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Explores the methods used by
engineers to analyze & predict the mechanical behavior of materials. Provides
thorough coverage of materials testing & practical methods for forecasting the
strength & life of mechanical parts & structural members.
Book Description
Functional molecular materials
are materials whose individual molecules have been designed and synthesized in
order to perform a particular physical or chemical task when the constituent
molecules are assembled into crystals, thin films, gels, or other phases.
Linking molecular functionality to real-life material applications, this
cutting-edge book provides engineers and researchers with the background needed
to design bulk materials that meet specific property requirements.
Book Description
Surveys the exciting
developments at the frontier of mathematics and presents many new results.
Book Description
This book provides an unified
treatment of the science of microstructural characterization. The three main
aspects covered include the microstructural morphology, phase identification and
crystallography, and microanalysis of the chemical composition. The principle
methods of characterization commonly available in a well-equipped laboratory are
also examined in detail, with an emphasis on topics of importance to laboratory
technicians.
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Book Description
A text teaching
graduate students the concepts of transmission electron microscopy
and x-ray diffractometry used for the characterization of materials.
Discusses important themes such as wave coherence, conventional
imaging, and the formation and analysis of diffraction patterns.
Also discusses the unique characteristics of each technique.
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Book Description
Written by an award-winning
teacher and internationally-known structural dynamics, this invaluable book
gives readers a thorough grounding in all the basics--equilibrium, material
behavior, and the geometry of deformation. It also provides a systematic
problem-solving methodology that provides a practical system for planning and
analyzing solutions.
Book Description
An overview of present day
thermoelectric materials and devices, and as an updated source of information on
the most studied recent thermoelectric materials developments. Emphasis is
placed on new materials research and developments.
Book Description
The word civilization brings images of the
pyramids of Egypt, Greek temples, or great libraries and museums to mind,
monumental structures that not only reflect idealized social order but offer
evidence to support Sass' claim that "materials guided the course of history."
None of these awe-inspiring constructions or their contents would have been
possible without the ingenious manipulation of raw materials. The symbiotic
relationship between the shape of culture and the evolution of technology...
Book Description
Beginning with a complete
discussion of the fundamentals of dielectric spectroscopy, this book examines in
detail the methods used in data modeling and in such specialized techniques as
high-frequency dielectric measurements and thermally stimulated currents. The
book covers applications in a range of polymeric systems, includings solutions,
blends, and liquid crystals.
Book Description
A comprehensive introduction to the structure,
properties, and applications of materials.
This title provides the first unified treatment for the broad subject of
materials. Authors Gersten and Smith use a fundamental approach to define
the structure and properties of a wide range of solids on the basis of the
local chemical bonding and atomic order present in the material. Emphasizing
the physical and chemical origins of material properties, the book focuses
on the most technologically important...
Book Description
This book will serve as a much
needed course book and compact reference in nanostructured materials for
academic and industrial readers. Nanostructured materials present exciting
opportunities for manipulating structure and properties on the nanometer scale.
Written by leading chemical engineers, chemists, physicists, materials
scientists, and bioengineers, Nanostructured Materials presents the latest
advances in this innovative field.
Book Description
First concise handbook on the
dynamics of materials behavior for the scientist, engineer, and student.
Provides a working knowledge of the dynamic characteristics of materials under
conditions of real-world stress and strain.
Book Description
An interdisciplinary treatment
of liquid composite modeling, most especially transport phenomena in porous
media. The CD-ROM contains a permeability database and a finite element flow
simulator for process design. An errata sheet is inserted in the pages of this
text for two erroneous figures.
Book Description
Describes procedures for
materials selection in mechanical design, allowing the most suitable materials
for a given application to be identified from the full range of materials and
section shapes available.
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Materials
Characterization is a comprehensive volume on analytical techniques used in
material science for the characterization of surfaces, interfaces, and thin
films. This flagship volume in the Materials Characterization series is a
unique, stand-alone reference for materials science practitioners, process
engineers, students, and anyone with a need to know about the capabilities
available in materials analysis. An encyclopedia of 50 concise articles, this
book is also a...
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Concerned with the connection
between the basic principles of chemistry & physics & the properties of
engineering materials-metals, semiconductors, polymers, ceramics, glasses, &
composites.
Book Description
Comprehensive design text for
permanent magnets and their application. Covers all aspects of modern permanent
magnet materials, their design and application.
Book Description
This text presents
state-of-the-art coverage on topics of recent interest, including hygrothermal
effects, discontinuous fiber composites, viscoelastic behavior and fracture,
among others. In addition, the latest information on test methods and analysis -
including ASTM standards - are featured. A wide variety of example problems and
homework problems, many of which are related to practical composite structures,
are also included.
Book Description
Describes failure phenomena in
ceramic materials under mechanical loading, methods for determining the material
properties, and the principles that should be applied when selecting a material.
Book Description
Providing the main tools used
for preliminary design of composites, this concise text covers all design
aspects such as fibre and matrix selection, fabrication processes, prediction of
material properties, and structural analysis of beams, plates, shells and other
structures. The emphasis of the book is on practicality and design, not only
through numerical examples, but also through explanations of the material.
Incorporated throughout this book are modern analysis and design methodology,
as...
Book Description
This monumental revision expands
the original edition by some 4000 entries to include new fabrication, testing,
and materials, vocabulary. Additionally, the author gives all measurements in SI
units to facilitate communication among the many sub disciplines touched on by
ceramics, ensuring that this will be the field's standard reference work for
years to come.
Book Description
This book describes recent
advances in solid-state NMR methods as applied to modern inorganic materials
such as metal oxides, catalysts, zeolites, glasses, ceramics, semiconductors,
ion conductors, superconductors, and composites.
Book Description
Applied Strength of Materials
provides comprehensive coverage of the key topics in strength of materials with
an emphasis on applications, problem solving, and design of structural members,
mechanical devices and systems. The Third Edition of this well-known text has
been updated and enhanced to include coverage of the latest tools, trends and
techniques and to make even greater use of example problems
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