Bücher der Reihe Engineering Materials and Processes

Dealing with extrusion in ceramics, this title provides the principles of extrusion of ceramics, history of extrusion in the ceramic industry, rheology of ceramic bodies, simulation for ceramic extrusion, wear and contamination in extrusion, and additives for extrusion etcetera in 20 chapters.

Porous semiconductor materials are finding applications in many areas of science and technology. This detailed book provides a detailed examination of these new types of materials, with an emphasis on optical properties and optical applications.

This book discusses recent advances in the chemistry involved in the controlled synthesis and assembly of metal oxide nanoparticles. It addresses the characterization required by such nanoobjects as well as their size- and shape-dependent properties.

Written by authorities in the subject, this book provides a complete treatment of metal forming and machining by using the computational techniques FEM, fuzzy set theory and neural networks as modelling tools.

Chemical Vapour Deposition explores the design capabilities and applications of advanced materials. From physical fundamentals to the optimization of processing parameters, this volume presents the development and manufacture of high performance materials.

This book investigates the problem of prediction and non-monotonicity of the effective electromechanical properties in two- and three-component composites based on ferroelectric ceramics and relaxor-ferroelectric single crystals.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the freezing of colloidal suspensions and explores cutting-edge research in the field.

This highlights ongoing research efforts on different aspectsof polymer nanocomposites and explores their potentials to exhibitmulti-functional properties. Offering aninvaluable resource for materials researchers and postgraduate students in thepolymer composites field, theywill also greatly benefit materials

Using a variety of illustrations, this book covers the majority of the techniques available for polishing diamond and polycrystalline diamond composites. These enable the reader to understand the merits and drawbacks of each existing technique.

Fusion bonding is one of three methods used to join composite and dissimilar materials. This text provides an understanding of the physical mechanisms involved, covering: heat transfer in fusion bonding; modelling thermal degradation; consolidation mechanisms; crystallisation kinetics; and more.

Anyone involved in circuit technology will find this an absolute must-read. It's the first book to discuss the current understanding of silver metallization and its potential as a future interconnect material for integrated circuit technology.

Developments in the use of electrospun fibrous materials, for application in tissue engineering and in carbon fibrous materials in fuel cells, has generated new interest in the dependence of the properties and structure of these materials on those of their constituent fibres.

"Charged Defects in Semiconductors" details the current state of knowledge regarding the properties of the ionized defects that can affect the behaviour of advanced transistors, photo-active devices, catalysts, and sensors.

Written from the viewpoint of physical chemistry, this authoritative and established text deals with the aqueous corrosion of metals. The concentration is on the underlying essentials of corrosion and failure, and the material is consistently presented in relation to practical applications to corrosion protection.

This book offers a practical introduction into the physics, design, modelling, fabrication and measurement methods for ferroelectric components and devices. It also explores emerging functionalities and components with enhanced performance.

Molecules which can respond to their environment and the smart machines we can build with them are and will continue to be a vital part of this 21st-century revolution. This title features an assessment of the properties and materials chemistry of the major classes of intelligent macromolecules from optoelectronic biomacromolecules to dendrimers.

The first edition of "Composite Materials" introduced a new way of looking at composite materials. This second edition expands the book's scope to emphasize application-driven and process-oriented materials development. The approach is vibrant yet functional.

Die Casting: An Analytical Approach will refresh knowledge of the governing laws of the fluid dynamics that have an effect on die cast die and die cast process design. It will be bought by product designers that design die cast parts and die cast die and process engineers and designers.