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Practical Heat Treating: Second Edition
What is heat treatment? This book describes heat treating technology in clear, concise, and nontheoretical language. It is an excellent introduction and guide for design and manufacturing engineers, technicians, students, and others who need to understand why heat treatment is specified and how different processes are used to obtain desired properties.

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Powder Metallurgy: Maney Publishing
Powder Metallurgy is the leading international peer-reviewed journal on the science and practice of particulate technology. Its scope encompasses powder production, consolidation and sintering, and the applications of powders and PM components, including powder injection moulding and incremental manufacturing.

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The Mould Design Guide
This book provides design engineers, toolmakers, moulding technicians and production engineers with an in depth guide to the design and manufacture of mould tools that work successfully in production. It highlights the necessity to design a mould tool that allows overall production to make an acceptable profit, and whilst it is recognised that not all design engineers will be able to influence the profitability factor it is an important aspect to consider.

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ASM Handbook Volume 04: Heat Treating
You'll find all heat treating topics covered in this one essential volume. Contents include: Heat Treating of Steel - quenching, tempering and annealing, continuous annealing, quantitative methods to predict hardenability.

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ASM Handbook Volume 22A: Fundamentals of Modeling for Metals Processing
This Handbook provides an overview of the development of models of metallic materials and how the materials are affected by processing. This knowledge is central to understanding of the behavior of existing alloys and the development of new materials that affect nearly every manufacturing industry. Background on fundamental modeling methods provides the user with a solid foundation of the underlying physics that support the mechanistic method of many industrial simulation software packages. The phenomenological method is given equal coverage.

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Friction Stir Welding and Processing
Friction stir welding is a relatively new joining process developed initially for aluminum alloys. It is a solid-state joining technique that is energy efficient, environment friendly, and versatile. This book covers the rapidly growing area of friction stir welding.

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Transparent Electronics: From Materials to Devices
Transparent electronics is emerging as one of the most promising technologies for the next generation of electronic products, away from the traditional silicon technology. It is essential for touch display panels, solar cells, LEDs and antistatic coatings.

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ASM Handbook Volume 14A: Metalworking: Bulk Forming
Volume 14A is an indispensable reference for manufacturing, materials, and design engineers. It provides comprehensive coverage and essential technical information on the process-design relationships that are needed to select and control metalworking operations that produce shapes from forging, extrusion, drawing and rolling operations.

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Superplastic Forming of Advanced Metallic Materials: Methods and Applications

Superplastic forming of advanced metallic materials summarises key recent research on this important process.

The higher ductility of superplastic metals makes it possible to form large and complex components in a single operation without joints or rivets.

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Corrosion of Weldments
Corrosion failures of industrial components are commonly associated with welding. The reasons are many and varied. For example, welding may reduce the resistance to corrosion and environmentally assisted cracking by altering composition and microstructure, modifying mechanical properties, introducing residual stress, and creating physical defects. This book details the many forms of weld corrosion and the methods used to minimize weld corrosion.

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Practical Nitriding and Ferritic Nitrocarburizing
Nitriding and ferritic nitrocarburizing offer unique advantages compared to other surface hardening heat treatments. This book provides a comprehensive guide to understanding these processes, selecting the appropriate process and process parameters, controlling the process, evaluating results, and troubleshooting.

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Inorganic Materials Synthesis and Fabrication
This comprehensive volume on the preparation of single-phase inorganic materials covers the most important methods and techniques in solid-state synthesis and materials fabrication, including recent advances in the field. It incorporates both the fundamental background as well as information on advanced methodologies

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Principles of Brazing
Principles of Brazing is a valuable resource for those working with the brazing process or designing component joints. This book will help solve practical engineering challenges, by building on fundamental metallurgy. Precisely written, and well referenced, containing 200 figures and 56 tables, this book compares joining methods, explains the fundamental parameters of brazes, and surveys the metallurgy of braze alloy systems.

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Machining Technology for Composite Materials
Machining processes play an important role in the manufacture of a wide variety of components.

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Polymer-Carbon Nanotube Composites: Preparation, Properties and Applications
Understanding the properties of polymer carbon nanotube (CNT) composites is the key to these materials finding new applications in a wide range of industries, including but not limited to electronics, aerospace and biomedical/bioengineering. Polymer-carbon nanotube composites provides comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the preparation, characterisation, properties and applications of these technologically interesting new materials.

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Heat Treater's Guide: Practices and Procedures for Irons and Steels, 2nd Edition
This edition is a complete revision and contains a great deal of new subject matter including information on ferrous powder metallurgy, cast irons, ultra high strength steels, furnace atmospheres, quenching processes, SPC and computer technology. Data on over 135 additional irons and steels have been added to the previously-covered 280 alloys.

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ASM Handbook Volume 06: Welding, Brazing, and Soldering
Completely revised, Volume 6 is the most comprehensive reference book ever produced on the major joining technologies and their applications to engineered materials - 90% of its contents are totally new to the ASM Handbook Series. With over 500 illustrations and 400 tables, this book includes practical advice on consumable selection and procedure development, as well as joining fundamentals.

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Food Packaging and Food Alterations: The User-oriented Approach
The so-called HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) acronym is well known in the food industry in relation to the management of microbiological, chemical and physical risks. With relation to HACCP risks, packaging materials should be studied and recognised as one of key factors affecting food safety.

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Design of Extrusion Forming Tools
The design of extrusion forming tools (dies and calibrators) is a difficult task usually performed by the employment of experimental trial-and-error procedures, which can hinder the performance and cost of the tools, may increase the time to market of new extruded products and limit their complexity.

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Laser Processing of Engineering Materials - Principles, Procedure and Industrial Application
The complete guide to understanding and using lasers in material processing! Lasers are now an integral part of modern society, providing extraordinary opportunities for innovation in an ever-widening range of material processing and manufacturing applications. The study of laser material processing is a core element of many materials and manufacturing courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

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Introduction to Nonwovens Technology
The processing of nonwovens depends on a range of technologies, some adapted from the textile and paper industries, others developed uniquely for nonwovens production. Introduction to Nonwovens Technology provides a systematic step-by-step explanation of virtually all processes that integrate relevant raw materials into finished nonwovens for different end uses. In comprehensive terms, the book explains the connection between the structure of nonwovens and the specialized, as well as still evolving, technologies used to produce them - from simple roll goods to nanoscale webs and fiberwebs.

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Strain Rate Testing
This full colour 104 page handbook will provide guidelines to generate tensile strain rate test data for ferrous and non-ferrous sheet metals for use in finite element based automotive crash simulation tools. Specifically, measurement of the strength hardening in a sheet material resulting from strain rate testing using a high speed servo hydraulic test machine. Additionally, to provide guidelines to process raw test data, fit material model and format this data for application in crash simulation tools.

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Microstructure Evolution in Metal Forming Processes
Monitoring and control of microstructure evolution in metal processing is essential in developing the right properties in a metal.

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Wire Technology
This all-new, classical text is the first to explain the complex theory and sophisticated engineering concepts with relation to wire drawing in an accessible and universal way for practicing engineers.

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Ceramic Materials: Processes, Properties, and Applications
This book is primarily an introduction to the vast family of ceramic materials. It covers raw materials, powders synthesis, shaping, sintering, properties, applications, and discusses both structural and functional ceramics, including bioceramics.

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Engineered Materials Handbook
If you work with polymers or ceramics, then this is the all purpose reference book you need. Culled from the four-volume Engineered Materials Handbook Series, this single desk edition provides basic property data and an outline of fabrication methods for each material. A new "Guide to Materials Selection" gives comparative property data and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of these materials for a variety of applications.

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Engineering Materials 1
Widely adopted around the world, Engineering Materials 1 is a core materials science and engineering text for third- and fourth-year undergraduate students; it provides a broad introduction to the mechanical and environmental properties of materials used in a wide range of engineering applications.

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Magnesium Technology 2012 w/CD
Proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the Magnesium Committee of the Light Metals Division of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS)

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Welding Processes Handbook
After an initial introduction, the book first reviews gas welding before discussing the fundamentals of arc welding, including arc physics and power sources.

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Practical Guide to Blow Moulding
This book presents the basics of blow moulding as well as the latest state-of-the-art and science of the industry. A key feature is the approach of discussing the ‘basics’ and then taking the reader through the entire process from design development through to final production.

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The Hip Resurfacing Handbook
Hip resurfacing arthroplasty (HRA) using metal-on-metal bearings is an established but specialized technique in joint surgery.

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Materials Processing During Casting
Casting is one of the most important processes in materials technology. In this unique book, each step in the casting and solidification process is described and models are set up, which in many cases can be approximated by simplified analytical expressions. All casting methods are featured, including component casting, ingot casting and continuous casting.

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ASM Handbook Volume 07: Powder Metal Technologies and Applications
Completely updated and expanded edition in all areas of powder production, sampling, characterization, shaping, consolidation, sintering, quality control, machining, heat treating, and P/M applications.

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Handbook of Metal Injection Molding
Metal injection molding combines the most useful characteristics of powder metallurgy and plastic injection molding to facilitate the production of small, complex-shaped metal components with outstanding mechanical properties.

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Shot Peening: Techniques and Applications
hot Peening: Techniques and Applications covers aspects such as the techniques, equipment and origins of shot peening, problems faced during shot peening and the applications of shot peening.

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ASM Handbook Volume 15: Casting
This volume discusses casting, molding and coremaking practices in a series of articles that describe the basic steps and equipment associated with each process, along with their advantages, limitations, and applications. Each article is preceded by a review of the manufacture, design and selection of patterns.

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Engineering Materials 2
Engineering Materials 2 is a best-selling stand-alone text in its own right for more advanced students of materials science and mechanical engineering, and is the follow-up to its renowned companion text, Engineering Materials 1: An Introduction to Properties, Applications & Design.

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Materials Processing and Manufacturing Science
“Materials Science in Manufacturing” focuses on materials science and materials processing primarily for engineering and technology students preparing for careers in manufacturing. The text also serves as a useful reference on materials science for the practitioner engaged in manufacturing as well as the beginning graduate student.

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Extrusion, Second Edition
Extrusion, Second Edition offers both a broad and in-depth view of this important metalworking process. The comprehensive coverage enables experienced engineers as well as students and academics to understand the extrusion processes, equipment, and tooling. The first edition of this book, published in 1981, has been the standard reference on extrusion.

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The Surface Treatment and Finishing of Aluminum and Its Alloys, 6th Edition
This two volume set covers all surface treatments and finished apllied to aluminum alloys. From electrolytic to anodizing, to colored coatings and plating all the way to vitreous enamelling.

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Materials Science and Technology
Materials Science and Technology is an international forum for the publication of refereed contributions covering both fundamental and technological aspects of the properties, characterization and modelling, processing, and fabrication of engineering materials.

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Light Alloys, 4th Edition - From Traditional Alloys to Nanocrystals
The definitive overview of the science and metallurgy of aluminum, magnesium, titanium and beryllium alloys, this is the only book available covering the background materials science, properties, manufacturing processes and applications of these key engineering metals in a single accessible volume.

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Practical Guide to Rotational Moulding
This book – A Practical Guide to Rotational Moulding – describes the basic aspects of rotational moulding and includes information on the latest state of the art developments in the industry.

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A Quick Guide to Health and Safety
Health and safety issues now impose upon almost every part of business life.

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Handbook on Material and Energy Balance Calculations in Material Processing, Includes CD-ROM, 3rd Edition
Lately, there has been a renewed push to minimize the waste of materials and energy that accompany the production and processing of various materials. This third edition of this reference emphasizes the fundamental principles of the conservation of mass and energy, and their consequences as they relate to materials and energy.

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Mixing in Single Screw Extruders
Mixing in Single Screw Extruders is a must-have practical guide to the subject of single-screw extrusion. Avoiding mathematical theory, except when absolutely necessary, this authoritative handbook empowers the reader to achieving good results with their plastic mixing. Mixing in Single Screw Extrusion will be a valuable resource to all involved in the art of plastic extrusion.

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Gear Materials, Properties, and Manufacture
All of the critical technical aspects of gear materials technology are addressed in this new reference work. Gear Materials, Properties, and Manufacture is intended for gear metallurgists and materials specialists, manufacturing engineers, lubrication technologists, and analysts concerned with gear failures who seek a better understanding of gear performance and gear life.

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Manufacturing Techniques for Polymer Matrix Composites (PMC's)
Polymer matrix composites are used extensively across a wide range of industries, making the design and development of effective manufacturing processes of great importance.

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Failure Analysis of Heat Treated Steel Components
This thorough reference work discusses various causes of failure with integrated coverage of process metallurgy of steels by forging, casting, welding, and various heat treatment processes. The breadth of coverage and the numerous examples provide an invaluable resource for the designer, engineer, metallurgist, mechanical and materials engineers, quality control technicians, and heat treaters.

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Laser Heating Applications
Laser Heating Applications provides deep insight into those areas of thermodynamics which prove conductive to equilibrium and non-equilibrium laser heating theories, in addition to yielding results that serve as data for further theories.

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Electrospun Nanofibres and Their Appications
This full colour Update covers all aspects of electrospinning as used to produce Nanofibres. It contains an array of colour diagrams, mathematical models, equations and detailed references. It will be invaluable to anyone who is interested in using this technique and also to those interested in finding out more about the subject. Electrospinning is the cheapest and the most straightforward way to produce nanomaterials. Electrospun Nanofibres are very important for the scientific and economic revival of developing countries.

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Science and Technology of Welding & Joining : Maney Publishing
Science and Technology of Welding and Joining is an international peer reviewed journal covering both the basic science and applied technology of welding and joining. It covers all joining techniques welding and joining techniques such as brazing, soldering, mechanical joining, etc.

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Materials for Engineers and Technicians
This renowned text has provided many thousands of students with an easily accessible introduction to the wide ranging subject area of materials engineering and manufacturing processes for over thirty years. Avoiding the excessive technical jargon and mathematical complexity so often found in textbooks for this subject, and retaining the practical down-to-earth approach for which this book is noted, Materials for Engineers and Technicians is now thoroughly updated and fully in line with current syllabus requirements.

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Budgeting, Costing and Estimating for the Injection Moulding Industry
This book discusses and defines the different methods of budgeting, costing and estimating that are normally used within the injection moulding industry. In order to establish the costing system, the operating costs first have to be identified and quantified by means of a budget. Based on the budget, a costing system can then be developed that can be applied to determine the manufacturing cost of each product a company manufactures.

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Complete Casting Handbook
Complete Casting Handbook is the result of a long-awaited update, consolidation and expansion of expert John Campbell’s market-leading casting books into one essential resource for metallurgists and foundry professionals who design, specify or manufacture metal castings.

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Materials - Engineering, Science, Processing and Design
The ultimate materials engineering text and resource: world class authors; design led-approach, broader scope than other texts; to a level of detail that is appropriate for undergraduate courses; innovative visually lead presentation without any loss of academic rigor or detail; fully linked with the leading materials software package, as used in over 500 engineering departments.

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Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on 3D Materials Science, 2012
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on 3D Materials Science, 2012 contains a collection of papers presented at the International Conference on 3D Materials Science, a conference organized by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), and held in Seven Springs, Pennsylvania, July 8-12, 2012. Visit Website | Read More

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