Giancarlo Genta is a professor in the Mechanics Department at Politecnico di Torino, in Turin, Italy. He is the Director of the Italian THIRSTS Studies Center, and is also affiliated with the Commission for the exploration of the space interstellare of the International Academy of Astronautica and the Academy of Sciences in Turin.
19 Ebooks by Giancarlo Genta
Giancarlo Genta: Dynamics of Rotating Systems
The aim of the book is to give an up-to-date review of rotor dynamics, dealing with basic topics as well as a number of specialized topics usually available only in journal articles. Part I deals …
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€213.99
Giancarlo Genta: Lonely Minds in the Universe
This interdisciplinary book probes the subject of extraterrestrial intelligent life, offering scientific and technological implications, discussing the philosophical and religious connotations and re …
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€28.88
Giancarlo Genta & L. Morello: The Automotive Chassis
This work serves as a reference concerning the automotive chassis, i.e. everything that is inside a vehicle except the engine and the body. It is the result of a decade of work mostly done by the …
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€71.39
Giancarlo Genta & Paolo Riberi: Technology and the Growth of Civilization
Our natural world has been irretrievably altered by humans, for humans. From domesticated wheat fields to nuclear power plants and spacecraft, everything we see and interact with has in some way be …
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€28.88
Giancarlo Genta: The Hunter
The 24th century: humankind has become a spacefaring civilization, colonizing the solar system and beyond. While no alien forms of life have yet been encountered in this expansion into space, colonis …
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€21.39
Giancarlo Genta: A Man From Planet Earth
Sometime in the not-too-distant future … unbeknownst to Earth, the Galaxy is home to a number of spacefaring societies. This confederation enforces a strict protocol forbidding any contact with civ …
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€21.39
Giancarlo Genta: Next Stop Mars
This book covers the possible manned mission to Mars first discussed in the 1950s and still a topic of much debate, addressing historic and future plans to visit the Red Planet. Considering the …
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€53.49
Giancarlo Genta: Le porte dell’inferno
In un lontanissimo futuro, la scoperta del relitto di un’antica astronave, alla deriva nello spazio interstellare, sembra far luce sul nostro travagliato presente. Una squadra di paleoinformatici …
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€3.99
Giancarlo Genta: Introduction to the Mechanics of Space Robots
Based on lecture notes on a space robotics course, this book offers a pedagogical introduction to the mechanics of space robots. After presenting an overview of the environments and conditions space …
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€149.79
Giancarlo Genta & Lorenzo Morello: The Motor Car
This book is an introduction to automotive engineering, to give freshmen ideas about this technology. The text is subdivided in parts that cover all facets of the automobile, including legal and econ …
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€96.29
Giancarlo Genta: MOTOR VEHICLE DYNAMICS:MODELLING…(V43)
The book starts with an historical overview of road vehicles. The first part deals with the forces exchanged between the vehicle and the road and the vehicle and the air with the aim of supplying the …
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€249.99
Giancarlo Genta & Alessandro Genta: ROAD VEHICLE DYNAMICS: FUNDAMENTALS OF MODELING & SIMULATION
Road Vehicle Dynamics supplies students and technicians working in industry with both the theoretical background of mechanical and automotive engineering, and the know-how needed to perform numerical …
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€174.99
Giancarlo Genta: Vibration Dynamics and Control
Mechanical engineering, and engineering discipline born of the needs of the industrial revolution, is once again asked to do its substantial share in the call for industrial renewal. The general call …
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€99.27
Giancarlo Genta & L. Morello: Automotive Chassis
The aim of the book is to be a reference book in automotive technology, as far as automotive chassis (i.e. everything that is inside a vehicle except the engine and the body) is concerned. The book …
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€56.36
Giancarlo Genta: Vibration of Structures and Machines
The aim of this book is to address important practical aspects of nonlinear vibration analysis. It presents cases rarely discussed in the existing literature on vibration that are problems of …
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€111.76
Giancarlo Genta: Vibration of Structures and Machines
This second edition follows the previous one after about two years. Apart from correcting a number of printing errors, few additions have been introduced. In the chapter on the finite element method, …
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€89.90
Giancarlo Genta: Vibration of Structures and Machines
The aim of the present book is to address practical aspects of nonlinear vibration analysis. It presents cases rarely discussed in the existing literature on vibration – such as rotor dynamics, and …
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€89.98
Giancarlo Genta & Lorenzo Morello: Automotive Chassis
This textbook draws on the authors’ experience gained by teaching courses for engineering students on e.g. vehicle mechanics, vehicle system design, and chassis design; and on their practical …
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€87.68
Giancarlo Genta & Lorenzo Morello: Automotive Chassis
This textbook draws on the authors’ experience gained by teaching courses for engineering students on e.g. vehicle mechanics, vehicle system design, and chassis design; and on their practical …
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€111.41
