Testing of materials

The book covers the most important materials (naturals, metals, ceramics, polymers and composites) to be used mainly as structural engineering materials.

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

This book is a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge research that addresses some of the most pressing challenges in modern engineering and applied sciences.

This book is a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge research that addresses some of the most pressing challenges in modern engineering and applied sciences.

This volume contains select papers presented during the Functional Textiles and Clothing Conference 2018.

Materials usually show anomalous behaviors at ultra-low temperatures.

This volume provides both experienced and new microscopists with methods and protocols to perform fluorescence microscopy-based experiments.

World of Unstable Mutations The book "e;Triplet Repeat Diseases of the Nervous System"e; overviews the lat- est data on several disorders associated with unstable mutations.

In the fall of 1998, Prof.

This volume contains the proceedings of the XIX International Colloquium on Mechanical Fatigue of Metals, held at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal, 5-7 September 2018.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of accelerated pavement testing (APT), presented at the 6th International Conference on Accelerated Pavement Testing, in Nantes, France, in April 2022.

Photoacoustic imaging (also called optoacoustic imaging) is a hybrid modality based on the generation and detection of ultrasound in response to optical absorption of tissue.

Mechanics of Creep Brittle Materials-l was published in 1989 as the proceedings of a Colloquium held in Leicester in the summer of 1988.

The teaching of solid state physics essentially concerns focusing on crystals and their properties.

This book presents a modern and unconventional introduction to anisotropy.

This book is the first one that presents both the new elaborated method of the flow measurement, named by the author the "e;Flow Measurement Based on Reaction Force"e;, including its specific "e;reaction measurement system"e;, which ensures its practical implementation, and the new basic types of flowmeters, configured according to it, named "e;reaction flowmeters"e;.

Monomolecular assemblies on substrates, now termed Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films, have been studied for over half a century.

This book focuses on polarization microscopy, a powerful optical tool used to study anisotropic properties in biomolecules, and its enormous potential to improve diagnostic tools for various biomedical research.

This book presents new approaches that offer a better characterization of the interrelationship between crystalline and amorphous phases.

This book highlights different domains of functional polymers from membranes and coatings to composite materials.

This Handbook provides comprehensive coverage of laser and coherent-domain methods as applied to biomedicine, environmental monitoring, and materials science.

This book is the collection of the contributions offered at the International Symposium on Electromagnetic Fields in Electrical Engineering, ISEF '87, held in Pavia, Italy, in September 1987.

PRICM-8 features the most prominent and largest-scale interactions in advanced materials and processing in the Pacific Rim region.

In this work the development of a new geometrically detailed finite element head model is presented.

Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the first volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

It is widely recognized that an understanding of the optical pro- perties of matter will give a great deal of important information re- levant to the fundamental physical properties.

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.

Kunststoffedas Loseblattwerk aus dem Springer-Verlag verschafft Herstellern, Verarbeitern und Händlern den kompetenten Überblick über die Handelsprodukte.

Less than a decade ago, lead halide perovskite semiconductors caused a sensation: Solar cells exhibiting astonishingly high levels of efficiency.

This book is the first to deal comprehensively with the important topic of the fire behaviour of polymer composite materials.

There is a need to solve problems in solid and fluid mechanics that currently exceed the resources of current and foreseeable supercomputers.

IISSC '89 was a tremendous success.

This book provides a detailed overview of high entropy materials and alloys, discussing their structure, the processing of bulk and nanostructured alloys as well as their mechanical and functional properties and applications.

The possibility of nondestructively characterizing the microstruc- ture, morphology or mechanical properties of materials is certainly a fascinating subject.

This book covers metal forming principles and the analysis of forming problems - from the mechanics and the materials property perspectives as they affect manufacturing processes.

BACKGROUND Polysiloxanes have chains constructed of alternately arranged silicon and oxygen atoms with organic groups attached to the silicon atoms.

The aim of this book is to investigate and explain the rapid advances in the characterization of high temperature crack growth behaviour which have been made in recent years, with reference to industrial applications.

       This proceedings book presents dual approaches to examining new theoretical models and their applicability in the search for new scintillation materials and, ultimately, the development of industrial technologies.

This series of books, which is published at the rate of about one per year, addresses fundamental problems in materials science.

Polymers continue to show almost amazing versatility.

This updated and revised edition of a classic work provides a summary of methods for numerical computation of high resolution conventional and scanning transmission electron microscope images.

Modem materials science is exploiting novel tools of solid-state physics and chemistry to obtain an unprecedented understanding of the structure of matter at the atomic level.

This book discusses the basic principles and traditional applications of fracture mechanics, as well as the cutting-edge research in the field over the last three decades in current topics like composites, thin films, nanoindentation, and cementitious materials.

The 2nd International Multidisciplinary Microscopy and Microanalysis Congress & Exhibition (InterM 2014) was held on 16-19 October 2014 in Oludeniz, Fethiye/ Mugla, Turkey.

The thesis investigates a polymeric laminate consisting of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) and thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) experimentally and numerically with regard to its impact behaviour and applicability.

The increasing global demand for energy requires a versatile approach, prompting many researchers to focus on renewable bioenergy from different biomasses, especially cellulosic biomass.

Systematically working from the whole body down to cellular levels, this book presents a multiscale, integrative approach to skeletal research.

The practical properties of many materials are dominated by surface and near-surface composition and structure.

This book discusses microstructure-property correlations and explores key microstructure features and how they affect the properties of a material.