Materials science

This book describes the growing field of multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) as applied to materials selection in product design.

A fundamental understanding of polymers has evolved in recent years concurrent with advances in analytical instrumentation.

Underneath the Bragg Peaks: Structural Analysis of Complex Materials focuses on the structural determination of crystalline solids with extensive disorder.

Widely adopted around the world, Engineering Materials 1 is a core materials science and engineering text for third- and fourth-year undergraduate students; it provides a broad introduction to the mechanical and environmental properties of materials used in a wide range of engineering applications.

This is the first book to combine classical vehicle dynamics with electronic control.

Thermodynamic Tables to Accompany Modern Engineering Thermodynamics is a companion text to Modern Engineering Thermodynamics by Robert T.

Generally, welding produces welding deformation and residual stress in the products, which influences the quality and performance of the products.

This concise reference summarizes the latest results in nano-structured thin films, the first to discuss both deposition methods and electronic applications in detail.

Unique in bringing about a solid-state reaction at room temperature, mechanical alloying produces powders and compounds difficult or impossible to obtain by conventional techniques.

This 3e, edited by Peter M.

The technology of crystal growth has advanced enormously during the past two decades.

Sintering is the process of forming materials and components from a powder under the action of thermal energy.

This text provides students with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills necessary to identify, model, and solve structural analysis problems.

Metal foams are at the forefront of technological development for the automotive, aerospace, and other weight-dependent industries.

The importance of the nanoscale effects has been recognized in materials research for over fifty years, but it is only recently that advanced characterization and fabrication methods are enabling scientists to build structures atom-by-atom or molecule-by molecule.

* A succinct source of information for designers and manufacturers.

For full market implementation of PEM fuel cells to become a reality, two main limiting technical issues must be overcome-cost and durability.

The book is structured thematically, encompassing principles, processes and products, practice and applications.

Since 1948, this series has bridged the gap between the papers that report and the textbooks that teach in the diverse areas of catalysis research.

This volume is devoted to mostly to nanotubes, unique synthetic nanoscale quantum systems whose physical properties are often singular (i.

In recent years, much progress has been made in the understanding of interface dynamics of various systems: hydrodynamics, crystal growth, chemical reactions, and combustion.

The selection of automobile body materials is fundamental to the choice of fabrication method, and the characteristics and performance of the final vehicle or component.

Thin Metallic multilayer films have become an important part in today's computer technology.

The dramatic advances in the efficiency of digital computers during the past decade have provided hydrologists with a powerful tool for numerical modeling of groundwater systems.

This is the first book that can be considered a textbook on thin film science, complete with exercises at the end of each chapter.

Amorphous chalcogenide semiconductors have commercial value and have many uses such as image formation, including x-rays, and high-definition TV pick up tubes.

Engineering Materials 2, Fourth Edition, is one of the leading self-contained texts for more advanced students of materials science and mechanical engineering.

Almost thirty years after the remarkable monograph of K.

This is the first book in English devoted to the latest developments in fluid mechanics and aerodynamics.

A research project at the Tokyo Institute of Technology - dedicated to fostering innovation in the field of nanomaterials - was selected as one of the 21st Century COE (Center of Excellence) programs.

Superlattice to Nanoelectronics, Second Edition, traces the history of the development of superlattices and quantum wells from their origins in 1969.

Germanium is a semiconductor material that formed the basis for the development of transistor technology.

In recent years, an unprecedented interest in novel and revolutionary space missions has risen out of the advanced NASA and ESA programs.

This book is a good introductory work to nanoparticle technology.

Computation of Supersonic Flow over Flying Configurations is a high-level aerospace reference book that will be useful for undergraduate and graduate students of engineering, applied mathematics and physics.

Passivation of Metals and Semiconductors, and Properties of Thin Oxide Layers contains a selection of papers presented at PASSIVITY-9, the 9th International Symposium on the Passivation of Metals and Semiconductors and the Properties of Thin Oxide Layers, which was held in Paris, 27 June - 1 July, 2005.

The approach of this concise but comprehensive introduction, covering all major classes of materials, is right for not just materials science students and professionals, but also for those in engineering, physics and chemistry, or other related disciplines.

Useful as a reference for engineers in industry and as an advanced level text for graduate engineering students, Multiphase Flow and Fluidization takes the reader beyond the theoretical to demonstrate how multiphase flow equations can be used to provide applied, practical, predictive solutions to industrial fluidization problems.

The only book of its kind on the market, this book is the companion to our Valve Selection Handbook, by the same author.

The journal Biomaterials was launched in 1980.

Contributions from more than 60 authors, each a well-known specialist in their field, have been co-ordinated to produce the most comprehensive Handbook of Adhesives and Sealants ever published.

Held under the auspices of the International Association for Wind Engineering, 226 delegates from twenty-three countries took part in the conference.

An overview of the recent developments and prospects in this highly topical area, covering the synthesis, characterization, properties and applications of hierarchical nanostructured materials.

The MEMS (Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems) market returned to growth in 2010.

Fluorinated ionomer polymers form impermeable membranes that conduct electricity, properties that have been put to use in large-scale electrochemical applications, revolutionizing the chlor-alkali industry and transforming production methods of some of the world's highest-production commodity chemicals: chlorine, sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide.

This book provides an overview of the rapidly growing and developing field of nanotechnology, focusing on key essentials and structured around a robust anatomy of the subject.

Critical distance methods are extremely useful for predicting fracture and fatigue in engineering components.

Critical distance methods are extremely useful for predicting fracture and fatigue in engineering components.

This book is the first to comprehensively explore elasticity imaging and examines recent, important developments in asymptotic imaging, modeling, and analysis of deterministic and stochastic elastic wave propagation phenomena.

The Handbook of Ellipsometry is a critical foundation text on an increasingly critical subject.