Foreword to the second issue
β Scribed by A. Tustin; H. Chestnut
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1963
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 145 KB
- Volume
- 1
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0005-1098
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
ONE MIGHT expect that the habits of thought developed by the study of control systems would result in control specialists seeking to maximize the value of their own final product.
This final product is not mathematics or curves from computers. These are steps in a sequence. In one important field the final output--the quantity to be maximized--is the growth of industrial production per unit cost. The figure illustrates that choice of control and desi~ma are only parts of the process of making automatic control for a customer.
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This special issue contains 19 papers selected from the proceedings of the 5th ESIS TC4 1 Conference on the ''Fracture of Polymers, Composites and Adhesives", held in Les Diablerets, Switzerland between 7th and 11th September 2008. The conference was chaired by Professor J.G. Williams and was attend