Material Science category: 3562 books
by Anastasios P. Vassilopoulos, Thomas Keller
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
Fatigue has long been recognized as a mechanism that can provoke catastrophic material failure in structural applications and researchers are now turning to the development of prediction tools in order to reduce the cost of determining design criteria for any new material. Fatigue of Fiber-reinforced...
by Magdi El Messiry
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Natural Fiber Textile Composite Engineering sheds light on the area of the natural fiber textile composites with new research on their applications, the material used, the methods of preparation, the different types of polymers, the selection of raw materials, the elements of design the natural fiber...
Corrosion of Steel in Concrete
Prevention, Diagnosis, Repair
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Steel-reinforced concrete is used ubiquitously as a building material due to its unique combination of the high compressive strength of concrete and the high tensile strength of steel. Therefore, reinforced concrete is an ideal composite material that is used for a wide range of applications in structural...
by Ulf Paul Breuer
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
This book is based on lectures held at the faculty of mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern. The focus is on the central theme of societies overall aircraft requirements to specific material requirements and highlights the most important advantages and challenges of...
The Structural Integrity of Carbon Fiber Composites
Fifty Years of Progress and Achievement of the Science, Development, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
This book brings together a diverse compilation of inter-disciplinary chapters on fundamental aspects of carbon fiber composite materials and multi-functional composite structures: including synthesis, characterization, and evaluation from the nano-structure to structure meters in length. The content...
Cellulose-Reinforced Nanofibre Composites
Production, Properties and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Cellulose-Reinforced Nanofibre Composites: Production, Properties and Applications presents recent developments in, and applications of, nanocellulose as reinforcement in composite and nanocomposite materials.
Written by leading experts, the book covers properties and applications of nanocellulose,...
UHMWPE Biomaterials Handbook
Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene in Total Joint Replacement and Medical Devices
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
UHMWPE Biomaterials Handbook, Third Edition, describes the science, development, properties, and application of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) used in artificial joints. UHMWPE is now the material of choice for joint replacements, and is increasingly being used in fibers for sutures....
Aerospace Materials and Material Technologies
Volume 1: Aerospace Materials
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
This book is a comprehensive compilation of chapters on materials (both established and evolving) and material technologies that are important for aerospace systems. It considers aerospace materials in three Parts. Part I covers Metallic Materials (Mg, Al, Al-Li, Ti, aero steels, Ni, intermetallics,...
Machinery, Materials Science and Engineering Applications
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Machinery, Materials Science and Engineering Applications (MMSE 2016), Wuhan, China, October 26-29 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This conference proceeding contains papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Machinery, Materials Science and Engineering Applications (MMSE 2016), held 28-30 October, 2016 in Wuhan, China.
The conference proceeding contributions cover a large number of topics, both theoretical...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Wood material has acquired great importance due to its short supply and increasing environmental awareness amongst users and manufacturers. However, its use as an engineering material requires consistent research developments in order to provide accurate responses to industrial processing problems. Research...
by Michalina Falkiewicz-Dulik, Katarzyna Janda, George Wypych
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Handbook of Material Biodegradation, Biodeterioration, and Biostabilization, Second Edition gives extensive information on the microorganisms involved in the biodegradation of materials, along with the biocides which are permitted for use according to the most up-to-date worldwide legislation.
Mechanisms...
Phosphorus Compounds
Advanced Tools in Catalysis and Material Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Each chapter of Phosphorus Compounds: Advanced Tools in Catalysis and Material Sciences have been carefully selected by the editors in order to represent a state-of-the-art overview of how phosphorus chemistry can provide solutions in various fields of applications.
The editors have assembled...
Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete
Behavior, Modelling and Design
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This book discusses design aspects of steel fiber-reinforced concrete (SFRC) members, including the behavior of the SFRC and its modeling. It also examines the effect of various parameters governing the response of SFRC members in detail. Unlike other publications available in the form of guidelines,...
by Marc Z. Miskin
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
This thesis conceptualizes and implements a new framework for designing materials that are far from equilibrium. Starting with state-of-the-art optimization engines, it describes an automated system that makes use of simulations and 3D printing to find the material that best performs a user-specified...