Testing of materials

The idea of this monograph is to present the latest results related to design and computation of engineering materials and structures.

The Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Thermoelectrics contains manuscripts from leading experts on topics spanning from material processing to applications in the field of thermoelectrics.

This book describes in detail the physical and mathematical foundations of ultrasonic phased array measurements.

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.

Experimental Mechanics of Composite, Hybrid, and Multifunctional Materials, Volume 4: Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the fourth volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the sixth volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to important areas of research and engineering.

Challenges in Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials, Volume 2: Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the second volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This thesis offers novel insights into the time-dependent structural evolution of polymers under deformation.

Neutron Applications in Materials for Energy collects results and conclusions of recent neutron-based investigations of materials that are important in the development of sustainable energy.

This book summarizes the main methods of experimental stress analysis and examines their application to various states of stress of major technical interest, highlighting aspects not always covered in the classic literature.

Li-Co-Mn-Ni oxides have been of extreme interest as potential positive electrode materials for next generation Li-ion batteries.

Mechanical Properties of Single Molecules and Polymer Aggregates Rudiger Berger, Kurt Binder, Gregor Diezemann, Jurgen Gau, Mark Helm, Katharina Landfester, Wolfgang Paul (Halle), Peter Virnau.

This book is written for scientists involved in the calibration of viscometers.

This book describes in detail the materials and techniques used by medieval iconographers.

This volume presents recent research work focused in the development of adequate theoretical and numerical formulations to describe the behavior of advanced engineering materials.

This book discusses the mechanical properties of ceramics and aims to provide both a solid background for undergraduate students, as well as serving as a text to bring practicing engineers up to date with the latest developments in this topic so they can use and apply these to their actual engineering work.

The purpose of this book, Transport Phenomena and Drying of Solids and Particulate Materials, is to provide a collection of recent contributions in the field of heat and mass transfer, transport phenomena, drying and wetting of solids and particulate materials.

This book addresses the failures of structural elements, i.

This book presents the potential of the Monte Carlo (MC) technique to solve mathematical and physical problems of great complexity.

Advances in Polymer Science enjoys a longstanding tradition and good reputation in its community.

This book summarizes comprehensively many recent technical research accomplishments in the area of flame retardant research.

This book delivers a deep insight into thermal polymer degradation features and put a particular emphasis on blends, composites and nanocomposites.

This short monograph presents an analysis and design methodology for shape memory alloy (SMA) components such as wires, beams, and springs for different applications.

This book is dedicated to composite materials, presenting different synthesis processes, composite properties and their machining behaviour.

Advances in Polymer Science enjoys a longstanding tradition and good reputation in its community.

This thesis describes the development of a new technique to solve an important industrial inspection requirement for a high-value jet-engine component.

This book offers a well-structured, critical review of current design practice for tensioned membrane structures, including a detailed analysis of the experimental data required and critical issues relating to the lack of a set of design codes and testing procedures.

This review book is concerned with the synthesis, charge transport properties and practical applications of poly (o-aminophenol) (POAP) film electrodes.

This thesis constitutes a detailed study of functional nanostructures (ferromagnetic, superconducting, metallic and semiconducting) fabricated by focused electron/ion beam induced deposition techniques.

Topological Insulators (TIs) are insulators in the bulk, but have exotic metallic states at their surfaces.

This volume describes the most recent findings on the structure of ILs interpreted through cutting-edge experimental and theoretical methods.

This book offers a valuable reference source to graduate and post graduate students, engineering students, research scholars polymer engineers from industry.

This book gives an overview on the fatigue of materials under non-proportional loads.

This book gives a brief but thorough introduction to the fascinating subject of non-Newtonian fluids, their behavior and mechanical properties.

Experimental Mechanics of Composite, Hybrid, and Multifunctional Materials: Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the sixth volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This extensive knowledge base provides a coherent description of advanced topics in materials science and engineering with an interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary approach.

Advances in Polymer Science enjoys a longstanding tradition and good reputation in its community.

This book examines the meso- and nanoscopic aspects of fluid adsorption in porous solids using a non-invasive method of small angle neutron scattering (SANS) and small angle x-ray scattering (SAXS).

Written by an international group of active researchers in the field, this volume presents innovative formulations and applied procedures for sensitivity analysis and structural design optimization.

Particulate products make up around 80% of chemical products, from all industry sectors.

The idea of this monograph is to present the latest results related to experimental and numerical investigations of advanced materials and structures.

The main goal of the book is a coherent treatment of the theory of propagation in materials of nonlinearly elastic waves of displacements, which corresponds to one modern line of development of the nonlinear theory of elastic waves.

This book presents a systematic approach in performing reliability assessment of solder joints using Finite Element (FE) simulation.

There is a growing need in both industrial and academic research to obtain accurate quantitative results from continuous wave (CW) electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) experiments.

Structure formation in crystallizing polymers, as occurring during processing, has not been treated so far in a coherent form.

This volume covers experimental and theoretical advances on the relationship between composition, structure and macroscopic mechanical properties of novel hydrogels containing dynamic bonds.

This book details the application of advanced characterisation techniques and diagnostic tools to heritage science, including the evaluation of heritage assets' condition, their preservation and restoration.

This book provides an overview of the application of IR spectroscopy in mineralogical investigations, as well as modern trends in the IR spectroscopy of minerals.

This book reviews some of the latest developments in the field of water treatment using multi-functional chitosan-based materials.

In this book, a precise treatment of the experimental characterization of advanced composite materials using Digital Image Correlation (DIC) is presented.