| Description |
1 online resource |
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Materials science and technologies series |
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Materials science and technologies series.
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| Contents |
BUILDING MATERIALS: PROPERTIES, PERFORMANCE AND APPLICATIONS; CONTENTS; PREFACE; SYNTACTIC FOAMS AS BUILDING MATERIALSCONSISTING OF INORGANIC HOLLOWMICROSPHERES AND STARCH BINDER; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. CONSTITUENT MATERIALS FOR SYNTACTIC FOAMS; 2.1. Hollow Microspheres; 2.2. Starch as Binder; 3. THE PRINCIPLES OF THE BUOYANCY METHOD FORMANUFACTURING SYNTACTIC FOAMS; 4. BEHAVIOUR OF HOLLOW MICROSPHERES INAQUEOUS GELATINIZED STARCH; 4.1. Lattice Models for Microsphere Dispersion in Aqueous GelatinizedStarch; 4.2. Numerical Calculation of Minimum Inter-Microsphere Distance |
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4.3. Comparison between Theoretical and Experimental Results for VER forIBVMS4.4. Starch Concentration between Microspheres and Syntactic FoamDensity Estimation; 4.5. Shrinkage after Moulding and Composition; 5. INTERACTION BETWEEN STARCH PARTICLES AND HOLLOWMICROSPHERES IN AQUEOUS ENVIRONMENT; 6. MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF SYNTACTIC FOAMS; 6.1. Transitions in Mechanical Behaviour; 6.2. Relative Conditions and Rules of Mixtures; 6.3. Mechanical Properties and Failure Behaviour; 7. SANDWICH COMPOSITES; 7.1. Fabrication of Syntactic Foam Panel |
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7.2. Skin Paper Preparation for Tensile Property Characterization7.3. Sandwich Composite Manufacture; 7.4. Mechanical testing and Calculations; 7.5. Constituent Materials Behaviour; 7.6. Sandwich Composites Behaviour; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; SALT WEATHERING OF NATURAL BUILDING STONES:A REVIEW OF THE INFLUENCE OFROCK CHARACTERISTICS; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. MINERALS AND OTHER CONSTITUENTS; 2.1. Chemical Susceptibility; 2.2. Physical Susceptibility; 2.3. Deleterious Effects of Rock Constituents; 3. TEXTURE AND STRUCTURE; 4. PORE SPACE; 4.1. Bulk Properties; 4.2. Pore Characteristics |
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5. STRENGTH6. ALTERATION HISTORY; 7. HETEROGENEITY; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; STUDY ON ADSORPTION AND THERMOELECTRICCOOLING SYSTEMS USING BOLTZMANN TRANSPORTEQUATION APPROACH; ABSTRACT; ABBRIVIATIONS; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. GENERAL FORM OF BALANCE EQUATIONS; 2.1. Derivation of the Thermodynamic Framework; 2.2. Mass Balance Equation; 2.3. Momentum Balance Equation; 2.4. Energy Balance Equation; 2.5. Summary of Section 2; 3. CONSERVATION OF ENTROPY; 4. ADSORPTION COOLING; 4.1. Description of Adsorption Cooling Model; Evaporator; Adsorption Isotherms and Kinetics; Bed; Condenser |
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Mass Balance4.2. Discussion; 4.3. Summary of Section 4; 5. MACRO AND MICRO THERMOELECTRIC COOLERS; 5.1. Thermoelectric Cooling; 5.1.1. Energy Balance Analysis; 5.1.2. Entropy Balance Analysis; 5.1.3. Temperature-Entropy Plots of Bulk Thermoelectric Cooling Device; 5.2. Transient Behavior of Thermoelectric Cooler; 5.2.1. Derivation of the T-S Relation; 5.2.2. Discussion; 5.2.3. Summary of Section 5.2; 5.3. Microscopic Analysis: Super-Lattice Type Devices; 5.3.1. Thermodynamic Modeling for Thin-Film Thermoelectrics; 5.3.2. Discussion; 5.3.3. Summary of Section 5.3; CONCLUSIONS |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Building materials.
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building materials.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Structural.
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Building materials
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cornejo, Donald N., editor
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Haro, Jason L., editor
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| LC no. |
2020685481 |
| ISBN |
9781617281549 |
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1617281549 |
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