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    • The Utilization of Slag in Civil Infrastructure Construction

      • 1st Edition
      • June 15, 2016
      • George C. Wang
      • English
      • Hardback
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      The Utilization of Slag in Civil Infrastructure Construction strives to integrate the theory, research, and practice of slag utilization, including the production and processing of slags. The topics covered include: production and smelting processes for metals; chemical and physical properties of slags; pretreatment and post-treatment technology to enhance slag properties; potential environmental impact; mechanisms of potential expansion; special testing methods and characteristics; slag processing for aggregate and cementitious applications; suitability of slags for use in specific applications; overall properties of materials containing slags; and commercialization and economics. The focus of the book is on slag utilization technology, with a review of the basic properties and an exploration of how its use in the end product will be technically sound, environment-friendly... and economic.

    • Applied Group Theory

      • 1st Edition
      • June 3, 2016
      • Arthur P. Cracknell
      • D. ter Haar
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Applied Group Theory covers group theory and its applications and is designed to cater undergraduate students. This text is comprised of two parts; the first of which discusses topics such as symmetry; crystallographic groups; vibrations in molecules and solids; and electronic states in atoms, molecules, and solids. This book then explains in the second part topics including the elastic characteristic vibrations of symmetrical systems; theory of Brillouin zones and symmetry properties of wave functions in crystals; and magnetic symmetry of crystals. This text also gives hints to solutions of the exercises provided in each discussion. This selection will be invaluable to undergraduate students of mathematics who are in need of reference materials in group theory that are understandable to them. Mathematics instructors will also find this book helpful.

    • Progress in Boron Chemistry

      • 1st Edition
      • October 12, 2016
      • R. J. Brotherton + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Progress in Boron Chemistry, Volume 2 presents the chemistry and applications of boron and its compounds. This book provides a critical treatment of six areas of boron chemistry, including polyhedral borane ions, carboranes, polymers, hydrogen, metal borides, and elemental boron. Organized into six chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the structures as well as the synthesis of polyhedral borane anions. This text then examines the various types of classes and series of the carboranes. Other chapters consider the relatively intramolecular rearrangements and intramolecular exchange reactions concerning the various closo-carboranes and nido-carboranes. This book discusses as well the formation and the historical significance of a higher boron hydride polymer. The final chapter deals with the structural utilization of boron filaments, which promises to be the first large-scale use for comparatively high purity elemental boron. This book is intended to be suitable for boron chemists, chemical engineers, scientists, and research workers.

    • Progress in Reaction Kinetics

      • 1st Edition
      • June 3, 2016
      • G. Porter
      • English
      • eBook
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      Progress in Reaction Kinetics discusses the main themes of chemical kinetics. It covers such topics as the reactions of halogen atoms and methylenes, mercury photosensitized reactions, anionic polymerization, cis trans-isomerisation, and protolytic reactions. The book provides a good illustration of the quantitative rate studies in biochemical systems. The experiments to determine the relative rate constants are shown and analyzed. The process of photosensitization involves absorption of light energy by a strongly absorbing substance. The methods to identify the reactions of carbonyl compounds, organic acids and esters are presented as well as the reactions of alcohols, ethers, and epoxides. The degree of reaction of some haem compounds is explained. A chapter of the book focuses on the kinetic treatment of processes that takes place in a series of steps. Such procedures are called consecutive processes. A sample of these is the rate-determining step approximation. The book will provide useful information to chemists, chemical engineers, students, and researchers.

    • Structural Analysis Systems

      • 1st Edition
      • June 6, 2016
      • A. Niku-Lari
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Structural Analysis Systems: Software—Hardware Capability—Compatibi... Volume 2 is a practical guidebook on structural analysis systems and their applications. It provides detailed information about a specific software, its postprocessor capabilities and limitations, computer-aided design connection, and compatibility with the most common computers. Several practical examples from industry with computer and user cost are given. This volume consists of 17 chapters and begins with a description of AFAG, a dual finite element analysis program based on the flexibility method. The discussion then turns to the AQUADYN system, designed primarily to reduce the hydrodynamics problem to a linear integral equation for large floating or immersed structures. The following chapters focus on other structural analysis computer programs such as BOSOR4 and BOSOR5, INFESA, MEF/MOSAIC, RCAFAG, and STRUGEN. Some general purpose and special purpose finite element programs used for stress analysis of composite materials are also considered. This book will be a useful resource for practitioners in scientific and industrial disciplines such as mechanical or civil engineering, informatics, applied mathematics, and computer science.

    • Bulk Crystal Growth

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 2A-2B
      • June 6, 2016
      • D. T. J. Hurle
      • English
      • eBook
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      Volume 2 is divided into 2 parts. Part A reviews the principal techniques used for bulk single crystal growth from melt, solution and vapour and for industrial mass crystallisation starting, in chapter 1, with nature's techniques. The growth of synthetic crystals of a wide range of materials for research and commercial use is covered in depth, with emphasis placed on those techniques which are of current importance: techniques of only historical interest have not been included.Part B covers the basic mechanisms and dynamics of melt and solution growth covering segregation, melt convection, stress in the cooling crystal, polyphase solidification, growth in gels, spherulitic crystallisation and the numerical modelling of Bridgman and Czochralski growth processes.

    • Can Theatre Teach?

      • 1st Edition
      • July 1, 2016
      • Christine Redington
      • English
      • Paperback
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    • Progress in Analytical Atomic Spectroscopy

      • 1st Edition
      • June 3, 2016
      • C L Chakrabarti
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Progress in Analytical Atomic Spectroscopy, Volume 7 is a collection of papers that covers the advances in analytical atomic spectroscopy. The book presents nine articles that cover areas such as methodologies and applications. The text first details the diagnostic opportunities of high voltage discharges, and then proceeds to presenting the practical applications of signal-to-noise treatment in analytical spectrometry. The next two chapters cover laser vaporization and ionization. Chapter 5 discusses the models in electrothermal atomization, while Chapter 6 tackles microwave induced plasma. The seventh chapter details equidensitometry. In the eighth chapter, the book talks about a study of sample volatilization in a graphite furnace by means of atomic and molecular absorption spectra. The last chapter covers the image sensor application in analytical spectrometry. The text will be of great use to chemists who aim to expand their knowledge in analytical spectrometry.

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