Books by Keyword: Internal Friction

Description: This book contains the abstracts presented at the 20th International Conference on Internal Friction and Mechanical Spectroscopy (ICIFMS20) held in Lausanne 7-10 July 2025. This conference is the 20th of a series that started in 1956 in Providence (USA) until the last one in Rome in 2021. It is an open window on the progress of Science in understanding the elastic, viscoelastic and viscoelastic behaviour of materials. Topics cover a wide domain of modern physics: crystal defect dynamics, magneto mechanical damping, glass transition, and very low damping materials needed for gravitational wave detection and quantum opto-mechanical devices.

Description: The 31st volume of the journal "Advanced Engineering Forum" contains peer-reviewed manuscripts describing the results of engineering solutions and research dealing with actual problems in the area of strength of materials and structures, building materials, architecture, determination of optimal parameters for the technology of equal channel angular pressing and modeling for the multiple-criteria decision making in manufacturing environment. Published articles will be useful for professionals in the various branches of engineering and for students and academic staff concerned with the related specialties.

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The special collection of peer reviewed papers tends to present to the reader recent advances in martensitic transformations; thermodynamics and kinetics of martensitic transformations; crystal structure, texture and defects in materials with martensitic transformations; mechanical behavior, shape memory effect, pseudoelasticity and other functional properties in TiNi-based alloys, Cu-based alloys, Fe-based and other alloys; magnetic shape memory alloys; non-metallic materials; theory and modeling of mechanical and functional properties; martensitic transformations in nanostructured alloys; medical applications and technological applications.

Description: The peer-reviewed papers in this special issue of Solid State Phenomena were selected from the 16th International Conference on Internal Friction and Mechanical Spectroscopy, ICIFMS-16, held on July 3 – 8, 2011, in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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The proceedings aimed at attracting newcomers to this field of research in order to appreciate the potential of anelastic methodologies in the investigation of advanced materials and new phenomena. Scientists who are already involved in the field will also find here ideas and inspiration for new experiments and theories.

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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.

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This special collection of 44 peer-reviewed papers has, as its main focus, advanced materials science and technology, with the emphasis on nanostructured materials and nanostructures.

Description: This treatment of “Time-Dependent Mechanical Properties of Solids” begins with a phenomenological description of the transport of some unspecified entity. It is assumed that the transport is caused by mechanical stresses or temperature fields. This hypothesis is based upon just a few well-established methods such as, for instance, the Zener theory of diffusion and the Inglis equation for stress enhancementof. Using these assumptions, it is possible to deduce formulae for a theoretically based description of several phenomena without referring to any specific process or entity.

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The principal purpose of assembling this special volume was to create a truly international body of peer-reviewed contributions on “Interaction between defects and anelastic phenomena in solids”.

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In modern society, the demand for means of suppressing the vibration of machine parts and tools is increasing; due to the need to solve noise problems and to improve the accuracy of mechanical systems. The most direct way of coping with such vibration problems is to use high damping materials to make the critical parts.

Description: This work bridges the gaps between mechanical spectroscopy, internal friction, relaxation phenomena in solids and the spectroscopic approach to the dissipation of mechanical energy in solids.
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A limited number of papers are selected from different fields in order to compare the analysis of similar relaxation phenomena occurring in various materials.