Ceramic and glass technology

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.

This book provides a detailed description of metal-complex functionalized carbon allotrope forms, including classic (such as graphite), rare (such as M- or T-carbon), and nanoforms (such as carbon nanotubes, nanodiamonds, etc.

This textbook introduces theoretical piezoelectricity.

This book serves as a self-contained reference source for engineers, materials scientists, and physicists with an interest in relaxation phenomena.

This book provides an overview of polymer nanocomposites and hybrid materials with polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS).

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 volume shines a new light on short fibre reinfoced cementitious composites and particle reinforced ceramics.

This book covers various multiple-criteria decision making (mcdm) methods for modeling and optimization of advanced manufacturing processes (AMPs).

This book serves as a self-contained reference source for engineers, materials scientists, and physicists with an interest in relaxation phenomena.

Learn the ancient craft of making artisan pots, from clay preparation and drying to glazing and firing.

A narrative history of glass from discovery, through antiquity, the Enlightenment, the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions to the present.

Related Title: Laboratory Scientific Glassblowing: Advanced Techniques and Glassblowing's Place in History'If you are interested in learning about glassblowing techniques for scientific glassware, then this book is an incredible opportunity to learn from a master glassblower.

Presenting the fundamental topics in glass science and technology, this concise introduction includes glass formation, crystallization, and phase separation.

Recent research has demonstrated that, in the Roman, Late Antique, Early Islamic and Medieval worlds, glass was traded over long distances, from the Eastern Mediterranean, mainly Egypt and Israel, to Northern Africa, the Western Mediterranean and Northern Europe.

Related Title: Laboratory Scientific Glassblowing: Advanced Techniques and Glassblowing's Place in History'If you are interested in learning about glassblowing techniques for scientific glassware, then this book is an incredible opportunity to learn from a master glassblower.

The global ageing society has significantly increased the need for implant materials, which not only replace damaged or lost tissue but are also able to regenerate it.

This book offers comprehensive insight into recent advances in geopolymer composites and emerging processing technologies such as 3D printing that offer promising application prospects in a wide range of industries.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Ceramic Hydrogen Storage Materials presents the physical, chemical, physico-chemical properties of ceramics as hydrogen storage materials.

Bioactive Glass Materials for Biological Applications envelopes the complexities, challenges, and advancement in developing a new class of bioactive materials for versatile applications.

Thermal Spray Coatings for High-Temperature Conditions provides an in-depth analysis of thermal spray coatings covering a wide range of types and applications in aerospace, automotive, and heavy-duty equipment maintenance.

Reflecting the fast pace of research in the field, the Second Edition of Bulk Metallic Glasses has been thoroughly updated and remains essential reading on the subject.

This book will discuss how glass and glass ceramic interact with light, both transiently and permanently.

Since the publication of its Third Edition, there have been many notable advances in ceramic engineering.

Since the publication of its Third Edition, there have been many notable advances in ceramic engineering.