Offers practical coverage of vibration stresses and stress--induced displacements, isolation of sensitive components, and evaluation of elastic instability, fatigue and fracture as potential failure modes that arise in mechanical designs and aerospace.
"Stafford Beer is undoubtedly among the world as most provocative, creative, and profound thinkers on the subject of management, and he records his thinking with a flair that is unmatched. His writing is as much art as it is science. He is the most viable system I know.
Textbook on the use of mathematical programme evaluation and review techniques of network analysis as management methodology in planning and control operations involving costs, time factors and profits. Bibliography pp. 203 to 206, and references
Textbook on technical aspects and methodology of operational research as a tool of management - covers simulation, mathematical models, evaluation, decision making, etc., and includes pert (network analysis) and critical path problems. Bibliography at the end of each chapter