Mechanical Engineering & Materials

Artificially structured materials granular magnetic solids, as well as nano-sized multi-layer films are of great interest. The granules consist of ...

Carbon black is a material produced by the incomplete combustion of heavy petroleum products. It is used as a pigment and reinforcement in rubber a...

Stainless steel, termed as the miracle metal is all around us in numerous applications ranging from everyday household items to sophisticated bio...

The authors of this book provide recent research on conductive materials and composites. Chapter One studies the electromagnetic properties of micr...

Injection moulding is one of the most versatile and important manufacturing processes, capable of mass-producing complicated plastic parts in a var...

Heat transfer in porous media has continuously received great attention in recent years due to its wide applications in engineering. There are vari...

This book presents the tools of nanotechnology that can build, image, and manipulate nanostructures to build materials and devices. It bridges the ...

This book presents state-of-the-art research in polymer science.

Research during the last two decades in science and engineering has resulted in the fabrication of atomically precise structures. Nanotechnology is...

Piezoelectricity is the ability of certain crystalline materials to develop an electric charge proportional to a mechanical stress. Since its disco...

Metal-Matrix Composites MMCs are being used or considered for use in a variety of applications in the automotive, aerospace and many other industri...

Chapter one of Advances in Materials Science Research. Volume 38, critically scrutinizes various recycling techniques implemented in the current sc...

Piezoelectricity is the generation of electrical charge in response to mechanical stress and vice versa. In this compilation, bismuth-based ceramic...

Polycrystalline materials, both dense and porous, are traditionally fabricated from ceramic, metal or composite powders via powder technology route...

Advances in Materials Science Research. Volume 32 provides an overview on graphene oxide and discusses its role as a starting material building blo...

The purpose of this book was to investigate the temperature and input energy dependency of Nd:YAG laser performance pumped by flashlamp. A commerci...

From the perspectives of theory and experiment, this book introduces several different micro/nanostructure materials, including the Mg-based alloy ...

Heat treatment is a method used to alter the physical, and sometimes chemical, properties of a material. Heat treatment involves the use of heating...

Concrete is the most widely used construction material due to low price, considerable load bearing capacity and the easiness to be formed in differ...

The scattering of spin one-half fermions (electrons and neutrons) in multilayer systems containing magnetic nano-elements is a broad avenue for rev...

This popular science title covers adhesion science in an easily accessible entertaining manner. As well as outlining types of adhesion and their im...

Leading graphene research theorist Mikhail I. Katsnelson systematically presents the basic concepts of graphene physics in this fully revised secon...

This book is indexed in Chemical Abstracts ServiceThis book offers a comprehensive sketch of the tools used in material research and the rich and d...

This book is designed to provide a background in polymer rheology to both engineering students and practicing engineers. It is written at an interm...

Plasmonics is an important branch of optics concerned with the interaction of metals with light. Under appropriate illumination, metal nanoparticle...

This book provides a study in Bonding, Structure and Solid State Chemistry. It is based on lecture courses given over several years, but is not dir...

This unique compendium is devoted to flexoelectricity the response of polarization to a strain gradient. The effect is analogous to piezoelectrici...

A collection of 25 papers presented at the 11th International Symposium on Ceramic Materials and Components for Energy and Environmental Applicatio...

This highly illustrated reference work covers the three principal types of surface technologies that best protect engineering devices and products:...

Presents a self-contained introduction to continuum mechanics that illustrates how many of the important partial differential equations of applied ...

This book provides a study in Bonding, Structure and Solid State Chemistry. It is based on lecture courses given over several years, but is not dir...

Many advances in technology are due to the development of new materials and by using patent literature we can monitor how technology has advanced. ...