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.

Functionally Graded Materials VIII

Edited by: Omer Van der Biest, Michael Gasik, Jozef Vleugels

Online since: August 2005

Description: Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).
Multifunctional materials are composite systems that exhibit useful responses to electrical, optical, magnetic and/or mechanical stimuli. They allow the compact and economic integration of two or more functions; which can be mechanical, biological, acoustic, thermal, electrical, magnetic, optical or sensory in nature. Functionally graded materials (FGM) are also multi-functional materials, which exhibit spatial variations in composition and/or microstructure; created with the specific purpose of controlling variations in thermal, structural or functional properties. In spite of large differences in the type and size scale of the materials considered, many common features exist, thus furnishing a rationale for grouping these materials together in one book.

Residual Stresses VII, ICRS7

Edited by: Sabine Denis, Takao Hanabusa, Bob Baoping He, Eric Mittemeijer, JunMa Nan, Ismail Cevdet Noyan, Berthold Scholtes, Keisuke Tanaka, KeWei Xu

Online since: July 2005

Description: The field of Residual Stresses is surprisingly large, and also highly interdisciplinary in nature, both with regard to its applications and to its scientific and technological fundamentals.
Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).

Sheet Metal 2005

Edited by: Manfred Geiger, Prof. Joost R. Duflou, H.J.J. Kals, Bez Shirvani and U.P. Singh

Online since: May 2005

Description: Sheet metals have an unbroken history of fascination to research metallurgists, and are also of great importance to industry. Sheet metal, its properties, and methods for its efficient and targeted processing, are important issues; perhaps even more so today than in earlier times.
Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).

Materials Structure & Micromechanics of Fracture

Edited by: Jaroslav Pokluda

Online since: April 2005

Description: Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).
This volume contains papers selected from the more than 120 contributions presented during the 4th international conference on “Materials Structure & Micromechanics of Fracture (MSMF-4)”, in Brno, Czech Republic, June 23-25, 2004.

PRICM-5

Edited by: Z.Y. Zhong, H. Saka, T.H. Kim, E.A. Holm, Y.F. Han and X.S. Xie

Online since: January 2005

Description: This indispensable work is the fifth in a series of international conferences devoted to advanced materials and processing. The conferences, which are held every three years, are jointly sponsored by the Chinese Society for Metals (CSM), the Japan Institute of Metals (JIM), the Korean Institute of Metals and Materials (KIM), and the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), and organized by them in rotation. The purpose of this international conference, PRICM, is to provide a forum for the exchange of technical and scientific information, which is always of great benefit to researchers, manufacuturers and end-users.

Advances in Materials Manufacturing Science and Technology

Edited by: Xing Ai, Jianfeng Li and Chuanzhen Huang

Online since: December 2004

Description: This collection comprises a selection of over 180 papers; submitted to the editors by numerous universities and industrial concerns, and subjected to peer-review by at least two expert referees.
Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).
The papers were selected on the basis of their quality, and their combined coverage of the main topics of the book.

Advances in Engineering Plasticity and Its Applications

Edited by: W.P. Shen and J.Q. Xu

Online since: October 2004

Description: Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).
These proceedings comprise the 192 papers which were presented at the Seventh Asia-Pacific Symposium on Engineering Plasticity and Its applications (AEPA2004), held on the 22nd to 26th September 2004 at Shanghai Jiaotong University, P.R.China.

Advances in Nondestructive Evaluation

Edited by: Seung-Seok Lee, Dong-Jin Yoon, Joon-Hyun Lee and Sekyung Lee

Online since: August 2004

Description: The aim of this 3-volume set is to bring together the expertise of scientists and engineers, in academia and industry, who are active in the field of non-destructive testing and evaluation.
Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).
The papers cover activities which include analytical techniques as well as experimental case studies.

Advances in Fracture and Failure Prevention

Edited by: Kikuo Kishimoto, Prof. Masanori Kikuchi, Tetsuo Shoji and Masumi Saka

Online since: April 2004

Description: Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).
The Far East and Oceanic Fracture Society (FEOFS) and the Center for Physics and Chemistry of Fracture and Failure Prevention (PCFP) jointly organized a pair of conferences, FEOFS 2003 and 2nd ICPCF, on October 20-22 at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.