Books by Keyword: Degradation

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Wood, which always looks quite solid to the naked eye, actually possesses a very intricate and exquisite structure; developed by Nature primarily to fulfil the requirements of a growing tree. How well the structure satisfies the needs of a construction material as used by humans is quite another matter - so to speak. Besides being an important constructional material, wood is today also an important source of precursors for the medical and chemical compounds used by human beings. These, and many other aspects of wood, are topics which materials science attempts to elucidate. When wood is used as a constructional material, human interest normally focuses on xylem, the “woody” inner portion of the trunk of a tree. The outer sections of the tree, the bark and cambium, mainly interest humans for reasons other than constructional.
As wood is an organic polymer-matrix composite, the study of wood might be assumed to be the province mainly of polymer scientists. This is not true however: materials scientists working on polymers are almost absent from research into wood. The situation is actually quite odd; since wood offers plenty of ideas which would also be applicable to synthetic polymers and their composites. This situation is reflected by the contents of this publication.

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The papers which make up this volume reflect the very diverse nature of nondestructive evaluation; covering as they do topics ranging from traditional NDE to newly developing NDE methods such as structural health monitoring; where nondestructive technologies are rapidly progressing by integrating emerging technologies from various fields.

Description: This issue, and the ones which will follow year-by-year, can be regarded not only as supplements to the recent special 10-year retrospective volumes on Diffusion in Silicon (volumes 153-155) and Diffusion in III-V Compounds (volumes 157-159), but also as a return to the 'regular business' of Diffusion and Defect Forum's 30-year project of succinctly summarising recent progress in these fields.

The present volume abstracts those papers published during the approximate period from June 1997 to June 1998. Earlier papers have been included in order to make sure that the coverage is contiguous with volume 152 of Defect and Diffusion Forum; the most recent 'regular' issue. Due to vagaries in publication schedules, the 1998 cut-off point is not exact, but any omissions will be corrected in the next annual retrospective. General priority has been given to the most accessible work and, in particular, to those papers which furnish original data or report important new techniques, phenomena or anomalies. Lesser priority has been given to reviews and to entirely theoretical work.

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The 1990's so far have seen significant developments in Materials Technology in a variety of materials classes such as Metals and Alloys, Ceramics and Coatings, Biomaterials, and Surfaces and Interfaces.