This work discusses techniques for developing new engineering materials such as elastomers, plastic blends, composites, ceramics and high-temperature alloys. Instrumentation for evaluating their properties and identifying potential end uses are presented.;The book is intended for materials, manufacturing, mechanical, chemical and metallurgical engineers; ceramists; product development specialists; materials scientists; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.
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CONTRIBUTORS
STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION METHODS
NUCLEAR METHODS PF MATERIALS ANALYSIS- WILLIAM D. EHMANN, J DAVID ROBERTSON AND DIANES E. VANCE
TRACE DETERMINATION OF MOLCULES BY LASER TWO PHOTON IONIZATION – TEIICHIRO OGAWA
MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION USING ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY- M SANKARARAMAN
PRINCIPLES OF SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE (SEM) FOR STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIXATION- KVR PRASAD, M.V. SHANKAR, G.N. SUBBANNA, AND K.B.R. VARMA
ION-EXCLUSION CHROMOTOGRAPHY- G.L. ZHAO AND G.L. WANG
QUANITITATIVE STRUCTURE-RETENTION RELATIONSHIPS AND CHROMATOGRAPHIC DETERMINATION OF HYDROPHOBICITY- ROMAN KALISZAM
APPLICATIONS OF MCRI-RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY- T. JAWHARI
ISOTOPE DILUTION LC/MS USING A PARTICEL BEAM INTERFACE- DANIEL R. DOERGE AND STEVE BAJIC
APPLICATIONS OF ELECTRON HOLOGRAPHY- J.M. COWLEY
USE OF X-RAY DIFFRACTION IN PROPERTIES TESTING- MARTIN ERMICH
TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY OF AGED GaInAsP/lnP BURIED HERTEROSTRUCTURE LASERS- U. BANGERT
REVERSED PHASE HPLC: DETERMINATION OF VARIETY MUSTS BY SPE/RP-HPLC ANALYSIS OF THEIR SOLUABLE PROTEINS- RAMON GONZALEZ- LARA AND LUIS MIGUEL GONZALEZ
TECHNIQUES OF THERMOELECTRIC STUDIES-V DAMODARA DAS
RAPID HEADSPACE GAS CHROMATOGRAPHIC METHOD- W. TASHKOV
SAMPLING AND ANALYSIS OF LIGHT HYDROCARBONS IN VOLCANIC GASES- FILIPPO MANGANI AND BRUNO CAPACCIONI
TECHNIQUES FOR STUDYING THE ELETRICAL BEHAVIOR OF CHRYSOPHENINE COMPLEXES- M.G. ABD EL WAHED
RIETVELD REFINEMENT OF CRYSTAL STRUCTURES USING POWDER X-RAY DIFFRACTION DATA, A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SYNTHESIZED CuGa_ylnyTe2- M. LEON AND J. L. MARTIN DE VIDALES
A MICROINDENTER FOR THE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE GLASS TRANSITION- FERDINAND RODRIGUEZ AND TREVA LONG
OPTICAL ABSORPTION TECHNIQUES FOR CERAMICS CHARACTERIZATIONS- KATSUHISA TANAKA, KAZUYUKI HIRAO AND NAOHIRO SOGA
INTERFACE AND STRUCTUREAL COMPOSITE TEST METHODS
CHARACTERIZATION OF FIBER/MATRIX INTERFACE STRENGTH AND FIBER STRENGTH BY AN ACOUSTIC EMISSION COUPLED SINGLE-FIBER-COMPOSITE TECHNIQUES- ANIL N. NETRAVALI
NEW TECHNIQUES FOR GRAIN BOUNDRY DETERMINATION- QING LIU
TECHNIQUES FOR STUDYING COMPOSITE INTERFACES- JANG-KYO KIM, LI-MIN ZHOU, AND YIU-WING MAI
DETERMINATION OF INTERFACIAL PROPERTIES OF FIBEROUS COMPOSITES- C.Y. YUE
METHODS FOR DETERMINATION OF THE WORK OF FRACTURE OF CERAMICS- S.M. BARINOV
FRACTURE TOUGHNESS AND STRENGTH TESTING OF CERAMIC COMPOSITES- JAN DUSZA AND PAVOL SAJGALIK
CRACK PROPAGATION MODES IN COMPOSITES (THE INFLUENCE OF MESOPHASE) – PERICLES S THEOCARIS
EFFECTS OF THERMAL EXPANSION ANISOTROPY OF COATING ON THERMAL STRESSES IN FIBER/COATING SYSTEMS- CHUN-HWAY HSUEH
CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYCARBONATE TOUGHNESS BY PRECRACK HYSTERESIS- FENG-CHIH CHANG
HIGH TEMPERATURE STRESS RUPTURE TESTS FOR EVALUATING THE DURABILITY OF CERAMICS- AKIRA OKADA
TECHNIQUES FOR STUDYING DYNAMICS PROPAGATION OF PLASTICS- GEORGE A PAPADOPULOS
FATIGUE CRACK DETECTION AND DATA ANALYSIS- DAVID H. KOHN
PROPERTIES TESTING OF POLYMERS AND COPOSITES
GPC-UV/VIS: A POWERFUL TOOL FOR POLYMER ANALYSIS- DUANE B PRIDDY
ACID BASE PROPERTIES OF POLYMERS IN SOLID STATE- MOHAMED M CHEHIMI
SOLID STATE NMR INVESTIGATION IF CATIONIC POLYMERIZED EPOXY RESINS- WOLF-DIETER DOMKE AND NORBERT EGGER
BENDING BEAM TECHNIQUW FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF SOLVENT DIFFUSIONS IN POLYMER CONTAINING LAYERED STRUCTURES- JWO-HUEI JOU AND CHIEN-NENG LIAO
TECHNIQUES FOR STUDYING THE VISCOUS FLOW BEHAVIOR OF GLASSY ALLOYS- KRASSIMIR RUSSEW, LIJANA STOJANOVA, AND FERDINAND SOMMER
THE DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, AND EVALUATION OF A PULSE RHEOMETER FOR REACTING FORMS- CRAIG J CARRIERE, DAVID H BANK, AND CHRISTOPHER P CHRISTENSON
TECHNIQUES FOR TENSILE PROPERTIES TESTING OF COMPOSITES- S N MAITI
APPLICATION OF FLOW BIREFRINGENCE TO CONVERGING WEDGE FLOWS- R SUBRAMANIAN AND JJC PICOT
DYNAMIC ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS TO POLYMERS- GI XUE, JIAN DONG, JIANFU DING
NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING AND ANALYSIS OF RUBBER MATERIALS BY COMPUTED XRAY TOMOGRAPHY- HAKAN LAVEBRATT, BENGT MATTSON, AND ERIK OSTMAN
PRINCIPLES OF ADHESION TESTING- JUN-ICHI ECHIGOYA
IMPACT PERFORMANCE OF THERMOPLASTIC MATRIX SHEET COMPOSITES- DM BIGG
STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF MATERIALS- KS RAJU
INFLUENCE OF REPROCCESSING ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF COMMERCIAL POLYMERS- JI EGUIAZABAL AND J NAZABAL
BALLISTIC TESTING AND EVALUATION OF CERAMIC COMPOSITES- S RANGANATH AND J SUBRAHMANYAM
TECHNIQUES FOR STUDYING FRACTURE BEHAVIOR – V ARUMUGAM, N SOMANATHAN, MD NARESH, AND R SANJEEVI
RHEOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF CROSSLINKING – PHILIPPE H CASSAGNAU
GLASS/PHENOLIC COMPOSITES: PROPERTIES AND FRACTURE FEATURES- D SARATH CHANDRA AND RICHARD C LARAMEE
ELONGATIONAL VISCOSITY OF POLYMER MELTS- BERNARD TREMBLAY
EFFECT OF ALLOY MODIFICATION ON TENSILE AND FATIGUE PROPERTIES OF A CAST CO-CRO-MO ALLOY USED FOR SURGICAL IMPLANT COMPONENT APPLICATIONS- LZ ZHUANG AND EW LANGER
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Biography
Louise Ferrante
". . .a considerable achievement. . .will be of great value to those in the chemical community who have to tackle the varied, real-life problems of materials science and want to obtain an over- view of the techniques available. Every library should have a copy. "
---Journal of the American Chemical Society
". . .should serve as a compendium to which the user can turn for quick and reliable answers arising in the course of his or her work and should prove a valuable resource. "
---Silicates Industriels (Journal of the Belgian Ceramic Society)