Industrial Ceramics
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Ceramics
ISBN :
High-Efficient Low-Cost Photovoltaics
Author : Vesselinka Petrova-Koch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : 3540793585
Book Description
A bird's-eye view of the developmental trends and problems of recent photovoltaics is presented. The worldwide effort to develop high-efficiency low-cost PV modules, making use of most efficient solar cells and clever low-cost solar concentrators is described.
Ceramic Matrix Composites
Author : Walter Krenkel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,70 MB
Release : 2008-06-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783527313617
Book Description
Covering an important material class for modern applications in the aerospace, automotive, energy production and creation sectors, this handbook and reference contains comprehensive data tables and field reports on successfully developed prototypes. The editor and authors are internationally renowned experts from NASA, EADS, DLR, Porsche, MT Aerospace, as well as universities and institutions in the USA, Europe and Japan, and they provide here a comprehensive overview of current R & D with an application-oriented emphasis.
Soft Actuators
Author : Kinji Asaka
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 20,55 MB
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9811368503
Book Description
This book is the second edition of Soft Actuators, originally published in 2014, with 12 chapters added to the first edition. The subject of this new edition is current comprehensive research and development of soft actuators, covering interdisciplinary study of materials science, mechanics, electronics, robotics, and bioscience. The book includes contemporary research of actuators based on biomaterials for their potential in future artificial muscle technology. Readers will find detailed and useful information about materials, methods of synthesis, fabrication, and measurements to study soft actuators. Additionally, the topics of materials, modeling, and applications not only promote the further research and development of soft actuators, but bring benefits for utilization and industrialization. This volume makes generous use of color figures, diagrams, and photographs that provide easy-to-understand descriptions of the mechanisms, apparatus, and motions of soft actuators. Also, in this second edition the chapters on modeling, materials design, and device design have been given a wider scope and made easier to comprehend, which will be helpful in practical applications of soft actuators. Readers of this work can acquire the newest technology and information about basic science and practical applications of flexible, lightweight, and noiseless soft actuators, which differ from conventional mechanical engines and electric motors. This new edition of Soft Actuators will inspire readers with fresh ideas and encourage their research and development, thus opening up a new field of applications for the utilization and industrialization of soft actuators.
Functionally Graded Materials
Author : Y. Miyamoto
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1461553016
Book Description
Seven years have elapsed since Dr. Renee Ford, editor-in-chief of Materials Technology, first suggested to me to publish a book on Functionally Graded Materials (FGMs). She said that the FGM concept, then largely unknown outside of Japan and a relatively few laboratories elsewhere, would be of great interest to everyone working in the materials field because of its potentially universal applicability. There was no book about FGMs in English at that time, although the number of research papers, review articles, and FGM conference proceedings had been increasing yearly. We discussed what the book should cover, and decided it should present a comprehensive description from basic theory to the most recent applications of FGMs. This would make it useful both as an introduction to FGMs for those simply curious about what this new materials field was all about, and also as a textbook for researchers, engineers, and graduate students in various material fields. The FGM Forum in Japan generously offered to support this publication program. is very difficult for an individual author to write a book that Because it covers such a wide range of various aspects of many different materials, I invited more than 30 eminent materials scientists throughout the world, who were associated with FGM research, to contribute selected topics. I also asked several leading researchers in this field to edit selected chapters: Dr. Barry H. Rabin, then at the U. S.
Microstructuring of Glasses
Author : Dagmar Hülsenberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 31,13 MB
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 3540498885
Book Description
This is the first book that explains how to structure glass for micro- and nanophotonic applications. It deals with various glass compositions and their properties, and the interactions between glass and the electromagnetic waves used to modify it. The book also explores methods for influencing the geometrical microstructure of glass as well as methods to produce actual microdevices. It also details methods for influencing the geometrical microstructure of glasses.
Terra 2008
Author : Leslie Rainer
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 19,85 MB
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1606060430
Book Description
Earthen architecture constitutes one of the most diverse forms of cultural heritage and one of the most challenging to preserve. It dates from all periods and is found on all continents but is particularly prevalent in Africa, where it has been a building tradition for centuries. Sites range from ancestral cities in Mali to the palaces of Abomey in Benin, from monuments and mosques in Iran and Buddhist temples on the Silk Road to Spanish missions in California. This volume's sixty-four papers address such themes as earthen architecture in Mali, the conservation of living sites, local knowledge systems and intangible aspects, seismic and other natural forces, the conservation and management of archaeological sites, research advances, and training.
Synthesis, Properties and Applications of Ultrananocrystalline Diamond
Author : Dieter M. Gruen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 12,17 MB
Release : 2005-04-13
Category : Science
ISBN :
Book Description
Ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) is one of the important members of the triad of nanostructured carbons, which includes fullerenes and nanotubes. UNCD with characteristic sizes of primary particles less than 10 nm occurs in two forms: as a dispersed powder made by detonation techniques and as a chemical vapor deposited film. This book for the first time combines results of research pursued by the two communities of scientists, which up to now, have been working rather independently and largely unaware of the vast synergistic relationships existing between them. It is particularly noteworthy that much of the Russian work on disperse UNCD is available here in English for the first time. The outstanding experts in the two fields are represented in this volume discussing the basic theoretical concepts underlying the synthesis and characterization of these nanomaterials and describing progress that has been made in several areas of applications such as nanocomposites, selective adsorbents, colloidal suspensions, microabrasives, lubricants, quantum dots, cold-cathodes for UNCD particles and MEMS, biosensors, electrochemical, and nerve prostheses, high temperature, highly rectifying diodes, FET’s, thermoelectrics for UNCD films. This Proceedings volume will be of interest to a wide audience of scientists and engineers and serve as an introduction to an important and rapidly evolving field of nanoscience and nanomaterials; as a text for a special topics graduate course; or as a starting point for those interested in the development of new approaches to problems that have hitherto defied solution for lack of suitable materials.
High Temperature Ceramic Matrix Composites
Author : R. Naslain
Publisher : Woodhead Publishing Limited
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Book Description
Graphite, Graphene, and Their Polymer Nanocomposites
Author : Prithu Mukhopadhyay
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 143982780X
Book Description
Graphite, Graphene, and Their Polymer Nanocomposites presents a compilation of emerging research trends in graphene-based polymer nanocomposites (GPNC). International researchers from several disciplines share their expertise about graphene, its properties, and the behavior of graphene-based composites. Possibly the first published monograph of its
