Materials science

Based on the Institute of Concrete Technology's Advanced Concrete Technology Course, these four volumes are a comprehensive educational and reference resource for the concrete materials technologist.

Based on the Institute of Concrete Technology's Advanced Concrete Technology Course, these four volumes are a comprehensive educational and reference resource for the concrete materials technologist.

BBased on the Institute of Concrete Technology's advanced course, the Advanced Concrete Technology series is a comprehensive educational and reference resource for the concrete materials technologist.

This is the key publication for professionals and students in the metallurgy and foundry field.

Aeronautical Engineer's Data Bookis an essential handy guide containing useful up to date information regularly needed by the student or practising engineer.

In recent years chemical engineers have become increasingly involved in the design and synthesis of new materials and products as well as the development of biological processes and biomaterials.

In a single useful volume, Vibration Fundamentals explains the basic theory, applications, and benefits of vibration analysis, which is the dominant predictive maintenance technique used with maintenance management programs.

Recently, the orthopedic industry developed new processing techniques (radiation crosslinking), which are expected to dramatically reduce wear and improve the longevity of hip implants beyond 10 years.

Volume 32 of the series addresses one of the most rapidly developing research fields in physics: microcavities.

Plasticity is concerned with the mechanics of materials deformed beyond their elastic limit.

Although there are many books published in solid state physics, there is a wide gap between the active field of research and the conceptstraditionally taught in solid state courses.

Smithells is the only single volume work which provides data on all key apsects of metallic materials.

Corrosion is a huge issue for materials, mechanical, civil and petrochemical engineers.

The goal of producing devices that are smaller, faster, more functional, reproducible, reliable and economical has given thin film processing a unique role in technology.

Machinery Vibration Analysis and Predictive Maintenance provides a detailed examination of the detection, location and diagnosis of faults in rotating and reciprocating machinery using vibration analysis.

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

The book is devoted to the consideration of the different processes taking place in thin films and at surfaces.

The Optical Society of America (OSA) and SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering have awarded Robert Boyd with an honorable mention for the Joseph W.

Nanocrystalline materials with new functionalities show great promise for use in industrial applications - such as reinforcing fillers in novel polymer composites - and substantial progress has been made in the past decade in their synthesis and processing.

Wills' Mineral Processing Technology provides practising engineers and students of mineral processing, metallurgy and mining with a review of all of the common ore-processing techniques utilized in modern processing installations.

The application of bearingless drives is emerging as an important technique in the areas of high-speed machinery and motion-control, and this book aims to provide a thorough grounding in the principles behind this cutting-edge technology.

Joining of Materials and Structures is the first and only complete and highly readable treatment of the options for joining conventional materials and the structures they comprise in conventional and unconventional ways, and for joining emerging materials and structures in novel ways.

Wills' Mineral Processing Technology provides practising engineers and students of mineral processing, metallurgy and mining with a review of all of the common ore-processing techniques utilized in modern processing installations.

Fatigue Testing and Analysis: Theory and Practice presents the latest, proven techniques for fatigue data acquisition, data analysis, and test planning and practice.

Each chapter of Professor Cambell's new book Castings Practice will take a look at one of his 10 rules.

Catalysis is the acceleration of a chemical reaction by a catalyst, a substance that notably affects the rate of a chemical reaction without itself being consumed or altered.

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

Nanophotonics: Integrating Photochemistry, Optics and Nano/Bio Materials Studies.

The arrival of the 'information age' took most people by surprise - including scientists and technologists.

Reinforced concrete is one of the most widely used modern materials of construction.

Dynamic fracture in solids has attracted much attention for over a century from engineers as well as physicists due both to its technological interest and to inherent scientific curiosity.

Microporous materials, including both zeolites and aluminophosphates are amongst the most fascinating classes of materials, with wide ranging important applications in catalysis, gas separation and ion exchange.

This book presents the physical concepts and tools to characterize and describe the formation of metastable solids from undercooled melts.

Engineering Materials 2 is a best-selling stand-alone text in its own right for more advanced students of materials science and mechanical engineering, and is the follow-up to its renowned companion text, Engineering Materials 1: An Introduction to Properties, Applications & Design .

The history of man is recorded, recovered and remembered through the designs he created and the materials he used.

Understanding materials, their properties and behavior is fundamental to engineering design, and a key application of materials science.

Widely adopted around the world, this is a core materials science and mechanical engineering text.

The inspiration for this book came from an American Carbon Society Workshop entitled "e;Carbon Materials for Advanced Technologies"e; which was hosted by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1994.

Plasticity is concerned with understanding the behavior of metals and alloys when loaded beyond the elastic limit, whether as a result of being shaped or as they are employed for load bearing structures.

This book is the first to bridge the often disparate bodies of knowledge now known as applied mechanics and materials science.

The second edition of this bestselling title provides the most up-to-date comprehensive review of all aspects of biomaterials science by providing a balanced, insightful approach to learning biomaterials.

In general, a dielectric is considered as a non-conducting or insulating material (such as a ceramic or polymer used to manufacture a microelectronic device).

Strength of Materials provides a comprehensive overview of the latest theory of strength of materials.

This book will enable students to navigate through materials science and engineering courses with increased motivation, reflection and depth.

The ultimate materials engineering resource for anyone developing skills and understanding of materials properties and selection for engineering applications.

The proceedings from Parallel CFD 2005 covering all aspects of the theory and applications of parallel computational fluid dynamics from the traditional to the more contemporary issues.

The FeT series - Fieldbus Systems and their Applications Conferences started in 1995 in Vienna, Austria.

Over the past few decades, several approaches have been developed for designing nano-structured or molecularly-structured materials.

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

"e;Materials Science in Manufacturing focuses on materials science and materials processing primarily for engineering and technology students preparing for careers in manufacturing.