1st Edition

Handbook of Advanced Materials Testing

Edited By Louise Ferrante Copyright 1995
1036 Pages
by CRC Press

1040 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;... Read more

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)