Materials science

This book is a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge research that addresses some of the most pressing challenges in modern engineering and applied sciences.

The book explores the intersection of nanotechnology and allergic airway diseases.

The book is interwoven according to the intrinsic logics of modern most important applications of electrospun nanofibers.

This book highlights crucial parameters and strategies in photocatalytic water splitting.

This book highlights various aspects of multimodal imaging techniques.

This book, at first, explores the evolution of the IoT to SIoT and offers a comprehensive understanding of SIoT and trust management vis-a-vis SIoT.

This book covers the remarkable progress in the field of electrospun nanofibrous materials synthesis that has been made in recent years for clean water production.

This book covers the remarkable progress in the field of electrospun nanofibrous materials synthesis that has been made in recent years for clean water production.

Machining of Metal Matrix Composites provides the fundamentals and recent advances in the study of machining of metal matrix composites (MMCs).

The focus from most Virtual Reality (VR) systems lies mainly on the visual immersion of the user.

Despite scientific evidence that business-as-usual is unsustainable, there is a huge and widespread inertia to 'greening' the planet.

Structural health monitoring (SHM) has emerged as a prominent research area in recent years owing to increasing concerns about structural safety, and the need to monitor and extend the lives of existing structures.

Eco-efficient Construction and Building Materials provides essential reading about materials for the construction industry in the twenty-first century.

Conversion of Coal-Fired Power Plant to Cogeneration and Combined-Cycle presents the methodology, calculation procedures and tools used to support enterprise planning for adapting power stations to cogeneration and combined-cycle forms.

Humans have always been fascinated with the concept of artificial life and the construction of machines that look and behave like people.

This book presents an innovative control system design process motivated by renewable energy electric grid integration problems.

This book deals with a novel and practical advanced method for control of tandem cold metal rolling processes based on the emerging state-dependent Riccati equation technique.

The finite element method is often used for numerical computation in the applied sciences.

This book details the analysis of continuous- and discrete-time dynamical systems described by differential and difference equations respectively.

Lattice Boltzmann Method introduces the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) for solving transport phenomena - flow, heat and mass transfer - in a systematic way.

Applications of Finite Element Methods for Reliability Studies on ULSI Interconnections provides a detailed description of the application of finite element methods (FEMs) to the study of ULSI interconnect reliability.

Decentralized Control and Filtering provides a rigorous framework for examining the analysis, stability and control of large-scale systems, addressing the difficulties that arise because dimensionality, information structure constraints, parametric uncertainty and time-delays.

The increased level of activity on structural health monitoring (SHM) in various universities and research labs has resulted in the development of new methodologies for both identifying the existing damage in structures and predicting the onset of damage that may occur during service.

There are plenty of challenging and interesting problems open for investigation in the field of switched systems.

The ELFNET Book on Failure Mechanisms, Testing Methods, and Quality Issues of Lead-Free Solder Interconnects is the work of the European network ELFNET which was founded by the European Commission in the 6th Framework Programme.

Fatigue and Fracture Reliability Engineering is an attempt to present an integrated and unified approach to reliability determination of fatigue and fracture behaviour, incorporating probability, statistics and other related areas.

Composite Materials presents recent developments and state-of-the-art achievements in the science and technology of composites.

Hereditary systems (or systems with either delay or after-effects) are widely used to model processes in physics, mechanics, control, economics and biology.

Iron Phosphate Materials as Cathodes for Lithium Batteries describes the synthesis and the chemical-physical characteristics of iron phosphates, and presents methods of making LiFePO4 a suitable cathode material for lithium-ion batteries.

Stabilization of Navier-Stokes Flows presents recent notable progress in the mathematical theory of stabilization of Newtonian fluid flows.

This book presents the latest research advancements in the field of material science, specifically in mechanical, manufacturing, and plant engineering.

This book explores the use of graphene in heavy metal cleanup.

Medical imaging is fundamental to modern healthcare, and its widespread use has resulted in creation of image databases.

This concise book covers fundamental principles of colloidal self-assembly and overviews of basic and applied research in this field, with abundant illustrations and photographs.

This textbook, based on the author's classroom-tested lecture course, helps graduate students master the advanced plasma theory needed to unlock results at the forefront of current research.

This book highlights the latest advances in advanced insulating materials.

Starting at the level of graduate students, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to a rapidly developing field of turbulence.

This book presents an overview of polymer nanocomposites for use in various high-temperature applications.

This book highlights the critical role of green materials in sustainable, active food packaging.

This book explains the challenges and advancements in cutting precise cylindrical shapes on difficult materials through spark erosion.

This book presents experimental studies of nonequilibrium phase transitions induced by ac and dc forces in collectively interacting systems-a superconducting vortex system with random pinning.

This book is based on the course "e;Elements of Theoretical Physics,"e; which the author has been teaching at the University of Rome Tor Vergata since 2017.

This book, the fifth of 15 related monographs, presents systematically a theory of product-cubic nonlinear systems with constant and single-variable linear vector fields.

This book presents a comprehensive treatise on the extraction of semiconductor diode parameters using various methods.

This book serves as an introductory text for students and engineers with limited knowledge of metamaterials (and elastic waves).

This thesis addresses the design of crystal structures using hydrogen bonds.

This book includes selected peer-reviewed articles from the International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technology; ICSET 2023 held at the Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, with a focus on the theme "e;Sustainable Energy Technologies in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

This book offers an exploration of the textile industry and their relationship to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), catering specifically to academic researchers and providing a roadmap for aligning aligning textile research with the SDGs.

This book is the second edition of the one originally published in 2016, as the first comprehensive treatment on the fundamentals of hydrogen embrittlement of metallic materials, mainly steel.