TY - CHAP AU - Marian Androne AU - Viorel Serban AU - George Ciocan AU - Madalina Zamfir ED - Meng Joo Er Y1 - 2010-11-02 PY - 2010 T1 - New Technologies and Devices to Increase Structures' Safety to Dynamic Actions N2 - The grandest accomplishments of engineering took place in the twentieth century. The widespread development and distribution of electricity and clean water, automobiles and airplanes, radio and television, spacecraft and lasers, antibiotics and medical imaging, computers and the Internet are just some of the highlights from a century in which engineering revolutionized and improved virtually every aspect of human life. In this book, the authors provide a glimpse of new trends in technologies pertaining to devices, computers, communications and industrial systems. BT - New Trends in Technologies SP - Ch. 3 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/10442 DO - 10.5772/10442 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-29 ER -