Books in the Engineering Materials and Processes series

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.

This book provides a thorough overview of all techniques for producing self-healing construction materials. Self-healing materials form a new class of materials that have inbuilt engineered properties to counteract damage and repair it before it becomes critical.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of engineering nanostructures mediated by functional polymers in combination with optimal synthesis and processing techniques. The focus is on polymer-engineered nanostructures for advanced energy applications.It discusses a variety of polymers that function as precursors, templates, nano-reactors, surfactants, stabilizers, modifiers, dopants, and spacers for directing self-assembly, assisting organization, and templating growth of numerous diverse nanostructures. It also presents a wide range of polymer processing techniques that enable the efficient design and optimal fabrication of nanostructured polymers, inorganics, and organic-inorganic nanocomposites using in-situ hybridization and/or ex-situ recombination methodologies. Combining state-of-the-art knowledge from polymer-guided fabrication of advanced nanostructures and their unique properties, it especially highlights the new, cutting-edge breakthroughs, future horizons, and insights into such nanostructured materials in applications such as photovoltaics, fuel cells, thermoelectrics, piezoelectrics, ferroelectrics, batteries, supercapacitors, photocatalysis, and hydrogen generation and storage. It offers an instructive and approachable guide to polymer-engineered nanostructures for further development of advanced energy materials to meet ever-increasing global energy demands. Interdisciplinary and broad perspectives from internationally respected contributors ensure this book serves as a valuable reference source for scientists, students, and engineers working in polymer science, renewable energy materials, materials engineering, chemistry, physics, surface/interface science, and nanotechnology. It is also suitable as a textbook for universities, institutes, and industrial institutions.

It describes the laser metal deposition (LMD) process with the help of numerous diagrams and photographs of real-world process situations, ranging from the fabrication of parts to the repair of existing products, and includes case studies from current research in this field.

Situated at the forefront ofinterdisciplinary researchon ferromagnetic microwires and their multifunctional composites, this book starts with acomprehensive treatment ofthe processing, structure, properties and applications of magnetic microwires.

Thermoelectricity describes the physics of energy conversion, from heat to electric power, and from electric power to heat or cooling power in solids. The working fluid consists of the conduction electrons.

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.

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.

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

This book discusses FBAR physics, design, modeling, fabrication and applications, along with tuning of the resonant frequency of FBARs and switchable and tuneable FBARs based on electric field induced piezoelectric effect in paraelectric phase ferroelectrics.

This comprehensive summary of the current state of the art of titanium addresses all aspects of titanium. Richly illustrated with more than 300 figures, this compendium takes a conceptual approach to the physical metallurgy and applications of titanium, making it suitable as a reference and tutorial for materials scientists and engineers.

Fatigue of Fiber-reinforced Composites describes the fatigue behavior of several types of composite materials. Based on a presentation of experimental results, the chapters demonstrate theoretical models for predicting the fatigue life of composites and cover complete design methodologies.

This is the only book to cover the most recent developments in applied quantum theory and their use in modeling materials properties. It describes new approaches to modeling disordered alloys and focuses on those approaches that combine the most efficient quantum-level theories of random alloys with the most sophisticated numerical techniques.

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