Testing of materials

In an attempt to meet the demand for new ultra-high strength materials, the processing of novel material configurations with unique microstructure is being explored in systems which are further and further from equilibrium.

Medicine and engineering work together towards solutions for biomedical problems.

The synthesis of multicomponent/multilayered superconducting, conducting, semiconducting and insulating thin films has become the subject of an intensive, worldwide, interdisciplinary research effort.

This monograph, which is the outcome of the ASI on High Pressure Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Materials Science, illustrates new developments in the field of high pressure science.

Computer Simulation in Chemical Physics contains the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute held at CORISA, Alghero, Sardinia, in September 1992.

Spectroscopy of Defects in Organic Crystals presents a masterly summary of the widespread and voluminous literature on the subject, presenting theoretical and experimental investigations of electron and vibronic optical spectra of organic crystals.

Polymer composites represent materials of great and of continuously growing importance.

Carbon fibre reinforced carbon composites form a very specialized group of materials.

Electroactive polymers have been the object of increasing academic and industrial interest and in the past ten to fifteen years substantial progress has been achieved in the development and the characterization of this important new class of conducting materials.

Practically all sports have benefited in some crucial way by the introduction of synthetic materials.

During the years since this book was first published in 1993 there have very few developments in the technology of magnetic particle inspection apart from improvements in instrumentation which has made the measurement of peak values of time varying currents practicable.

More than simply an up-to-date review of ionic polymerization, this book presents an in-depth and critical comparison of the anionic and cationic polymerization of vinyl monomers and heterocyclic compounds.

The subject matterofsolid state chemistry lies within the spheres ofboth physical and inorganic chemistry.

Approximately half of the world production of the petrochemical industry (more than 100 million tonnes) is in the form of polymers, yet it would probably surprise most people to learn how much their lifestyle depends on polymers ranging, as they do, from detergents, kitchenware and electrical appliances to furnishings and a myriad other domestic goods.

After epoxy resins and polyimides, cyanate esters arguably form the most well-developed group of high-temperature, thermosetting polymers.

A multi-authored, edited work.

During the last two decades, the production of polymers and plastics has been increasing rapidly.

Some years ago in Paisley (Scotland) the International Conference on Composite Materials, headed by Professor I.

The problem of developing metal matrix (MCM) and metal-polymer (MPCM) composite materials is one of the most important in present- day materials technology, for its solution is pivotal to the development of a number of leading technologies.

A comprehensive encyclopaedic dictionary on polymer technology with expanded entries - trade name and trade marks, list of abbreviations and property tables.

The last decade or so has seen a dramatic increase in the amount of detailed structural information available from a range of experimental techniques.

Rubber Toughened Engineering Plastics covers the main physical principles involved in optimum toughening in high temperature engineering plastics and speciality plastics and describes the synthetic strategies used to obtain satisfactorily toughened grades in these materials by control of microstructure.

This monograph presents theoretical and experimental studies of flows of elastic liquids.

Foams are gas filled integral structures in which the gas is finely dispersed throughout acontinuouslyconnected solid phase.

teacher Professor Ernst-Joachim Ivers to whom I still owe many insights 20 years after the end of his working life.

Contributed by leading authorities in the field from around the world, this text provides a comprehensive insight into buckling and postbuckling.

Corrosion behaviour is one of the most poorly understood characteristics of ceramics.

Aspect '94 is the most up-to-date and comprehensive assessment of the present and future of the pipeline systems industry.

All significant studies agree that aqueous corrosion continues to cost nations dearly in almost every area of technological endeavour.

Intersubband transitions in quantum wells have attracted tremendous attention in recent years, mainly due to the promise of applications in the mid and far-infrared regions (2--20 mum).

Most industrial and natural materials exhibit a macroscopic behaviour which results from the existence of microscale inhomogeneities.

Feldspar minerals make up 60% of the crust of the Earth.

The development of new materials is recognized as one of the major elements in the overall technological evolution that must go on in order to sustain and even improve the quality of life for citizens of all nations.

Nanophase Materials is the first and, as yet, the only comprehensive book published in this new and exciting area of materials science.

Superconductors with high critical temperatures are extremely complex and it remains difficult to synthesize high quality samples.

Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) is now playing an increasing role in our modern global economy; in security sensitive industries, for instance.

In September 1985, in an attempt to simulate the chemistry in a carbon star, Harry Kroto, Bob Curl and Richard Smalley set up a mass spectrometry experiment to study the plasma produced by focusing a pulsed laser on solid graphite.

The combination of solid materials of different structural dimensionality with atomic or molecular guest species via intercalation processes represents a unique and widely variable low temperature synthesis strategy for the design of solids with particular composition, structure and physical properties.

Soft X-rays are a powerful probe of matter.

This volume represents the primary lectures of the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on "e;Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Modern Technology,"e; which was held at Sarigerme Park (near the Dalaman Airport) on the southern Aegean shore of Turkey from August 23 to September 4, 1992.

are then selected and must meet the general 'biocompatibility' require- ments.

This book has its recent origins in a Master's course in Polymer Engineering at Manchester.

PURPOSE Since the publication of the previous, Fifth Edition of this volume in 1991, the 'advanced' sector of the world-wide composites industry in particular, has seen many company changes in reorganisation, realignment and ownership.

Since 1971 when useful working concepts for the technique of phase-transfer catalysis (PTC) were introduced, the understanding, development, and applica- tions of this method for conducting organic reactions has expanded exponentially.

In this book, the authors have assembled a systematic set of design parameters describing short and long term mechanical, thermal, electrical, fire and environmental performance, etc.

Few polymer chemists have much familiarity with recent developments in the synthesis of speciality polymers.

Composite materials are increasingly used in many applications because they offer the engineer a range of advantages over traditional materials.

Conventional materials, such as nickel based alloys, will not be able to match the required performance specifications for the future generation of high temperature materials.