Materials Handbook: A Concise Desktop Reference (2nd Edition) - By Cardarelli, François
Product Details: Materials Handbook A Concise Desktop Reference
Author: Cardarelli, François
Hardcover: 1340 pages | rar 16.9 MB | PDF | 23.5 MB
Publisher: Springer; 2nd edition (April 28, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1846286689
ISBN-13: 978-1846286681
1.About this book
From the reviews of the second edition:
The unique and practical Materials Handbook (second edition) provides quick and easy access to data on the physical and chemical properties of all classes of materials. The second edition has been much expanded to include whole new families of materials while many of the existing families are broadened and refined with new material and up-to-date information. Particular emphasis is placed on the properties of common industrial materials in each class. After a chapter introducing some general properties of materials, materials are classified as follows:
• ferrous metals and their alloys;
• nonferrous metals;
• semiconductors and superconductors;
• magnetic materials;
• insulators and dielectrics;
• miscellaneous electrical materials;
• ceramics, refractories and glasses;
• polymers and elastomers;
• minerals, ores and gemstones;
• rocks and meteorites;
• soils and fertilizers;
• cements, concrete, building stones and construction materials;
• timbers and woods;
• fuels, propellants and explosives;
• composite materials;
• gases;
• liquids.
Detailed appendices provide additional information on subjects as diverse as crystallography, natural radioactivity and economic data for industrial materials. Specific further reading sections and a general bibliography round out this comprehensive guide. The index and tabular format of the book make light work of extracting what the reader needs to know from the wealth of factual information within these covers.
François Cardarelli has spent many years compiling and editing materials data. His professional expertise and experience combine to make this handbook an indispensable reference tool for scientists and engineers working in fields from mechanical, electrical, and chemical to metallurgical and nuclear engineering.
"This volume covers metals and alloys, nonferrous metals, semiconductors, ceramics, polymers, earth materials, concrete, wood, fuels, composites, gases, and liquids. … many industrial and university libraries will find it a useful one-volume reference. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners." (A. M. Strauss, Choice, Vol. 46 (2), October, 2008)
2.Authors & Editors
François Cardarelli has had wide-ranging commercial and industrial experience of materials, commodities and processes:
• at CNRS in Paris he designed and used electrochemical sensors for pollution control;
• as a research scientist at Électricité de France he helped to invent methods of preparation of industrial titanium and tantalum electrodes;
• as a registered professional consultant in Toulouse, he solved problems in electrochemical engineering, the selection of electrode materials, corrosion and high-temperature operation;
• at the Avestor Corporation, he worked as an industrial electrochemist and materials expert in charge of strategic raw materials, scientific and technical support for lithium processing and, as Battery Product Leader, in charge of lithium polymer batteries for electric vehicles, down-hole drilling anf telecommunications he defined battery requirements and specifications and invented pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical processing for spent lithium batteries;
• at Rio Tinto Iron and Titanium, he was principal chemist for Materials at Sorel-Tracy in Quebéc dealing with valorization processes for industrial residues and refactory benchmarking and electrowinning of metallic titanium.
• at the Material and Electrochemical Research (MER) Corp., Tucson (Arizona, USA) he was principal electrochemist working on the electrowinning of titanium metal powder from composite anodes and other materials-related projects.
• following a period as Manager of Recycling at 5NPlus Inc in Saint-Laurent Quebéc he has started his own company, Electrochem Technologies & Materials, providing professional services and promoting his own patented electrochemical technologies on a commercial basis.
Doctor Cardarelli is also the author of Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures for Springer (ISBN: 1-85233-682-X).
3.Reviews
From the reviews of the second edition:
"This handbook contains practical and concise information on key scientific and technical material properties for the most commonly used industrial materials … . Compared with many other handbooks on material properties, this handbook presents more background information on how to use the data presented. … Those looking for a materials reference handbook on commonly used industrial materials, especially those who need to have a better understanding of material property fundamentals, will find this an interesting and very useful handbook." (IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine, 2009)
“This desktop reference on materials will be useful for engineers, physicists, chemists, and materials scientists who are looking for typical numbers on the physical properties of materials. … the index is very complete, it will be easy to find the property of interest. … The book also contains nine useful appendices. … The size of the volume and its 1300 pages make this handbook a real ‘desk’ reference. … whoever does pay will have bought a nicely bound and durable handbook.” (Fernande Grandjean and Gary J. Long, Belgian Physical Society Magazine, Issue 1, 2010)
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Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures: Their SI Equivalences and Origins - By Francois Cardarelli
Product Details: Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures: Their SI Equivalences and Origins
By Francois Cardarelli (Author), M.J. Shields (Translator)
Hardcover: 848 pages; PDF 42 MB;
Publisher: Springer (June 19, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 185233682X
ISBN-13: 978-1852336820
1.About this book
Mankind has a fascination with measurement. Down the centuries we have produced a plethora of incompatible and duplicatory systems for measuring everything from the width of an Egyptian pyramid to the concentration of radioactivity near a nuclear reactor and the value of the fine structure constant. With the introduction first of the metric system and of its successor the Système International d'Unités (SI), the scientific community has established a standard method of measurement based on only seven core units.
The Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures converts the huge variety of units from all over the world in every period of recorded history into units of the SI. Featuring:
- An A - Z of conversion tables for over 10,000 units of measurements.
- Tables of the fundamental constants of nature with their units.
- Listings of professional societies, and national standardization bodies for easy reference.
- An extensive bibliography detailing further reading on the multifarious aspects of measurement and its units.
This huge work is simply a "must have" for any reference library frequented by scientists of any discipline or by those with historical interests in units of measurement such as archaeologists.
2.Reviews
From the reviews:
"Outstanding Title! … Revised and expanded, this version of Cardarelli's Scientific Unit Conversion (3rd ed., 2002) is a comprehensive list of most scientific units, weights and measures, conversions, and definitions. Providing current and historical units from around the world, this book supplies alphabetically arranged conversion tables for more than 10,000 units of measurement….For archaeologists, historians, mathematicians, and scientists in any field. Summing Up: Essential. All collections."
(D. J. Turner, Choice, November 2003)
"All weights, volumes, powers, areas, field strengths ¿ You name it, it's here ¿ A gem for engineers, scientists, historians, journalists ¿" New Scientist
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Advanced Methods of Structural Analysis aims to help its readers navigate through the vast field of structural analysis. The book aims to help its readers master the numerous methods used in structural analysis by focusing on the principal concepts, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of each method. The end result is a guide to mastering the many intricacies of the plethora of methods of structural analysis. The book differentiates itself from other volumes in the field by focusing on the following: • Extended analysis of beams, trusses, frames, arches and cables • Extensive application of influence lines for analysis of structures • Simple and effective procedures for computation of deflections • Introduction to plastic analysis, stability, and free vibration analysis Authors Igor A. Karnovsky and Olga Lebed have crafted a must-read book for civil and structural engineers, as well as researches and students with an interest in perfecting structural analysis. Advanced Methods of Structural Analysis also offers numerous example problems, accompanied by detailed solutions and discussion of the results.
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Nonlinear Dynamics: Between Linear and Impact Limits
Author: Valery N. Pilipchuk
Professor (Research) Mechanical Engineering - Wayne State University
ISBN: 978-3-642-12798-4
e-ISBN: 978-3-642-12799-1
Pdf file format - 366 pages - Quality: 10
Copy of Preface:
The main objective of this book is to introduce a unified physical basis for analyses of vibrations with essentially unharmonic, non-smooth or may be discontinuous time shapes. It is known that possible transitions to nonsmooth limits can make investigations especially difficult. This is due to the fact that the dynamic methods were originally developed within the paradigm of smooth motions based on the classical theory of differential equations.
From the physical standpoint, these represent low-energy approaches to modeling dynamical systems. Although the impact dynamics has also quite a long pre-history, any kind of non-smooth behavior is often viewed as an exemption rather than a rule. Similarly, the classical theory of differential equations usually avoids non-differentiable and discontinuous functions. To-date, however, many theoretical and applied areas cover high-energy phenomena accompanied by strongly non-linear spatio-temporal behaviors making the classical smooth methods inefficient in many cases. For instance, such phenomena occur when dealing with dynamical systems under constraint conditions, friction-induced vibrations, structural damages due to cracks, liquid sloshing impacts, and numerous problems of nonlinear physics. Similarly to the wellknown analogy between mechanical and electrical harmonic oscillators, some electronic instruments include so-called Schmitt trigger circuits generating nonsmooth signals whose temporal shapes resemble mechanical vibro-impact processes. In many such cases, it is still possible to adapt different smooth methods of the dynamic analyses through strongly non-linear algebraic manipulations with state vectors or by splitting the phase space into multiple domains based on the system specifics. As a result, the related formulations are often reduced to discrete mappings in a wide range of the dynamics from periodic to atochastic. Possible alternatives to such approaches can be built on generating models developing essentially nonlinear/unharmonic behaviors as their inherent properties. Such models must be general and simple enough in order to play the role of physical basis. As shown in this book, new generating systems can be found by intentionally imposing the ‘worst case scenario’ on conventional methods in anticipation that failure of one asymptotic may point to its complementary counterpart. However, the related mathematical formalizations are seldom straightforward and require new principles. For instance, the tool developed here employs nonsmooth (impact) systems as a basis to describing not only impact but also smooth or even linear dynamics. This is built on the idea of non-smooth time substitutions/transformations (NSTT) proposed originally for strongly nonlinear but still smooth models.
On the author’s view, the methodological role of NSTT is to reveal explicit links between impact dynamics and hyperbolic algebras analogously to the link between harmonic vibrations and conventional complex analyses. In particular, this book gives the first systematic description for NSTT and related analytical and numerical algorithms. The text focuses on methodologies and discussions of their physical and mathematical basics. Detailed applications are mostly excluded from this book, however, necessary references on journal publications are provided.
Short description:
Nonlinear Dynamics represents a wide interdisciplinary area of research dealing with a variety of “unusual” physical phenomena by means of nonlinear differential equations, discrete mappings, and related mathematical algorithms. However, with no real substitute for the linear superposition principle, the methods of Nonlinear Dynamics appeared to be very diverse, individual and technically complicated. This book makes an attempt to find a common ground for nonlinear dynamic analyses based on the existence of strongly nonlinear but quite simple counterparts to the linear models and tools. It is shown that, since the subgroup of rotations, harmonic oscillators, and the conventional complex analysis generate linear and weakly nonlinear approaches, then translations and reflections, impact oscillators, and hyperbolic (Clifford’s) algebras must give rise to some “quasi impact” methodology. Such strongly nonlinear methods are developed in several chapters of this book based on the idea of non-smooth time substitutions. Although most of the illustrations are based on mechanical oscillators, the area of applications may include also electric, electro-mechanical, electrochemical and other physical models generating strongly anharmonic temporal signals or spatial distributions. Possible applications to periodic elastic structures with non-smooth or discontinuous characteristics are outlined in the final chapter of the book.
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Concrete and Clay Roof Tile Installation Manual for Moderate Climate Regions
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The Roof Tile Institute, formerly the National Tile Roofing Manufacturers Association (NTRMA), has realized the need to establish an industry based manual that would cover the installation of concrete and clay tile as a roof assembly in the moderate climate regions of North America. The Roof Tile Institute in partnership with the Western States Roofing Contractors Association (WSRCA) assembled a task group to develop a single manual that would provide a representation of the best installation practices, industry standards, and code requirements. These recommendations have provided successful installations of roof tile which endured the test of time.
These recommendations are meant for areas with moderate climates that may experience occasional storms. In locations where the January mean temperature is 30 deg. F (-1 deg C) or less or where ice damming can occur, the RTI /WSRCA suggests reference to the Concrete and Clay Tile Roof Design Criteria Manual for Cold and Snow Regions. While generally considered the minimum standard, proper adherence to these recommendations and attention to detail and workmanship provide a functional roof in all but the most severe conditions. Local building officials should be consulted for engineering criteria or other special requirements.
This manual provides the minimum design recommendations with optional upgrades for the installation of underlayment, flashings, fastening and related measures to provide a weather resistant roofing assembly for concrete and clay tile.
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Introduction to Numerical Geodynamic Modelling Taras Gerya
Introduction to Numerical Geodynamic Modelling
Taras Gerya
Cambridge University Press - 2010
ISBN: 0521887542
358 pages PDF 5,3 MB
Numerical modelling of geodynamic processes was predominantly the domain of high-level mathematicians experienced in numerical and computational techniques. Now, for the first time, students and new researchers in the Earth Sciences can learn the basic theory and applications from a single, accessible reference text. Assuming only minimal prerequisite mathematical training (simple linear algebra and derivatives) the author provides a solid grounding in basic mathematical theory and techniques, including continuum mechanics and partial differential equations, before introducing key numerical and modelling methods. 8 well-documented, state-of-the-art visco-elasto-plastic, 2-D models are then presented, which allow robust modelling of key dynamic processes such as subduction, lithospheric extension, collision, slab break-off, intrusion emplacement, mantle convection and planetary core formation. Incorporating 47 practical exercises and 67 MATLAB examples
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this textbook provides a user-friendly introduction for graduate courses or self-study, encouraging readers to experiment with geodynamic models.
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Measurement of Soil Properties in the Triaxial Test
Authors: Alan Wilfred Bishop, D.J. Henkel
Hardcover: 190 pages
Publisher: Hodder Arnold; 2nd Revised edition edition (1 Jan 1976)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0713130040
ISBN-13: 978-0713130041
Recommendation of RILEM TC 176: Test methods of frost resistance of concrete
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