Ceramic and glass technology

The book focuses on joining of advanced materials such as ceramics, intermetallics, laminated materials, composite materials and functional materials considering both in theory and in practice.

The book focuses on joining of advanced materials such as ceramics, intermetallics, laminated materials, composite materials and functional materials considering both in theory and in practice.

This book explains the refractories from different fundamental aspects, even with the support of phase diagrams, and also details the prominent applications of these industrial materials.

This book explains the refractories from different fundamental aspects, even with the support of phase diagrams, and also details the prominent applications of these industrial materials.

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.

This book comprehensively covers the different topics of wood polymer composite materials mainly synthesis methods for the composite materials, various characterization techniques to study the superior properties and insights on potential advanced applications.

This book focuses on the advances of additive manufacturing in the applications of wearable electronics, energy storage, biomedical implants and devices, drug delivery, and technologies for 4D printing, large-scale printing, and ceramics printing.

This book presents the select proceedings of the International Symposium entitled "e;Materials of the Millennium: Emerging Trends and Future Prospects"e; (MMETFP 2021).

This book presents the select proceedings of Conference on Research and Developments in Material Processing, Modelling and Characterization (RDMPMC 2020).

This book presents important developments in green chemistry, with a particular focus on composite materials chemistry.

This book covers the current advances and practices in tribological applications of composite materials under various processes, presenting the development, characterization, and morphological properties of composite materials in tribological applications.

This book investigates geopolymers and geopolymer-based composites, with a focus on their preparation, geopolymerization mechanisms, microstructures, mechanical properties, and fracture behaviors.

This book shows how chemical modifications influence some properties of wood nanocomposites.

This book provides basic information on the design of structures with tropical woods.

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 textbook focuses on the performance and application of highway engineering composite material.

This book is a collection of chapters focusing on green composite materials.

In most tribological applications, liquid or grease based lubricants are used to facilitate the relative motion of solid bodies to minimize friction and wear between interacting surfaces.

This book presents an overview of various types of lignin and their unique structures and properties, as well as utilizations of crude or modified technical lignin for high-value bioproducts such as lignin-based PF resins/adhesives, epoxy resins, PF foams, PU foams, rubber reinforcement and carbon fibers and as dispersants in drilling fluids in the oil and gas industry.

The book provides process engineers, an insight  into refractories  focusing on its importance and requirements in chemical process   industries such as refinery and petrochemicals, syngas manufacturing, coal gasification, limestone calcinations, carbon black, glass, and cement production.

The series Advances in Polymer Science presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in polymer and biopolymer science.

Mechanics of Composite, Hybrid, and Multifunctional Materials, Volume 6 of the Proceedings of the 2017 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the sixth volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

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 presents the fatigue properties of structural materials used for the production of ceramics.

This book presents original results on the use of cassava wastewater as a substitute for potable water in ceramic formulations.

This book summarizes many of the recent research accomplishments in the area of polyvinylchloride (PVC)-based blends and their preparation, characterization and applications.

This book describes the latest developments of lanthanum zirconate based thermal barrier coatings.

This book covers the performance aspects of nanocomposite supercapacitor materials based on transition metal oxides, activated carbon, carbon nanotubes, carbon nanofibers, graphene and conducting polymers.

This book focuses on hydraulic calcium silicate-based materials available in clinical dentistry, used as pulp capping materials, root canal sealers, root-end fillers, or root repair materials and which offer improved properties and easier clinical application compared with the original mineral trioxide aggregate.

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

This book covers a wide range of conventional and non-conventional machining processes of various composite materials, including polymer and metallic-based composites, nanostructured composites and green/natural composites.

Encompasses the entire range of industrial refractory materials and forms: properties and their measurement, applications, manufacturing, installation and maintenance techniques, quality assurance, and statistical process control.

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

This book presents select proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Glasses and Glass-ceramics (ICAGGC 2022).

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.

Focusing on the fundamentals of machine learning, this book covers broad areas of data-driven modeling, ranging from simple regression to advanced machine learning and optimization methods for applications in materials modeling and discovery.

Many elements and inorganic compounds play an extraordinary role in daily life for numerous applications, e.

Formulation Product Technology focuses on materials chemistry and introduces industrial manufacturing technologies for different product types.

The production of 'polymer nanocomposites' has recently gained considerable attention from both the academic and industrial community, especially in the area of nanoscience.

This book presents state-of-the-art contributions related to advanced structural characterization techniques in the field of clean energy materials with particular emphasis on solid oxide fuel cells and hydrogen storage materials.

The aim of the book is to report the recent research development of ancient glass and glazing technology and the historical-cultural exchange of the East and West along the Silk and Steppe Roads.

This book proposes a wide overview of the research and development of proton-conducting solid oxide materials.

The topics covered in this volume include: biomedical applications; fabrication processes; structural, physical and biological analyses; and clinical applications of ceramics.

This volume deals with topics of contemporary interest covering both experimental results and theoretical considerations.

The 5th of a prestigious series of conferences, these proceedings are devoted to the latest achievements in ceramic materials and components for engines.

Ceramic materials that are specially developed for use as medical and dental implants are termed bioceramics.

This book reviews principal topical issues on the basic science of glasses and amorphous thin-films.