Books by Keyword: Composites

Description: Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).
This collection comprises 71 peer-reviewed papers which summarise the most recent developments in the fields of advanced materials research and structural integrity.

Description: Manufacturing industry is becoming ever more time-conscious with regard to the global economy, and the need for rapid prototyping and small production batches is increasing. These trends have placed a premium on the use of new and advanced technologies for quickly turning raw materials into usable goods; with no time being required for tooling. The need for advanced processing technologies is particularly evident when machining advanced materials, such as ceramics, composites and thermo-sensitive materials that have wide application but are considered to be "difficult-to-machine" using conventional machining technologies such as turning and milling. Abrasive waterjet (AWJ) machining has been found to be one of the advanced technologies that meet these processing requirements; due to its distinct advantages over other machining technologies.

Description: Advanced Ceramics are often exposed to very aggressive operating conditions. The improvement of such materials, and innovations in their production and processing methods are the driving forces behind the development of many industrial processes.

Description: This latest annual look back at the subject includes review papers on some applications of mechanical spectroscopy and magnetic relaxation to the monitoring of diffusion, on the effect of positron diffusion upon their annihilation, on the wind force in electromigration, on the creep of nanocrystalline metals (as related to grain-boundary diffusion) and on self-interstitial atom behaviour at high temperatures in dense metals.

Description: Membranes are playing a central role in a great variety of technological processes. Due to their physical and chemical properties the new classes of inorganic and organic polymer membranes play an ever increasing role in many applications.

Description: I. INTERLAMINAR FRACTURE MODELING & ANALYSIS . II. EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION & CHARACTERIZATION . III. INFLUENCE OF MATRIX MATERIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS . IV. DELAMINATION BUCKLING . V. DELAMINATION RESISTANCE CONCEPTS .

Description: To commemorate Australia's Bicentenary year in 1988, a special volume was published, containing research and review papers by leading authorities from all over the world. The book focusses on the mechanical behaviour of engineering materials.