Material Science category: 3562 books

The Behavior of Sandwich Structures of Isotropic and Composite Materials presents the mathematics, descriptions, and analytical techniques in the growing field of sandwich structures. From a background in sandwich structures to thermoelastic problems of sandwich structures and sandwich shell theory,...

This is the first-ever book to illustrate the principles and applications of liquid metal biomaterials. Room-temperature liquid metal materials are rapidly emerging as next-generation functional materials that display many unconventional properties superior to those of conventional biomaterials. Their...

This first volume in the series on nanocarbons for advanced applications presents the latest achievements in the design, synthesis, characterization, and applications of these materials for electrochemical energy storage. The highly renowned series and volume editor, Xinliang Feng, has put together...

Real insight from leading experts in the field into the causes of the unique photovoltaic performance of perovskite solar cells, describing the fundamentals of perovskite materials and device architectures. The authors cover materials research and development, device fabrication and engineering methodologies,...

This book presents a detailed study on the vibration analysis of functionally graded piezoelectric actuators excited under the shear effect. Two types of actuator geometries viz. beam and annular plate are considered, where the material properties are assumed to have a continuous variation in accordance...

This book comprises selected proceedings of the ThEC15 conference. The book presents research findings on various facets of thorium energy, including exploration and mining, thermo-physical and chemical properties of fuels, reactor physics, challenges in fuel fabrication, thorium fuel cycles, thermal...

This book covers the recent advances in coating materials and their novel applications at the cross-section of advanced materials both current and next-generation. Advanced Coatings Materials contains chapters covering the latest research on polymers, carbon resins, and high-temperature materials...

This book focuses on the utilisation of construction waste material as coarse aggregate in making concrete. It discusses in detail the behaviour of recycled aggregate under impact load along with other structural applications, and explains the various quality-improvement techniques for recycled aggregate...

Physics of Shock and Impact deals with the shock physics of solids with emphasis on impact applications that are brought about by intense energy stimulation. Comprising two volumes, this work covers physical, material, mechanical and thermodynamic fundamentals of shock physics. The various chapters...

This textbook focuses on cast irons, the second material in production and consumption after steel. The authors describe the Fe-C stable and metastable diagrams from the physical-chemical metallurgy point of view. The main properties of cast irons are presented and justified for all kinds of cast...

Spezielle potentielle Absorber-Material-Konzepte werden vorgestellt. und diskutiert. Experimentell ermittelte Parameter son Solarzellen mit schwefelhaltigen Absorberschichten sind besprochen sowie unterschiedlichen Puffer- und Zwischenschichten (z. B. CdS, i-ZnO:Al, Bi2S3) und deren Einfluss auf die...

Es ist das dünnste Material der Welt, und gleichzeitig eines der härtesten: Graphen, so erwarten viele Forscher, wird die Technikwelt revolutionieren. Mit einer Dicke von nur einem einzigen Kohlenstoff-Atom scheint seine Existenz geradezu unmöglich. Genau dadurch erhält das zweidimensionale Nanomaterial...

Das Wissen über Aluminium – vor allem in der Automobil- und Luftfahrtindustrie – ist stetig gewachsen. Neue Legierungen und differenziertere Behandlungsprozesse erweitern das Verarbeitungs- und Anwendungsspektrum. Werkstoffgerechte Konstruktion und wirtschaftliche Verarbeitung setzen gründliche...

Forschungsarbeit aus dem Jahr 1998 im Fachbereich Chemie - Materialchemie, Werkstoffchemie, Note: 1, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel (Institut für Werkstoffkunde; GKSS Forschungszentrum GmbH), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The influence of mechanical strain on the hydrogen diffusion in a structural...