Description: Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).
This work focuses on the importance of healthy water for an harmonious life, water quality-estimation methods and standards, ions and healthy materials and the industrial and academic development of micro-environment control functional materials. Based upon papers presented at the forum, most of the selected papers concentrate on the topics of: (1) Academic Frontiers of Ecological Environment Functional Materials and Ion Technology, (2) Testing Technology and Evaluation Methods of Ecological Environment Functional Materials, (3) University Education in Ecological Environment Functional Materials. This is an invaluable guide to an important, but often overlooked, subject.

Trends in Composite Materials and their Design

Edited by: Prof. Mohamed A. Taha, Ahmed M. El-Sabbagh and Iman M. Taha

Online since: January 2010

Description: Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters BCI (WoS).
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.