Description: This special edition presents research results spanning practically significant materials science domains: polymer engineering, surface treatment and protection, microwave-absorbing materials, and solid electrolytes. The publication is created to serve as a resource for researchers, engineers, and graduate students pursuing high-performance materials and their practical deployment into the latest technologies.

Mechanical Stress Evaluation by Neutrons and Synchrotron Radiation

Edited by: Y. Akiniwa, K. Akita and H. Suzuki

Online since: May 2010

Description: Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).
Neutron and synchrotron radiation are novel and powerful tools for stress evaluation, and are widely applied to fundamental studies in materials science and engineering, and in various industrial fields. This volume brings together the up-to-date knowledge of scientists from the academic world and industry in order to address specific topics concerning the evaluation of stresses and related phenomena using neutrons, synchrotron radiation and X-rays. Many of the presentations on stress-testing deal with samples of up to 0.5m line-pipe. Many applications of micro-beam X-ray methods are described, ranging from intragranular stress fluctuations within a grain (attributed to dislocations) to stresses in interconnects on chips. Simultaneous evaluation of tomographic and stress measurements of the same sample was shown to provide extremely clear insights into the nature and cause of damage. A major advance in the simulation of stress and strain at the mesoscopic scale has been achieved using the extended elasto-plastic self-consistent model. Such discoveries, and many others, will make this an important reference work for anyone who uses these techniques.