Testing of materials

Modern science and technology, from materials science to integrated circuit development, is directed toward the nanoscale.

This concise volume examines the characteristic electronic parameters of semiconductor interfaces, namely the barrier heights of metal-semiconductor or Schottky contacts and the valence-band discontinuities of semiconductor-semiconductor interfaces or heterostructures.

Almost thirty years ago the author began his studies in colloid chemistry at the laboratory of Professor Ryohei Matuura of Kyushu University.

This book presents selected papers presented at the 8th International Conference "e;Design, Modeling and Experiments of Advanced Structures and Systems"e; (DeMEASS VIII, held in Moscow, Russia in May 2017) and reflects the modern state of sciences in this field.

The vast majority of vibrations encountered in the real environment are random in nature.

This second volume of Metal-Organic Framework Composites focusses on water pollution as a major concern and endangerment to human health and the application of MOFs for remediation.

This book describes the basic principles of plasticity for students and engineers who wish to perform plasticity analyses in their professional lives, and provides an introduction to the application of plasticity theories and basic continuum mechanics in metal forming processes.

This book is t~e fifth in aseries of scientific textbooks designed to cover advances in selected research fields from a basic and general view- point.

Narrow gap semiconductors obey the general rules of semiconductor science, but often exhibit extreme features of these rules because of the same properties that produce their narrow gaps.

This book gathers the proceedings of the plenary sessions, invited lectures, and papers presented at the International Conference on Recent Trends in Materials Science and Applications (ICRTMSA-2016).

This book focuses on mixed crystals formed by molecular substances.

The design of treatments for the conservation of stone in historical buildings and works of art is a challenging task, as a deep understanding of the working properties and performance of the available products and methods is required to tackle complex decay patterns.

The IUTAM Symposium on Rheology of Bodies with Defects was held in Beijing in September, 1997.

Despite the continued rapid advance in computing speed and memory the increase in the complexity of models used by engineers persists in outpacing them.

David Degenhardt develops an elasto-viscoplastic material model in order to predict the temperature and strain rate-dependent deformation and fracture behavior of thermoplastic polymers.

Good old Gutenberg could not have imagined that his revolutionary printing concept which so greatly contributed to dissemination of knowledge and thus today 's wealth, would have been a source of inspiration five hundred years later.

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This book is the 2nd special volume dedicated to the memory of Gerard Maugin.

The subject of mechanical behavior has been in the front line of basic studies in engineering curricula for many years.

This book provides essential knowledge and techniques required to assess materials for extending the life of ageing offshore structures used for energy production.

This book compiles and presents a complete package of open-access Python software code for luminescence signal analysis in the areas of radiation dosimetry, luminescence dosimetry, and luminescence dating.

This book provides information on characterizing the microstructure and mechanical properties of cementitious materials at microscale.

In two volumes, this book provides comprehensive coverage of the fundamental knowledge and technology of composite materials.

This book delivers a comprehensive evaluation of organic and hybrid solar cells and identifies their fundamental principles and numerous applications.

A comprehensive, up-to-date review of the physics and applications of a major class of laser, the most important example of which is the copper vapour laser.

This book covers a wide range of lectures given at the Short Summer Course cel- ebrated at La Laguna University about the new trends in the modern character- ization methods: chemical, microscopies, thermal, X-ray, resonance and nuclear methos for ceramics, glasses and related materials.

This book focuses on structural characterisation techniques for porous materials.

During the past fifteen years commercial interest in compounds containing carbon- fluorine bonds has burgeoned beyond all expectations, mainly owing to business opportunities arising from work on biologically active fluoroorganics-particularly agrochemicals, the relentless search for new markets for fluoropolymers and fluoro- carbon fluids, developments in the field of medical diagnostics, and the drive to find replacements for ozone-depleting CFCs and Halon fire-extinguishing agents.

This book includes original, peer-reviewed research papers from the 14th China Academic Conference on Printing and Packaging (CACPP 2023), held in Beijing, China on November 24-26, 2023.

Das Buch gibt einen anschaulichen Überblick über das facettenreiche Gebiet der Gemmologie in Theorie und Praxis.

This book highlights the use/application of Vanadium Oxide as a Supercapacitor (SC) material using the electrodeposition method.

This book presents an introduction to material theory and, in particular, to elasticity, plasticity and viscoelasticity, to bring the reader close to the frontiers of today's knowledge in these particular fields.

Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1 of the Proceedings of the 2021 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the first volume of four from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Nanotribology: Critical Assessment and Research Needs is an excellent reference for both academic and industrial researchers working in the fields of nanotechnology, tribology, mechanical engineering, materials science and engineering, MEMS, NEMS, magnetic recording, and biomedical devices.

The book is a collection of academic papers from a conference that focuses on significant issues, fundamental and applied research advances on a range of topics in the areas of textile engineering, apparel, fashion and design.

This book highlights the fundamental concepts related to 57Fe Mossbauer spectrometry, useful for graduate students and researchers.

Atomistic Modeling of Materials Failure is an introduction to molecular and atomistic modeling techniques applied to solid fracture and deformation.

Diese wissenschaftlich fundierte Einführung in die Metallkunde betont die Grundlagen, geht aber auch exemplarisch auf wichtige Anwendungen ein.

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 offers historical and state-of-the-art molecular spectroscopy methods and applications in dynamic compression science, aimed at the upcoming generation in physical sciences involved in studies of materials at extremes.

This book contains previously classified information on the physical and chemical characteristics of metallic and composite materials used in the production of elements of special-purpose structures, and reveals the set of techniques and tools through which this information was obtained.

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

The last four years since the publication of the first of this series have seen further striking developments in both the science and technology of oriented polymers.

This volume, the fourth in a series which began in 1979, covers a greater variety of subjects than any previous single volume.

This book summarizes the proceedings of the invited talks presented at the International Symposium on New Trends in Optical Soliton Transmission Systems held in Kyoto during November 18 - 21, 1997.

This is a collection of papers presented at the joint conference of the 7th International Conference on High Strength Low Alloy Steels (HSLA Steels 2015), the International Conference on Microalloying 2015 (Microalloying 2015), and the International Conference on Offshore Engineering Steels 2015 (OES 2015).