1st Edition

Handbook of Advanced Materials Testing

Edited By Louise Ferrante Copyright 1995
    1036 Pages
    by CRC Press

    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.

    PREFACE
    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
    INDEX

    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)