| Description |
1 online resource (420 pages) |
| Series |
Festschriften |
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Festschriften.
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| Contents |
Preface; Part I General Perspective; Population Increases and Technological Change; The Future of Materials in the Market Place; Power Generation in the 21st Century: The Challenges for Materials Technology; Fast Footwork and Quick Wits -- Commercialising Materials for the 21st Century; Materials Technology in the USA; Towards 1997 -- Materials Research in Hong Kong with China; Materials for the New South Africa; Successful Materials Research and Technology in Sweden; Cost-effective Quality Enhancement of Materials Education; Ductility, Malleability, Education and Training |
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Part II Recollections and RevelationsBack to Chemistry in the Theory of Metals; Permanent Magnets: Past, Present and Future; From the Schrödinger Equation to the Rolling Mill; Microstructure: From the Micro-scale to the Nano-scale; How Ordered are Intermetallics?; Twenty Years of Diffraction Studies on Intermetallic Compounds; Electron Microscopy at Birmingham; Microscopy Memories; The Santa Catharina Meteorite and Low Temperature Ordering in Iron-Nickel Alloys; Cast Iron -- A Real Advanced Material; From Loops to Hips; Some Simple Inventions; Professor Ray Smallman -- Published Work 1953-1995 |
| Summary |
22 papers from a symposium held to celebrate Ray Smallman's 65th birthday and his 30th year as a professor at Birmingham University . The wide geographical spread of the contributors (the United States, Switzerland, Sweden, South Africa and Hong Kong as well as the United Kingdom) attests to his international influence |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ashbee, K. H. G
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Ashbee, Kenneth H
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| ISBN |
9781907747816 |
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1907747818 |
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