Materials science

Featuring in-depth discussions on tensile and compressive properties, shear properties, strength, hardness, environmental effects, and creep crack growth, "e;Mechanical Properties of Engineered Materials"e; considers computation of principal stresses and strains, mechanical testing, plasticity in ceramics, metals, intermetallics, and polymers, materials selection for thermal shock resistance, the analysis of failure mechanisms such as fatigue, fracture, and creep, and fatigue life prediction.

This book highlights the latest research on biochar, a low-cost carbonaceous material produced from biomass, and is regarded as an economical substitute to the activated carbon.

Cost-Effective Energy Efficient Methods for Refurbishment and Retrofitting of Buildings: Materials, Technologies, Optimization, and Case Studies provides up-to-date knowledge on this important research field.

This book presents select proceedings of the 4th Structural Integrity Conference and Exhibition (SICE-2022), organized at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad.

This book comprises the select peer-reviewed proceedings of the 8th Asian Conference on Mechanics of Functional Materials and Structures (ACMFMS 2022).

Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, Sixth Edition, winner of a 2018 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty), describes the procedures for material selection in mechanical design to ensure that the most suitable materials for a given application are identified from the full range of materials and section shapes available.

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have received significant attention in academia and industry due to their low cost and high-power conversion efficiency (PCE).

Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, Sixth Edition, winner of a 2018 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty), describes the procedures for material selection in mechanical design to ensure that the most suitable materials for a given application are identified from the full range of materials and section shapes available.

This book comprises the select peer-reviewed proceedings of the 8th Asian Conference on Mechanics of Functional Materials and Structures (ACMFMS 2022).

Sodium Fast Reactors with Closed Fuel Cycle delivers a detailed discussion of an important technology that is being harnessed for commercial energy production in many parts of the world.

This book presents cutting-edge research in effective machining methods for composite materials, including metals, fiber-reinforced polymers, and alloys.

Fluid Mechanics excels in providing a clear and thorough presentation of the theory and application of fluid mechanics principles.

In the past two decades, the field of nanoporous materials has undergone significant developments.

The special properties of calcium aluminate cements make them of value in the construction, mining and refractory industries.

Ferrofluids, a synthetic intelligent liquid material, exhibit fascinating flow phenomena when subjected to magnetic fields.

Understanding the Basics of Nanoindentation and Why It Is ImportantContact damage induced brittle fracture is a common problem in the field of brittle solids.

Before structural mechanics became the common language of structural engineers, buildings were built based on observed behavior, with every new solution incurring high levels of risk.

The mechanical properties of food play an important role during manufacturing, storage, handling, and last but not least, during consumption.

Knowledge on endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs) has increased dramatically during the last decade.

Metallic materials are used in many medical devices due to their high mechanical reliability and their excellent strength and toughness.

In this book two distinguished metallurgists have traced the role of metallurgical technology in the creation of the scientific revolution and the formation of the Royal Society.

The science of carbon materials has experienced a renaissance in recent decades, with Nobel prizes having been awarded for the discovery of C60 in 1996, and graphene in 2010.

Electrospinning for Advanced Energy and Environmental Applications delivers a state-of-the-art overview of the use of electrospun fibers in energy conversion and storage, as well as in environmental sensing and remediation.

This book presents a detailed overview of 20 cases of famous and other highly interesting bridge collapses over the last two centuries.

Dedicated to users and developers of high-powered systems, Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials focuses on the research field of laser-induced damage and explores the significant and steady growth of applications for high-power lasers in the academic, industrial, and military arenas.

Anisotropy of Metamaterials: Beyond Conventional Paradigms provides a comprehensive introduction to the mathematical modeling of metamaterials based on the macroscopic complex-valued permittivity tensor of dispersed random composites.

This book reports on cutting-edge applied research and methods in the area of heat and mass transfer and computational fluid dynamics.

This book is a record of the conference entitled Materials Science and Engineering: Its Nucleation and Growth held at Imperial College on 14 and 15 May 2001 as one of the events held to mark the 150th Anniversary of the founding of the Royal School of Mines (RSM).

This book reports on cutting-edge applied research and methods in the area of heat and mass transfer and computational fluid dynamics.

This second edition of a bestseller is a practical guide to the production of castable polyurethane articles.

The text begins by discussing the processing and characterization of nano-manufactured resorbable bionanocomposites and presents the latest advances in carbon-based polymer nanocomposite materials for sensing applications.

Explore the Social, Technological, and Economic Impact of Heat Pump DryingHeat pump drying is a green technology that aligns with current energy, quality, and environmental concerns, and when compared to conventional drying, delivers similar quality at a lower cost.

This new edition offers expanded coverage of fractional calculus, including Riemann-Liouville fractional integrals, Riemann-Liouville and Caputo fractional derivatives, Riesz fractional operators, and Mittag-Leffler and Wright functions.

This book serves as a teaching tool for beginning graduate students and new researchers interested in two seemingly divergent themes whereby one theme deals with synchrotron X-ray scattering and laser cross correlation function techniques, while the other theme is concerned mainly with the use of electrospun nanofibers for application to water purification.

There is a growing interest in applying the UN's sustainable development goals to a variety of sectors.

There is a growing interest in applying the UN's sustainable development goals to a variety of sectors.

The formability features of sheets made of the alloy Al 8011 are examined experimentally and the results are compared with the numerical ones in this research.

"e;Should have broad appeal in many kinds of industry, ranging from automotive to computers-basically any organization concerned with products having moving parts!

Since the 1990s, the field of sports technology and engineering has expanded beyond an initial focus on sports equipment and materials to include various topics.

This second volume of the textbook Hydraulic and Thermal Machines focuses on thermal machines.

This second volume of the textbook Hydraulic and Thermal Machines focuses on thermal machines.

Offers designers and users of mechanical systems an overview of structural stiffness and damping and their critical roles in mechanical design.

Raman Scattering on Emerging Semiconductors and Oxides presents Raman scattering studies.

This book forms the proceedings of a workshop held in Hiroshima in June 1998 and derive from the work of a Technical Committee of the Japan Concrete Institute.

Proceedings of the Symposium Held as Part of the Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Conference, on the 20-22 December 1993, at the University of Leeds.

In the field of industrial ventilation and air quality, a lack of adequate analysis for aerodynamic processes, as well as a shortage of properly equipped computer facilities, has forced specialists to rely on an empirical approach to find answers in the past.

Numerical Solutions for Nanocomposite Structures provides an in-depth exploration of structural analysis using numerical methods grounded in rigorous mathematical modeling.

Forming and Machining of Polymers, Ceramics, and Composites targets the two important manufacturing processes where plastic deformation is involved to give the required shape and size to the raw material.

Smart drug delivery at both the micro- and nanoscale is an evolving field with numerous potential applications.