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Books

ASME International Steam Tables for Industrial Use, Second Edition

January 31, 2009

Author(s)

William T. Parry, J Bellows, J.S. Gallagher, Allan H. Harvey

This book provides printed documentation, tables, and charts for the international standards for water and steam properties for industrial use as adopted by the...

Wear-out and Time Dependent Dielectric Breakdown in Silicon Oxides

January 14, 2009

Author(s)

John S. Suehle

This chapter will discuss the various physical mechanisms proposed for defect generation and dielectric breakdown in thin silicon dioxide films. Current...

Vibration-induced PM noise in oscillators and its suppression

January 1, 2009

Author(s)

Archita Hati, Craig W. Nelson, David A. Howe

High precision oscillators have significant applications in modern communication and navigation systems, radars, and sensors mounted in unmanned aerial vehicles...

THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF FLUIDS

January 1, 2009

Author(s)

Eric W. Lemmon

These tables give thermodynamic and transport properties of a variety of fluids, as generated from the equations of state presented in the references below. The...

Multiparameter Equations of State for Pure Fluids and Mixtures

January 1, 2009

Author(s)

Eric W. Lemmon, Roland Span

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Robotic Patient Lift and Transfer

December 31, 2008

Author(s)

Roger V. Bostelman, James S. Albus

This book chapter provides background on wheelchairs, patient lift devices and the combination of mobile patient lift and transfer devices and research. The...

Durability of Building Joint Sealants

December 12, 2008

Author(s)

Christopher C. White, Kar T. Tan, Donald L. Hunston

Predicting the service life of building joint sealants exposed to service environments in less than real times has been a need of the sealant community for many...

The Proceedings of υTAS 2008 Conference

November 20, 2008

Author(s)

Laurie E. Locascio, Michael Gaitan, Brian M. Paegel, David J. Ross, Wyatt N. Vreeland

Contact Resonance Force Microscopy Techniques for Nanomechanical Measurements

November 1, 2008

Author(s)

Donna C. Hurley

Contact resonance force microscopy (CR-FM) methods such as atomic force acoustic microscopy (AFAM) show great promise as tools for nanoscale materials research...

Poisson Ratio and Covalency - Ionicity

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

H M. Ledbetter, Sung Kim

For twenty-one 8-N (octet) compounds, we consider the dependence of the Poisson ratio upsilion} on fractional covalent-ionic character estimated from atomic...

The Glass Transition: Its Measurement and Underlying Physics

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

G B. McKenna, S L. Simon

The glass transition is an important phenomenon in the practical world, where it determines the use temperature and processing temperature for many materials...

Accoustic Studies of Composite-Material Interfaces

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

H M. Ledbetter

We review six recent acoustic studies of composite-material interfaces. Measured physical properties are either elastic constants (sound velocities resonance...

Chapter I. Overview of Polymer Blends Characterization

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Charles C. Han

Characterization techniques for polymers have been discussed in literature. Normally these techniques are categorized in terms of mechanical testing methods...

Image Analysis for High-Throughput Materials Science

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Alamgir Karim, A Sehgal, J C. Meredith, A J. Crosby, Eric J. Amis

Imaging plays a key role in modern day materials science by providing a high-density format of data representation that can be visually interpreted or processed...

Monocrystal Elastic Constants and Deprived Properties of the Cubic and the Hexangonal Elements

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

H M. Ledbetter, Sudook A. Kim

For forty-one cubic symmetry elements and twenty-one hexagonal-symmetry elements, we give the complete monocrystal elastic-stiffness tensor C ijkl. and the mass...

Modeling Superconformal Electrodeposition Using an Open Source PDE Solver

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Daniel Wheeler, Jonathan E. Guyer

Superconformal electrodeposition enables the void-free filling of high aspect ratio features such as trenches or vias in the Damascene metallization process...

Rapid Solidification for ASM Handbook on Casting, 2007 Edition Principles of Solidification Section

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

William J. Boettinger

Chapter 2: Fundamental Properties of PB-Free Solder Alloys Affecting Manufacturing, Performance and Reliability

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

C A. Handwerker, Ursula R. Kattner, Kil-Won Moon

The search for a global Pb-free replacement for Pb-Sn eutectic alloy has been an evolving process as the threat of a regional lead ban became a reality in July...

Comment on On the Splitting of the Roengten and Optical Terms Caused by the Electron Rotation and on the Intensity of the Cesium Lines by E. Majorana and G. Gentile

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

E Arimondo

This work comment on the history and the impact of the first paper written by E. Majorana in 1928

Comment on Theory of the Incomplete P Splitting by E. Majorana

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

E Arimondo

This work comment on the history and the impact of the fifth paper published by E. Majorana in 1931

Quantum Noise Limited Detection of Absorption in High Finesse Cavities Enabled by Modulation Techniques

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Jun Ye, John L. Hall

We review the two key ingredients for reaching the goal of ultrasensitive detection of atomic and molecular absorption: enhancement of the intrinsic atomic...

Carrier-Envelope Phase of Ultrashort Pulses

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Steven T. Cundiff, F Krausz

The phase of the electromagnetic field has typically not been a quantity of physical meaning in optics because all I measurements are of intensity.Relative...

Optical Frequency Standards and Their Measurement

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

John L. Hall, Jun Ye

The last four years have seen a revolution in the art and practice of optical frequency measurement. Indeed the gearbox represented by the spectrally-broadened...

Near-Critical Behavior of Aqueous Systems

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

M A. Anisimov, Jan V. Sengers, Johanna Levelt Sengers

This chapter concentrates on the thermophysical properties of water, steam and aqueous solutions in a large range around the water critical point. The chapter...

Soot Precursors from Real Fuels: The Unimolecular Reactions of Fuel Radicals

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Wing Tsang, Iftikhar A. Awan, William Sean McGivern, Jeffrey A. Manion

This paper describes studies aimed at defining in a quantitative fashion the cracking pattern of fuel radicals under combustion conditions. The experimental...

Radiation Chemistry of Phenols

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Pedatsur Neta, S Steenken

This chapter summarizes the radiation chemistry of phenols. It includes studies on the radiation chemistry of phenols in aqueous solutions, in organic solvents...

Reactive Intermediates in Combustion

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

John K. Merle, Christopher M. Hadad

This chapter provides an introduction into the chemistry of reactive intermediates that are typically generated by combustion. Several aspects of combustion...

Crycoolers and High-T_c Devices

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Ray Radebaugh

This chapter reviews various methods and their operating principles for producing cryogenic temperatures. The use of liquid cryogens for laboratory studies of...

Thermodynamics of Regenerative Refrigerators

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Ray Radebaugh

Regeneration refrigerators operate with oscillating pressures and flows. Such refrigerators include the Stirling, Gifford-McMahon, and pulse tube refrigerators...

Shape Selectivity in Reversed-Phase Liquid Chromatography

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Katrice Lippa, Kate Rimmer, Lane C. Sander

The separation of shape-constrained solutes in reversed-phase liquid chromatography is generally controlled by subtle differences in molecular shape together...

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