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The book explores the state of the art in the mechanics of fibrous media, providing an overview of the theoretical, modelling and practical aspects of designing and working with these materials.

This collection presents papers from a symposium on extraction of rare metals as well as rare extraction processing techniques used in metal production.

This book includes the description, modeling and realization of new optical metrology techniques for technical diagnostics of materials.

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This book explores the world of amyloid, consisting of heterogeneous deposits that have captivated scientists for decades.

This book presents a new class of metallic materials, called shape memory alloys (SMAs), as emerging materials for civil engineering applications.

This volume expands and updates the coverage in the authors' popular 1992 book, Electron Microdiffraction.

This book presents the research advances in the science of measurement, giving special focus to the field of machining and tribology.

The main outcomes of RILEM TC-226-CNM are summarized in this book.

In an area as vast and important as rheology, it is essential that the experimentalist understands the underlying theories and shortcomings of the measurement technique used, that they are aware of the likely microstructure of the fluid under study and that from this they can appreciate how the fluid and the measuring system interact with each other.

"e;You, 0 Sun, are the eye of the world You are the soul of all embodied beings You are the source of all creatures You are the discipline of all engaged in work"e; - Translated from Mahabharata 3rd Century BC Today, energy is the lifeline and status symbol of "e;civilized"e; societies.

The study of defects and disorder in solids remains a central topic in solid state science.

This, the second special topical conference on the properties of Non-Metallic Materials at Low Temperatures, was sponsored by the International Cryogenic Materials Conference Board.

This book describes analytical instruments widely used to characterize the nanostructured materials.

This textbook supports a range of core courses in undergraduate materials and mechanical engineering curricula given at leading universities globally.

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This handbook delivers an up-to-date, comprehensive and authoritative coverage of the broad field of surface science, encompassing a range of important materials such metals, semiconductors, insulators, ultrathin films and supported nanoobjects.

This book commemorates the 80th birthday of Prof.

This brief reviews the fundamentals, recent developments, challenges and prospects of Li-S and Li-O2 batteries, including fundamental research and potential applications.

Computer technology in the past fifteen years has essentially rev- olutionized engineering education.

Engineering materials with desirable physical and technological properties requires understanding and predictive capability of materials behavior under varying external conditions, such as temperature and pressure.

This book addresses issues pertinent to mechanics and stress generation, especially in recent advanced cases of technology developments, spanning from micrometer interconnects in solar photovoltaics (PV), next-gen energy storage devices to multilayers of nano-scale composites enabling novel stretchable/flexible conductor technologies.

The study of crystal structures has had an ever increasing impact on many fields of science such as physics, chemistry, biology, materials science, medicine, pharmacy, metallurgy, mineralogy and geology.

An introduction to the electrical and transport properties of graphene and other two-dimensional nanomaterials.

In recent years, III-V devices, integrated circuits, and superconducting integrated circuits have emerged as leading contenders for high-frequency and ultrahigh- speed applications.

This volume constitutes the state-of-the-art in active interrogation, widely recognized as indispensable methods for addressing current and future nuclear security needs.

This book focuses on advanced processing of new and emerging materials, and advanced manufacturing systems based on thermal transport and fluid flow.

Over last decades low-dimensional materials are in focus of physics and chemistry as well as of material and other natural sciences.

This book commences with an introduction to the fundamental principles of light and electron microscopy, laying the groundwork for readers to grasp the significance of ultramicrotomy within these fields.

Advancement of Optical Methods in Experimental Mechanics, Volume 3 of the Proceedings of the 2017 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the third volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book describes clearly various research topics investigated for these 10 years in the Research Center of Advanced Structural and Functional Materials Design in Osaka University, Japan.

This book highlights the analysis of new azimuth-independent methods of Stokes polarimetry and Mueller-matrixreconstruction of distributions of optical anisotropy parameters using spatial-frequency filtering of manifestations of phase (linear and circular birefringence) and amplitude (linear and circular dichroism) anisotropy for diagnosing changes in the orientational-phase structure of fibrillar networks of histological sections of biological tissues and polycrystalline films of biological fluids.

This book is intended for scientists, researchers, and graduate students interested in solutions in general, and solutions of metals in particular.

The need for a comprehensive book on probabilistic structural mechanics that brings together the many analytical and computational methods developed over the years and their applications in a wide spectrum of industries-from residential buildings to nuclear power plants, from bridges to pressure vessels, from steel structures to ceramic structures-became evident from the many discussions the editor had with practising engineers, researchers and professors.

This collection presents papers from the 154th Annual Meeting & Exhibition of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.

Synthesis of nonequilibrium metallic phases has been an area of great interest to the materials processing community since early 1960.

This text provides an introduction to the science that governs the interaction of light and matter (in the gas phase).

The Eighth Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics was held on the campus of the University of Rochester during the period June 13-16,2001.

The literature in polymerization reaction engineering has bloomed sufficiently in the last several years to justify our attempt in putting together this book.

This collection presents papers from the 149th Annual Meeting & Exhibition of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.

The collection focuses on the advancements of characterization of minerals, metals, and materials and the applications of characterization results on the processing of these materials.

Ceramic-matrix composites (CMCs) possess high specific strength and modulus at elevated temperature, and have already been applied in hot-section components in aero-engines.

The NATO-sponsored Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on "e;Emerging Applications of Vacuum-Arc-Produced Plasma, Ion and Electron Beams"e; was held at the Baikal Dunes Resort, Lake Baikal, Russia, on June 24-28, 2002.

In this book, the author describes the development of the experimental diffraction setup and structural analysis of non-crystalline particles from material science and biology.

This book is intended to help satisfy an urgent requirement for up-to- date comprehensive texts at graduate and senior undergraduate levels on the subjects in non-destructive testing (NDT).

An expert exposition of the structural and mechanical properties of light alloys and composites, bridging the gap between scientists and industrial engineers in its consideration of advanced light materials, their structure, properties, technology and application.

This book highlights the latest developments on the numerical methods for inverse scattering problems associated with acoustic, electromagnetic, and elastic waves.