This book provides a discussion of the latest research pertaining to the hydraulic design of spilways and to hydraulic engineering in general. It comprises the papers of a workshop organized to bring together engineers and scientists from around the world for the exchange of ideas on water flow over stepped spillways. This workshop covered a range of subjects from two-phase flow characteristics to refurbishment and implementation of spillways in existing dam structures, and the book also includes a number of illustrative case studies. Overall, this book is one of the first in the rapidly growing field of modern hydraulic engineering techniques. It will interest designers, scientists, and graduate students and researchers in the fields of hydraulic, civil and environmental engineering.

This work seeks to provide a solid foundation to the principles and practices of dynamics and stability assessment of large-scale power systems, focusing on the use of interconnected systems - and aiming to meet the requirements of today's competitive and deregulated environments. It contains easy-to-follow examples of fundamental concepts and algorithmic procedures.

'The Organic Chemistry of Museum Objects' makes available in a single volume, a survey of the chemical composition, properties and analysis of the whole range of organic materials incorporated into objects and artworks found in museum collections. The authors cover the fundamental chemistry of the bulk materials such as wood, paper, natural fibres and skin products, as well as that of the relatively minor components incorporated as paint, media, varnishes, adhesives and dyes. This expanded second edition, now in paperback, follows the structure of the first, though it has been extensively updated. In addition to chapters on basic organic chemistry, analytical methods, analytical findings and fundamental aspects of deterioration, the subject matter is grouped as far as possible by broad chemical class - oils and fats, waxes, bitumens, carbohydrates, proteins, natural resins, dyestuffs and synthetic polymers. This is an essential purchase for all practising and student conservators, restorers, museum scientists, curators and organic chemists.

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Preface. Section 1: metal and Semiconductor Nanostructures. Semiconductor Nanocrystal Colloids. Injection and Transport of Spin Coherence in Semiconductors. Synthesis of Nanowires from Laser Ablation. Level Spacing in Small Clusters. A Phenomenological Model of Percolating Magnetic Nanostructures. Structure of nc-Si:H Films. Nano-Oxidation Kinetics of Titanium Nitride Films. Origin of Enhanced Photoluminescence in Si-Covered POPS. Spin Split Cyclotron Resonance in GaAs Quantum Wells. The Effect of Intermixing on Tensile-Strained Barriers GaAs/GaAsP Quantum Well Structure. Section 2: Carbon Nanostructures. Carbon Nanotubes: Interactions, Manipulation Electrical Properties and Devices. Mono-Sized Carbon Nanotubes in AFI Crystal. Preparation and Properties of Processible Polyacetylene-Wrapped Carbon Nanotubes. Electronic Structure of the Endohedral Metallofullerence Lu@C82. Localized-Density-Matrix Methods, and its Application to Carbon Nanotubes. CuC60 Interaction and Nano-composite Structures. Section 3: Functional Nanostructured Materials. Microstructures Particles for Electomagnetorheological (EMR) Application. Energy Barrier in the Quantum Nanomagnet: Mn12. The Percolation Model - the Tribological Mechaanism of Nanoparticle Filled Polymer Composites. Tribological Properties of Self-Assembled Monolayers. Nanosized Rare Earth Activated Phosphors. Properties of Co/Al2O3/Co Tunnel Junction with Co Nanoparticles Embedded in AL2O3. Investigations of GaN Blue Laser Semiconductor. Section 4: Nanocomposites. Layer-by-Layer Assembly: A Way for Multicomposite Ultrathin Films. Sol-Gel Preparation and luminescence Properties of Nano-structured Hybrid Materials Incorporated with Europium Complexes. Preparation of Narrowly Distributed Novel Stable and Soluble Polyacetylene Nanoparticles. Liquid Crystalline Behaviour of Polystyrene/Clay Nanocomposite. Luminscent Properties of Nano-structured Monolith Containing Rare Earth Complexes. Alternating LB Film of Ferric Oxide Nanoparticles-Copper Phthalocyanine Derivative and Its Gas Sensitivity. Photoconductive TiOPc Nanoparticles Embedded in Polymer Prepared from LPDR. Dielectric Properties of Au/SiO2 Nanostructured Composite Material. Author Index. Subject Index.

By illustrating a wide range of specific applications in all major industries, this work broadens the coverage of X-ray diffraction beyond basic tenets, research and academic principles. The book serves as a guide to solving problems faced everyday in the laboratory, and offers a review of the current theory and practice of X-ray diffraction, major advances and potential uses.

Covers all aspects of gold nanorods along with selected protocols Focuses on synthetic chemistry, optical property, and fictionalization approach of colloidal gold nanorods Describes standard synthetic methods and advantage of gold nanorods in biomedical applications Includes authentic and reproducible experimental procedures Discusses applications like redox catalyst, catalyst promoter, delivery carrier, solar cell material, and so forth

Magnetic and superconducting materials pervade every avenue of the technological world from microelectronics and mass-data storage to medicine and heavy engineering. This Concise Encyclopedia draws together for the first time in a single volume the remarkable advances seen in recent years in the discovery of new materials and improvements of existing materials, in the elucidation of a new and deeper understanding of their phenomenology and in the expansion and diversification of their application in technology. Magnetic and superconducting materials have much in common; they have both experienced, over the last decade, a revolution that has revitalised and galvanised their respective fields. In each case the impetus has come from the discovery of new materials; this, in turn, has stimulated a re-evaluation of a wide range of basic mechanisms and phenomena. The encyclopedia is based on newly commissioned articles and articles revised from the acclaimed "Encyclopedia of Materials and Engineering." Details of all important materials systems and their properties are included and key areas such as thin films are covered. The volume contains 110 articles, alphabetically organised and written by over 120 acknowledged experts within the field of magnetic and superconducting materials. Each article discusses in turn one aspect of the subject and includes, where appropriate, photographs, line drawings and tables to aid the understanding of the topic under discussion. Cross-references guide readers to articles covering subjects of related interest and the bibliography at the end of each article indicates the most important recent literature.

Offers designers and users of mechanical systems an overview of structural stiffness and damping and their critical roles in mechanical design. The text assesses the relationship between stiffness and damping parameters in mechanical systems and structural materials. An accompanying disk contains detailed analyses of stiffness- and damping-critical systems.

The intial defects induced at early age of concrete hardening: thermal strains, shrinkage, creep and the associated risks of cracking are one of the governing factors for long-term performance of concrete. Proposing a simplified but integrated scenario of concrete life cycle simulation method, this book examines and explains the vast amount of experimental observations related to hardening concrete using a common set of physical laws. The methods used focus on the three primary processes common to the development of all cementitious materials: hydration, moisture transport and structure formation. The authors describe an integrated theoretical and computational platform from which to examine and assess the quality and structural durability of concrete at an early age. This represents an alternative approach to the problem of evaluating durability performance and presents a practical methodology for researchers and practitioners in the field of concrete technology. The proposed scheme may be used in practical computational simulation methods, with the relevant software available on the Internet.

A highly pragmatic guide to advanced methods for improving adhesion, Adhesion Promotion Techniques presents the state of the art in improving bond strength between different materials for many manufacturing processes. Explores up-to-date, high-quality adhesion technologies for a wide variety of materials, thoroughly explaining current capabilities of adhesion promotion for both students and seasoned researchers. Reviewing the suitable chemistry or morphology for enhanced adhesion to metal, plastic, and wood surfaces, Adhesion Promotion Techniques discusses mechanisms such as viscoelastic energy dissipation, weak boundary layers and interphase, mechanical interlocking, and those based on electrostatic, thermodynamic, diffusion, and chemical bonding theories considers cleaning, ablation, cross-linking, and chemical modification of organic polymers illustrates analytical methods such as the laser microprobe mass analyzer, Auger electron spectroscopy, X-ray fluorescence, inverse gas chromatography, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and atomic force microscopy demonstrates applications of ultraviolet, CO2, and IR lasers investigates uses of energy-saving, ecologically clean anticorrosion microorganisms in treatment of polymer surfaces explores acid-base interactions in adhesion and more Containing over 1000 references and more than 300 helpful graphs, equations, drawings, and photographs, Adhesion Promotion Techniques is required reading for materials scientists; organic, physical, polymer, and surface chemists; chemical engineers; adhesion scientists and adhesive technologists; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

The Handbook of Polymer Testing: Physical Methods provides virtually currently used techniques for measuring and testing the physical properties of polymers. A concise but detailed technical guide to the physical testing methods of synthetic polymers in plastics, rubbers, cellular materials, textiles, coated fabrics, and composites, the book analyses a wide array of physical parameters and features complete coverage of mechanical, optical, and electrical, and thermal properties. Topics of interest include sample preparation, time-dependent properties, coated fabrics, weathering, permeability, and nondestructive testing.

This volume contains the results of the Manchester Benchmarking exercise for railway vehicle dynamics simulation packages. Five of the main computer packages currently used for this purpose were examined in the exercise and the results are presented in the form of tables and graphs.

Analyzes the extensive experimental and theoretical results on the phase composition, structure and properties of aluminium alloys containing scandium. The text studies the effects of scadium on these properties from a physico-chemical viewpoint. The authors present binary, ternary and more complex phase diagrams for these alloys and consider in detail recrystallization, superplastic behaviour and decomposition of supersaturated solid solutions and the effects of solidification conditions on phase equilibria. The microstructure stability for aluminium alloys containing scandium is estimated, based on a quantitative analysis of the alloys structure and properties. The realtion between the structure and properties of alloys with differing phase compositions, and tha acting hardening mechanisms are discussed. The authors also give some practical recommendations for alloying aluminium alloys with scandium. The experimental results presented in this book have provided a basis for the development of commercial aluminium alloys for a wide range of industrial applications.

Plastics and rubber materials, or polymers, are increasingly the first choice of engineers when reliable, cost-effective performance and safety are essential. The volume of polymers used in the Western economy now exceeds that of metals, which requires today's engineering students to have a thorough grounding in the properties and applications of polymeric materials. The first chapters of Engineering with Polymers explain what polymers are, how they behave, and how articles are made from them. The authors then show how the standard engineering techniques of stress analysis, structures, fluid mechanics, heat transfer and design can be adopted or adapted to cover plastics and rubber materials. The book ends with chapters detailing interactions between processing and properties, and a description of a variety of approaches to designing plastics products, from practical advice to the use or further development of theoretical principles, backed up by examples and case studies. The book is aimed at mechanical engineering students and design engineers in industry and also at materials' and chemical engineers.

Studying for an engineering qualification?
Looking for a concise but comprehensive introduction to engineering materials?
More interested in the practical aspects of the subject than in the science and theory?

If you have answered 'yes' to any of these questions then this book is for you!

Engineering Materials Volume 1 provides a comprehensive and highly practical introduction to the basic science of materials technology for all engineering students. This new edition has been rewritten and updated to reflect the requirements of the Advanced GNVQ and BTEC NC/D Engineering specifications. As such it also forms an ideal introduction to the subject for first-year degree courses in engineering.

Topics covered include: basic science of materials; alloying of metals; plain carbon steels and cast irons, and their heat treatment; non-ferrous metals, their alloys and heat treatment; polymeric materials; bearing materials; material shaping and testing (destructive and non-destructive); performance of materials in service and their selection.< BR>
This book leads naturally into the companion volume VoluEngineering Materials me 2, intended for students studying materials at a more advanced level such as HNC/D and second-year engineering degree courses. The broad coverage of this two-volume approach ensures that these core texts not only satisfy the requirements of technician engineers up to the highest level but also provide an excellent technical background for undergraduates studying for a degree in mechanical engineering, materials engineering or combined engineering.

Responding to the exponential growth in new technology and research activity on the contemporary carbon fiber scene, this thoroughly updated and expanded Third Edition offers the latest information on the structural, surface, mechanical, electronic, thermal, and magnetic properties of carbon fibers as well as their manufacture and industrial applications from many of the world's most distinguished specialists in the field. Helps resolve everyday production, development, and marketing issues Organized to ensure a smooth, logical progression from one topic to the next, the Third Edition presents excellent, in-depth coverage of new topics, including procedures for preparing pitch-based and vapor-grown carbon fibers structures of carbon fibers from commercial to experimental examples industrial treatments of carbon fiber surfaces with surface sizings and carbon fiber composites with surface coatings surface characterizations by instrumental methods, such as FTIR, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Auger electron spectroscopy, scanning tunneling microscopy, and atomic force microscopy carbon nanotubes and their electrical resistivity and magnetoresistance qualities the manufacture and characterization of activated carbon fibers as well as their uses as adsorbents, catalyst supports, and electronic materials and more Providing exceptional literature and patent references-over 400 new to this edition -as well as photographs of currently available carbon fiber products from major American, French, and Japanese companies, this Third Edition will remain a valuable guide into the 21st century for physical, polymer, surface, and colloid chemists; materials scientists; mechanical and chemical engineers; researchers and marketing personnel working in carbon fiber and related industries; and graduate-level students in these disciplines.

This revised text provides an updated account of principles and survey modelling in hydraulic, coastal and offshore engineering. Topics covered include discrete forms of conservation laws, numerical methods, the foundations of computational hydraulics, and applications of computational hydraulics.

Presents all the main aspects of the microstructure of nickel-base superalloys, and includes micrographs chosen from among a large range of commercial and academic alloys, from the as-cast product to in-situ components, worn from in-service use. Including more than 100 illustrations, the text explains all the transformation mechanisms involved in the origination (creation) of microstructures during solidification or heat treatments (crystallization paths, segregation, crystal orientation, precipitation, TCP, coarsening and rafting, etc.). It includes up-to-date information and data such as phase diagrams, crystallographic structures, and relationships with functional properties. Nearly 300 references provide a key to further investigation.

Assuming only basic knowledge of mathematics and engineering mechanics, this lucid reference introduces the fundamentals of finite element theory using easy-to-understand terms and simple problems-systematically grounding the practitioner in the basic principles then suggesting applications to more general cases. Furnishes a wealth of practical insights drawn from the extensive experience of a specialist in the field Providing an in-depth overview of the analysis process, Practical Guide to Finite Elements describes the casting of elementary mechanics problems into a simplified form with idealization techniques shows how energy methods are employed to solve engineering problems involving stress, strain, and displacement outlines a process for computer-aided engineering analysis explains how numerical integration is utilized in conjunction with parametric elements demonstrates how a simple FORTRAN software routine computes element stiffness considers the use of loads and boundary conditions in finite element models presents common pitfalls that beginning analysts are likely to encounter addresses the interpretation of finite element analysis results and more Generously illustrated with over 200 detailed drawings to clarify discussions and containing key literature citations for more in-depth study of particular topics, this clearly written resource is an exceptional guide for mechanical, civil, aeronautic, automotive, electrical and electronics, and design engineers; engineering managers; and upper-level undergraduate, graduate, and continuing-education students in these disciplines.

This dictionary represents today the most extensive rock blasting dictionary available and it is therefore a valuable tool and essential for research and writing reports, papers to international journals.

Terminology is important in the process of development of a science because it is the language for communication between students, teachers, technicians, scientists and practitioners in the field of blasting. This dictionary contains 1,980 terms, 316 symbols, ninety-three acronyms, abbreviations and shortened forms, 221 references, thirty-one figures, thity-two formulas and twenty-eight tables. In this book, not only short definitions of the terms are presented, but also a quantification of some terms is included, and their relationship to other parameters in blasting is highlighted.

All students, teachers, technicians, engineers, scientists and practioners in the field of blasting should get a copy as a desk reference book. If we all use the same symbols for example, the reading of blasting papers is speeded up and facilitated a lot.

This book discusses how the excess value, of the products using braid, is captured in prosthetic limbs, aircraft and automotive components, commercial furniture, and trenchless sewer repair structures. It outlines the braided pultrusion process and also discusses impregnation states.

Maintaining an optimal blend of theory and practice, this readily accessible reference/text details the utility of system dynamics for analysis and design of mechanical, electrical, fluid, thermal, and "mixed" engineering systems-addressing topics from system elements and simple first- and second-order systems to complex lumped- and distributed-parameter models of practical machines and processes. Emphasizing digital simulation and integrating frequency-response methods throughout, System Dynamics furnishes up-to-date and thorough discussions on relations between real system components and ideal math models continuous-time dynamic system simulation methods, such as MATLAB/SIMULINK analytical techniques, such as classical D-operator and Laplace transform methods for differential equation solutions and linearization methods vibration, electromechanics, and mechatronics Fourier spectrum treatment of periodic functions, and transients and much more System Dynamics also contains a host of self-study and pedagogical features that will make it a useful companion for years to come, such as easy-to-understand simulation diagrams and results applications to real-life systems--including actual industrial hardware intentional use of nonlinearity to achieve optimal designs numerous end-of-chapter problems and worked examples over 1425 graphs, equations, and drawings throughout the text the latest references to key sources in the literature Serving as a foundation for engineering experience, System Dynamics is a valuable reference for mechanical, system, control/instrumentation, and sensor/actuator engineers as well as an indispensable textbook for undergraduate students taking courses such as Dynamic Systems in departments of mechanical, aerospace, electrical, agricultural, and industrial engineering and engineering physics.

Multinary compounds are now used in a wide range of devices, including photovoltaic solar cells, light emitters and detectors, and piezoelectric actuators. Ternary and Multinary Compounds provides an interdisciplinary forum for scientists and engineers working on fundamental and applied aspects of these materials. The volume focuses on optoelectronic properties, electronic band structure, charge carrier transport, optical and magnetic properties, and superconductivity. It includes chapters on the research and development of new techniques and novel materials, such as laser ablation deposition and ferroelectrics.