Ceramic and glass technology

The advent of engineering-designed polymer matrix composites in the late 1940s has provided an impetus for the emergence of sophisticated ceramic matrix composites.

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).

This book discusses the theoretical foundations of the structural modeling method applied to metamaterials.

This edited volume brings together the state of the art in polymer nanocomposite theory and modeling, creating a roadmap for scientists and engineers seeking to design new advanced materials.

This book is mainly based on the results of the EU-funded UE-FP7 Project EnCoRe, which aimed to characterize the key physical and mechanical properties of a novel class of advanced cement-based materials incorporating recycled powders and aggregates and/or natural ingredients in order to allow partial or even total replacement of conventional constituents.

Mechanics of Composite, Hybrid, and Multifunctional Materials, Volume 7 of the Proceedings of the 2016 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the seventh volume of ten from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book highlights and reviews the renewable feed stock principle of green nanotechnology by focusing the use of plant-derived cardanol as a renewable starting material for the synthesis of advanced materials.

This book describes the history, origin and basic characteristics of bioactive materials.

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

This textbook introduces theoretical piezoelectricity.

This book summarizes recent research and development in the field of nanostructured ceramics and their composites.

This book introduces materials and how advances in materials result in advances in technology and our daily lives.

These proceedings of the EPS 2018: 5th International Conference on Geofoam Blocks in Construction Applications, held in Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus on May 9 to 11, 2018, present a collection of contributions on the state-of-the-art of research and applications relating to geofoam.

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.

The book focuses especially on the application of SHM technology to thin walled structural systems made from carbon fiber reinforced plastics.

This book provides an overview of paste tailings disposal at mine sites.

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

This book presents a comprehensive survey about conducting polymers and their hybrids with different materials.

Das Buch stellt eine wichtige Datenquelle von physikalisch-chemischen Eigenschaften der Fasergläser, Glasfasern und der für ihre Herstellung eingesetzten Glasrohstoffe und technologischen Prozessparameter dar.

The brief explains in simple terms the essentials of polymer chemistry and how polymers came to be discovered by pioneers in this field.

This book will be a one-stop-shop for readers seeking information on lightweight composites made from multiple materials via diverse processing technologies.

This book covers manufacturing and processing of various natural filler-based polymer composites using conventional and advanced machining processes.

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 three volume set presents papers from the first collaborative global metallurgy conference focused exclusively on extractive topics, including business and economic issues.

This book explores new experimental phase diagrams of non-oxide ceramics, with a particular focus on the silicon nitride, silicon carbide and aluminum nitride, as well as the ultra-high temperature ceramic (UHTC) systems.

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

This book highlights the processing, characterization and applications of various green composites.

All living things contain carbon in some form, as it is the primary component of macromolecules including proteins, lipids, nucleic acids (RNA and DNA), and carbohydrates.

This book presents a number of studies on the molecular dynamics of cement-based materials.

This book provides an overview of multiscale approaches and homogenization procedures as well as damage evaluation and crack initiation, and addresses recent advances in the analysis and discretization of heterogeneous materials.

This book presents the synthesis, processing and application of selected functional biopolymers as new advanced materials.

This exhaustive work in three volumes and over 1300 pages provides a thorough treatment of ultra-high temperature materials with melting points over 2500 (deg)C.

This book provides details and collective information on working principle, process mechanism, salient features, and unique applications of various advanced manufacturing techniques and processes belong.

This book is intended to bring together into a single book all aspects of mixed conducting ceramic membranes.

This book contains recent research on phenolic resin and its composite materials.

This book presents the most recent description of rubber reinforcement, focusing on the network-like structure formation of nanofiller in the rubber matrix under the presence of bound rubber.

Carbon-Based Polymer Nanocomposites for Environmental and Energy Applications provides the fundamental physico-chemical characterizations of recently explored carbon-based polymer nanocomposites, such as carbon nanotubes, graphene and its derivatives, nanodiamond, fullerenes and other nano-sized carbon allotropes.

This book includes papers on recent research carried out in the field of metal-matrix composites (MMCs).

This book provides an overview of eco-friendly resins and their composite materials covering their synthesis, sources, structures and properties for different industrial applications to support the ongoing research and development in eco-friendly and renewable commercial products.

This book provides an overview of fuel cell technology and, in particular, of Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells (SOFCs).

The book comprehensively covers the different topics of graphene based biopolymer and nanocomposites, mainly synthesis methods for the composite materials, various characterization techniques to study the superior properties and insights on potential advanced applications.

This volume presents research papers on unconventional machining (also known as non-traditional machining and advanced manufacturing) and composites which were presented during the 7th International and 28th All India Manufacturing Technology, Design and Research conference 2018 (AIMTDR 2018).

This book proposes the concept of a multi-layer pavement system to fulfill the blast resistance requirement for pavement design.

This book summarizes the state-of-the-art knowledge on ferrites as well as the cutting-edge applications of these versatile materials.

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

This book is an up-to-date text on rubber science and is a breakthrough among many rubber-related publications.

This highly illustrated book presents the essential information and major constituents of laser welding, including laser brazing and laser-arc hybrid welding.

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