Materials Science, Testing and Informatics IV

Review from Ringgold Inc., ProtoView: This volume contains 71 reviewed papers from the October 2007 Sixth Hungarian Conference on Materials Science (which, unlike its predecessors, also covered testing and informatics). The conference and the collection were organized in five sections covering classical materials and technologies, including mechanical engineering, electrotechnics, energetics, ceramics, and polymers; special materials and technologies, including nanotechnology, biotechnology, and other specialties; modern research and characterization methods; modeling and materials informatics; and innovative products and technologies, including industrial applications, technologies, and properties. Examples of specific topics include systematic examination of metallographic methods for detection of primary steel texture, environmentally acceptable pre-treatment of zinc with alkyl diphosophonates for corrosion protection, qualitative and quantitative fractographic analysis of dynamically impacted Si3N4 ceramics, bulk ultrafine-grained nickel consolidated from nanopowders, hyberbolic model based data evaluation for magnetic nondestructive evaluation measurements, computer aided measuring of textile-mechanical parameters, analysis of mechanical behavior tendon implant by using numerical method, electropolishing of coronary stents, and laser cutting of high precision tubes.