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This is an open access book. The 4th Annual Technology, Applied Science and Engineering Conference (ATASEC 2022) is an annual, reputable event organized with a motivation to provide an excellent international platform for the academicians, researchers, engineers, industrial participants and research students around the world to share their research findings. ATASEC 2022 was performed online using Zoom platform on September 15th–16th, 2022. ATASEC 2022 theme is Science, Technology, Innovative Academic and Vocational Research Towards Product Development Through Industrial and Educational Cooperation. It addresses researchers and industries from all areas of advanced technology and science. It provides an international forum to present advances in the state of the art, identify emerging research topics, and together define the future of these exciting research domains. The conference will be enriched with renowned keynote speakers.

This is an open access book.The Advanced Technology, Applied Science, and Engineering Conference (ATASEC) is an annual, reputable event organized with a motivation to provide an excellent international platform for the academicians, researchers, engineers, industrial participants and research students around the world to share their research findings. ATASEC aims to provide a platform for academicians, researchers, students, and practitioners to promote and share ideas and knowledge and to create international networks for sustaining the development of science and technology in the future. This year, the 5th ATASEC 2023 theme is “Emerging Technologies Collaboration Between Industry and Academic Institutions For The Sustainability of Small and Medium Businesses Development“. The main event will be performed online using Zoom on September 14th-15th 2023.

Machining and cutting technologies are still crucial for many manufacturing processes. This reference presents all important machining processes in a comprehensive and coherent way. It provides the practising engineer with many technical information of the manufacturing processes and collects essential aspects such as maximum obtainable precision, errors or reference values. Many examples of concrete calculations, problems and their solutions illustrate the material and support the learning reader. The internet addresses given in the appendix provide with a fast link to more information sources.

The Oxford English for Careers series is ideal for pre-work students, who will need to use English in work situations.Each book teaches English in context, so students practise the language and skills they need for the job in real work situations.The series supports teachers in vocational teaching situations, providing

The International Conference on Fracture Mechanics Technology Applied to Material Evaluation and Structure Design was held in Melbourne, Australia, from August 10 to 13, 1982. It was sponsored jointly by the Australian Fracture Group and Institute of Fracture and Solid Mechanics at Lehigh University. Pro fessor G. C. Sih of Lehigh University, Drs. N. E. Ryan and R. Jones of Aeronau tical Research Laboratories served as Co-Chairmen. They initiated the organiza tion of this international event to provide an opportunity for the practitioners, engineers and interested individuals to present and discuss recent advances in the evaluation of material and structure damage originating from defects or cracks. Particular emphases were placed on applying the fracture mechanics tech nology for assessing interactions between material properties, design and opera tional requirements. It is timely to hold such a Conference in Australia as she embarks on technology extensive industries where safeguarding structures from pre mature and unexpected failure is essential from both the technical and economical points. view The application of system-type approach to failure control owes much of its success to fracture mechanics. It is now generally accepted that the discipline, when properly implemented, provides a sound engineering basis for accounting in teractions between material properties, design, fabrication, inspection and op erational requirements. The approach offers effective solutions for design and maintenance of large-scale energy generation plants, mining machineries, oil ex ploration and retrieval equipments, land, sea and air transport vehicles.