Material Science category: 3562 books
Bio-aggregate-based Building Materials
Applications to Hemp Concretes
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Using plant material as raw materials for construction is a relatively recent and original topic of research. This book presents an overview of the current knowledge on the material properties and environmental impact of construction materials made from plant particles, which are renewable, recyclable...
Physics of Shock and Impact: Volume 2
Materials and shock response
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Physics of Shock and Impact deals with the shock physics of solids with emphasis on impact applications that are brought about intense energy stimulations. Comprising of two volumes, this work covers physical, material, mechanical and thermodynamic fundamentals of shock physics. The various chapters...
Hybrid Nanomaterials
Advances in Energy, Environment, and Polymer Nanocomposites
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
A hybrid material is defined as a material composed of an intimate mixture of inorganic components, organic components, or both types of components. In the last few years, a tremendous amount of attention has been given towards the development of materials for efficient energy harvesting; nanostructured...
Iron Phosphate Materials as Cathodes for Lithium Batteries
The Use of Environmentally Friendly Iron in Lithium Batteries
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Iron Phosphate Materials as Cathodes for Lithium Batteries describes the synthesis and the chemical–physical characteristics of iron phosphates, and presents methods of making LiFePO4 a suitable cathode material for lithium-ion batteries.
The author studies carbon’s ability to increase...
by Mark Wiesner, Jean-Yves Bottero
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Extensively revised and featuring new material, this timely, advanced resource covers the impacts of nanomaterials on organisms and ecosystems and their applications within industry.
Cowritten by leaders of two of the most prominent research groups in the world considering the effects of nanomaterials...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
All metallic materials are prepared from the liquid state as their parent phase. Solidification is therefore one of the most important phase transformation in daily human life. Solidification is the transition from liquid to solid state of matter. The conditions under which material is transformed...
by Yves Jannot, Alain Degiovanni
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
This book presents the main methods used for thermal properties measurement. It aims to be accessible to all those, specialists in heat transfer or not, who need to measure the thermal properties of a material. The objective is to allow them to choose the measurement method the best adapted to the...
Preserved in the Peat
an extraordinary Bronze Age burial on Whitehose Hill, Dartmoor, and its wider context
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Excavation of a Scheduled burial mound on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor revealed an unexpected, intact burial deposit of Early Bronze Age date associated with an unparalleled range of artefacts. The cremated remains of a young person had been placed within a bearskin pelt and provided with a basketry...
Modelling of Concrete Behaviour at High Temperature
State-of-the-Art Report of the RILEM Technical Committee 227-HPB
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
This book presents the work done by the RILEM Technical Committee 227-HPB (Physical properties and behaviour of High-Performance Concrete at high temperature). It contains the latest research results on the modelling of concrete behaviour at high temperature. Some monographs on the subject have been...
by Mohamed Jebahi, Damien Andre, Ivan Iordanoff
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Complex behavior models (plasticity, cracks, visco elascticity) face some theoretical difficulties for the determination of the behavior law at the continuous scale. When homogenization fails to give the right behavior law, a solution is to simulate the material at a meso scale in order to simulate...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Based on the success of the first edition, this second edition continuesto build upon fundamental principles of biosensor design and incorporates recent advances in intelligent materials and novel fabrication techniques for a broad range of real world applications. The book provides a multi-disciplinary...
Composite Materials Handbook-MIL 17, Volume I
Guidelines for Characterization of Structural Materials
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
This handbook documents engineering methodologies for the development of standardized, statistically -based material property data for polymer matrix composite materials. Also provided are data summaries for a number of relevant composite material systems for which available data meets specific MIL-HNBK-17 requirements for publication. Additionall
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2018
The series Advances in Polymer Science presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in polymer and biopolymer science. It covers all areas of research in polymer and biopolymer science including chemistry, physical chemistry, physics, material science.
The thematic volumes are...
Physical Properties and Behaviour of High-Performance Concrete at High Temperature
State-of-the-Art Report of the RILEM Technical Committee 227-HPB
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
This book presents the work done by the RILEM Technical Committee 227-HPB (Physical properties and behaviour of High-Performance Concrete at high temperature). It contains the latest research results on the behaviour of high-performance concretes at high temperature.
The book presents the state...