Materials science

Material Properties of Steel Fire Conditions is a major new contribution on how to understand the material properties of steel in fires.

First book on the fast multipole BEM, bringing together classical theory in BEM formulations and the fast multipole method.

The surface of materials is routinely exposed to various environmental influences.

Magnetic materials have many interesting and important uses.

This book is devoted to the exploration of innovative sensing technologies for marine applications.

Innovations in Graphene-Based Polymer Composites reviews recent developments in this important field of research.

Carbon intensive industries are at a crossroads.

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

This two-volume set addresses both current and developing topics of advanced machining technologies and machine tools used in industry.

This book presents the latest research advances relating to machines and mechanisms.

Materials Science and Fuel Technologies of Uranium and Plutonium Mixed Oxide offers a deep understanding of MOX properties for nuclear fuels that will be useful for performance evaluation.

In this book new experimental investigations of properties of Josephson junctions and systems are explored with the help of recent developments in superconductivity.

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

This volume contains review articles written by the invited speakers at the eighth International Summer Institute in Surface Science (ISISS 1987), held at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in August of 1987.

Zeta Potential: Fundamentals, Methods, and Applications provides an up-to-date exploration of the principles and practice of zeta potential measurements.

The text comprehensively focuses on the concepts, implementation, and application of evolutionary algorithms for predicting, modeling, and optimizing the various material removal processes from their origin to the current advancements.

Originally published in French, this updated and expanded English translation offers a definitive treatment on clays and effects on human health including the long history of clays used as pharmaceutical and therapeutic agents, the origins of clays, their structural properties and modes of action.

A modern vector oriented treatment of classical dynamics and its application to engineering problems.

Describes the properties of cellular membranes and their relationship with fundamental biological processes.

Almost all synthetic materials over time induce some level of inflammation and fibrosis.

Fuel cells have been recognized to be destined to form the cornerstone of energy technologies in the twenty-first century.

The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is a modern numerical technique, very efficient, flexible to simulate different flows within complex/varying geome- tries.

This book presents proceedings of the third international conference in this field, continuing the success of the previous events.

The second edition of the classic data book, The Effect of Creep and Other Time Related Factors on Plastics and Elastomers (originally published in 1991), has been extensively revised with the addition of an abundance of new data, the removal of all out-dated information, and the complete rebuilding of the product and company listings.

This book studies the collision, coalescence and deposition of nanoparticles in stagnation flames.

Developing a new treatment of 'Free Convection Film Flows and Heat Transfer' began in Shang's first monograph and is continued in this monograph.

The book provides insight into the working of clays and clay minerals in speeding up a variety of organic reactions.

This book reports a study of a class of Dion-Jacobson-type layered perovskite oxides in which high oxide-ion conductivities in phases were discovered for the first time in the world.

Ambipolar materials represent a class of materials where positive and negative charge carriers can both transport concurrently.

This volume gathers the latest advances and innovations in the field of flow-induced vibration and noise, as presented by leading international researchers at the 3rd International Symposium on Flow Induced Noise and Vibration Issues and Aspects (FLINOVIA), which was held in Lyon, France, in September 2019.

Traditionally used in apparel and interior fabrics, woven textiles are increasingly being employed in a variety of technical applications.

This book provides fundamental understanding and practical application of characteristics of flexural motion in the assessment of the weld size and coating thickness.

Ni-free Ti-based Shape Memory Alloys reviews the fundamental issues of biomedical beta-type Ti base shape memory and superelastic alloys, including martensitic transformation, shape memory and superelastic properties, alloy development, thermomechanical treatment and microstructure control, and biocompatibility.

Industrial Applications of Renewable Plastics: Environmental, Technological, and Economic Advances provides practical information to help engineers and materials scientists deploy renewable plastics in the plastics market.

This book is designed to provide wide understanding of lignin carbon fiber processes, chemistry, mechanisms, and techniques that will help in further development of lignin carbon fiber for automobile, aerospace, marine, and sports equipment applications.

This book defines the current state-of-the-art for predicting the lifetime of plastics exposed to weather and outlines the future research needed to advance this important field of study.

Understanding and predicting the structure and properties of woven textiles is important for achieving specific performance characteristics in various woven applications.

This work reviews the current state of the art in metallic microlattice structures, manufactured using the additive manufacturing processes of selective laser melting, electron beam melting, binder jetting and photopolymer wave guides.

The expanding market share of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), driven by the secondary battery and electric vehicle markets, has consequently led to the accumulation of spent LIBs.

Biological and Synthetic Polymer Networks contains 36 papers selected from the papers presented at NETWORKS 86, the 8th Polymer Networks Group Meeting.

The purpose of this book is to provide a broad, comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of current beneficiation techniques and processes that are used for both metallic and nonmetallic minerals; and for other materials, such as household and industrial solid wastes, that are also processed by conventional beneficiation methods in their standard methods of recycling and reclamation.

Plasma etching has long enabled the perpetuation of Moore's Law.

At a time of unprecedented levels of change in the production of building materials and their deployment in construction, better theoretical and historical tools are needed to understand these new developments and how they are altering the practices and concepts of architecture.

This book presents the fundamental fluid flow and heat transfer principles occurring in oscillating heat pipes and also provides updated developments and recent innovations in research and applications of heat pipes.

Characterization is an important and fundamental step in material research before and after processing.

Metal Oxides in Heterogeneous Catalysis is an overview of the past, present and future of heterogeneous catalysis using metal oxides catalysts.