Mechanical Engineering & Materials

Amorphous materials play a significant role in uplifting the value of different applications based on physical sciences. Amorphous materials exist ...

Ceramic materials are usually considered as most brittle since they are full of defects, sometimes difficult to determine, that affect all their pr...

Materials science encompasses four classes of materials, the study of each of which may be considered a separate field: metals, ceramics, polymers ...

It is well known that polymeric and composite materials are finding various applications in some critical areas of human endeavours, such as medici...

The intention of this book is to provide an updated view of the synthesis, characterisation and applications of different kinds of nanocomposites. ...

The present monography consists of three parts, in which particulate-filled polymer nanocomposites with elastomeric, semicrystalline and amorphous ...

Tungsten alloying in microalloyed steels is of growing academic and industrial interests due to its positive role in the aspects of microstructural...

Although industrial processes are inherently nonlinear, many contributions for controller design for those plants are based on the assumption of a ...

Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) are clay-type materials with extraordinary properties, whose structure is composed of stacked inorganic metal oxid...

Milling is the machining process of using rotary cutters to remove material from a workpiece. It covers a wide variety of different operations and ...

Cryopreservation is a process where cells or whole tissues are preserved by cooling to sub-zero temperatures, typically 77 K. At these cold tempera...

Machining is a science and technology that holds great interest in industrialised countries (G7) and countries with emerging economies (BRICS). Now...

Silicon carbide (SiC) has been described as a suitable semiconductor material to use in MEMS and electronic devices for harsh environments. In rece...

The most important first premise in science is that mass can be neither created nor destroyed. It is also becoming clear that natural laws dictate ...

The most important first premise in science is that mass can be neither created nor destroyed. It is also becoming clear that natural laws dictate ...

This book proposes a novel design method that combines both genetic programming (GP) to automatically explore the open-ended design space and bond ...

Polyoxometalates (abbreviated as POMs), also known as early-transition metal-oxygen anion clusters, is a large and rapidly growing series of inorga...

This book compiles articles from the Journal of Characterization and Development of Novel Materials. Topics discussed include the perspectives of p...

This book presents current research in the study of photofunctional hybrid materials having potential applications for current issues relating to e...

Radioactive material is used worldwide for legitimate commercial purposes, including industrial processes in the oil and gas, aerospace, and food s...