Books by Keyword: Anisotropy

Description: This two-volume set of technical articles on materials science represents the proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference of the European Scientific Association for Material Forming held in Erlangen, Germany during March, 2012.
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The 227 peer-reviewed papers are grouped into the chapters: Keynotes; Formability of Metallic Materials; Forging and Rolling; Composite-Forming Processes; Semi-Solid Processes; Lightweight Design and Energy Efficiency in Metal Forming; New and Advanced Numerical Strategies for Material Forming; Extrusion and Drawing; Friction and Wear in Material Processing; Nano-Structured Materials and Microforming; Inverse Analysis Optimization and Stochastic Approaches; Constitutive Models for Metallic Alloys (Multiscale and Continuum); Innovative Joining by Forming Technologies; Incremental and Sheet-Metal Forming; Sheet-Bulk-Metal Forming; Heat Transfer Modelling; Structures, Properties and Processing of Polymers; Non-Conventional Processes; Machining and Cutting; Integrated Design, Modelling and Reliability Assessment in Forming (I-DMR).

Description: The purpose of this special collection of peer-reviewed papers was to provide an opportunity for scientists from all over the world to share details of recent advances in the physics of magnetic materials.
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The work is divided into: I. To the Memory of S.V.Vonsovsky, II. Spin-Polarized Transport, III. Spin Dynamics, Spin Waves, Spin-Wave Resonance, IV. Spin Reorientation Phase Transitions, V. Spin-Orbit and Exchange Interactions, Magnetic Anisotropy and Magnetostriction, VI. Dynamics of Domain Structures and Domain Walls, VII. Magnetic Nanostructures and Films, VIII. Magnetism and Nanomaterials, IX. Low-Dimensional Magnetism, X. Magnetism of Strongly Correlated Systems, XI. Magnetotransport and Magneto-Optics.

Description: The great majority of solid-state materials – natural as well as man-made ones – have a polycrystalline structure. They consist of crystallites having various sizes, shapes and crystallographic orientations. Because of the anisotropy of crystal properties, the material as a whole may also be anisotropic if the orientation distribution of the crystallites is not random. Furthermore, because of the differently oriented anisotropies of neighbouring crystals, the material is also micro-inhomogeneous. Macroscopic anisotropy and micro-inhomogeneity are thus fundamental properties of all polycrystalline materials. Therefore, the study of preferred crystal orientations, or crystallographic texture, is of major interest in research and industrial applications. Analysis of the crystal texture is now a well-established tool for quality control and failure analysis in industry, as well as in academic research, because of the ready availability of commercial equipment and refined computer programs.

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Composite materials are increasingly finding use in diverse applications requiring a wide range of property and performance requirements. Low density, high specific strength and stiffness are the main features that make composite materials most suitable for structural applications. The field covers the concurrent manipulation of the material’s composition and of the internal architecture of the composite in order to obtain the desired properties. The ability to tailor composite materials precisely is of great importance in structural applications. A systematic approach to the optimum tailoring of composite materials is a challenging design problem. The focus should be on the practical design aspects, and that is what is addressed in this special-topic volume.

Description: To the materials science community, Texture is an important property which describes the relative orientations of the various material elements which constitute the microstructure. These elements are usually the crystalline grains; each with a different orientation of its crystal lattice. However, morphological textures, such as the arrangement of fibers in a composite material, also have to be considered. In rare cases, the texture is random; with all possible orientations being equally represented in the material. But, usually, processing of the material has caused the texture to become non-random; with a consequent anisotropy of the material properties. Thus, not only metallurgists and materials scientists take an interest in textures, but also physicists, mathematicians, geologists, mechanical engineers and others.

Description: This 3rd Conference on Materials Science, Testing and Informatics provided an invaluable forum for discussions on Functional Materials and Technologies for the New Millennium.
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These proceedings comprise 139 papers presented at the 6th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Engineering Plasticity and Its Applications (AEPA2002), held from the 2nd to the 6th of December 2002 at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Description: This issue covers, in the form of abstracts, the work which has been reported between the previous retrospective and the end of 2001. The choice of abstracts is guided by criteria such as accessibility, data content and description of important new techniques, phenomena or anomalies. But there is also a thorough coverage of more qualitative features of diffusion and defect phenomena, computer modelling and theory. The volume also includes, as usual, a number of invited review and experimental papers which treat a wide range of topics in the field.
The more theoretical review papers presented here cover the modelling of intergranular segregation and diffusion in alloys, as well as the impact of electron theory. The more practical aspects of diffusion are described by reviews concerning interdiffusion in coatings and long-term thermomechanical behaviour.

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From the early industrial revolution, metal working has been the major driving force for the development of many manufacturing technologies. “Advances in Engineering Plasticity” reports on recent developments in the field of metal forming and plasticity research from both the fundamental science and industrial application perspective.

Description: The present work addresses every aspect - from experiment to modelling - of the physical metallurgy of aluminium alloys; with particular emphasis being placed on processing, microstructures and final properties. The entire gamut of material applications is covered here, including transportation, packaging and building, and all Al-based materials are considered, such as Al-Li alloys, laminates, composites, and ultrafine structures prepared using conventional or novel techniques.