Mechanical Engineering & Materials

As the inorganic constituents of skeletons, dentine and the enamel of teeth in all vertebrates, as well as antlers of male deer, calcium orthophosp...

In the first chapter of Gyroscopes: Types, Functions and Applications, the operating principle, types and applications of fiber-optic gyroscopes ar...

This selection is designed to satisfy the curiosity of people interested in the plant and machinery they commonly see as they travel around the UK....

Aerospace science and technology have made remarkable progress in the last century. Although a few publications have written on this topic, most ar...

Wind tunnels are facilities in which the wind is produced by fans or by compressed air to study and measure the action of the air flow around a sol...

Zinc oxide (ZnO) is an n-type semiconductor with versatile applications such as optical devices in ultraviolet region, piezoelectric transducers, t...

In Volume 39 the origin and fundamentals of the electrodeposition technique are introduced, and the characteristics of the nucleation process are d...

What does it mean to live in a material world, and how do materials of the past and present hold the keys to our future? This book tackles these qu...

Discovering the secrets of animal movement and what they can teach usInsects walk on water, snakes slither, and fish swim. Animals move with astoun...

Introducing the Generalised Molecular Crystal Model, as a more realistic model for the study of the small polaron transport in disordered materials...

Advances in Materials Science Research. Volume 40 first summarizes the recently published literature regarding modern applications of lignocellulos...

With physical properties that often may not be described by the transposition of physical laws from 3D space across to 2D or even 1D space, low-dim...

This volume contains a collection of 14 papers submitted from the below five symposia held during the 11th International Symposium on Ceramic Mater...

Contact resistance is both an old and new topic. It is old because fundamentals of the semiconductor-metal contacts were established in the 1930s e...

This book consolidates various aspects of nanomaterials, highlighting their versatility as well as how the same materials can be used in seemingly ...

As the ability to produce nanomaterials advances, it becomes more important to understand how the energy of the atoms in these materials is affecte...

This useful, one-stop resource for understanding the most important issues in materials challenges in alternative and renewable energy. The logical...