Materials science

This book describes most recent advances and limitations concerning design of adhesive joints under humid conditions and discusses future trends.

This book was written to serve as the standard textbook of elastoplasticity for students, engineers and researchers in the field of applied mechanics.

In conventional metals, various transport coefficients are scaled according to the quasiparticle relaxation time, \tau, which implies that the relaxation time approximation (RTA) holds well.

Introduction to Epitaxy provides the essential information for a comprehensive upper-level graduate course treating the crystalline growth of semiconductor heterostructures.

The ability of a single genome to give rise to hundreds of functionally distinct cell type programs is in itself remarkable.

This book discusses the electromagnetic response function of matter, providing a logically more complete form of macroscopic Maxwell equations than the conventional literature.

This new edition updates readers in three areas of NMR studies, namely, recent developments in high-Tc materials, heavy fermion systems and actinide oxides are presented.

The research and its outcomes presented here is devoted to the use of x-ray scattering to study correlated electron systems and magnetism.

This thesis studies the general heat conduction law, irreversible thermodynamics and the size effect of thermal conductivity exhibited in nanosystems from the perspective of recently developed thermomass theory.

This thesis reports on essential advances in the design, synthesis and biomedical applications of multifunctional Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles (MSNs).

This PhD thesis presents the latest research findings on nanofluid wetting kinetics, which has wide applications in nano/microscale processes and devices.

In this thesis, real-time evolution of the nanopore channel growth and self-ordering process in anodic nanoporous alumina are simulated on the basis of an established kinetics model.

This thesis introduces a series of novel, non-conjugated polyarylether hosts that are not subject to the triplet-energy limitations of traditional conjugated polymer hosts.

The book summarizes Ting Lei's PhD study on a series of novel conjugated polymers for field-effect transistors (FETs).

This thesis focuses on the development of high-order finite volume methods and discontinuous Galerkin methods, and presents possible solutions to a number of important and common problems encountered in high-order methods, such as the shock-capturing strategy and curved boundary treatment, then applies these methods to solve compressible flows.

This new edition updates readers in three areas of NMR studies, namely, recent developments in high-Tc materials, heavy fermion systems and actinide oxides are presented.

Many individual technological solutions for microwave applications in industries have been developed without a clear pattern for a key strategy to replace conventional industrial technologies.

In this book, we discuss the path integral quantization and the stochastic quantization of classical mechanics and classical field theory.

Computational Fluid Dynamics: An Introduction grew out of a von Karman Institute (VKI) Lecture Series by the same title ?

The simplest way to formulate the basic equations of continuum mech- ics and the constitutive or evolutional equations of various materials is to restrict ourselves to rectangular cartesian coordinates.

Combustion systems are confined fields of compressible fluids where exothermic processes of combustion take place, subject to boundary conditions imposed at its borders.

An up-to-date and unparalleled in-depth treatment of all kinds of flow phenomena encountered in centrifugal pumps is given, including the complex interactions of fluid flow with vibrations and wear of materials.

Emulsions occur either as end products or during the processing of products in a huge range of areas including the food, agrochemical, pharmaceuticals, paints and oil industries.

Symmetry exists in realms from crystals to patterns, in external shapes of living or non-living objects, as well as in the fundamental particles and the physical laws that govern them.

'The sturgeon they sent was second grade fresh,' said the barman.

This book deals with the deposition of a certain class of materials, namely the diamond-like superhard materials, in the form of thin films.

Fermi Surfaces of Low-Dimensional Organic Metals and Superconductors is an introduction to quasi-one- and quasi-two-dimensional organic metals and a review of the current knowledge on the electronic structure of these materials.

The properties of soft-matter thin films (e.

In this book, we discuss the path integral quantization and the stochastic quantization of classical mechanics and classical field theory.

The aim of this book is to describe an efficient procedure to model dynamical contact problems with friction.

The production of multi layered thin films with sufficient reliability is a key technology for device fabrication in micro electronics.

Coverings are efficient ways to exhaust Euclidean N-space with congruent geometric objects.

This monograph deals with ion induced electron emission from crystalline solids bombarded by fast ions.

The present book covers the transport properties of superconductor/two dimensional electron gas Josephson junctions.

Combustion is an old technology, which at present provides about 90% of our worldwide energy support.

Even today flying into space is an undertaking at the borderline of what is curreiitly feasible.

The aim of this book is to describe an efficient procedure to model dynamical contact problems with friction.

Constantly increasing attention is paid in the course 'Vibration 'Theory' to vibration of mechanical systems with distributed parameters, since the real elements of machines, devices, and constructions are made of materials that are not perfectly rigid.

Since the discovery of high temperature superconductors the scientific com nmnity has been very active in research on material and system development as well as on the basic understanding of the mechanism of superconductiv ity at high transition temperatures.

The second edition, which appeared in 2005 and contains substantial - dates and amendments compared to the ?

The book describes current mission analysis and design techniques that may be applied to a very wide range of interplanetary missions from those targeting the inner planets to those destined for the outer planets and Solar System escape trajectories.

This book provides tools well suited for thequantitative investigation of semiconductor electron microscopy.

Over the course of the past decade, decoherence has become a ubiquitous scienti?

Many practical control problems are dominated by characteristics such as state, input and operational constraints, alternations between different operating regimes, and the interaction of continuous-time and discrete event systems.

Flow Control and Optimization is increasingly incorporated in the design of engineering devices ranging from aircraft and space vehicles to micro?

The interaction of an electron beam with a solid target has been studied since the early part of the past century.