Mechanical engineering and materials

Smart Textiles from Natural Resources is an interdisciplinary guide to best practice and emerging challenges in the use of natural textiles in smart applications.

This book covers preparation methods, characterization, and applications of most glass families.

Presents rheological data on a number of polymers, making use of the master curve approach to determine unified curves for each generic type of polymer.

This textbook is the result of the enhancement of several courses on non-equilibrium statistics, stochastic processes, stochastic differential equations, anomalous diffusion and disorder.

Materials with superhydrophobic or related properties are one of the most studied subjects from a theoretical point of view and also for the large range of possible applications, for example, anticorrosion, antibacteria, optical devices, and sensors.

This book explains and summarizes the fundamentals of soft interfaces and soft particles from a colloid and surface chemistry standpoint, bringing knowledge together into a single resource for the first time.

Metal removal processes - cutting and grinding in this book - are an integral part of a large number of manufacturing systems, either as the primary manufacturing process, or as an important part of preparing the tooling for other manufacturing processes.

This book presents the latest advances and emerging trends in research and industrial applications in non-destructive testing, manufacturing and process safety and diagnostics and materials science.

This Series provides the necessary elements to the development and validation of numerical prediction models for hydrodynamic bearings.

This forward-thinking, practical book provides essential information on modern machining technology for industry with emphasis on the processes used regularly across several major industries.

Most people would be surprised at how ceramics are used, from creating cellular phones, radio, television, and lasers to its role in medicine for cancer treatments and restoring hearing.

Quantum physics, which offers an explanation of the world on the smallest scale, has fundamental implications that pose a serious challenge to ordinary logic.

Single Crystals of Electronic Materials: Growth and Properties is a complete overview of the state-of-the-art growth of bulk semiconductors.

Die Anforderungen an Forschung und Entwicklung in der Automobilindustrie ändern sich kontinuierlich.

BASIC Hydrology offers a wide discussion on hydrology.

This book discusses chemical engineering and processing, presenting selected contributions from PAIC 2019.

This book presents detailed discussions concerning the environmental footprints of various packaging systems and materials, life cycle assessments of packaging, sustainable design of various packaging systems and materials, as well as the biodegradation of various packaging materials.

Inclusive design, universal design and universal access are long standing, familiar terms with clear and laudable goals.

Your solution to mastering fluid mechanicsNeed to learn about the properties of liquids and gases the pressures and forces they exert?

A comprehensive review of recent advances and new directions in high pressure mineral research using static and dynamic compression methods.

Automotive Technician Training is the definitive student textbook for automotive engineering.

This book presents the select proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Recent Advancements in Mechanical Engineering (ICRAME 2024).

The occurrence of superconductivity among the d- and f-band metals remains one of the unsolved problems of physics.

This book is based on a series of lectures for an Astrophysics of the Interstellar Medium (ISM) master's degree in Astrophysics and Cosmology at Padova University.

Parametric Resonance in Dynamical Systems discusses the phenomenon of parametric resonance and its occurrence in mechanical systems, vehicles, motorcycles, aircraft and marine craft, along micro-electro-mechanical systems.

This book presents contributions to the 18th biannual symposium of the German Aerospace Aerodynamics Association (STAB).

Nanoelectronics is changing the way the world communicates, and is transforming our daily lives.

This work details general theories and reliable analysis techniques for solving real-world problems in linear and non-linear mechanics.

Providing an analytical approach to selecting the best metal and obtaining optimal properties for and in a fabricated part, this text correlates weldability, formability and machinability with a metal's chemical composition through microstructures.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

VLSI Electronics Microstructure Science, Volume 16: Lithography for VLSI treats special topics from each branch of lithography, and also contains general discussion of some lithographic methods.

This volume contains eight state of the art contributions on mathematical aspects and applications of fast boundary element methods in engineering and industry.

Fluid mechanics is an important scientific field with various industrial applications for flows or energy consumption and efficiency issues.

Handbook of Materials Failure Analysis: With Case Studies from the Aerospace and Automotive Industries provides a thorough understanding of the reasons materials fail in certain situations, covering important scenarios, including material defects, mechanical failure as a result of improper design, corrosion, surface fracture, and other environmental causes.

Numerical Analysis for Engineers: Methods and Applications demonstrates the power of numerical methods in the context of solving complex engineering and scientific problems.

An incredible ability awaits managers who practice Theory of Constraints (TOC) techniques: they can take a problem, look beyond the less important details, and directly identify the source of trouble.

This volume is a collection of articles on reliability systems and Bayesian reliability analysis.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

It is widely recognized that analytical technologies and techniques are playing a pioneering role in a range of today's foremost challenging scientific endeavours, including especially biological and biomedical research.

Electroless Nickel Plating: Fundamentals to Applications provides a complete and actualized view of electroless nickel plating, thus greatly improving the accessibility of knowledge on the subject.

Nano Design for Smart Gels addresses the formation and application of technological gels and how nanostructural prospects are fundamental to gelling.

The current book, Advanced Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer is based on author's four decades of industrial and academic research in the area of thermofluid sciences including fluid mechanics, aero-thermodynamics, heat transfer and their applications to engineering systems.

An Introduction to Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Metals gives a background on the physics of materials, describing relevant experimental techniques.

This book revisits the long-standing puzzle of cross-scale energy transfer and dissipation in plasma turbulence and introduces new perspectives based on both magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and Vlasov models.

Fatigue failure is a multi-stage process.

This book discusses how to identify the level of adhesion in layered systems made of cement composites using a multi-scale approach based on experimental and numerical analyses.