Materials science

In addition to structure formation in crystallizing polymers and semicrystalline polymers, this second edition completes the topic of transport phenomena.

This book reports on cutting-edge research and technologies in the field of advanced manufacturing and materials, with a special emphasis on unconventional machining process, rapid prototyping and biomaterials.

Bringing together contributions from leading experts in the field, this book reviews laser processing concepts that allow the structuring of material beyond optical limits, and methods that facilitate direct observation of the underlying mechanisms by exploring direct structuring and self-organization phenomena.

A self-contained introduction to tides, explaining the origin of tidal constituents and their wave propagation in oceans and coastal seas.

Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings Volume 34, Issue 3 - Advanced Ceramic Coatings and Materials for Extreme Environments III A collection of 12 papers from The American Ceramic Society s 37th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 27-February 1, 2013.

Presents recent progress in two-dimensional mathematical hydrodynamics, including rigorous results on turbulence in space-periodic fluid flows.

This monograph identifies the essential characteristics of the objects described by current quantum theory and considers their relationship to space-time.

Metal Oxides and Related Solids for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting reviews the fundamentals and strategies needed to design and fabricate metal oxide-based electrocatalysts.

This technical meeting will focus on Alloy 718 and Superalloys in this class relative to alloy and process development, production, product applications, trends and the development of advanced modeling tools.

This new volume provides the necessary background material and brings into focus the fundamental concepts essential for advanced research in theoretical condensed matter physics and its interface with molecular biophysics.

New edition updated with additional exercises and two new chapters.

To anyone who is interested in surface chemical analysis of materials on the nanometer scale, this book is prepared to give appropriate information.

The majority of the chapters in this volume represent a series of lectures.

This book highlights the applications of data mining technologies in structural dynamic analysis, including structural design, optimization, parameter identification, model updating, damage identification, in civil, mechanical, and aerospace engineering.

Filling the gap between publications for industrial developers and academic researchers on graphene synthesis and its applications, this book presents the essential aspects for the successful upscaling of graphene production.

The use of computational techniques is increasing day by day in the manufacturing sector.

Ceramic Science and Engineering: Basics to Recent Advancements covers the fundamentals, classification and applications surrounding ceramic engineering.

This book describes the basics and developments of the new XFEM approach to fracture analysis of composite structures and materials.

This book is a compilation of selected papers presented in the International Conference on the theme 'Wood is Good: Current Trends and Future Prospects in Wood'.

This book provides state-of-the-art computational approaches for accelerating materials discovery, synthesis, and processing using thermodynamics and kinetics.

This book presents select, recent developments in nonlinear and complex systems reported at the 1st Online Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity, held on November 23-25, 2020.

Certain small solid particles are surface-active at fluid interfaces and thus are able to stabilize materials previously considered impossible to stabilize in their absence.

The Magnesium Technology Symposium, the event on which this collection is based, is one of the largest yearly gatherings of magnesium specialists in the world.

This comprehensive introduction to centrifugal pumps used in sodiumcooled fast reactors discusses the special attributes of centrifugal pumps, design features, manufacturing requirements, instrumentation, and operating experience.

This book comprises selected papers from the Fourth International Conference on Materials and Manufacturing Engineering (ICMME 2019).

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in various fields is of major importance to improve the use of resourses and time.

A brief yet complete textbook for a first course in mechanical vibrations with more than sixty exercise problems where using MATLAB® is emphasized.

This book is dedicated to the field of conductive polymers, focusing on electrical interactions with biological systems.

Special Topics in Structural Dynamics, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 31st IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2013, the sixth volume of seven from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book looks at the recent developments in the area of photocatalytic degradation of dyes using photocatalytic techniques, for example by means of various nanoparticles, heterogeneous, and hybrid systems.

Solid-state NMR covers an enormous range of material types and experimental techniques.

Stress, Strain, and Structural Dynamics: An Interactive Handbook of Formulas, Solutions, and MATLAB Toolboxes, Second Edition is the definitive reference to statics and dynamics of solids and structures, including mechanics of materials, structural mechanics, elasticity, rigid-body dynamics, vibrations, structural dynamics, and structural controls.

This book presents a study on the influence of selected technological parameters of die casting upon strength and use properties of Al-Si alloy casts produced in die casting.

This book presents cutting-edge research and developments in the field of Biomedical Engineering.

It became clear in the early days of fusion research that the effects of the containment vessel (erosion of "e;impurities"e;) degrade the overall fusion plasma performance.

Thermites, which are generally considered to be reactive mixtures of powdered metals and metal oxides, are an important subset of energetic materials.

Offering a comprehensive view of water-treatment technologies, Nanomaterials for Water Treatment and Remediation explores recent developments in the use of advanced nanomaterials (ANMs) for water treatment and remediation.

Plastics and Sustainability: Practical Approaches provides a broad overview of sustainability as applied to plastics, offering a range of opportunities and solutions to be applied in an academic or industrial setting.

This highly informative book offers a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of propulsion.

Materials Science in Energy Technology presents the fundamental properties of materials that are essential to a particular energy application.

Magnetorheological fluids, smart fluids which change viscosity in the presence of a magnetic field, are of great commercial interest for many engineering applications such as shock absorbers and dampers in aerospace.

Coir Fiber and its Composites: Processing, Properties and Applications presents unified knowledge on eco-friendly coir fiber composites, covering their characterization, design, manufacture and applications.

The book provides the reader with the knowledge, tools, and methods to understand the phenomenon of hysteresis in porous materials.

This book presents, in a self-contained fashion, a series of studies on flow and heat transfer in porous media, in which distinct energy balances are considered for the porous matrix and for the permeating fluid.

In this thesis, Till Cremer investigates the bulk properties of ionic liquids (IL), the IL/vacuum interface and the IL/solid interface.

Graduate text for aerospace and mechanical engineering students on high-speed gas flows.

This interdisciplinary thesis introduces a systems biology approach to study the cell fate decision mediated by autophagy.