Engineering applications of polymers and composites

This book demonstrates fatigue crack growth under random loading graphically.

This book covers advanced 3D printing processes and the latest developments in novel composite-based printing materials, thus enabling the reader to understand and benefit from the advantages of this groundbreaking technology.

This book highlights current advanced developments in bioepoxy and bioepoxy/clay nanocomposites and an optimisation of material formulation and processing parameters on fabrication of bioepoxy/clay nanocomposites in order to achieve the highest mechanical properties in relation to their morphological structures, thermal properties, as well as biodegradability and water absorption, which is based on the use of Taguchi design of experiments with the consideration of technical and economical point of view.

This book provides a comprehensive description of topological polymers, an emerging research area in polymer science and polymer materials engineering.

This book presents the meaning of green infrastructure and its concerns to the contribution of materials and applications.

This book provides the latest developments on safety practices utilized in composite manufacturing facilities for students, workers, engineers, and other participants.

This book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Functional Materials and Devices (AFMD 2021).

This comprehensive and authoritative book aims to encompass the best and current practices in the field of contemporary food packaging.

This book includes selected conference proceedings of Conference on Processing and Characterization of Materials (CPCM-2020).

This book first introduces polymers and polymer composites which are widely used in different industrial and engineering applications where the proper selection of fiber, filler, and polymer can be tailored for particular application.

This book provides a systematic and comprehensive account of the recent developments in the recycling of plastic waste material.

This monograph focuses on recent development of nanomaterials and nanocomposites for pollution measurement and their control in water, air, and soil.

This book provides an overview on the latest advances in the synthesis, properties and applications of geopolymers reinforced with natural fibres such as pulp fibre, cotton, sisal, flax and hemp.

This volume provides a thorough insight into the chemistry and mechanism of ionic gelations of various ionic biopolysaccharides, like alginate, gellan gum, pectin, chitosan, carboxymethyl cellulose, etc.

This book presents the relationships between tensile damage and fracture, fatigue hysteresis loops, stress-rupture, fatigue life and fatigue limit stress, and stochastic loading stress.

This book presents select proceedings of the National Conference on Advancement in Materials Processing Technology (AMPT 2020).

This book explores vegetable fiber composite as an eco-friendly, biodegradable, and sustainable material that has many potential industrial applications.

This book introduces different advanced composite materials used in construction of civil engineering infrastructures.

This book provides insight into the underlying basic theories and concepts in X-ray, light, and neutron scattering.

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 presents the select proceedings of Congress on Advances in Materials Science and Engineering (CAMSE 2020).

This book presents selected papers from the International Conference on Advances in Materials Processing and Manufacturing Applications (iCADMA 2020), held on November 5-6, 2020, at Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India.

This volume covers various aspects of cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE).

This volume serves as a cutting edge reference on XLPE based blends, nanocomposites, and their applications.

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

This book provides a single-source reference on carbon nanotubes for interconnect applications.

This book provides knowledge of the basic theory, spectral analysis methods, chemometrics, instrumentation, and applications of near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy-not as a handbook but rather as a sourcebook of NIR spectroscopy.

This book summarizes many of the recent developments in the area of bamboo composites with emphasis on new challenges for the synthesis characterization, properties of bamboo composites and practical applications.

This book presents the potential of bacterial cellulose in the textile and fashion industry.

This highly informative and carefully presented book discusses the synthesis, processing, characterization and applications of different types of materials.

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

This book covers the basic principle and challenges of structural health monitoring system for natural fibre and the hybrid composites structural materials in industrial applications, such as building, automotive, aerospace and wind turbine.

This book commemorates the "e;Nobel Laureate Professor Suzuki Special Symposium"e; at the International Union of Material Research Society-International Conference on Advanced Materials (IUMRS-ICAM2017), which was held at Kyoto University, Japan, in 2017.

This book introduces the reader to important aspects of the nano-hydrogels.

This book gathers selected papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Industrial Applications of Adhesives 2020 (IAA 2020).

This book highlights novel applications of innovative fabrics in the design of an interlayer between the scalp and the helmet lining of motorcycle helmets to control the temperature inside the helmet.

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.

This book discusses synthesis and characterization of sustainable polymers.

The book focuses on novel interpenetrating polymer network (IPN)/semi-IPN technologies for drug delivery and biomedical applications.

Thanks to their unique properties, chitosan and chitosan-based materials have numerous applications in the field of biomedicine, especially in drug delivery.

This proceedings volume gathers selected papers presented at the Chinese Materials Conference 2017 (CMC2017), held in Yinchuan City, Ningxia, China, on July 06-12, 2017.

This book provides a comprehensive description of topological polymers, an emerging research area in polymer science and polymer materials engineering.

This book is the second edition of Soft Actuators, originally published in 2014, with 12 chapters added to the first edition.

This book comprehensively covers researches on enzymatic polymerization and related enzymatic approaches to produce well-defined polymers, which is valuable and promising for conducting green polymer chemistry.

This book summarizes the recent advances in applications of starch in state-of-the-art drug carriers (hydrogel, micro- and nano-particulate carriers) with stimulus-responsive and target-specific properties.

This book introduces the recent progress that has resulted from utilizing the idea of "e;element-block polymers"e;.

This book discusses the methods synthesizing various carbon materials, like graphite, carbon blacks, carbon fibers, carbon nanotubes, and graphene.

This book presents select papers presented at the annual meeting of the Asian Polymer Association.

This book provides an overview of the lastest developments in biobased materials and their applications in food packaging.