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  • Shape Memory Alloys - Processing, Characterization and Applications
    Shape Memory Alloys - Processing, Characterization and Applications
    Editor Francisco Manuel Braz Fernandes
    ISBN 978-953-51-1084-2
    278 pages, April, 2013
    Downloads: 440
    Shape memory alloys have become in the past decades a well established research subject. However, the complex relations between properties and structure have created a continuously growing interest for a deeper insight all this time. The complexity o ...
  • Aluminium Alloys - New Trends in Fabrication and Applications
    Aluminium Alloys - New Trends in Fabrication and Applications
    Editor Zaki Ahmad
    ISBN 978-953-51-0861-0
    359 pages, December, 2012
    Downloads: 661
    Aluminium alloys have undergone a dramatic transformation in areas of extrusion, machining, welding, heat treatment, structural changes, created by ultra fine particles and enhanced corrosion resistance. Hence, these alloys have made rapid gains in E ...
  • Physics and Technology of Silicon Carbide Devices
    Physics and Technology of Silicon Carbide Devices
    Editor Yasuto Hijikata
    ISBN 978-953-51-0917-4
    402 pages, October, 2012
    Downloads: 344
    Recently, some SiC power devices such as Schottky-barrier diodes (SBDs), metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistors (MOSFETs), junction FETs (JFETs), and their integrated modules have come onto the market. However, to stably supply them and r ...
  • Metallurgy - Advances in Materials and Processes
    Metallurgy - Advances in Materials and Processes
    Editor Yogiraj Pardhi
    ISBN 978-953-51-0736-1
    176 pages, September, 2012
    Downloads: 932
    In recent decades scientists and engineers around the globe have been responding to the requirement of high performance materials through innovative material research and engineering. The ever increasing demand on quality and reliability has resulted ...
  • New Features on Magnesium Alloys
    New Features on Magnesium Alloys
    Editor Waldemar Alfredo Monteiro
    ISBN 978-953-51-0668-5
    174 pages, July, 2012
    Downloads: 747
    Magnesium alloys have been attractive to designers due to their low density (two thirds that of aluminium), the sixth most abundant on earth, is ductile and the most machinable of all the metals. This has been a major factor in the widespread use of ...
  • Abrasion Resistance of Materials
    Abrasion Resistance of Materials
    Editor Marcin Adamiak
    ISBN 978-953-51-0300-4
    204 pages, March, 2012
    Downloads: 1075
  • Powder Metallurgy
    Powder Metallurgy
    Editor Katsuyoshi Kondoh
    ISBN 978-953-51-0071-3
    124 pages, March, 2012
    Downloads: 1469
    From high-performance, economical and environmental points of view, Powder metallurgy process shows remarkable advantages in production of parts and components due to their special compositions by elemental mixing and 3-dimensional near net shape for ...
  • Alloy Steel - Properties and Use
    Alloy Steel - Properties and Use
    Editor Eduardo Valencia Morales
    ISBN 978-953-307-484-9
    270 pages, December, 2011
    Downloads: 2119
    The sections in this book are devoted to new approaches and usages of stainless steels, the influence of the environments on the behavior of certain classes of steels, new structural concepts to understand some fatigue processes, new insight on stren ...