Testing of materials

Nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) a highly promising new technique for bulk explosives detection: relatively inexpensive, more compact than NMR, but with considerable selectivity.

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This book is intended to help engineers analyze service condition and potential mechanisms of surface degradation.

Electro-optic devices based on doped wide-band materials are present in industrial uses, in military applications and in everyday life.

This book offers a brief introduction to the general-purpose finite element program MSC Marc, focusing on providing simple examples, often single-element problems, which can easily be related to the theory that is discussed in finite element lectures.

This book is an up-to-date survey of the major optical characterization techniques for thin solid films.

Recent advances in the development of high strength materials, coupled with more advanced computational methods and design procedures, have led to a new generation of tall and slender buildings.

As the first major reference on glass fractography, contributors to this volume offer a comprehensive account of the fracture of glass as well as various fracture surface topography.

This book edited by leading experts focuses on the foundation of ferrite materials since inception to its contemporary scenario including their vast applications.

This book focuses on the multidisciplinary teamwork for the design of key interfaces in fuel cell devices.

This book provides a model description for the electromagnetic response of topological nodal semimetals and summarizes recent experimental findings in these systems.

Microcharacterization of materials is a rapidly advancing field.

Because of a lack of appreciation for his efforts in developing modern polymer science, the contributions of Hermann Staudinger were disregarded for decades.

Everyone involved with the mechanics of composite materials and structures must have come across the works of Dr.

Quality is the decisive criterion by which textile industry is measured in the international competition.

Advanced fiber materials have been developed for various superior applications because of their higher mechanical flexibility, high-temperature resistance, and outstanding chemical stability.

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The Expert Committee on Biomaterials and Biotechnology for the European and the North American Region was founded by the General Assembly of UNESCO at its 21st Session, in 1981.

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This volume is the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, "e;Diffusion in Materials"e;, held at "e;Centre Paul Langevin"e;, Aussois, during March 12-25, 1989.

Presents a new physical and mathematical theory of irreversible deformations and ductile fracture of metals that acknowledges the continuous change in the structure of materials during deformation and the accumulation of deformation damage.

This book contains papers of the 5th International Symposium on Experimental Mechanics (5-ISEM) and the 9th Symposium on Optics in Industry (9-SOI), whose general theme is Emerging Challenges for Experimental Mechanics in Energy and Environmental Applications.

Modern Crystallography IV is devoted to a systematic and up- to-date description of fundamental physical properties of solid and liquid crystals.

When asked to start teaching a course on engineering fracture mechanics, I realized that a concise textbook, giving a general oversight of the field, did not exist.

In the past twenty years, the X-ray crystallography of organic molecules has expanded rapidly in two opposite directions.

This volume (parts A and B) contains the edited papers presented at the annual Review of Progress in Quantitative NDE held at the University of California, San Diego, July 8-13, 1984.

As ironmakers are well aware, it was only a few decades ago that the blast furnace was viewed as a strange 'black box'.

The present study complements the study on patents, patent applications and other literature on rare earth metals based permanent magnets by Frits Andriessen and Marten Terpstra, published by Elsevier Applied Science in 1989, and complements in part the book on Nd-Fe permanent magnets edited by LV.

The textbook we offer to the reader is based on a two-term course of lec- tures, "e;Electromagnetic Response of Material Media,"e; that the authors gave for a number of years to the final-year students of the Physics Depart- ment of Moscow University.

This book systematically summarizes the development of biodegradable polyester PBAT in recent decades and describes in detail the layout of the panel, technology and equipment, roadway support, and other aspects of PBAT synthesis, structure, properties, and manufacturing.

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.

All existing introductory reviews of mineralogy are written accord- ing to the same algorithm, sometimes called the "e;Dana System of Mineralogy"e;.

More than seventeen years have passed now since Glauco Gottardi and Ermano Galli 1 have published their remarkable book on NATURAL ZEOLITES where properties and features of naturally occuring phases then available have been compiled.

This book provides a lucid introduction to the basics of gemmology.

This book presents nanomaterials for cancer detection using a variety of state-of-the-art imaging techniques.

Advancement of Optical Methods & Digital Image Correlation in Experimental Mechanics, Volume 3 of the Proceedings of the 2018 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the third volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book introduces the fundamental theory of electromagnetic ultrasonic guided waves, together with its applications.

This thesis focuses on the energy band engineering of graphene.

This book features the essential material for any graduate or advanced undergraduate course covering solid-state electrochemistry.

This book presents a method for replicating natural butterfly wing scales using a variety of metals for state-of-the-art applications requiring high surface-enhancement properties.

Much progress and important results were reported in all research fields: Chemistry, Flux Pinning, Wires, Tapes and bulk, Thin films, device applications, and System applications.

The new edition of this textbook presents a detailed description of basic semiconductor physics.

This book focuses on structural characterisation techniques for porous materials.

This volume addresses the specific subject of fatigue, a subject not familiar to many engineers, but still relevant for proper and good design of numerous steel structures.

Resin Transfer Moulding and other similar 'liquid moulding' manufacturing methods have been used to make non-structural composites for the last 35 years.