigners will likely own 51% of the U.S. economy), 3) forces corporations to ship jobs and manufacturing abroad, 4) creates a competitive disadvantage for manufacturing in the U.S., 5) creates strong separation of wealth, 6) and supports organized international trading crimes such as currency manipulation, product counterfeiting and other unjust manufacturing problems. As a solution, the book offers that only balanced trade provides a true competitive advantage and is a very feasible alternative to free trade. Here it is explained that only balance trade can control greed, which is the fundamental cause of much of these unjust trade deficit effects. As well, the book explains the need for political economic reliable tools to help congress persons (mostly lawyers) do proper economic problem solving. Such tools would fill a serious gap in their decision making process. A book written in conjunction with Citizens For Equal Trade to help America realize the true consequences and solutions for the U.S. trade deficit.

Thermodynamic degradation science is a new and exciting discipline. This book merges the science of physics of failure with thermodynamics and shows how degradation modeling is improved and enhanced when using thermodynamic principles.