Material Science category: 3562 books
Fundamentals of Radiation Materials Science
Metals and Alloys
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
The revised second edition of this established text offers readers a significantly expanded introduction to the effects of radiation on metals and alloys. It describes the various processes that occur when energetic particles strike a solid, inducing changes to the physical and mechanical properties...
by Charles A. Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
It is intended that the book will be a practical guide to provide any reader with the basic information to help them understand what is necessary in order to produce a good barrier coated web or to improve the quality of any existing barrier product.
After providing an introduction, where the...
by Valery V. Vasiliev, Evgeny V. Morozov
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Advanced Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structures analyzes contemporary theoretical models at the micro- and macro levels of material structure. Its coverage of practical methods and approaches, experimental results, and optimization of composite material properties and structural component...
The New Science of Strong Materials
Or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 1991
Why isn't wood weaker that it is? Why isn't steel stronger? Why does glass sometimes shatter and sometimes bend like spring? Why do ships break in half? What is a liquid and is treacle one? All these are questions about the nature of materials. All of them are vital to engineers but also fascinating...
by Gyorgy Marko-Varga, Peter Oroszlan
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2003
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. Worthy of mention, for example, are the role that high performance separation...
Drug Delivery
Materials Design and Clinical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2014
Current pharmaceutical and clinical approaches to the treatment of disease suffer from the inherent limitations in the specialization of drugs introduced to physiological systems. The interface of clinical and material sciences has allowed for a broad spectrum of creative approaches with the potential...
Constitutive Models for Rubber X
Proceedings of the European Conference on Constitutive Models for Rubbers X (Munich, Germany, 28-31 August 2017)
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
In order to develop innovative products, to reduce development costs and the number of prototypes and to accelerate development processes, numerical simulations become more and more attractive. As such, numerical simulations are instrumental in understanding complicated material properties like chemical...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
The choice of a material for a certain application is made taking into account its properties. If, for example one would like to produce a table, a hard material is needed to guarantee the stability of the product, but the material should not be too hard so that manufacturing is still as easy as possible...
Laser Welding of Plastics
Materials, Processes and Industrial Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
This is the first detailed description in English of radiation and polymeric material interaction and the influences of thermal and optical material properties. As such, it provides comprehensive information on material and process characteristics as well as applications regarding plastic laser welding.
The...
Engineered Carbon Nanotubes and Nanofibrous Material
Integrating Theory and Technique
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Carbon nanotubes, with their extraordinary engineering properties, have garnered much attention in the past 10 years. Because of the broad range of potential applications, the scientific community is more motivated than ever to move beyond basic properties and explore the real issues associated with...
Polymer Engineering Science and Viscoelasticity
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
This book provides a unified mechanics and materials perspective on polymers: both the mathematics of viscoelasticity theory as well as the physical mechanisms behind polymer deformation processes. Introductory material on fundamental mechanics is included to provide a continuous baseline for readers...
Materials and Design
The Art and Science of Material Selection in Product Design
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
Materials are the stuff of design. From the very beginning of human history, materials have been taken from the natural world and shaped, modified, and adapted for everything from primitive tools to modern electronics. This renowned book by noted materials engineering author Mike Ashby and Industrial...
Materials and Design
The Art and Science of Material Selection in Product Design
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Materials are the stuff of design. From the very beginning of human history, materials have been taken from the natural world and shaped, modified, and adapted for everything from primitive tools to modern electronics. This renowned book by noted materials engineering author Mike Ashby and industrial...
Biermann's Handbook of Pulp and Paper
Volume 1: Raw Material and Pulp Making
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Biermann's Handbook of Pulp and Paper: Raw Material and Pulp Making, Third Edition is a comprehensive reference for industry and academia covering the entire gamut of pulping technology. This book provides a thorough introduction to the entire technology of pulp manufacture; features chapters covering...