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Sport Gender and Power The Rise of Roller Derby

Sport Gender and Power The Rise of Roller Derby

As a new breed of lifestyle sport enthusiasts ’derby grrrls’ are pushing the boundaries of gender as they negotiate the nexus of pleasure pain and power relations. Offering a socio-cultural analysis of the rise and reinvention of roller derby as both a new globalized women’s sport and an everyday creative leisure space this book explores the manner in which roller derby has emerged as a gendered space for self-transformation belonging and embodied contest in which women are invited to experience their emotions differently embrace pain and overcome limits. Sport Gender and Power: The Rise of Roller Derby presents detailed interview ethnographic and autoethnographic material together with a range of media texts to shed new light on the complex relationships of power experienced by women in derby as a sport culture whilst also examining the darker relationships that characterise the sport including those of inclusion and exclusion difference and identity and competition and participation. A contemporary feminist study of empowerment sexual difference gender and affect this book will appeal to scholars of gender and sexuality embodiment feminist thought and the sociology of sport and leisure. | Sport Gender and Power The Rise of Roller Derby

GBP 38.99
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Gender Sport and the Role of Alter Ego in Roller Derby

Gender Sport and the Role of Alter Ego in Roller Derby

Gender Sport and the Role of the Alter Ego in Roller Derby focuses on the resurgence of roller derby by examining the appeal and dedication to a sport that combines the masculine aggression and physicality of sport with a more feminine or alternative style of organizing and community building. No longer a scripted sport filled with fake fighting and hair pulling derby though still dangerous has nevertheless exploded in popularity around the world. Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with women players Colleen Arendt reveals how derby has come to serve as a site of gender rebellion and emancipation that empowers participants. She demonstrates how players find roller derby a place to build friendships and support networks while giving back to their community. The book also analyzes the adoption of derby personas or alter egos which many players use. While many players derive joy and other benefits from their derby personas others argue that personas and alter egos detract from the athleticism and legitimacy of the sport. Finally by considering the relationship between gender sport society and power this book tries to answer the question: Why derby? Why now? | Gender Sport and the Role of Alter Ego in Roller Derby

GBP 18.99
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Alloys and Intermetallic Compounds From Modeling to Engineering

Alloys and Intermetallic Compounds From Modeling to Engineering

This book focuses on the role of modeling in the design of alloys and intermetallic compounds. It includes an introduction to the most important and most used modeling techniques such as CALPHAD and ab-initio methods as well as a section devoted to the latest developments in applications of alloys. The book emphasizes the correlation between modeling and technological developments while discussing topics such as wettability of Ultra High Temperature Ceramics by metals active brazing of diamonds to metals in cutting tools surface issues in medicine novel Fe-based superconductors metallic glasses high entropy alloys and thermoelectric materials. | Alloys and Intermetallic Compounds From Modeling to Engineering

GBP 44.99
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Multiscale Modeling From Atoms to Devices

Multiscale Modeling From Atoms to Devices

While the relevant features and properties of nanosystems necessarily depend on nanoscopic details their performance resides in the macroscopic world. To rationally develop and accurately predict performance of these systems we must tackle problems where multiple length and time scales are coupled. Rather than forcing a single modeling approach to predict an event it was not designed for a new paradigm must be employed: multiscale modeling. A brilliant solution to a pervasive problem Multiscale Modeling: From Atoms to Devices offers a number of approaches for which more than one scale is explicitly considered. It provides several alternatives from coarse-graining sampling of the atomic and mesoscale to Monte Carlo- and thermodynamic-based models that allow sampling of increasingly large scales up to multiscale models able to describe entire devices. Beginning with common techniques for coarse-graining the book discusses their theoretical background advantages and limitations. It examines the application-dependent parameterization characteristics of coarse-graining along with the finer-trains-coarser multiscale approach and describes three carefully selected examples in which the parameterization although based on the same principles depends on the actual application. The book considers the use of ab initio and density functional theory to obtain parameters needed for larger scale models the alternative use of density functional theory parameters in a Monte Carlo method and the use of ab initio and density functional theory as the atomistic technique underlying the calculation of thermodynamics properties of alloy phase stability. Highlighting one of the most challenging tasks for multiscale modelers Multiscale Modeling: From Atoms to Devices also presents modeling for nanocomposite materials using the embedded fiber finite element method (EFFEM). It emphasizes an ensemble Monte Carlo method to high field-charge transport problems and demonstrates the practical application of modern many-body quantum theories. The author maintains a website with additional information. | Multiscale Modeling From Atoms to Devices

GBP 69.99
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Microneedling in Clinical Practice

Microneedling in Clinical Practice

Microneedles provide an artificial pathway across the skin barrier for medical and cosmetic applications. This technology has seen a significant increase in popularity over the past years; as an example the use of multiple small needles mounted on a roller to pierce the skin prompting it to stimulate collagen production has undergone a resurgence of interest as an adjunctive procedure for a number of skin disorders. This monograph draws together what is known about how to integrate microneedle technology into clinical dermatologic practice. | Microneedling in Clinical Practice

GBP 66.99
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Sweden Japan and the Long Second World War 1931-1945

Sweden Japan and the Long Second World War 1931-1945

We thank Ekman & Co AB and Gadelius Holding Ltd for their kind and generous support making this research available online for free. Lottaz and Ottosson explore the intricate relationship between neutral Sweden and Imperial Japan during the latter’s 15 years of warfare in Asia and in the Pacific. While Sweden’s relationship with European Axis powers took place under the premise of existential security concerns the case of Japan was altogether different. Japan never was a threat to Sweden militarily or economically. Nevertheless Stockholm maintained a close relationship with Tokyo until Japan’s surrender in 1945. This book explores the reasons for that and therefore provides a study on the rationale and the value of neutrality in the Long Second World War. Sweden Japan and the Long Second World War is a valuable resource for scholars of the Second World War and of the history of neutrality. | Sweden Japan and the Long Second World War 1931-1945

GBP 38.99
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The Spirit of Indian Philosophy

The Spirit of Indian Philosophy

First published in 1975 The Spirit of Indian Philosophy provides a systematic overview of Indian philosophy. The book is divided into four major parts dealing with Indian epistemology Indian metaphysics Indian ethics and Indian philosophy of religion. It makes a departure from usual method of investigating Indian philosophy by dealing with its different schools individually and separately. It discusses themes like sources of cognition; nature and criterion of true cognition; problem of error; materialism; realism; dualism; Indian theories of causation; reflective morality; the ethics of non-violence; Indian atheism and Indian religion of God to argue that the usual conception of Indian philosophy in general as religious spiritualistic and pessimistic is contrary to the fact that the doctrine of Karma transmigration and rebirth strictly speaking is incompatible with the Indian ways of thinking and in deed is an imposition upon them ab extra. This is an essential read for scholars and students of Indian philosophy.

GBP 29.99
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Skyrmions Topological Structures Properties and Applications

Skyrmions Topological Structures Properties and Applications

The book reviews all the aspects of recent developments in research on skyrmions from the presentation of the observation and characterization techniques to the description of physical properties and expected applications. It will be of great use for all scientists working in this field. – Albert Fert 2007 Nobel Laureate in Physics (from the Foreword) A skyrmion is a tiny region of reversed magnetization – quasiparticles since they are not present except in a magnetic state and also give rise to physics that cannot be described by Maxwell’s equations. These particles are fascinating subjects for theoretical and experimental studies. Moreover as a new type of magnetic domain structure with special topological structures skyrmions feature outstanding magnetic and transport properties and may well have applications in data storage and other advanced spintronic devices as readers will see in this book. Chapters address the relationships between physical properties of condensed matter such as the AB effect Berry phase effect quantum Hall effect and topological insulators. Overall it provides a timely introduction to the fundamental aspects and possible applications of magnetic skyrmions to an interdisciplinary audience from condensed matter physics chemistry and materials science. | Skyrmions Topological Structures Properties and Applications

GBP 44.99
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Animal Suffering and Public Relations The Ethics of Persuasion in the Animal-Industrial Complex

Animal Suffering and Public Relations The Ethics of Persuasion in the Animal-Industrial Complex

Animal Suffering and Public Relations conducts an ethical assessment of public relations mainly persuasive communication and lobbying as deployed by some of the main businesses involved in the animal-industrial complex—the industries participating in the systematic and institutionalised exploitation of animals. Society has been experiencing a growing ethical concern regarding humans’ (ab)use of other animals. This is a trend first promoted by the development of animal ethics—which claims any sentient being because of sentience deserves moral consideration—and more recently by other approaches from the social sciences including critical animal studies. In this volume we aim to start an entirely unaddressed discussion within the field of public relations: The need to problematise the ethics of persuasion when nonhuman animal suffering is involved particularly the impact of persuasion and lobbying on compassion towards other animals in the cases of food experimentation entertainment and environmental management. This book provides an interdisciplinary theoretical discussion illustrated with international case studies from experts in strategic communication public relations lobbying and advocacy animal ethics philosophy of law political philosophy and social psychology. This unique book merges the fields of critical public relations animal ethics and critical animal studies and will be of direct appeal to a wide range of researchers academics and doctoral students across related fields. | Animal Suffering and Public Relations The Ethics of Persuasion in the Animal-Industrial Complex

GBP 130.00
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Dividing United Europe From Crisis to Fragmentation?

Dividing United Europe From Crisis to Fragmentation?

Pictures of Angela Merkel in a Nazi uniform the burning of German flags newspaper articles portraying Southern Europe as work-shy and Northern Europe as tight-fisted: The Eurozone crisis has thrown up old stereotypes; often digging into well-established historical images of ‘the other’. The conscious or tacit (ab)use of national prejudices by politicians and parts of the media and the strong emotional reactions among European citizens have caused a lot of public concern about the likely negative implications of such reawakening of national clichés and the newly hardening boundaries they construct for the process of European integration. It is evident that current and recent crises confront European citizens with profound dilemmas which they seek to make sense of and in response to which much new political mobilisation takes place. At the same time some of the interpretative and political reactions thus generated also have the potential to become very destructive processes putting into question years of integration efforts. This book brings together scholars who examine the nexus between (economic) crisis national identities and the use of historical images and prejudices and stereotypes by focusing particularly on media and political discourses in different European countries. In addition to detailed empirical discussions covering diverse national settings across Europe the different contributions discuss and offer a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches within the inter-disciplinary study of national identities prejudice and stereotyping in the context of socio-economic and political crises. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of National Identities. | Dividing United Europe From Crisis to Fragmentation?

GBP 38.99
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Mentoring Teachers in the Primary School A Practical Guide

Mentoring Teachers in the Primary School A Practical Guide

Mentoring Teachers in the Primary School helps mentors of trainee and newly qualified primary school teachers to both develop their own mentoring skills and provide the essential guidance their beginning teachers need as they navigate the roller-coaster of the first years in the classroom. Offering tried and tested strategies based on the best research it covers the knowledge skills and understanding every mentor needs. Together with tools for self-evaluation this book is a vital source of support and inspiration for all those involved in developing the next generation of outstanding teachers. Key topics for primary mentors include: the role of the mentor mentoring relationships mentoring in specialist areas mentoring development. Filled with guidance to support mentors’ own development as well as the development of beginning primary teachers Mentoring Teachers in the Primary School is a vital guide for mentors of primary school teachers both trainee and newly qualified with ready-to-use strategies that support and inspire mentors. | Mentoring Teachers in the Primary School A Practical Guide

GBP 27.99
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Soluzioni A Practical Grammar of Contemporary Italian

Soluzioni A Practical Grammar of Contemporary Italian

Soluzioni: A Practical Grammar of Contemporary Italian combines an engaging reference and practice grammar explained in clear and concise language with numerous supporting exercises. Aimed at keen students of all levels Soluzioni offers: a complete grammar review in tabular form for easy navigation and at-a-glance comprehension; 650 graded practice exercises with an answer key for self-assessment; extensive examples using a wide range of useful up-to-date vocabulary; authentic material from Italian media and literature with vocabulary notes and linked exercises to show how grammar works in practice; special help sections throughout dedicated to clarifying tricky points or avoiding common pitfalls; a comprehensive user-friendly index for ease of access in both Italian and English; a glossary of grammatical terms; a companion website at www. routledge. com/cw/derome with over 240 free interactive language quizzes for on-the-spot testing plus supplementary downloadable material such as a comprehensive verb section and full answer key to the book exercises. This fourth edition continues the accessible methodology and focus on contemporary usage that has made Soluzioni the clearest and most comprehensive pedagogic grammar on the market today. Fully updated it covers key areas of difficulty such as tense usage the subjunctive causative verbs combined pronouns and word order. It also pays attention to the links between grammar and communicative functions as well as those between grammar context and register. Suitable for class use and independent study Soluzioni is the ideal reference and practice resource for learners of Italian. It is particularly suitable for fast-track use in ab initio courses at university and college. | Soluzioni A Practical Grammar of Contemporary Italian

GBP 36.99
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Techniques in Inorganic Chemistry

Techniques in Inorganic Chemistry

Inorganic chemistry continues to generate much current interest due to its array of applications ranging from materials to biology and medicine. Techniques in Inorganic Chemistry assembles a collection of articles from international experts who describe modern methods used by research students and chemists for studying the properties and structures of inorganic chemicals. Crystallography and diffraction methods The book begins by examining developments in small-molecule x-ray crystallography. It identifies some of the major advances discusses current attitudes toward crystallography and its uses and considers challenges and future prospects. It then examines how ab initio x-ray powder diffraction (XRPD) methods are used to determine structure with discussions on metal pyrazolates metal imidazolates and metal pyrimidinolates. This is followed by a description of single crystal neutron diffraction a powerful structural technique. The text highlights what can presently be achieved in neutron diffraction and discusses future applications of neutron scattering. Quantum chemistry Reflecting the popularity of density functional calculations the book includes a chapter that focuses on quantum chemistry. It examines the latest computational techniques and describes how these techniques can be applied to solve a wide range of real-world problems encountered in the realm of inorganic chemistry and particularly in transition metal chemistry. It also explains the intelligent use of quantum chemical methods for the determination of molecular structure reactivity and spectra of coordination and organometallic compounds. Spectroscopy Lastly the text explores important spectroscopic approaches. It first describes intermolecular nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) NMR experiments and diffusion experiments offering examples that demonstrate theoretical aspects of the methodology. The final chapter summarizes recent experimental and theoretical work on pressure effects on the d-d and luminescence spectra of transition metal complexes. Derived from select articles in Comments on Inorganic Chemistry this volume provides a solid background in the array of techniques available in the researcher’s toolkit.

GBP 74.99
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The Physics of Phonons

The Physics of Phonons

This fully updated second edition of The Physics of Phonons remains the most comprehensive theoretical discussion devoted to the study of phonons a major area of condensed matter physics. It contains exciting new sections on phonon-related properties of solid surfaces atomically thin materials (such as graphene and monolayer transition metal chalcogenides) in addition to nano- structures and nanocomposites thermoelectric nanomaterials and topological nanomaterials with an entirely new chapter dedicated to topological nanophononics and chiralphononics. Although primarily theoretical in approach the author refers to experimental results wherever possible ensuring an ideal book for both experimental and theoretical researchers. The author begins with an introduction to crystal symmetry and continues with a discussion of lattice dynamics in the harmonic approximation including the traditional phenomenological approach and the more recent ab initio approach detailed for the first time in this book. A discussion of anharmonicity is followed by the theory of lattice thermal conductivity presented at a level far beyond that available in any other book. The chapter on phonon interactions is likewise more comprehensive than any similar discussion elsewhere. The sections on phonons in superlattices impure and mixed crystals quasicrystals phonon spectroscopy Kapitza resistance and quantum evaporation also contain material appearing in book form for the first time. The book is complemented by numerous diagrams that aid understanding and is comprehensively referenced for further study. With its unprecedented wide coverage of the field The Physics of Phonons is an indispensable guide for advanced undergraduates postgraduates and researchers working in condensed matter physics and materials science. Features Fully updated throughout with exciting new coverage on graphene nanostructures and nanocomposites thermoelectric nanomaterials and topological nanomaterials. Authored by an authority on phonons. Interdisciplinary with broad applications through condensed matter physics nanoscience and materials science.

GBP 180.00
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Conveyors Application Selection and Integration

Conveyors Application Selection and Integration

This new edition continues on its journey of being an introduction to the wide variety of conveyor types and application methods available. It discusses conveyor and system design and in its new edition expands on information about sorters and motorized roller conveyors new information on robotic interfaces as well as some of the trade-offs made when conveyor design rules are intentionally broken. Each chapter now also includes questions and problems to help reinforce the material covered. Conveyors: Application Selection and Integration includes a pictorial of various installations of conveyors in detail that the reader can model after. It presents common application mistakes made and discusses how the reader can avoid them in the future during the integration process. The book focuses on conveyor application information that is offered in just this book and discusses the effect that extreme temperatures have while providing real-life examples of conveyor system design that may at times break common design rules. This book is a resource for engineers managers and executives who want to gain a better understanding of conveyors and their application. It is also for colleges and universities that offer industrial and/or manufacturing engineering curricula. | Conveyors Application Selection and Integration

GBP 74.99
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Human-Centred Autonomous Shipping

Human-Centred Autonomous Shipping

Tracing the development of autonomous and automated shipping from a hype of unmanned ships to a more realistic use of automation to augment humans in maritime operations this book shows why human factors and human-centred design are essential to the endeavour. Themes addressed in the book include technology and cybersecurity regulation and classification and competence and skills. It combines commentary and insight from experts across the industry as well as academia and describes a roller-coaster ride from conceptual idea via a period of hype where technologists and engineers enthusiastically advocated a rapid development as many others in the maritime industry felt compelled but struggled to follow and finally to a more measured view as cumulative experience started to show the limitations risks and the lack of a generic business case. This book is intended for anyone working in researching in or simply interested in shipping and the maritime domain and the evolution of autonomous shipping. The target audience includes regulators educators researchers engineers and manufacturers. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license | Human-Centred Autonomous Shipping

GBP 82.99
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Advanced Concepts of Bearing Technology Rolling Bearing Analysis Fifth Edition

Advanced Concepts of Bearing Technology Rolling Bearing Analysis Fifth Edition

For the last four decades Tedric Harris' Rolling Bearing Analysis has been the bible for engineers involved in rolling bearing technology. Why do so many students and practicing engineers rely on this book? The answer is simple: because of its complete coverage from low- to high-speed applications and full derivations of the underlying mathematics from a leader in the field. The fifth edition of this classic reference is divided conveniently into two volumes each focused on a specialized area of bearing technology. This option allows you to select the coverage that is best suited to your needs. The second of two books Advanced Concepts of Bearing Technology steps up the level to more dynamic and complex loading more extreme operating conditions and higher-speed applications. The authors examine several topics that are unique to the book including mathematical relationships for internal load distribution under conditions of high speed combined radial axial and moment loading as well as the effects of raceway and roller profiling. They also delve into the mathematical development of rolling element-raceway lubricant film thickness and contact friction the stress-life method for calculating bearing fatigue endurance and the effects of shaft and supporting structure flexure on bearing loading and deflection. Advanced Concepts of Bearing Technology is the perfect aid for analyzing complex performance and fatigue-life phenomena in advanced applications. | Advanced Concepts of Bearing Technology Rolling Bearing Analysis Fifth Edition

GBP 63.99
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The Geographical Guide of Ptolemy of Alexandria An Analysis

The Geographical Guide of Ptolemy of Alexandria An Analysis

This volume offers a detailed study of Ptolemy of Alexandria’s Geographical Guide whose eight books contain a wealth of geographical information unavailable elsewhere and represent the culmination of the Greco-Roman discipline of geography. Written near the middle of the second century ad the Geographical Guide is the most anomalous of the surviving works of ancient geographical scholarship but offers a vivid record of the expansion of geographical knowledge in antiquity. Roller examines this peculiar text which offers unique data about explorations in the far reaches of the inhabited world from Thoule and Hibernia in the northwest to Kattigara in the southeast and from Serike in northeastern Asia southwest into central Africa. He positions the Guide within the tradition of ancient geography and gives close attention to the reason why Ptolemy wrote the guide and how it contributes to the genre of geographical scholarship. There is also an emphasis on the topographic and ethnic material within the Guide that is new or unique especially explorations in sub-Saharan Africa and knowledge of the world beyond India. Because the Guide was written over half a century after the previous extant geographical work—the first books of Pliny’s Natural History—the book also assesses how knowledge of geography changed during this period. This work is an essential text for students and scholars of ancient geography and is also of interest to anyone working on the cultural history of the Roman Empire during this period. | The Geographical Guide of Ptolemy of Alexandria An Analysis

GBP 130.00
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Subcultures: The Basics

Subcultures: The Basics

Subcultures: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to subcultures in a global context. This fully revised new edition adds new case studies and an additional chapter on the digital lives of subculturists as well as reflections on the relationships between subcultures and globalisation and the resurgence of the far-right. Blending theory and practice this text examines a varied range of subcultures including hip hop graffiti writing heavy metal punk gamers burlesque parkour riot grrrl straight edge roller derby steampunk b-boying/b-girling body modification and skateboarding. Subcultures: The Basics answers the key questions posed by those new to the subject including: What is a subculture? What are the significant theories of subculture? How do subcultures emerge who participates and why? How do subcultural identities interact with other aspects of self such as social class race gender and sexual identity? What is the relationship between deviance resistance and the ‘mainstream’? How have both progressive and reactionary subculturists contributed to social change? How does society react to different subcultures? How have subcultures spread around the world? In what ways do digital technologies and social media influence subcultures? What happens when subculturists age? Tracing the history and development of subcultural theory to the present day this text is essential reading for all those studying subcultures in the contexts of sociology cultural studies history media studies anthropology musicology and criminology. It pushes the field forward with cutting-edge theories of resistance and social change place and space critical race and queer studies virtual participation and ageing and participation across the life course. Key terms and concepts are highlighted throughout the text whilst each chapter includes boxed case studies and signposts students to further reading and resources.

GBP 16.99
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Phase Transformations in Metals and Alloys

Phase Transformations in Metals and Alloys

Revised to reflect recent developments in the field Phase Transformation in Metals and Alloys Fourth Edition continues to be the most authoritative and approachable resource on the subject. It supplies a comprehensive overview of specific types of phase transformations supplemented by practical case studies of engineering alloys. The book’s unique presentation links a basic understanding of theory with application in a gradually progressive yet exciting manner. Based on the authors’ teaching notes the text takes a pedagogical approach and provides examples for applications and problems that can be readily used for exercises. NEW IN THE FOURTH EDITION 40% of the figures and 30% of the text Insights provided by numerical modelling techniques such as ab initio phase field cellular automaton and molecular dynamics Insights from the application of advanced experimental techniques such as high-energy X-ray diffraction high-resolution transmission electron microscopy scanning electron microscopy combined with electron backscattered diffraction New treatment of ternary phase diagrams and solubility products The concept of paraequilibrium in systems containing highly mobile interstitial elements Thermodynamics of grain boundaries and the influence of segregation on grain boundary diffusion Reference to software tools for solving diffusion problems in multicomponent systems Introduction to concepts related to coincident site lattices and methods for determining the dislocation content of grain boundaries and interfaces Updated treatment of coherency and interface structure including the important fcc–bcc interfaces Treatment of metallic glasses expanded to cover critical cooling rate Austin–Rickets equation introduced as an alternative to the Avrami equation in the case of precipitation kinetics Discussion of the effects of overlap in nucleation growth and coarsening Discussion of pearlite and bainite transformations updated Entirely new and extensive treatment of diffusionless martensitic transformations covering athermal and thermally activated martensite in ferrous systems as well as shape memory superelasticity and rubber-like behavior in ordered nonferrous alloys New practical applications covering spinodal alloys fir-tree structures in aluminum castings Al–Cu–Li aerospace alloys superelastic and shape memory alloys quenched and partitioned steels advanced high-strength steels and martensitic stainless steels Each chapter now concludes with a summary of the main points References to scientific publications and suggestions for further reading updated to reflect experimental and computational advances Aimed at students studying metallurgy and materials science and engineering the Fourth Edition retains the previous editions’ popular easy-to-follow style and excellent mix of basic and advanced information making it ideal for those who are new to the field. A new solutions manual and PowerPoint figure slides are available to adopting professors. | Phase Transformations in Metals and Alloys

GBP 56.99
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