Materials science Books

This book delves into recent advances and prospects for implementation of Mg alloys in biomedical implants and provides scientific insights into current issues posed by Mg alloys materials. It provides an overview of research on their mechanical and...

Maintaining the substance that has made Introduction to the Thermodynamic of Materials a perennial best seller for decades, this Seventh Edition is updated to reflect the broadening field of materials science and engineering. Chapters are updated and...

The book "Nanotechnology in Plant Health" explores the significance of nanomaterials in plant nutrition, nanofertilizers, and their role in managing plant pathogens, including the most formidable ones like quarantined strains.

Green hydrogen production by water electrolysis is the key for hydrogen energy and this book offers urgently needed guidance on the most important scientific fundamentals and practical applied technologies in this field.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

Solids subjected to sufficiently large loads undergo plastic strain that does not vanish after unloading

Breakthroughs in nanotechnology have been coming at a rapid pace over the past few years. This was fueled by significant worldwide investments by governments and industry. But if these promising young technologies cannot begin to show commercial...

Keeping pace with explosive developments in the field, Colloidal Science of Flotation reviews and updates the fundamentals of the bubble-particle collection phenomenon using a self-consistent approach that helps readers understand the hydrodynamic...

As the field's premiere source, this reference is extensively revised and expanded to collect hard-to-find applications, equations, derivations, and examples illustrating the latest developments in ceramic processing technology. This book is concerned...

HARDCOVER WITH BLACK AND WHITE PICTURES - Contents - This new book, with over 180 illustrations and over 50 tables of data, is designed for firework display firers, designers and organisers of outdoor events. From the enthusiastic amateur firer who wants...

This title is Volume 2 of a 2 Volume set. - Contents - PART 1. - COMPOUNDED WAXES -1. GENERAL -Compatibility -Hardness -Melting Point -Penetration -Refractive Index -Solubility in Oil -Viscosity -2. PARAFFIN WAX COMPOUNDS -3. ETHYL CELLULOSE AND WAX...

This title is Volume 1 of a 2 Volume set. - Contents - Introduction -Abbreviations -PART 1. NATURAL WAXES - 1. PARAFFIN WAX - Occurrence in Nature -Composition of Petroleum -Grades of Paraffin Wax -Manufacture of Paraffin Waxes -Composition of Paraffin...

The book presents practical aspects related to the measurement of rotational power loss in soft magnetic materials. The book furthermore focuses on practical aspects of performing such measurements, the associated difficulties as well as solutions to the...

Master an Approach Based on Fire Safety Goals, Fire Scenarios, and the Assessment of Design AlternativesPerformance-Based Fire Safety Design demonstrates how fire science can be used to solve fire protection problems in the built environment. It also...

This book provides a well-focused and comprehensive overview of the history and background of nanocarbon based materials like carbon nanotubes, graphene, and fullerenes. The authors focus on their use in therapeutic agents, their role in diagnostics and...

This book focuses on latent heat storage, which is one of the most efficient ways of storing thermal energy. Unlike the sensible heat storage method, the latent heat storage method provides much higher storage density with a smaller difference between...

The use of simulation plays a vital part in developing an integrated approach to process design. By helping save time and money before the actual trial of a concept, this practice can assist with troubleshooting, design, control, revamping, and more...

This book contains the proceedings of the Symposium on FT-IR Characterization of Polymers, which was held under the auspices of the Division of Polymer Chemistry, American Chemical Society (ACS) during the annual ACS meeting in...

The past decade has witnessed a vigorous growth in activities toward the development of a variety of biomedical devices ranging from the simple A-V shunt to the complex artificial heart. Re­ search and development teams have...

Four years after a first meeting in BADDECK, Canada, on the Physics of Ion-Ion and Electron-Ion collisions, a second Nato Advanced Study Institute, in HAl~/Lesse, Belgium, reexamined the subject which had become almost a new...

The present-day semiconductor technology would be inconceivable without extensive use of Schottky barrier junctions. In spite of an excellent book by Professor E.H. Rhoderick (1978) dealing with the basic principles of metal­...

This past July about sixty physicists from sixteen different countries gathered at St. Croix in the United States Virgin Islands for an Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on Techniques and Concepts of High Energy Physics. The...

The building explosion during the years 1945-1960 will inevitably lead to increased demolition in the next decades since the lifetime distribution of structures no longer fulfills its functional social requirements in an...

New developments in the application of radiation to medicine are occurring so rapidly that this is possibly the fastest growing branch of medicine today. In the past decade alone, we have seen enormous progress made in tech­...

This book presents the peridynamic theory, which provides the capability for improved modeling of progressive failure in materials and structures, and paves the way for addressing multi-physics and multi-scale problems. The book provides students and...

Fundamental Principles.- Problems in Plane Stress.- Axisymmetric and Related Problems.- Plastic Bending of Plates.- Plastic Analysis of Shells.- Plastic Anisotropy.- Plastic Buckling.- Dynamic Plasticity.- The Finite Element Method.

This volume will define the direction of eddy-current technology in nondestructive evaluation (NDE) in the twenty-first century. It describes the natural marriage of the computer to eddy-current NDE, and its publication was encouraged by favorable...

Design and Use of Assistive Technology assesses major hurdles in the design and use of assistive technologies, while also providing guidelines and recommendations to improve these technologies. This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to solving...

Convective flow in the liquid phase is always present in a realistic process of freezing and melting and may significantly affect the dynamics and results of the process. The study of the interplay of growth and convection flow...

Chapter 1 Nanoelectromechanical Systems Chapter 2 NanoMEMS Physics: Quantum Wave-Particle Phenomena Chapter 3 NanoMEMS Physics: Quantum Wave Phenomena Chapter 4 NanoMEMS Applications: Circuits and Systems Chapter 5 NanoMEMS Applications: Photonics

"Machining with Nanomaterials" focuses on the application of thin film nanostructures to the solution of machining problems. The solution to machining materials in an environmentally conscious manner is to use newly developed...

Section A.- to the Neutron.- Neutron Sources and Facilities.- Neutron Optics.- Neutron Detectors for Imaging.- Section B.- Neutron Radiography.- Neutron Tomography.- Mathematics of Neutron Imaging.- Neutron Phase Imaging.- Thermal Neutron Holography.-...

Modeling.- Analytical Models.- Models from Identification.- Model Reduction.- Wind Disturbance Models.- Control.- Preliminaries to Control.- PI and Feedforward Controllers.- LQG Controller.- H ? Controller.- Single Loop Control.- Non-Linear Control.- RF...

Carbon Nanotube and Fullerene Sensors.- Non-carbon Nanotubes: Hydrogen Sensors Based on TiO2.- Alternative Nanostructured Sensors: Nanowires, Nanobelts, and Novel Nanostructures.- Nanosensors: Controlling Transduction Mechanisms at the Nanoscale Using...

Thermo-Mechanical Basics.- Constitutive Equations.- Shock Waves and Related Equations of State.- Hydrocodes.- Failure Models for Dynamic Loading Conditions.- Aspects of Advanced Dynamic Material Testing.

Development and Applications of Late Transition Metal Bulk Metallic Glasses.- Atomistic Theory Of Metallic Liquids and Glasses.- Modeling: The Role Of Atomistic Simulations.- Evaluation Of Glass-Forming Ability.- Microstructure.- Deformation Behavior.-...

to Residual Stresses.- Elements of Measurement Using the Slitting Method.- Compliance Functions for Near-Surface Measurement: The Body Force Approach.- Compliance Functions for Through-Thickness Measurement: The LEFM Approach.- Compliance Functions for...

Sensor Design Guidelines.- Transduction Principles.- Growth and Synthesis of Nanostructured Thin Films.- Integrated Micromachining Technologies for Transducer Fabrication.- Applications of Functional Thin Films and Nanostructures in Gas Sensing.-...

to Polymer Composites.- Conventional Machining Operations.- Mechanics of Chip Formation.- Tool Materials and Tool Wear.- Conventional Machining of FRPs.- Nontraditional Machining of FRPs.- Health and Safety Aspects in Machining FRPs.

Microwave Amplitude Modulation Technique to Measure Spin-Lattice (T 1) and Spin-Spin (T 2) Relaxation Times.- Improvement in the Measurement of Spin-Lattice Relaxation Time in Electron Paramagnetic Resonance.- Quantitative Measurement of Magnetic...

Lead Restrictions and Other Regulatory Influences on the Electronics Industry.- Fundamental Properties of Pb-Free Solder Alloys.- Lead-Free Surface Mount Assembly.- Lead-Free Wave Soldering.- Lead-Free Rework.- Lead-Free Solder Joint Reliability.-...