Woodhead Publishing
Building decorative materials.
The textbook is for students of engineering, architecture, and other fields concerned with decorating building interiors. It examines different materials used decoratively and their development, application in construction, performance, properties, and how they do and do not differ from non-decorative versions of the same or similar material. After an introduction and review of basic properties of building decorative materials, it covers stone, gypsum, cement, concrete and mortar, ceramic, glass, metal, wood, plastics, fiber fabric and its products, architectural coatings, adhesives, waterproof materials, acoustic and thermal insulating materials, and new energy-saving and environmental protective building materials. Chapter-end questions are provided for review and meditation. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Building materials in civil engineering.
This textbook was first published in China in 2001 as part of the Programming Textbooks for New-century Higher Vocational and Professional Civil Engineering, has won many prizes, and has been revised and updated at least once. It is for students and practitioners in any area of civil engineering or related fields such as water supply and drainage engineering. It begins by describing the importance of building materials, and basic properties. Then major building materials are surveyed, and their characteristics, benefits and limitations, and applications discussed. They are air-hardening binding materials such as building gypsum and lime, cement concrete, building mortar, wall and roof materials, construction steel, wood, waterproof materials such as asphalt, building plastic, heat-insulating and sound-absorbing materials, and finishing materials. Appendices detail tests of various properties of the various materials. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Fibrous and composite materials for civil engineering applications.
Textile and civil engineers and other researchers, most of them from the University of Minho in Portugal, explore the use of textiles and other fibrous material in civil engineering contexts. They cover types of fibrous textiles and structures, fibrous materials as a concrete reinforcement material, and composites based on fibrous materials. Among their topics are physical and mechanical properties of natural and man-made fibers, textiles structures, material properties and structural applications of steel fiber reinforced concrete, the role of fiber reinforcement in mitigating shrinkage cracks in concrete, fibrous materials reinforced composites for structural health monitoring, and acoustic behavior of fibrous materials. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Injectable biomaterials; science and applications.
Scientists in bioengineering, pharmaceuticals, and related fields look at the materials and properties, clinical applications, and technologies and developments in biological matter that can be injected. Their topics include designing ceramics for injectable bone graft substitutes, improving the mechanical properties of injectable polymers and composites, drug delivery applications of injectable biomaterials, injectable polymeric carriers for gene delivery, environmentally responsive injectable materials, and the use of microgels as modular injectable scaffolds. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Management of technology systems in the garment industry.
Writing for students of textile technology, engineers in the garment industry, and top managers and production managers, Colovic (College of Textile Design, Technology, and Management, Belgrade, Yugoslavia) describes classical technology of producing clothing, but emphasizes the need to improve the organization and methods of work and ways of thinking, and to find new fashion markets. She covers technology; technological systems; determining the time of technology operations in clothing production; the ergonomic workplace; analyzing the planning, layout, and logistics in garment manufacturing; and production management. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Managing wastes from aluminum smelter plants.
Mazumder, an emeritus scientist at the Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology, Orissa, India, and Mishra who is currently its director, synthesize research efforts over the past three decades to develop a process for the safe disposal of red mud and the even more toxic pot liners that are the most prominent hazardous contaminants from aluminum smelters. The introduction outlines the various processes that contribute to smelting the metal and how they produce waste. Then they look at the wastes themselves, the treatment of wastes and quality of byproducts, utilizing the byproducts of wastes, and the techno-economic feasibility of some selected processes. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Non-crimp fabric composites; manufacturing, properties and applications.
From the introduction: "The subject of this book, non-crimp fabrics (NCF), is a textile engineer's answer to a long-standing challenge faced by designers of composite parts: to combine a perfect placement of the reinforcing fibres with easy, inexpensive, automated manufacturing of the part." This book presents a comprehensive overview and addresses in detail the topics of production and standardization, stitching, automated analysis of defects, deformability of textile preforms, permeability (variability and permeability), mechanical properties, damage progression, fatigue, and stiffness and strength. Final chapters discuss applications in aerospace, helicopters, the automotive industry, and wind turbines, as well as cost analysis. Editor Stepan Lomov is affiliated with Katholieke U. Leuven, Belgium. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Recent trends in soft beverages.
Taking in turn coffee, tea, and carbonated soft drinks, Indian food scientists Rao and Ramalakshmi overview the chemistry, technology, quality control of raw materials and finished products, value-added product development, and marketing strategies. Their topics include health benefits of coffee, value-added by-products such as mushroom cultivation and biogas production, types of tea and processing, chemical composition and pharmacological and medical properties of tea, the classification of soft drinks, processing technology, and packaging aspects. The information will be useful to students or practitioners in the food and beverage business. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Silicon-germanium (SiGe) nanostructures; production, properties and applications in electronics.
Physicists, materials scientists, electrical engineers, and other researchers offer a broad overview on the formation of SiGe nanostructures, the material properties, and electronic devices that use them. The topics include electronic band structures of SiGe alloys, SiGe crystal growth using molecular beam epitaxy, the strain engineering of SiGe virtual substrates, self-diffusion and dopant diffusion in germanium and silicon-germanium alloys, transport properties of SiGe nanostructures and applications in devices, silicide and germanide technology for interconnections in ultra-large-scale integrated applications, and the spintronics of nanostructured manganese germanium dilute magnetic semiconductors. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Textile design; principles, advances and applications.
On top of understanding the properties and characteristics of fibers, yarns, and fabrics, textile designers must understand the whole fabric (so to speak) of garment design and manufacture. This thorough treatment begins with the principles of fabric construction approaches, covering woven and knitted fabrics, then proceeds to surface approaches to textile design (e.g. printed, embroidered, use of color). Following are chapters on color trend forecasting, sustainable design, the dynamics of fashion design, interior textiles, the interaction of two- and three-dimensional design, technical textiles, and new and future developments. Each chapter includes references and sources of further information and advice. Editors Amanda Briggs-Goode and Katherine Townsend are affiliated with Nottingham Trent U., UK. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
