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World Scientific Europe Ltd Wear In Advanced Engineering Applications And
Book SynopsisWear is one of the main reasons mechanical components and materials become inoperable, rendering enormous costs to society over time. Estimating wear allows engineers to predict the useful life of modern mechanical elements, reduce the costs of inoperability, or obtain optimal designs (i.e. selecting proper materials, shapes, and surface finishing according to mechanical conditions and durability) to reduce the impact of wear.Wear in Advanced Engineering Applications and Materials presents recent computational and practical research studying damage and wear in advanced engineering applications and materials. As such, this book covers numerical formulations based on the finite element method (FEM) — and the boundary element method (BEM) — as well as theoretical and experimental research to predict the wear response or life-limiting failure of engineering applications.
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A S M International ISTFA 2021: Conference Proceedings from the 47th
Book SynopsisThe theme for the 2021 conference was System-in-Package (SiP) technology. Papers include discussions on board and system level failure analysis; detecting counterfeit microelectronics; emerging failure analysis techniques and concepts; future challenges of failure analysis; scanning probe analysis; hardware attacks, security, and reverse engineering; microscopy and material characterization; nanoprobing and electrical characterization; and more.In the 21st century, the electronic market will be driven by consumers with demands of immediate entertainment, fast access to information, and communications anywhere in a personalized fashion and at affordable prices. The new challenge is not how many transistors can be built on a single chip, as in System-on-Chip (SoC), but rather how to integrate diverse circuits together predictably, harmoniously, and cost effectively. Instead of getting twice the transistors for the same cost as Moore's Law predicted in the past 50 years, the goal of SiP is to obtain the same number of transistors for half the cost within less than half the time to market.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Fracture Mechanics: An Introduction
Book SynopsisThis book discusses the basic principles and traditional applications of fracture mechanics, as well as the cutting-edge research in the field over the last three decades in current topics like composites, thin films, nanoindentation, and cementitious materials.Experimental methods play a major role in the study of fracture mechanics problems and are used for the determination of the major fracture mechanics quantities such as stress intensity factors, crack tip opening displacements, strain energy release rates, crack paths, crack velocities in static and dynamic problems. These methods include electrical resistance strain gauges, photoelasticity, interferometry techniques, geometric and interferometry moiré, and the optical method of caustics.Furthermore, numerical methods are often used for the determination of fracture mechanics parameters. They include finite and boundary element methods, Green’s function and weight functions, boundary collocation, alternating methods, and integral transforms continuous dislocations.This third edition of the book covers the basic principles and traditional applications, as well as the latest developments of fracture mechanics. Featuring two new chapters and 30 more example problems, it presents a comprehensive overview of fracture mechanics, and includes numerous examples and unsolved problems. This book is suitable for teaching fracture mechanics courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. A “solutions manual” is available for course instructors upon request.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Linear Elastic Stress Field in Cracked Bodies.- Chapter 3. Elastic-Plastic Stress Field in Cracked Bodies.- Chapter 4. Crack Growth Based on Energy Balance.- Chapter 5. Critical Stress Intensity Factor Fracture Criterion.- Chapter 6. J-Integral and Crack Opening Displacement Fracture Criteria.- Chapter 7. Strain Energy Density Failure Criterion: Mixed-Mode Crack Growth.- Chapter 8. Dynamic Fracture.- Chapter 9. Fatigue and Environment-Assisted Fracture.- Chapter 10. Micromechanics of Fracture.- Chapter 11. Composite Materials.- Chapter 12. Thin Films.- Chapter 13. Nanoindentation.- Chapter 14. Cementitious Materials.- Chapter 15. Experimental Methods.- Chapter 16. Numerical Methods.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Mechanical Characterization Using Digital Image
Book SynopsisIn this book, a precise treatment of the experimental characterization of advanced composite materials using Digital Image Correlation (DIC) is presented. The text explains test methods, testing setup with 2D- and stereo-DIC, specimen preparation and patterning, testing analysis and data reduction schemes to determine and to compare mechanical properties, such as modulus, strength and fracture toughness of advanced composite materials. Sensitivity and uncertainty studies on the DIC calculated data and mechanical properties for a detailed engineering-based understanding are covered instead of idealized theories and sugarcoated results. The book provides students, instructors, researchers and engineers in industrial or government institutions, and practitioners working in the field of experimental/applied structural mechanics of materials a myriad of color figures from DIC measurements for better explanation, datasets of material properties serving as input parameters for analytical modelling, raw data and computer codes for data reduction, illustrative graphs for teaching purposes, practice exercises with solutions provided online and extensive references to the literature at the end of each stand-alone chapter.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction and Theoretical Background.- Chapter 2. Tensile Testing.- Chapter 3. V-Notched Specimen Testing.- Chapter 4. Flexural Testing.- Chapter 5. Delamination Resistance Testing.- Chapter 6. Summary and Discussion.
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Springer Science+Business Media Modern Electrochemistry 2B Electrodics in Chemistry Engineering Biology and Environmental Science
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Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Neuromuscular Assessments of Form and Function
Book SynopsisThis volume looks at the latest methods used to study imaging techniques, metabolic tracing, and deep muscle phenotyping. Comprehensive and thorough, Neuromuscular Assessments of Form and Function is a valuable resource for researchers interested in multiple methods used to study skeletal muscle neurophysiology.Table of ContentsSeries Preface…Preface…Table of Contents…Contributing Authors…1. Estimation of Lean Soft Tissue by Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry as a Surrogate for Muscle Mass in Health, Obesity, and SarcopeniaCamila L. P. Oliveira, Ana P. Pagano, M. Cristina Gonzalez, and Carla M. Prado2. Analysis of Skeletal Muscle Mass from Pre-Existing Computed Tomography (CT) ScansKatherine L. Ford, Bruna Ramos da Silva, Ana Teresa Limon-Miro, and Carla M. Prado3. Imaging Skeletal Muscle by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)Robert H. Morris and Craig Sale4. Imaging of Skeletal Muscle Mass: UltrasoundMartino V. Franchi and Marco V. Narici5. Measures of Neuromuscular FunctionMichael D. Roberts and Jason M. Defreitas6. Neuromuscular Function: High-Density Surface ElectromyographyEduardo Martinez-Valdes and Francesco Negro7. Neuromuscular Function: Intramuscular Electromyography Mathew Piasecki and Daniel W. Stashuk8. Magnetic Resonance Quantification of Muscle Phosphocreatine Resynthesis Kinetics during Exercise Recovery: An In Vivo Measure of Mitochondrial Function in HumansJordan J. McGing, Susan T. Francis, Sébastien Serres, Gordon W. Moran, and Paul L. Greenhaff9. Immunohistochemistry, Microscopy, and Image Analysis of Human Muscle Biopsies: Muscle Fibre Denervation as a Working ExampleCasper Soendenbroe, Jesper L. Andersen, and Abigail L. Mackey10. Stable Isotope Tracer Methods for the Measure of Skeletal Muscle Protein TurnoverMatthew S. Brook, Daniel J. Wilkinson, and Ken Smith 11. Ex Vivo Human Single Muscle Fibers: An Insightful Approach to Skeletal Muscle FunctionCarlo Reggiani12. Myokines, Measurement, and Technical ConsiderationsCraig R. G. Willis, Colleen S. Deane, and Timothy Etheridge13. Skeletal Muscle Satellite Cell Physiology and Function: Complimentary In Vitro and In Vivo Models and MethodsMark Viggars, Andy Nolan, Adam Sharples, and Claire Stewart14. Using the Model Organism Caenorhabditis elegans to Explore Neuromuscular FunctionSamantha Hughes and Nathaniel Szewczyk15. Methodologies to Quantify Skeletal Muscle Blood Flow/PerfusionEleanor J. Jones and Bethan E. PhillipsSubject Index List…
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Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Imaging Mass Spectrometry
Book SynopsisThis second edition details new and updated chapters on key methodologies and breakthroughs in the mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) field. Chapters guide readers through nano-Desorption Electrospray Ionisation (nDESI), Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionisation-2 (MALDI-2), Laser Ablation - Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) ,Imaging Mass Cytometry (IMC) with a variety of diverse samples including eye tissue, crop analysis, 3D cell culture models, and counterfeit goods analysis. Written in the format of the highly successfulMethods in Molecular Biologyseries, each chapter includes an introduction to the topic, lists necessary materials and reagents, includes tips on troubleshooting and known pitfalls, and step-by-step, readily reproducible protocols. Authoritative and cutting-edge,Imaging Mass Spectrometry: Methods and Protocols, Second Edition aims to be auseful and practical guide to new researchersand experts looking to expand their knowledge.Table of Contents1. MALDI and Trace Metal Analysis in Age Related Macular Degeneration Joshua Millar, Susan Campbell, Catherine Duckett, Sarah Doyle, and Laura M. Cole 2. HistoSnap: a novel software tool to extract m/z-specific images from large MSHC datasets K. Verheggen, N. Bhattacharya, M. Verhaert, B. Goossens, R. Sciot, and P. Verhaert 3. Spatially resolved quantitation of drug in skin equivalents using Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MSI) Cristina Russo and Malcolm R. Clench 4. Update DESI Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MSI) Emmanuelle Claude, Mark Towers, and Emrys Jones 5. Update Liquid Extraction Surface Analysis Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Denatured Intact Proteins Emma K. Sisley, James W. Hughes, Oliver J. Hale, and Helen J. Cooper 6. MALDI MS imaging of cucumbers Robert Bradshaw 7. The adaptation of the QV600 LLI Milli-Fluidics System to house ex vivo gastrointestinal tissue suitable for drug absorption and permeation studies, utilising MALDI-MSI and LC-MS/MS Chloe E. Spencer, Catherine J Duckett, Stephen Rumbelow, and Malcolm R Clench 8. Ambient Mass Spectrometry Imaging by Water-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization For Ex Vivo And In Vivo Applications Nina Ogrinc, Paul Chaillou, Alexandre Kruszewski, Cristian Duriez, Michel Salzet, and Isabelle Fournier 9. Cytological cytospin preparation for the spatial proteomics analysis of thyroid nodules using MALDI-MSI Isabella Piga, Fabio Pagni, Fulvio Magni, and Andrew Smith 10. Matrix effects free imaging of thin tissue sections using pneumatically assisted nano-DESI MSI Leonidas Mavroudakis and Ingela Lanekoff 11. Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Plant Materials Joseph Ready and Callie Seaman 12. Sample Preparation for Metabolite Detection in Mass Spectrometry Imaging Maria K. Andersen, Marco Giampà, Elise Midtbust, Therese S. Høiem, Sebastian Krossa, and May-Britt Tessem 13. Multimodal Mass Spectrometry Imaging of an Aggregated 3D Cell Culture Model Lucy Flint 14. Visualization of Small Intact Proteins in Breast Cancer FFPE tissue Marco Giampà, Maria K. Andersen, Sebastian Krossa, Vanna Denti, Andrew Smith, and Siver Andreas Moestue 15. Negative Ion-mode N-glycan Mass Spectrometry Imaging by MALDI-2-TOF-MS Jens Soltwisch and Bram Heijs 16. MS1-based data analysis approaches for FFPE tissue imaging of endogenous peptide ions by mass spectrometry histochemistry (MSHC) Nivedita Bhattacharya, Konstantin Nagornov, Kenneth Verheggen, Marthe Verhaert, Raf Sciot, and Peter Verhaert 17. Mass Spectrometry Imaging: The Next Five Years Malcolm R. Clench and Laura M. Cole
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Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Introduction to Analytical Electron Microscopy
Book SynopsisThe birth of analytical electron microscopy (AEM) is somewhat obscure. Was it the recognition of the power and the development of STEM that signaled its birth? Was AEM born with the attachment of a crystal spectrometer to an otherwise conventional TEM? Or was it born earlier with the first analysis of electron loss spectra? It''s not likely that any of these developments alone would have been sufficient and there have been many others (microdiffraction, EDS, microbeam fabrication, etc.) that could equally lay claim to being critical to the establishment of true AEM. It is probably more accurate to simply ascribe the present rapid development to the obvious: a combination of ideas whose time has come. Perhaps it is difficult to trace the birth of AEM simply because it remains a point of contention to even define its true scope. For example, the topics in this book, even though verTable of ContentsChpater 1 Principles of Image Formation.- Chpater 2 Introductory Electron Optics.- Chpater 3 Principles of Thin Film X-Ray Microanalysis.- Chpater 4 Quantitative X-Ray Microanalysis: Insturmental Considerations and Applications to Materials Science.- Chpater 5 EDS Quantitation and Application to Biology.- Chpater 6 Monte Carlo Simulation in Analytical Electron Microscopy.- Chpater 7 The Basic Principles of Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy.- Chpater 8 Energy Loss Spectrometry for Biological Research.- Chpater 9 Elemental Analysis Using Inner-Shell Excitations: A Microanalytical Technique for materials Characterization.- Chpater 10 Analysis of the Electronic Structure of Solids.- Chpater 11 Stem Imaging of Crystals and Defects.- Chpater 12 Biological Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy.- Chpater 13 Electron Microscopy of Individual Atoms.- Chpater 14 microdiffraction.- Chpater 15 Convergent Beam Electron Diffraction.- Chpater 16 Radiation Damage with Biological Specimens and Organic Materials.- Chpater 17 Radiation Effects in Analysis of Inorganic Specimens by TEM.- Chpater 18 Barriers to AEM: Contamination and Etching.- Chpater 19 Microanalysis by Lattice Imaging.- Chpater 20 Weak-Beam Microscopy.- Chpater 21 The Analysis of Defects Using Computer Simulated Images.- Chpater 22 The Strategy of Analysis.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Handbook on Characterization of Biomass, Biowaste and Related By-products
Book SynopsisThis book provides authoritative information, techniques and data necessary for the appropriate understanding of biomass and biowaste (understood as contaminated biomass) composition and behaviour while processed in various conditions and technologies. Numerous techniques for characterizing biomass, biowaste and by-product streams exist in literature. However, there lacks a reference book where these techniques are gathered in a single book, although such information is in increasingly high demand. This handbook provides a wealth of characterization methods, protocols, standards, databases and references relevant to various biomass, biowaste materials and by-products. It specifically addresses sampling and preconditioning methods, extraction techniques of elements and molecules, as well as biochemical, mechanical and thermal characterization methods. Furthermore, advanced and innovative methods under development are highlighted. The characterization will allow the analysis, identification and quantification of molecules and species including biomass feedstocks and related conversion products. The characterization will also provide insight into physical, mechanical and thermal properties of biomass and biowaste as well as the resulting by-products. Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Chapter 1: Biomass categories.- Chapter 2: Lignocellulosic Biomass.- Chapter 3: Alkaline, Alkali Earth metals (AAEM), Transition metals and halogens.- Chapter 4: Microalgal biomass of industrial interest.- Chapter 5: Methods to assess biological transformation of biomass.- Chapter 6: MSW.- Chapter 7: Food waste and Manure.- Chapter 8: Sludges, dredged sediments.- Chapter 9: Biogas.- Chapter 10: Syngas.- Chapter 11: Condensables and liquid compounds.- Chapter 12: Dioxins and Dioxin-like Compounds from Biomass Combustion.- Chapter 13: Particle matter.- Chapter 14: Solid residues.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG TMS 2020 149th Annual Meeting & Exhibition Supplemental Proceedings
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Fracture Behavior of Asphalt Materials
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Porous Metals and Metallic Foams (MetFoam 2019)
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Dental Gold Alloys and Gold Nanoparticles for
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on recent advances in dental gold alloys and gold nanoparticles (GNPs) for biomedical applications. Dental gold alloys combine several highly desirable mechanical properties, such as high strength, ductility, and elasticity, with an extremely robust chemical stability in the mouth. Moreover, astonishing progress has been made in the use of GNPs as novel gold biomaterials that provide a multifunctional platform for cellular imaging, biosensing, and targeted drug delivery in tumour immunotherapy and photothermal therapy. Beginning with a comprehensive overview of the development and use of dental gold alloys, the book addresses the materials properties that are crucial for dental applications, focusing on aspects such as microstructure, chemical and mechanical stability, ageing, biocompatibility, and colour retention. The book then shifts focus to the use of GNPs in dental applications, delving into different techniques of GNP synthesis for specifically tailoring the size, shape, and stability of GNPs in biological media. In addition to these factors, it addresses how their exposure route, surface chemistry, as well as how the steric effects of their coating impact biodistribution and determine the level of GNP toxicity in the human body. Featuring topical literature reviews alongside up-to-date published experimental results, this book offers an attractive resource for practicing scientists and engineers working in the field of gold-based biomaterials.Table of Contents
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Springer International Publishing AG Solid Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films
Book SynopsisThis book emphasises both experimental and theoretical aspects of surface, interface and thin-film physics. As in previous editions the preparation of surfaces and thin films, their atomic and morphological structure, their vibronic and electronic properties as well as fundamentals of adsorption are treated. Because of their importance in modern information technology and nanostructure research, particular emphasis is paid to electronic surface and interface states, semiconductor space charge layers and heterostructures. A special chapter of the book is devoted to collective phenomena at interfaces and in thin films such as superconductivity and magnetism. The latter topic includes the meanwhile important issues giant magnetoresistance and spin-transfer torque mechanism, both effects being of high interest in information technology. In this new edition, for the first time, the effect of spin-orbit coupling on surface states is treated. In this context the class of the recently detected topological insulators, materials of significant importance for spin electronics, are discussed. Particular emphasis, hereby, is laid on the new type of topologically protected surface states with well-defined spin orientation. Furthermore, some important well established experimental techniques such as X-ray diffraction (XRD) and reflection anisotropy spectroscopy (RAS), which were missing so far in earlier editions, were added in this new 6th edition of the book.Table of ContentsSurface and Interface Physics: Its Definition and Importance.- Preparation of Well-Defined Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films.- Morphology and Structure of Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films.- Scattering from Surfaces and Thin Films.- Surface Phonons.- Electronic Surface States.- Space-Charge Layers at Semiconductor Inferfaces.- Metal–Semiconductor Junctions and Semiconductor Heterostructures.- Collective Phenomena at Interfaces:Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism.- Adsorption on Solid Surfaces.
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Springer International Publishing AG Design Optimisation and Validation of Phononic Crystal Plates for Manipulation of Elastodynamic Guided Waves
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Engineering Damage Mechanics: Ductile, Creep, Fatigue and Brittle Failures
Book SynopsisReflecting his major contributions to the field, Jean Lemaitre’s "Engineering Damage Mechanics" presents simplified and advanced methods organized within a unified framework for designers of any mechanical component. Explains how to apply continuous damage mechanics to failures of mechanical and civil engineering components in ductile, creep, fatigue and brittle conditions. Incorporates many basic examples, while emphasizing key practical considerations such as material parameter identification, and provides perspective on the advantage and disadvantages of various approaches.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews: "Many new ideas are presented and discussed. So the book can be recommended to all engineers and students of engineering concerned with lifetime prediction and with the failure resistant design of structures, components and processes … . The book is an excellent comprehensive guide to Damage Mechanics." (H. Altenbach, Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, Vol. 85 (11), 2005) Table of ContentsBackground on Continuum Damage Mechanics.- Numerical Analysis of Damage.- Ductile Failures.- Low Cycle Fatigue.- Creep, Creep-Fatigue, and Dynamic Failures.- High Cycle Fatigue.- Failure of Brittle and Quasi-Brittle Materials.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Metathesis Polymerization
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Interphases and Mesophases in Polymer Crystallization II
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Advances in Elastomers I: Blends and Interpenetrating Networks
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Advances in Elastomers II: Composites and Nanocomposites
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Laser Spectroscopy 1: Basic Principles
Book SynopsisKeeping abreast of the latest techniques and applications, this new edition of the standard reference and graduate text on laser spectroscopy has been completely revised and expanded. While the general concept is unchanged, the new edition features a broad array of new material, e.g., ultrafast lasers (atto- and femtosecond lasers) and parametric oscillators, coherent matter waves, Doppler-free Fourier spectroscopy with optical frequency combs, interference spectroscopy, quantum optics, the interferometric detection of gravitational waves and still more applications in chemical analysis, medical diagnostics, and engineering.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Absorption and Emission of Light.- Widths and Profiles of Spectral Lines.- Spectroscopic Instrumentation.- Lasers as Spectroscopic Sources.- Solutions.
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Springer Elementary engineering fracture mechanics
Book SynopsisWhen asked to start teaching a course on engineering fracture mechanics, I realized that a concise textbook, giving a general oversight of the field, did not exist. The explanation is undoubtedly that the subject is still in a stage of early development, and that the methodologies have still a very limited applicability. It is not possible to give rules for general application of fracture mechanics concepts. Yet our comprehension of cracking and fracture beha viour of materials and structures is steadily increasing. Further developments may be expected in the not too distant future, enabling useful prediction of fracture safety and fracture characteristics on the basis of advanced fracture mechanics procedures. The user of such advanced procedures m\lst have a general understanding of the elementary concepts, which are provided by this volume. Emphasis was placed on the practical application of fracture mechanics, but it was aimed to treat the subject in a way that may interest both metallurgists and engineers. For the latter, some general knowledge of fracture mechanisms and fracture criteria is indispensable for an apprecia tion of the limita tions of fracture mechanics. Therefore a general discussion is provided on fracture mechanisms, fracture criteria, and other metal lurgical aspects, without going into much detail. Numerous references are provided to enable a more detailed study of these subjects which are still in a stage of speculative treatment.Table of ContentsI Principles.- 1 Summary of basic problems and concepts.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 A crack in a structure.- 1.3 The stress at a crack tip.- 1.4 The Griffith criterion.- 1.5 The crack opening displacement criterion.- 1.6 Crack propagation.- 1.7 Closure.- 2 Mechanisms of fracture and crack growth.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Cleavage fracture.- 2.3 Ductile fracture.- 2.4 Fatigue cracking.- 2.5 Environment assisted cracking.- 2.6 Service failure analysis.- 3 The elastic crack-tip stress field.- 3.1 The Airy stress function.- 3.2 Complex stress functions.- 3.3 Solution to crack problems.- 3.4 The effect of finite size.- 3.5 Special cases.- 3.6 Elliptical cracks.- 3.7 Some useful expressions.- 4 The crack tip plastic zone.- 4.1 The Irwin plastic zone correction.- 4.2 The Dugdale approach.- 4.3 The shape of the plastic zone.- 4.4 Plane stress versus plane strain.- 4.5 Plastic constraint factor.- 4.6 The thickness effect.- 5 The energy principle.- 5.1 The energy release rate.- 5.2 The criterion for crack growth.- 5.3 The crack resistance (R curve).- 5.4 Compliance.- 5.5 The J integral.- 5.6 Tearing modulus.- 5.7 Stability.- 6 Dynamics and crack arrest.- 6.1 Crack speed and kinetic energy.- 6.2 The dynamic stress intensity and elastic energy release rate.- 6.3 Crack branching.- 6.4 The principles of crack arrest.- 6.5 Crack arrest in practice.- 6.6 Dynamic fracture toughness.- 7 Plane strain fracture toughness.- 7.1 The standard test.- 7.2 Size requirements.- 7.3 Non-linearity.- 7.4 Applicability.- 8 Plane stress and transitional behaviour.- 8.1 Introduction.- 8.2 An engineering concept of plane stress.- 8.3 The R curve concept.- 8.4 The thickness effect.- 8.5 Plane stress testing.- 8.6 Closure.- 9 Elastic-plastic fracture.- 9.1 Fracture beyond general yield.- 9.2 The crack tip opening displacement.- 9.3 The possible use of the CTOD criterion.- 9.4 Experimental determination of CTOd.- 9.5 Parameters affecting the critical CTOD.- 9.6 Limitations, fracture at general yield.- 9.7 Use of the J integral.- 9.8 Limitations of the J integral.- 9.9 Measurement of JIc and JR.- 9.10 Closure.- 10 Fatigue crack propagation.- 10.1 Introduction.- 10.2 Crack growth and the stress intensity factor.- 10.3 Factors affecting crack propagation.- 10.4 Variable amplitude service loading.- 10.5 Retardation models.- 10.6 Similitude.- 10.7 Small cracks.- 10.8 Closure.- 11 Fracture resistance of materials.- 11.1 Fracture criteria.- 11.2 Fatigue cracking criteria.- 11.3 The effect of alloying and second phase particles.- 11.4 Effect of processing, anisotropy.- 11.5 Effect of temperature.- 11.6 Closure.- II Applications.- 12 Fail-safety and damage tolerance.- 12.1 Introduction.- 12.2 Means to provide fail-safety.- 12.3 Required information for fracture mechanics approach.- 12.4 Closure.- 13 Determination of stress intensity factors.- 13.1 Introduction.- 13.2 Analytical and numerical methods.- 13.3 Finite element methods.- 13.4 Experimental methods.- 14 Practical problems.- 14.1 Introduction.- 14.2 Through cracks emanating from holes.- 14.3 Corner cracks at holes.- 14.4 Cracks approaching holes.- 14.5 Combined loading.- 14.6 Fatigue crack growth under mixed mode loading.- 14.7 Biaxial loading.- 14.8 Fracture toughness of weldments.- 14.9 Service failure analysis.- 15 Fracture of structures.- 15.1 Introduction.- 15.2 Pressure vessels and pipelines.- 15.3 “Leak-bcfore-break” criterion.- 15.4 Material selection.- 15.5 The use of the J integral for structural analysis.- 15.6 Collapse analysis.- 15.7 Accuracy of fracture calculations.- 16 Stiffened sheet structures.- 16.1 Introduction.- 16.2 Analysis.- 16.3 Fatigue crack propagation.- 16.4 Residual strength.- 16.5 The R curve and the residual strength of stiffened panels.- 16.6 Other analysis methods.- 16.7 Crack arrest.- 16.8 Closure.- 17 Prediction of fatigue crack growth.- 17.1 Introduction.- 17.2 The load spectrum.- 17.3 Approximation of the stress spectrum.- 17.4 Generation of a stress history.- 17.5 Crack growth integration.- 17.6 Accuracy of predictions.- 17.7 Safety factors.- Author index.
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Springer ISIAME 2012: Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Industrial Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (ISIAME 2012) held in Dalian, PR China, 2-7 Sept 2012
Book SynopsisThis book provides an excellent overview on the most recent results on the industrial applications of Mössbauer spectroscopy attained on the fields of nanotechnology, metallurgy, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry, applied mineralogy, energy production industry (coal, oil, nuclear, solar, etc.), computer industry, space technology, electronic and magnetic devices technology, ion implantation technology, including topics like characterization of novel construction materials, electronic components and magnetic materials, composite materials, colloids, amorphous and nanophase materials, small particles, coatings, interfaces, thin films and multilayers, catalysis, corrosion, tribology, surface modification, hydrogen storage, ball milling, radiation effects, electrochemistry, batteries, etc. From the various reports a broad overview emerges illustrating that the method can successfully be applied in a wide variety of topics. Previously published in the journal Hyperfine Interactions.Table of ContentsFrom the contents: 2D iron(II) spin crossover complex with 3,5-lutidine.- Spin state tuning in FeII 1D coordination polymers made of 1,2,4-triazol-4-yl-propanoic and butanoic acids.- Application of Mössbauer spectroscopy on corrosion products of NPP Industrial applications of Mössbauer Spectroscopy.- Mössbauer studies of interactions between titanium atoms dissolved in iron Defect-fluorite oxides: Ln (Eu and Gd) Mössbauer study coupled with new defect-crystal-chemistry model.- Water cleaning ability and local structure of iron-containing soda-lime silicate glass.- Electrical conductivity and local structure of lithium tin iron vanadate glass 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy study of the 37 K superconductor.- Sm0.85Ba0.15FeAsO doped with fluorine.- Mössbauer spectroscopic study of FeII-doped sulphonated poly(ether-urethane)—styrene-acrylate copolymer.- Study of NiFe2O4 nanoparticles using Mössbauer spectroscopy with a high velocity resolution.- Mössbauer and XRD investigations of layered double hydroxides (LDHs) with varying Mg/Fe ratios.- Magnetism and phase transformation of Cu-Fe composite oxides prepared by the sol-gel route.- Mössbauer study of gamma‴-iron nitride film.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore The Plaston Concept: Plastic Deformation in
Book SynopsisThis open access book presents the novel concept of plaston, which accounts for the high ductility or large plastic deformation of emerging high-performance structural materials, including bulk nanostructured metals, hetero-nanostructured materials, metallic glasses, intermetallics, and ceramics.The book describes simulation results of the collective atomic motion associated with plaston, by computational tools such as first-principle methods with predictive performance and large-scale atom-dynamics calculations. Multi-scale analyses with state-of-the art analytical tools nano/micro pillar deformation and nano-indentation experiments are also described. Finally, through collaborative efforts of experimental and computational work, examples of rational design and development of new structural materials are given, based on accurate understanding of deformation and fracture phenomena.This publication provides a valuable contribution to the field of structural materials research.Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction.- 1. Plaston induced plasticity in bulk nanostructured metals.- Part II. Simulation of plaston and plaston induced phenomena.- 2. Nucleation of plaston at surface and interface of metallic materials.- 3. Atomistic study of plaston in nanostructured metals.- 4. First principles calculations of collective motion of atoms in metals.- 5. Machine learning interatomic potentials with controlled accuracy.- 6. First principles calculations of dislocation cores in HCP metals.- Part III. Experimental analyses of plaston.- 7. STEM observation of plaston in alumina.- 8. Micro-pillar deformation experiments of brittle intermetallics in steel.- 9. Nano-indentation study of steels.- 10. Synchrotron x-ray study on plaston in metals.- 11. Improvement of fatigue lifetime by controlling plaston at crack tip.- Part IV. Design and development of high performance structural materials.- 12. Development of bulk nanostructured steels.- 13. Design and development of high Mn steels.- 14. Design and development novel magnesium alloys.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore The Plaston Concept: Plastic Deformation in
Book SynopsisThis open access book presents the novel concept of plaston, which accounts for the high ductility or large plastic deformation of emerging high-performance structural materials, including bulk nanostructured metals, hetero-nanostructured materials, metallic glasses, intermetallics, and ceramics.The book describes simulation results of the collective atomic motion associated with plaston, by computational tools such as first-principle methods with predictive performance and large-scale atom-dynamics calculations. Multi-scale analyses with state-of-the art analytical tools nano/micro pillar deformation and nano-indentation experiments are also described. Finally, through collaborative efforts of experimental and computational work, examples of rational design and development of new structural materials are given, based on accurate understanding of deformation and fracture phenomena.This publication provides a valuable contribution to the field of structural materials research.Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction.- 1. Plaston induced plasticity in bulk nanostructured metals.- Part II. Simulation of plaston and plaston induced phenomena.- 2. Nucleation of plaston at surface and interface of metallic materials.- 3. Atomistic study of plaston in nanostructured metals.- 4. First principles calculations of collective motion of atoms in metals.- 5. Machine learning interatomic potentials with controlled accuracy.- 6. First principles calculations of dislocation cores in HCP metals.- Part III. Experimental analyses of plaston.- 7. STEM observation of plaston in alumina.- 8. Micro-pillar deformation experiments of brittle intermetallics in steel.- 9. Nano-indentation study of steels.- 10. Synchrotron x-ray study on plaston in metals.- 11. Improvement of fatigue lifetime by controlling plaston at crack tip.- Part IV. Design and development of high performance structural materials.- 12. Development of bulk nanostructured steels.- 13. Design and development of high Mn steels.- 14. Design and development novel magnesium alloys.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation of
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