Composites
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Ceramic Matrix Composites
Ceramic matrix composites are under intense investigation internationally to find their useful application in higher temperature structures, particularly in aerospace propulsion systems. -
Texture and Anisotropy of Polycrystals II
Natural, as well as man-made, materials are often assumed to behave uniformly, exhibiting equal strength in all directions, because most of them have a polycrystalline structure. The anisotropy of the individual crystals, however, is smoothed out only in the presence of a large number of grains having a random distribution of orientations. In reality, there usually remains an anisotropy due to the existence of preferred orientations. Its magnitude depends upon the statistical distribution of grain orientations – the "crystallographic texture" or, more simply, the texture. –This governs the extremes, of the physical property of interest, which a single crystal of the material under consideration can exhibit in directional tests. Local variations in texture, as well as the arrangements and types of grain/phase boundaries, may give rise to inhomogeneous material properties. The texture also carries with it information on the history of a material’s processing, use and misuse. A knowledge of the texture is a prerequisite for all quantitative techniques of materials characterization, and is based upon the interpretation of diffraction-peak intensities. It is also necessary to model the relationships between microstructural features and physical or mechanical properties. Therefore, the texture is of great value for quality control in a wide range of industrial applications, and in basic materials research. -
Interfacial Effects and Novel Properties of Nanomaterials
The aim of this book is to review recent progress in the understanding of the new properties, or unusual combinations of properties, possessed by nanostructured materials; with particular emphasis being placed on interfacial effects. -
Ferroelectric Polymers and Ceramic-Polymer Composites
This book gives perspective of an exciting area of new and intelligent materials for electroactive sensor applications for microelectronics (and possibly in the nanometer scale) for the twenty-first century. -
Mechanical Spectroscopy II
This book comprises the proceedings of the Second International School on Mechanical Spectroscopy; presented here as invited lectures (Part I) and contributed papers (Part II). After having originated merely as a technique for the study of internal friction, mechanical spectroscopy has developed strongly, during the past decade, into a tool which is now indispensable for making advances in the creation of new materials. This book will therefore provide an excellent reference source for every researcher working in the field. -
Silicon Nitride '93
In recent years, significant progress has been made in developing high performance materials for technological needs. In the case of structural ceramics, silicon nitride-based materials are considered the most promising candidates. -
Advances in Metal Matrix Composites
The volume presents the papers presented at the International Symposium on Metal Matrix Composites held in Cairo in 1992. All papers have been reviewed and edited. -
Metallic Multilayers
This book contains a series of lectures given in a Summer School held in Aussois (France) in September 1989. It offers a global perspective on the current state-of-the-art in the rapidly emerging field of metallic multilayered structures. -
Interlaminar Fracture of Composites
I. INTERLAMINAR FRACTURE MODELING & ANALYSIS . II. EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION & CHARACTERIZATION . III. INFLUENCE OF MATRIX MATERIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS . IV. DELAMINATION BUCKLING . V. DELAMINATION RESISTANCE CONCEPTS . -
Metastable, Mechanically Alloyed and Nanocrystalline Materials 2003
This volume comprises the proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Metastable, Mechanically Alloyed and Nanocrystalline Materials, 2003. ISMANAM-2003 was held in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, from the 24th to the 28th August 2003.