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Books > Professional & Technical > Mechanical engineering & materials
Polylactic Acid: A Practical Guide for the Processing,
Manufacturing, and Applications of PLA, Second Edition, provides a
practical guide for engineers and scientists working in PLA and on
the development of emerging new products. The current market
situation for PLA and biodegradable polymers is described, along
with applications across a range of market sectors. In addition,
the mechanical, chemical, thermal, rheology and degradation
properties are included. Updates include new chapters covering
various processing methods, as well as recycling methods, and
additives and processing aids. New applications cover a range of
products (including 3D Printing), and an environmental assessment,
including regulatory aspects. The book is not only a useful
introduction to this topic, but also a practical, readily
applicable reference book that will support decision-making in the
plastics industry.
Materials for Bone Disorders is written by a cross-disciplinary
team of research scientists, engineers, and clinicians and bridges
the gap between materials science and bone disorders, providing
integrated coverage of biomaterials and their applications. The
bioceramics, biopolymers, composites, and metallic materials used
in the treatment of bone disorders are introduced, as are their
interactions with cells, biomolecules, and body tissues. The main
types of bone disorder and disease are covered including
osteoporosis, spinal injury, load bearing joint diseases, bone
cancer, and forms of cranio-maxillofacial disorders. Bone disorders
are common across all ages. Various forms of bone disorders can
change the lifestyle of otherwise normal and healthy people. With
the development of novel materials, many forms of bone disorders
are becoming manageable, allowing people to lead a fairly normal
life. Specific consideration is given to areas where recent
advances are enabling new treatments, such as the use of resorbable
ceramics in bone tissue engineering and drug delivery, newer
polymer-based implants in load-bearing contexts, and engineering
biomaterials surfaces including modifying surface chemistry.
Ethical and regulatory issues are also explored.
The design and study of materials is a pivotal component to new
discoveries in the various fields of science and technology. By
understanding the components and structures of materials,
researchers can increase its applications across different
industries. Modeling and Simulations for Metamaterials: Emerging
Research and Opportunities is a critical scholarly resource that
examines the physics of metamaterials with an emphasis on
negative-index metamaterials and their applications at terahertz
frequencies. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as
electromagnetic waves, harmonic oscillator model, and scattering
analysis, this book is geared towards academicians, researchers,
engineers, industrialists, and graduate students researching in the
field.
Every parent is concerned when a child is slow to become a mature
adult. This is also true for any product designer, regardless of
their industry sector. For a product to be mature, it must have an
expected level of reliability from the moment it is put into
service, and must maintain this level throughout its industrial
use. While there have been theoretical and practical advances in
reliability from the 1960s to the end of the 1990s, to take into
account the effect of maintenance, the maturity of a product is
often only partially addressed. Product Maturity 2 fills this gap
as much as possible; a difficult exercise given that maturity is a
transverse activity in the engineering sciences; it must be present
throughout the lifecycle of a product.
Biopolymers: Applications and Trends provides an up-to-date summary
of the varying market applications of biopolymers characterized by
biodegradability and sustainability. It includes tables with the
commercial names and properties of each biopolymer family, along
with biopolymers for each marketing segment, not only presenting
all the major market players, but also highlighting trends and new
developments in products. The book includes a thorough breakdown of
the vast range of application areas, including medical and
pharmaceutical, packaging, construction, automotive, and many more,
giving engineers critical materials information in an area which
has traditionally been more limited than conventional polymers. In
addition, the book uses recent patent information to convey the
latest applications and techniques in the area, thus further
illustrating the rapid pace of development and need for
intellectual property for companies working on new and innovative
products.
Thermofluid Modeling for Sustainable Energy Applications provides a
collection of the most recent, cutting-edge developments in the
application of fluid mechanics modeling to energy systems and
energy efficient technology. Each chapter introduces relevant
theories alongside detailed, real-life case studies that
demonstrate the value of thermofluid modeling and simulation as an
integral part of the engineering process. Research problems and
modeling solutions across a range of energy efficiency scenarios
are presented by experts, helping users build a sustainable
engineering knowledge base. The text offers novel examples of the
use of computation fluid dynamics in relation to hot topics,
including passive air cooling and thermal storage. It is a valuable
resource for academics, engineers, and students undertaking
research in thermal engineering.
Metallic Foam Bone: Processing, Modification and Characterization
and Properties examines the use of porous metals as novel bone
replacement materials. With a strong focus on materials science and
clinical applications, the book also examines the modification of
metals to ensure their biocompatibility and efficacy in vivo.
Initial chapters discuss processing and production methods of
metals for tissue engineering and biomedical applications that are
followed by topics on practical applications in orthopedics and
dentistry. Finally, the book addresses the surface science of
metallic foam and how it can be tailored for medical applications.
This book is a valuable resource for materials scientists,
biomedical engineers, and clinicians with an interest in innovative
biomaterials for orthopedic and bone restoration.
This book sheds light on the molecular aspects of liquids and
liquid-based materials such as organic or inorganic liquids, ionic
liquids, proteins, biomaterials, and soft materials including gels.
The reader discovers how the molecular basics of such systems are
connected with their properties, dynamics, and functions. Once the
use and application of liquids and liquid-based materials are
understood, the book becomes a source of the latest, detailed
knowledge of their structures, dynamics, and functions emerging
from molecularity. The systems discussed in the book have
structural dimensions varying from nanometers to millimeters, thus
the precise estimation of structures and dynamics from
experimental, theoretical, and simulation methods is of crucial
importance. Outlines of the practical knowledge needed in research
and development are helpfully included in the book.
This book delivers a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of
practical applications of metamaterials, structured media, and
conventional porous materials. With increasing levels of
urbanization, a growing demand for motorized transport, and
inefficient urban planning, environmental noise exposure is rapidly
becoming a pressing societal and health concern. Phononic and sonic
crystals, acoustic metamaterials, and metasurfaces can
revolutionize noise and vibration control and, in many cases,
replace traditional porous materials for these applications. In
this collection of contributed chapters, a group of international
researchers reviews the essentials of acoustic wave propagation in
metamaterials and porous absorbers with viscothermal losses, as
well as the most recent advances in the design of acoustic
metamaterial absorbers. The book features a detailed theoretical
introduction describing commonly used modelling techniques such as
plane wave expansion, multiple scattering theory, and the transfer
matrix method. The following chapters give a detailed consideration
of acoustic wave propagation in viscothermal fluids and porous
media, and the extension of this theory to non-local models for
fluid saturated metamaterials, along with a description of the
relevant numerical methods. Finally, the book reviews a range of
practical industrial applications, making it especially attractive
as a white book targeted at the building, automotive, and
aeronautic industries.
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