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Emphasising essential methods and universal principles, this textbook provides everything students need to understand the basics of simulating materials behaviour. All the key topics are covered from electronic structure methods to microstructural...

Materials are the stuff of design. From the very beginning of human history, materials have been taken from the natural world and shaped, modified, and adapted for everything from primitive tools to modern electronics. This renowned book by noted...

This book describes the theory and practice of infrared and Raman spectroscopy as applied to the study of the physical and chemical characteristics of polymers. Its purpose is to give the beginning researcher in the field a firm foundation and a starting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542265Author Ainissa RamirezFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Known as the bible of biomedical engineering, The Biomedical Engineering Handbook, Fourth Edition, sets the standard against which all other references of this nature are measured. As such, it has served as a major resource for both skilled professionals...

Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, Sixth Edition, winner of a 2018 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty), describes the procedures for material selection in mechanical design to ensure that the most suitable materials for a given application are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781468472356Author Adlai BishayFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Springer-Verlag New York Inc.Publisher Springer-Verlag New York Inc.Weight(grams) 773g

Engineers need to be familiar with the fundamental principles and concepts in materials and structures in order to be able to design structurers to resist failures. For 4 decades, this book has provided engineers with these fundamentals. Thoroughly...

When a new technology makes people ill, how high does the body count have to be before protectives steps are taken? This disturbing book tells a dark story of hazardous manufacturing, poisonous materials, environmental abuses, political machinations,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945291388Author Saravanan RFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Materials Research Forum LLCPublisher Materials Research Forum LLCWeight(grams) 236g

The third edition of Introduction to Composite MaterialsDesign is a practical, design-oriented textbook aimed at students and practicing engineers learning analysis and design of composite materials and structures. Readers will find the third edition to...

This book aims to take the reader through all aspects of fire safety and management in residential settings, from origin and ignition, risk assessment, protection and prevention, as well as comparing effective enforcement options from across all parts of...

Wood Coatings addresses the factors responsible for the performance of wood coatings in both domestic and industrial situations. The term 'wood coatings' covers a broad range of products including stains, varnishes, paints and supporting ancillary...

In materials science, dislocations are irregularities within the crystal structure or atomic scale of engineering materials, such as metals, semi-conductors, polymers, and composites. Discussing this specific aspect of materials science and engineering,...

This highly readable, popular textbook for upper undergraduates and graduates comprehensively covers the fundamentals of crystallography and symmetry, applying these concepts to a large range of materials. New to this edition are more streamlined...

From the visionary founder of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, a manifesto for the dawning age of active materialsThings in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today's researchers are...

A New Way of Living tells the broad story of the development of new towns in the Scottish Highlands and Islands post-1750. It pulls together the various strands that influenced the development of the North West Highlands after the disastrous risings and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333261262Author J.F.V. VincentFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave Macmillan

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900682629Author Ian W. DonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Society of Glass TechnologyPublisher Society of Glass TechnologyWeight(grams) 515g

Presenting the fundamental topics in glass science and technology, this concise introduction includes glass formation, crystallization, and phase separation. Glass structure models, with emphasis on the oxygen balance method, are presented in detail...

An informal and highly accessible writing style, a simple treatment of mathematics, and clear guide to applications have made this book a classic text in electrical and electronic engineering. The fundamental ideas relevant to the understanding of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900682278Author Howard M. McKenzieFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Society of Glass TechnologyPublisher Society of Glass TechnologyWeight(grams) 127g

The use of adhesives is widespread and growing. There are few modern artefacts, from simple food packing to complex jumbo jets, that are without this means of adhesive joining. Fully updated and revised, Adhesion Science 2nd Edition provides an...

Offers insights on currently-used concrete formwork structures, from classification, system components and materials' properties to selection and construction requirements and procedures, while considering product quality, labour, safety and economic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781426373053Author National Geographic KidsFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint National Geographic KidsPublisher National Geographic KidsWeight(grams)...

Crystals are sometimes called 'Flowers of the Mineral Kingdom'. In addition to their great beauty, crystals and other textured materials are enormously useful in electronics, optics, acoustics, and many other engineering applications. This book describes...

This groundbreaking text has been established as the market leader throughout the world. Profusely illustrated, Transmission Electron Microscopy: A Textbook for Materials Science provides the necessary instructions for successful hands-on application of...

Emulsions occur either as end products or during the processing of products in a huge range of areas including the food, agrochemical, pharmaceutical, paint and oil industries. Despite over one hundred years of research in the subject, however, a...

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This book presents an up-to-date overview on the main classes of metallic materials currently used in aeronautical structures and propulsion engines and discusses other materials of potential interest for structural aerospace applications. The coverage...

Written by a leading researcher in the field, this revised and updated second edition of a highly successful book provides an authoritative, comprehensive and unified treatment of the mechanics and micromechanisms of fatigue in metals, non-metals and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547017Author Imari Walker-FranklinFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

This fifth edition of a successful textbook continues to provide students with an introduction to the basic principles of materials science over a broad range of topics. The authors have revised and updated this edition to include many new applications...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639892556Author Nicholas ThomsonFormat HardbackPage Count 249Imprint States Academic PressPublisher States Academic PressWeight(grams) 871gDimensions(mm)...

This textbook provides students with a complete working knowledge of the properties of imperfections in crystalline solids. Readers will learn how to apply the fundamental principles of mechanics and thermodynamics to defect properties in materials...

Theory of Dislocations provides unparalleled coverage of the fundamentals of dislocation theory, with applications to specific metal and ionic crystals. Rather than citing final results, step-by-step developments are provided to offer an in-depth...

In the past 12 years since its publication, Concepts of Modern Catalysis and Kinetics has become a standard textbook for graduate students at universities worldwide. Emphasizing fundamentals from thermodynamics, physical chemistry, spectroscopy, solid...

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This book, originally published in 1979, was derived from courses offered at the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany. The American Ceramic Society republished this text in 1985, adding more than 100 new figures and references to demonstrate...

Design for Additive Manufacturing is a complete guide to design tools for the manufacturing requirements of AM and how they can enable the optimization of process and product parameters for the reduction of manufacturing costs and effort. This timely...