Linear Elastic Stress Field in Cracked Bodies -- Elastic-Plastic Stress Field in Cracked Bodies -- Crack Growth Based on Energy Balance -- Critical Stress Intensity Factor Fracture Criterion -- J-Integral and Crack Opening Displacement Fracture Criteria -- Strain Energy Density Failure Criterion: Mixed-Mode Crack Growth -- Dynamic Fracture -- Fatigue and Environment-Assisted Fracture -- Microme…
Introduction -- Crystallography of the Kaolin Group Minerals -- Introduction to the Spectroscopic Methods -- The Kaolin Minerals -- Intercalated Kaolins -- Kaolin Nanocomposites -- Other Kaolin -- Modifications -- Adsorption On Kaolins.This book systematically provides an overview of the use of a wide range of spectroscopic methods (Mid- and Near-Infrared, Infrared Emission, Raman, Solid-State …
edited by Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu.
Basic Principles -- Spectroscopy -- Imaging and Mass-Transport -- Low-Field and Unilateral NMR.ESSENTIAL NMR is a set of lecture notes for scientists and engineers who want to brush up on their knowledge of NMR. This book is also a compendium for graduate and postgraduate students of physics and chemistry as well as for their teachers, covering all fields of NMR, i.e. NMR methodology and hardwa…
Applications and Devices -- MEMS-Based Thin Film and Resonant Chemical Sensors -- Microactuators Based on Thin Films -- Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers and Acoustic Sensors Based on Piezoelectric Thin Films -- Thick-Film Piezoelectric and Magnetostrictive Devices -- Micromachined Infrared Detectors Based on Pyroelectric Thin Films -- RF Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonators and Filters -- High Fre…
Mathematical Preliminaries -- Elasticity Problems -- Elastoplastic Problems -- Sensitivity Analysis for Some Composites -- Fracture and Fatigue Models for Composites -- Reliability Analysis -- Multiresolutional Wavelet Analysis.Composite materials play a vital role in modern engineering from aerospace to nuclear devices. Computational mechanics endeavours to provide precise numerical models of …
Microstructural Properties -- Precipitation of Disordered Ni-X Solid Solution Phases in Off-Stoichiometric Ordered Ni3X Alloys -- An Atomic Scale Study of The Physical Properties of Delta Plutonium and Pu:Al Alloys -- Ab Initio Thermodynamic and Structural Studies of Cationic Disordered MgAl2O4 Spinel -- Computer Simulation of Molten and Glassy Silica and its Mixtures with Sodium Oxide and Alum…
M. Müller, F. Schmidt. Incorporating Fluctuations and Dynamics in Self-Consistent Field Theories for Polymer Blends -- A. Arnold, C. Holm: Efficient Methods to Compute Lang Range Interactions for Soft Matter Systems -- P. Linse: Simulation of Charged Colloids in Solution -- J.-J. Weis, D. Levesque: Simple Dipolar Fluids as Generic Models for Soft Matter.
K. Binder, M. Müller, P. Virnau, L.G. MacDowell: Polymer+Solvent Systems: Phase Diagrams, Interface Free Energies, and Nucleation -- P.H. Hünenberger: Thermostat Algorithms for Molecular-Dynamics Simulations -- S. Auer, D. Frenkel: Numerical Simulation of Crystal Nucleation in Colloids -- D.R. Heine, G.S. Grest, J.G. Curro: Structure of Polymer Melts and Blends: Comparison of Integral Equatio…
Fundamentals of Welding Thermomechanics -- Description of Welding Deformations -- Stress Tensor -- Thermodynamical Background of Welding Processes -- Motion of Fluids -- Thermomechanical Behaviour -- Numerical Analysis of Welding Problems -- Numerical Methods in Thermomechanics -- Heat Flow in Welding -- Analytical Solutions of Thermal Problems in Welding -- Numerical Solutions of Thermal Probl…