Books in Materials engineering

Fundamentals of Laser-Based Powder Bed Fusion of Polymers

1st Edition
January 1, 2026
Eujin Pei + 3 more
English

Fundamentals of Laser-Based Powder Bed Fusion of Polymers addresses the design principles, materials, process monitoring, powder characteristics, microstructure, mechanical properties, post-processing, nondestructive testing, and more of polymers produced by laser-based powder bed fusion (LBPBF) additive manufacturing. Industrial applications and case studies are included throughout, as is insight on the testing, certification, and qualification of parts. The book starts with a section covering the fundamentals of the process and the materials used, with the second section discussing design for LBPBF of polymers including guidance on data management, process chains, and software and tools used. The third section provides insight on raw materials and feedstock, looking at how polymeric materials are selected, designed, and modified for use. Material characterization and powder management workflow are also covered. The fourth section of the book looks at the production process, including post-processing, process monitoring, prototyping vs. serialized production, and qualified production considerations. The book concludes with a section on part quality considerations, discussing measurement, industry certification and qualification, and more.

Damage Mechanics for Laminated Composites

1st Edition
January 1, 2026
Shuguang Li
English

Damage Mechanics for Laminated Composites outlines commonly encountered damage mechanisms and failure modes in laminated composites and provides strategies for avoiding them. The book primarily analyzes two types of damage commonly observed in laminated composites, transverse matrix cracking and delamination, and is divided into 3 sections, the first providing an introduction to the topic, covering the stress-strain relationship, thermodynamics, material categorization, common experimental observations, laminate theory, and the generalized plan strain problem. The second section discusses transverse matrix cracking, including subjects such as cracked laminate analysis, Hashin’s analysis, shear lag, the ply-discount technique, continuum damage mechanics, and the effects of viscosity. The third section analyzes delamination, including energy release rates, delamination modeling, and Abaqus models, and the book concludes with a discussion of progressive failure analyses and future developments.

Monitoring and Control Techniques in Metal Additive Manufacturing

1st Edition
January 1, 2026
Ibrahim Tansel
English

Monitoring and Control Techniques in Metal Additive Manufacturing provides an overview of monitoring methods in metal additive manufacturing, demonstrating the use of manufacturing parameter control for quality improvement based on simulations and measurements. The implementation of structural health monitoring (SHM) methods to evaluate the quality of manufactured parts and detect defects is included. The book starts with chapters introducing metal additive manufacturing, discussing the benefits of integrating monitoring methods into the additive manufacturing process and the benefits of control mechanisms. The following chapter outlines various monitoring methods, including thermal sensors, vision sensors, non-destructive testing (including ultrasound, acoustic emission sensors, and radiography), and optical emission spectroscopy. From there, computational methods for the analysis of data and decision making are discussed, including statistical methods, machine learning techniques, and deep convolutional neural network approaches used for process visualization, analysis, and classification. Numerical methods used to estimate temperature, strain distribution, and cavity percentages are also covered, as are structural health monitoring methods. The book also features a chapter dedicated to real-world applications of these techniques, and concludes with a chapter evaluating the performance of the previously discussed methods as well as a look at future trends.

Microbial Corrosion and Deterioration of Engineering Materials

1st Edition
January 1, 2026
Reza Javaherdashti
English

Microbial Corrosion and Deterioration of Engineering Materials: Analysis and Mitigation Techniques for Engineers aims to fill the gap between research and engineering practice when it comes to microbially influenced corrosion (MIC) and deterioration (MID). The book provides practical information to aid decision-making in addressing corrosion threats through clear guidelines for MIC/MID assessment, mitigation, and monitoring based on various materials and industries. Different MIC/MID types, mechanisms, and techniques for control and prevention are outlined. Chapters cover the environmental aspects of corrosion, the distinction between corrosion control and corrosion prevention, and microbial induced corrosion and deterioration in concrete, metals, polymers, and composites. The book emphasizes the consideration of both tactics and strategy when dealing with MIC/MID, with a particular focus on cathodic protection. A chapter featuring practical field-tested tips to assist field engineers with MIC/MID is included, and case studies are featured throughout.

Materials Informatics

1st Edition
December 1, 2025
Krishna Rajan
English
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Materials Informatics: Molecules, Crystals and Beyond discusses the role of information science in aiding the discovery and interpretation of multiscale relationships that are critical for materials discovery, design, and optimization. The book covers key challenges in applying information science methods to materials science, including the multidimensional nature of structure-property relationships, data sparsity, and the nature and sources of uncertainty, along with a brief overview of the algorithmic tools used for unsupervised and supervised learning.Building on these topics, chapters then cover the development of physics/chemistry informed data representations of structure and properties, the application of machine learning for structure and property prediction and screening for targeted properties, and the utilization of techniques such a graphics recognition, natural language processing, and statistically driven visualization tools in deciphering processing-structure... relationships in materials.

Geopolymer Concrete

1st Edition
November 10, 2025
Ildiko Merta + 1 more
English
Paperback
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Geopolymer Concrete: Advancements in Performance and Sustainability is a thorough guide on a research topic in which incremental progress has been made in recent years. The book opens with fundamental information, such as properties and production (both design and manufacturing techniques). It then includes various applications and useful LCA analysis. Recent advances with a particular focus on improvements in durability, strength, and thermal performance are discussed next, with valuable data supplied by real-world case studies. Considerations related to the material’s environmental impact, challenges, barriers to its adoption, and other insights into current standards and regulations conclude the coverage.This multifaceted resource serves not only as a unique source of information for readers in academia and industry seeking to stay current in their field, but may also prove to be worthwhile reading for those professionals responsible for better and more sustainable construction enterprises.

Lightweight Composites

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Mrityunjay Doddamani + 2 more
English
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Lightweight Composites: Mechanics, Processing, Properties, and Applications provides practical information for all types of lightweight composites, including cutting-edge processing techniques and applications. It highlights the utilization of porosity in design and development of material systems in a unique and innovative way with strength and moduli property maps included throughout. The synthesis, mechanics, characterization, and testing of these materials are each covered at length, with particular attention paid to advanced manufacturing techniques such as 3D printing. Sandwich composites, lightweight nanocomposites, functionally-graded foams, syntactic foams, metal matrix composites, Al and Mg-based composites, and more are covered. Weight critical structural applications in aerospace, automobile, marine, electronics, sports, and biomedicine are also discussed,

Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography Additive Manufacturing

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Ignazio Roppolo
English

Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography Additive Manufacturing: Fundamentals, Applications, and Trends provides a complete overview of these cutting-edge 3D-printing techniques, the materials they’re capable of producing, and how best those techniques and materials can be applied. The first section of the book covers the fundamentals, with chapters discussing the core principles of vat photopolymerization, related technological requirements, the characteristics of digital light processing (DLP) and stereolithography (SL) compared to other light-induced methods, as well as the chemistry and materials used in the processes, including how to formulate a resin. Section two covers applications, such as design for structural applications, as well as DLP and SL use in dentistry, soft robotics, sensors, biomedicine, microfluidics, catalysis and chemical engineering, and more. The book concludes with a section discussing current trends and future directions for the technology, with chapters analyzing sustainable materials including efforts to substitute synthetic materials with bio-based ones, vitrimers, controlled polymers, and 4D printing and DLP and SL in hybrid AM.

Biodegradable Metals and Their Medical Applications

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Yufeng Zheng
English
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Biodegradable Metals and Their Medical Applications presents an authoritative overview of all aspects of biodegradable metals and their biomedical applications from the definition, criteria, classification and alloying design of biodegradable metals to the mechanical property optimization, degradation control, biological effect, surface treatment, and advanced manufacture technologies of various biodegradable alloying systems. In vitro and in vivo biocompatibility evaluations for each kind of degradable metallic biomaterials are also discussed, and medical devices designed for usage within bone, blood, and other body microenvironments are presented, making this a complete resource for researchers in the fields of materials science and biomedical engineering.

Metal Alloys for Hydrogen Storage Applications

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
API Popoola + 1 more
English
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Metal Alloys for Hydrogen Storage Applications: Solid-State Hydrogen Storage in Metal-Based Materials provides an overview of the fundamentals, mechanics, processing, and application of various metal alloys, intermetallics, metal matrix composites, metal oxides, and other lightweight metal materials for use in hydrogen storage. Titanium-based, magnesium-based, binary type, and high entropy alloys are each covered, as are hydrogen bonding systems, the effects of alloy microstructure on hydrogen storage capacity and efficiency, alloy modifiers, and coatings and additives for alloys. Modeling techniques and approaches to additive manufacturing of components for hydrogen energy storages are also outlined, and various applications are included throughout.

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