Ceramic and glass technology

This book discusses the effects of soluble mineral salts on ceramic brick masonry walls in Petrolina, a city in Pernambuco, Brazil, located 780 km from the ocean.

This book broadens the knowledge of tribology.

This book addresses methods used in the synthesis of light alloys and composites for industrial applications.

Composite materials are formed when the combination of separate materials acquire new properties distinct from its components.

This book presents selected peer-reviewed contributions from the 2019 International Conference on "e;Physics and Mechanics of New Materials and Their Applications"e;, PHENMA 2019 (Hanoi, Vietnam, 7-10 November, 2019), divided into four scientific themes: processing techniques, physics, mechanics, and applications of advanced materials.

This book promotes understanding of the raw material selection, refractory design, tailor-made refractory developments, refractory properties, and methods of application.

This book reports on the development of nanostructured metal-oxide-based electrode materials for use in water purification.

This book focuses on the emerging additive manufacturing technology and its applications beyond state-of-the-art, fibre-reinforced thermoplastics.

This book focuses on polymer/silver nanocomposites as the main component in bioengineering systems.

This book offers a comprehensive and timely review of the fracture behavior of bimaterial composites consisting of periodically connected components, i.

This book delivers a comprehensive overview of the characteristics of several types of materials that are widely used in the current era of supercapacitors; namely, architectured carbon materials, transition metal oxides and conducting polymers.

This book addresses the contributions made by analytical chemistry to the characterisation of 18th and early 19th Century English and Welsh porcelains commencing with the earliest  reports of Sir Arthur Church and of Herbert Eccles and Bernard Rackham using chemical digestion techniques and concluding with the most recent instrumental experiments, which together span more than  a hundred years of study.

This book provides a broad examination of redox-based resistive switching memories (ReRAM), a promising technology for novel types of nanoelectronic devices, according to the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors, and the materials and physical processes used in these ionic transport-based switching devices.

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This book presents a broad, general introduction to the processing of Sol-Gel technologies.

This volume presents novel and innovative contributions in the domain specific to nanocomposites, specifically on aspects both related and relevant to the following:          science at the nanoscale level          innovations and advances in processing          characterization, quantification, and analysis          mechanical property evaluation and rationalization          failure analysis          technological applications at the nanoscale level The collection brings together a range of developments in areas spanning basic science, processing, analysis, characterization, mechanical property evaluation, and failure analysis rationalization of composite materials.

This book presents an overview of recent academic and industrial research efforts concerning halogen-free flame-retardant (FR) polymers and their nanocomposites.

This collection emphasizes the advances of powder and ceramic materials in fundamental research, technology development, and industrial applications.

This book presents insights in green techniques used in conventional and advanced machining.

This book report the advances in the synthesis of new nanomaterials for the remediation of natural waters, groundwaters, and wastewaters.

This book provides the theoretical knowledge required by students when learning how to diagnose oral diseases, plan treatment, and perform various types of dental restoration.

Mechanics of Composite, Hybrid, and Multifunctional Materials, Volume 5 of the Proceedings of the 2019 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the fifth volume of six from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book describes recent research findings on response and integrity of thick section composite and sandwich structures.

This book presents emerging economical and environmentally friendly polymer composites that are free of the side effects observed in traditional composites.

This expert volume provides specialized coverage of the current state of the art in carbon gels.

This book investigates the enhancement of properties of acacia wood and its surface treatment for high strength bio-composites.

This book exhibits novel semiconductor black phosphorous (BP) materials that are developed beyond other 2D materials (graphene and TMDs).

The fourth edition of Krishan Chawla's widely used textbook, Composite Materials, offers integrated and completely up-to-date coverage of composite materials.

This book examines recent developments in inert anodes for aluminum electrolysis.

In the agriculture, forestry, the primary and secondary wood working industry there are considerable resources of raw materials which can only be used in a rational manner for energetic purposes.

This book presents a wide range of synthesis and characterization techniques to produce ceramic nanomaterials specially developed to be used in environmental applications.

This book gives details on the processes of agglomeration and its role in modern metal production processes.

The work described in this book originates from a major effort to develop a fundamental theory of the glass and the jamming transitions.

This book provides process engineers with all of the information necessary for installation, maintenance and management of refractory in a cement industry.

This book provides an in-depth introduction to the sol to gel transition in inorganic and hybrid organic-inorganic systems, one of the most important chemical-physical transitions and the basis of the sol-gel process.

This book details zeolites, their structures and the parameters that influence their synthesis, providing a new and actual perspective of this field.

This book includes selected, peer-reviewed contributions from the 2018 International Conference on "e;Physics and Mechanics of New Materials and Their Applications"e;, PHENMA 2018, held in Busan, South Korea, 9-11 August 2018.

This book provides an overview of the current state of the art in novel piezo-composites based on ferroelectrics.

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This book covers a variety of topics related to machine manufacturing and concerning machine design, product assembly, technological aspects of production, mechatronics and production maintenance.

This expert volume provides specialized coverage of the current state of the art in carbon gels.

This book discusses the fundamental of bending actuation with a focus on ionic metal composites.

This book gathers contributions addressing issues related to the analysis of composite structures, whose most relevant common thread is augmented numerical efficiency, which is more accurate for given computational costs than existing methods and methodologies.

This book reports on the development of nanostructured metal-oxide-based electrode materials for use in water purification.

This book provides a broad examination of redox-based resistive switching memories (ReRAM), a promising technology for novel types of nanoelectronic devices, according to the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors, and the materials and physical processes used in these ionic transport-based switching devices.

This book investigates the effect of sintering temperature on willemite based glass-ceramic doped with different content of Er2O3.

The title of this book describes the two extremes of ceramic invention from aesthetically beautiful and decorative works of art that graced the tables of the aristocracy to the functional silica brick that lined the smelting furnaces of industrialised nations in the 19th century designed to produce iron, copper and glass.

This book highlights the various types of polymer and nanocomposites that can be derived from biorenewable resources.

This book presents emerging economical and environmentally friendly polymer composites that are free of the side effects observed in traditional composites.

This book is ideal for practitioners and managers with low experience in the field.