Material Science category: 3562 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
In most tribological applications, liquid or grease based lubricants are used to facilitate the relative motion of solid bodies to minimize friction and wear between interacting surfaces. The challenges for liquid lubricants arise in extreme environmental conditions, such as very high or low temperatures,...
by Haoyun Tu
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
In this thesis, the author investigates experimentally and numerically
the fracture behavior of an electron beam welded joint made from
two butt S355 plates. The 2D Rousselier model, the Gurson-Tvergaard-
Needleman (GTN) model and the cohesive zone model (CZM) were
adopted...
by M. Reza Eslami
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
This book contains eight chapters treating the stability of all major areas of the flexural theory. It covers the stability of structures under mechanical and thermal loads and all areas of structural, loading and material types. The structural element may be assumed to be made of a homogeneous/isotropic...
Nanodiamonds
Advanced Material Analysis, Properties and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Nanodiamonds: Advanced Material Analysis, Properties and Applications illustrates the complementarity of specific techniques to fully characterize nanodiamonds from their diamond core (crystalline structure, defects, sp2 carbon, impurities, strain) to their surface (surface chemistry, stability of...
Lightweight Ballistic Composites
Military and Law-Enforcement Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
Ballistic composites need to be lightweight and durable as well as exhibiting high impact resistance and damage tolerance. This important book reviews these requirements, how the materials used for ballistic composites meet them and their range of applications.
After an introductory chapter,...
Concrete Planet
The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World's Most Common Man-Made Material
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Concrete: We use it for our buildings, bridges, dams, and roads. We walk on it, drive on it, and many of us live and work within its walls. But very few of us know what it is. We take for granted this ubiquitous substance, which both literally and figuratively comprises much of modern civilization's...
by James G. Speight
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Asphalt is a complex but popular civil engineering material. Design engineers must understand these complexities in order to optimize its use. Whether or not it is used to pave a busy highway, waterproof a rooftop or smooth out an airport runway, Asphalt Materials Science and Technology acquaints...
by Jean P Mercier, Gerald Zambelli, Wilfried Kurz
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2003
The approach of this concise but comprehensive introduction, covering all major classes of materials, is right for not just materials science students and professionals, but also for those in engineering, physics and chemistry, or other related disciplines. The characteristics of all main classes of...
Materials Science Reading Sampler
Book Excerpts by J. Genzer, D. Richerson, A. Tiwari, M. Horstemeyer, K. Kolasinski, M. Köhl, R. Tilley
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
The 2013 Materials Science eBook Sampler includes select material from seven Materials Science titles. Titles are from a number of Wiley imprints including Wiley, Wiley-VCH, Wiley-American Ceramic Society, Wiley-Scrivener and Wiley-The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society. The material that is included...
Ceramics Science and Technology, Volume 4
Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Although ceramics have been known to mankind literally for millennia, research has never ceased. Apart from the classic uses as a bulk
material in pottery, construction, and decoration, the latter half of the twentieth century saw an explosive growth of application fields, such as
electrical and thermal...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
The 4e of The Science and Technology of Rubber provides a broad survey of elastomers with special emphasis on materials with a rubber-like elasticity. As in previous editions, the emphasis remains on a unified treatment of the material, exploring chemical aspects such as elastomer synthesis and curing,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Advanced and Emerging Polybenzoxazine Science and Technology introduces advanced topics of benzoxazine resins and polybenzoxazines as presented through the collaboration of leading experts in the benzoxazine community, representing the authoritative introduction to the subjects. Broad topics covered...
Ceramics Science and Technology, Volume 1
Structures
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Although ceramics have been known to mankind literally for millennia, research has never ceased. Apart from the classic uses as a bulk material in pottery, construction, and decoration, the latter half of the twentieth century saw an explosive growth of application fields, such as electrical and thermal...
Ceramics Science and Technology, Volume 2
Materials and Properties
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Although ceramics have been known to mankind literally for millennia, research has never ceased. Apart from the classic uses as a bulk material in pottery, construction, and decoration, the latter half of the twentieth century saw an explosive growth of application fields, such as electrical and thermal...