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By adopting the principles of sustainable design and cleaner production, this important book opens a new challenge in the world of composite materials and explores the achieved advancements of specialists in their respective areas of research and innovation. Contributions coming from both spaces of academia and industry were so diversified that the 28 chapters composing the book have been grouped into the following main parts: sustainable materials and ecodesign aspects, composite materials and curing processes, modelling and testing, strength of adhesive joints, characterization and thermal behaviour, all of which provides an invaluable overview of this fascinating subject area. Results achieved from theoretical, numerical and experimental investigations can help designers, manufacturers and suppliers involved with high-tech composite materials to boost competitiveness and innovation productivity.

Composite materials. --- Composites (Materials) --- Multiphase materials --- Reinforced solids --- Solids, Reinforced --- Two phase materials --- Materials --- Composite Materials --- Physical Sciences --- Engineering and Technology --- Materials Science --- Ecotechnology

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This book is a rigorous introduction to the characterisation of composite materials by means of ultrasonic waves. Composites are treated here not simply as uniform media, but as inhomogeneous layered anisotropic media with internal structure characteristic of composite laminates. The objective here is to concentrate on exposing the singular behavior of ultrasonic waves as they interact with layered, anisotropic materials, materials which incorporate those structural elements typical of composite laminates.

Composite materials --- Ultrasonic testing. --- Supersonic testing --- Nondestructive testing --- Ultrasonic waves --- Composites (Materials) --- Multiphase materials --- Reinforced solids --- Solids, Reinforced --- Two phase materials --- Materials --- Testing. --- Industrial applications

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Reinforcements are an integral part of all composites and the quality and performance of the composite can be optimised by modelling the type and structure of the reinforcement before moulding. Composite reinforcements for optimum performance reviews the materials, properties and modelling techniques used in composite production and highlights their uses in optimising performance.Part one covers materials for reinforcements in composites, including chapters on fibres, carbon nanotubes and ceramics as reinforcement materials. In part two, different types of structures for reinforcements

Composite materials --- Design --- Construction --- Composite materials -- Construction. --- Composite materials -- Design. --- Composite materials. --- Composites (Materials) --- Multiphase materials --- Reinforced solids --- Solids, Reinforced --- Two phase materials --- Materials --- Composite materials - Design --- Composite materials - Construction

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The growing use of composites over metals for structural applications has made a thorough understanding of the behaviour of composite joints in various applications essential for engineers, but has also presented them with a new set of problems. Composite joints and connections addresses these differences and explores the design, modelling and testing of bonded and bolted joints and connections.Part one discusses bolted joints whilst part two examines bonded joints. Chapters review reinforcement techniques and applications for composite bolted and bonded joints and investigate the caus

Adhesive joints -- Mathematical models. --- Adhesive joints -- Testing. --- Bolted joints -- Mathematical models. --- Bolted joints -- Testing. --- Composite construction. --- Composite materials -- Bonding. --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Civil Engineering --- Joints (Engineering) --- Composite materials. --- Composites (Materials) --- Multiphase materials --- Reinforced solids --- Solids, Reinforced --- Two phase materials --- Materials --- Engineering

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Amorphous Chalcogenide Semiconductors and Related Materials describes developments in the science and technology of this advancing class of materials. This book offers an up-to-date treatment of chalcogenide glasses, amorphous semiconductors, and photonics glasses from basic principles through to applications, while providing the reader with solid-state sciences for understanding the material property and technology. Chalcogenide glasses have a number of interesting and useful properties, which have been already exploited in the commercialization of new devices. The book describes them at length, while it also: Discusses technological applications such as nonlinear optical fibers, DVDs, and high resolution mammographic x-ray image detectors Includes coverage of noncrystalline semiconductors with glassy semiconductors Amorphous or glassy chalcogenides are a kind of noncrystalline and thermodynamically quasi-stable solids. Such materials possess totally different properties than crystalline solids, and therefore warrant detailed discussion and description, which Amorphous Chalcogenide Semiconductors and Related Materials provides.

Amorphous semiconductors. --- Chalcogenides. --- Semiconductors. --- Semiconductors --- Chalcogenides --- Chemical & Materials Engineering --- Electrical & Computer Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Materials Science --- Electrical Engineering --- Chemical Engineering --- Materials --- Electric properties --- Noncrystalline semiconductors --- Materials science. --- Electronics. --- Microelectronics. --- Materials Science. --- Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Methods. --- Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation. --- Polycrystalline semiconductors --- Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Materials. --- Electrical engineering --- Physical sciences --- Ceramics. --- Glass. --- Composites (Materials). --- Composite materials. --- Crystalline semiconductors --- Semi-conductors --- Semiconducting materials --- Semiconductor devices --- Crystals --- Electronics --- Solid state electronics --- Microminiature electronic equipment --- Microminiaturization (Electronics) --- Microtechnology --- Miniature electronic equipment --- Composites (Materials) --- Multiphase materials --- Reinforced solids --- Solids, Reinforced --- Two phase materials --- Amorphous substances --- Ceramics --- Glazing --- Ceramic technology --- Industrial ceramics --- Keramics --- Building materials --- Chemistry, Technical --- Clay