Mechanical Engineering & Materials

This book covers the properties, processing, and applications of lightweight materials aluminum, magnesium, beryllium, titanium, titanium aluminide...

One of the first books new engineers and technicians read; best seller. This new edition preserves the previous editionsfocusing on the metallurgi...

This Geotechnical Special Publication contains 24 peer-reviewed technical papers presented at the GeoHunan International Conference: Challenges and...

This Geotechnical Special Publication contains 25 papers presented at the GeoHunan International Conference: Challenges and Recent Advances in Pave...

This book presents a comprehensive review of recent advances in materials science research. The chapters included in this volume are conductive com...

Asphaltenes are non-crystalline, brittle, and black solids. At high temperatures they can polymerize, and convert into coke or asphaltic residue. A...

Cationic surfactants, comprising a positively charged hydrophilic head, have been one of the most promising compounds due to their ability to produ...

The aim of this monography is to summarise the fundamentals and technical approaches in the processing and behavior of nanostructured materials in ...

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

Intelligent Materials and Structures provides exceptional insights into designing intelligent materials and structures for special applications in ...

Nowadays, the use of microcomponents and miniaturised functional products from metals, polymers, ceramics, composites and advanced materials has in...

In this book, some interesting technologies and applications dedicated to adhesives are presented and discussed. First, the interference fitted and...

Due to their strong hardness, abrasives are suitable to produce material removal in contact with surfaces and have a high resistance to wear. Field...

Now in its second edition, Sustainable Materials shows how we can greatly reduce the amount of material demanded and used in manufacturing, while s...

Sheet forming fundamentals are thoroughly addressed in this comprehensive reference for the practical and efficient use of sheet forming technologi...

The advanced materials and composites based on nanotechnology approaches, modern piezoelectric techniques, and also using the latest achievements o...

This reference work presents the basic principles of angiogenesis induction, including the roles of signaling factors such as hypoxia-inducible fac...

Fluorite-based oxide materials such as stabilised zriconias, doped cerias, and urania represent a group of the most important key engineering mater...

This is the second volume of the four volume set. Functional nanomaterials appear in our daily lives. These materials mainly include nanocomposites...

This book discusses the synthesis, performance and applications of ceramic materials. Chapter One presents the recycling of biomass ashes in the ob...

This book is concerned with heavy metals, which are considered to be the most hazardous pollutants present in the water system. Heavy metals are ex...