Testing of materials

This book is designed to give a short introduction to the field of materials pro- cesses for students in the different engineering and physical sciences.

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

This book sterns from a course on Micromechanics that I started about fifteen years ago at Northwestern University.

Das Kompendium "Guter Beton" bewährt sich seit Jahrzehnten als besonders wichtige und aktuelle Arbeitshilfe.

This book presents contributions on the current problems in a number of topical areas of nonlinear dynamics and physics, written by experts from Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Germany, Poland, Italy, the Netherlands, the USA, and France.

This book focuses on nanomaterials with antibacterial properties.

This book presents two distinct aspects of wave dynamics - wave propagation and diffraction - with a focus on wave diffraction.

A unique combination of the basic science and fundamental aspects of joints and interfaces with the engineering aspects of the subject.

Distinct scientific communities are usually involved in the three fields of quasi-crystals, of liquid crystals, and of systems having modulated crystalline structures.

Micro-and Nanomechanics, Volume 5 of the Proceedings of the 2017 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the fifth volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

The operation of semiconductor devices depends upon the use of electrical potential barriers (such as gate depletion) in controlling the carrier densities (electrons and holes) and their transport.

This book describes hydration structures of proteins by combining experimental results with theoretical considerations.

This book consists of two chapters.

Because of the sheer size and scope of the plastics industry, the title Developments in Plastics Technology now covers an incredibly wide range of subjects or topics.

Optical Metrology for Fluids, Combustion and Solids is the first practical handbook that presents the assemblage of the techniques necessary to provide a basic understanding of optical measurement for fluids, combustion, and solids.

This volume presents novel and innovative contributions in the domain specific to nanocomposites, specifically on aspects both related and relevant to the following:          science at the nanoscale level          innovations and advances in processing          characterization, quantification, and analysis          mechanical property evaluation and rationalization          failure analysis          technological applications at the nanoscale level The collection brings together a range of developments in areas spanning basic science, processing, analysis, characterization, mechanical property evaluation, and failure analysis rationalization of composite materials.

This book draws on the latest research to discuss the history and development of high-entropy alloys and ceramics in bulk, film, and fiber form.

This book presents the work of the RILEM Technical Committee 272-PIM on Phase and Interphase behaviour of Bituminous Materials and showcases advances and innovations in the field of bituminous materials for flexible pavements.

Optical Filters play an important role in the areas of imaging, sensing, MEMS and photonics.

New developments in the applications of fracture mechanics to engineering problems have taken place in the last years.

This volume compiles selected articles from the 2nd International Conference on Spectroscopy in Materials Science (ICOSIMS-2024) held online on June 5-7 2024.

This book is a primer on the interplay between plasma and materials in a fusion reactor, so-called plasma-materials interactions (PMIs), highlighting materials and their influence on plasma through PMI.

This book discusses the latest investigations into the electronic structure of narrow-gap semiconductors in extreme conditions, and describes in detail magnetic field and pressure measurements using two high-quality single crystals: black phosphorus (BP) and lead telluride (PbTe).

The first edition of this book, published in 1994, provided an exposition of the LAPW method and its relationship with other electronic structure approaches, especially Car-Parrinello based planewave methods.

'An excellent textbook for an advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate course on polymer chemistry.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations and applications in the field of historic mortars and masonry structures conservation and restoration, as presented by international researchers and professionals at the 6th Historic Mortars Conference (HMC), held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on September 21-23, 2022.

This book offers a systemic introduction and summarization of nanoscale characterization techniques on cementitious materials.

The NUMISHEET conference series is the most significant international conference on the area of the numerical simulation of sheet metal forming processes.

This book is a compilation of selected papers presented in the International Conference on the theme 'Wood is Good: Current Trends and Future Prospects in Wood'.

This book highlights the sustainability aspects of textiles and clothing sector in light of nanomaterials and technologies.

This volume covers various aspects of the fundamentals, synthesis, analysis, design, monitoring, and control of metals, materials, and metallurgical processes and phenomena.

Adhesives are indispensable.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Pavements (MAIREPAV10), held in Guimaraes, Portugal on July 24-26, 2024.

Nanoindentation, Third Edition gives a detailed account of the most up-to-date research in this important field of materials testing.

This book gathers selected papers from the Chinese Materials Conference 2018 (CMC2018) held in Xiamen City, Fujian, China, on July 12-16, 2018.

The second edition of this textbook provides a more elaborate explanation of several important group-theoretical concepts in quantum chemistry, such as: the bra-ket conjugation relation, the connection between point groups and isometries, the practical use of subduction tables, the eigenvalues of Cayley graphs, and the symmetry of Slater determinants.

A new experimental method - the "e;Stiffnessometer"e;, is developed to measure elementary properties of a superconductor, including the superconducting stiffness and the critical current.

Concrete and cement-based materials must operate in increasingly aggressive aqueous environments, which may be either natural or industrial.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions (SAHC) that was held in Cusco, Peru in 2018.

This handbook presents the development of synchrotron light sources and free-electron lasers as well as new scientific applications.

Many industrial, power generation and chemical processes produce unwanted fine particulate material as a consequence of their operation.

Optics of Cosmic Dust describes what we currently know about cosmic dust, how we know it, and the research efforts undertaken to provide that knowledge.

Most practitioners and students of polymer chemistry are familiar, in general terms at least, with the established methods of polymer synthesis - radical, anionic, cationic and coordination addition polymerization, and stepwise con- densation and rearrangement polymerization.

The first edition of this book (1958) described an analytical situation which had existed for a number of years for maintaining quality control on vulcanizates of natural rubber although the situation had recently been disturbed by the introduction of a range of synthetic rubbers which required identification and quantitative estimation.