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Plates and Shells Theory and Analysis Fourth Edition

Plates and Shells Theory and Analysis Fourth Edition

Noted for its practical accessible approach to senior and graduate-level engineering mechanics Plates and Shells: Theory and Analysis is a long-time bestselling text on the subjects of elasticity and stress analysis. Many new examples and applications are included to review and support key foundational concepts. Advanced methods are discussed and analyzed accompanied by illustrations. Problems are carefully arranged from the basic to the more challenging level. Computer/numerical approaches (Finite Difference Finite Element MATLAB) are introduced and MATLAB code for selected illustrative problems and a case study is included. | Plates and Shells Theory and Analysis Fourth Edition

GBP 175.00
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Stitching La Mode: Patterns and Dressmaking from Fashion Plates of 1785-1795

Stitching La Mode: Patterns and Dressmaking from Fashion Plates of 1785-1795

Stitching La Mode: Patterns and Dressmaking from Fashion Plates of 1785-1795 brings to life women’s unique and extravagant fashions of 1785-1795 in a beautifully illustrated and accessible way. The book consists of scaled patterns directly based on original French German and English fashion plates drafted according to period-accurate shapes. The patterns encompass the full look presented in each fashion plate from garments to accessories. These are accompanied by a color image of the corresponding fashion plate straightforward illustrated directions for recreating the outfits information on the material used and modelled reproductions of each plate to demonstrate what they would look like in real life. The book focuses on unique styles often seen in fashion plates but rarely – if ever – patterned before making this a fresh and exciting yet historically accurate take on late eighteenth-century fashion. Stitching La Mode significantly expands the understanding of transitional fashions from the late eighteenth century with concrete physical examples of styles perfectly suited for costume technicians and makers costume historians and hobby costumers and re-enactors.

GBP 36.99
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Engraved on Steel History of Picture Production Using Steel Plates

Engraved on Steel History of Picture Production Using Steel Plates

First published in 1998 Engraved on Steel focuses on engraving and engravers exploring the use of steel engraving in both the decorative arts and in printing Basil Hunnisett also describes the context of the steel engraver’s work. The processes by which steel engraving became one of the most widely used forms of printing in the 19th century are described in detail as the developments in the print industry paper manufacture and publishing that determined its history. The activities of print publishers are also examined including those of art unions. | Engraved on Steel History of Picture Production Using Steel Plates

GBP 31.99
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Polymer Photogravure A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice

Polymer Photogravure A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice

Polymer Photogravure: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice is a three-part book on the non-toxic process of making ink-on-paper intaglio prints from continuous-tone photographs using water-etched photopolymer plates. Author Clay Harmon provides clear and easy to understand instructions that will enable anyone to successfully make a photogravure print. By quantifying the sensitometric behavior of polymer plates Harmon has developed a methodical approach which will enable a new printmaker to produce plates in their own studio with a minimum of time and wasted materials. Section One provides a straightforward guide to setting up the polymer photogravure studio. Section Two covers a step-by-step method of making the print from start to finish. Section Three showcases contemporary artists’ works illustrating the variety and artistic breadth of contemporary polymer intaglio printmaking. The works in these pages range from monochrome to full color and represent a variety of genres including still lifes portraits nudes landscapes urban-scapes and more. Featuring over 30 artists and 200 full-color images Polymer Photogravure is a most comprehensive overview of this printmaking process in print. Key topics covered include: Studio safety Equipment and supplies evaluated from both a cost and utility point of view A brief discussion of the types of ink-based printing Aquatint screen considerations Image preparation and positive printing on inkjet printers Paper preparation A simple and efficient polymer plate calibration process that minimizes wasted time and materials A straightforward inking wiping and printing method Advanced printing techniques such as chine collé à la poupée and printing on wood Troubleshooting guide to platemaking and printing problems Tips on editioning and portfolios A visual survey of the range of artistic expression practiced by contemporary artists Sources for supplies and recommended reading Polymer photogravure plates enable an artist to use an almost-infinite range of image color and papers to make a print. The finished prints are extremely archival consisting of only ink and paper. With Harmon’s instructions continuous tone intaglio prints are within the reach of all. | Polymer Photogravure A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice

GBP 51.99
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St. Francis in Italian Painting

St. Francis in Italian Painting

Originally published in 1950 this book shows that the religious and ethical values that St. Francis was striving after are as essential today as they were in his time. The book presents St. Francis as a complex personality and corrects the rather mawkish interpretation of certain legends. It deals with the environment and development of the saint’s personality and chapters from his biographies by Thomas of Celano or St. Bonaventure and many black and white plates illustrating them which are reproductions of paintings by Italian masters from the XIIIth to the late XVth century. | St. Francis in Italian Painting

GBP 27.99
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Clay Swelling and Colloid Stability

Clay Swelling and Colloid Stability

In a rare over-the-shoulder perspective of a leading scientist’s own breakthroughs Clay Swelling and Colloid Stability puts emphasis on two significant paradigm shifts in colloid science that explain particle interactions for charged plates stacks suspensions and pastes as well as spherical colloids. Martin Smalley first discusses the replacement of the DLVO theory with the Coulombic Attraction Theory to explain the existence extent and properties of the two-phase region of colloid stability. Using the n-butylammonium vermiculite system as his model clay system the author clarifies the flaws of conventional theories and presents the experimental details that form the basis of his new theories. He provides rigorous derivations that place the new electrical theory for charged colloids on a firm foundation in statistical mechanics. The author illustrates why a new quantitative bridging flocculation model for polymer-stabilized colloids must replace the depletion flocculation model. Smalley also examines the discovery of the "dressed macroion" structure of clay plates in solution the structure of a bridging polymer and the distribution of polymer segments counterions and water molecules in the interlayer region. Based on the author’s own research and 36 publications in the field Clay Swelling and Colloid Stability isa self-contained and intellectually satisfying account of the revolutionary process leading to a universally sound and increasingly applicable theory of colloid stability.

GBP 56.99
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Medicinal Plants in Asia for Metabolic Syndrome Natural Products and Molecular Basis

Medicinal Plants in Asia for Metabolic Syndrome Natural Products and Molecular Basis

Medicinal Plants in Asia for Metabolic Syndrome: Natural Products and Molecular Basis offers an in-depth view into the metabolic syndrome pharmacology of natural products with an emphasis on their molecular basis cellular pathways metabolic organs and endocrine regulations. This sensational volume provides the scientific names botanical classifications botanical descriptions medicinal uses chemical constituents and pharmacological activities of more than 100 Asian plants with high quality original botanical plates chemical structures and pharmacological diagrams. It also lists hundreds of carefully selected bibliographical references constituents on insulin resistance obesity atherosclerosis atherogenic dyslipidemia and endothelial dysfunction. | Medicinal Plants in Asia for Metabolic Syndrome Natural Products and Molecular Basis

GBP 69.99
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The Art of Dining in Medieval Byzantium

The Art of Dining in Medieval Byzantium

Thousands of intact ceramic bowls and plates as well as fragments made in the medieval Byzantine empire survive to this day. Decorated with figural and non-figural imagery applied in a variety of techniques and adorned with colourful paints and glazes the vessels can tell us much about those who owned them and those who looked at them. In addition to innumerable ceramic vessels a handful of precious metal bowls and plates survive from the period. Together these objects make up the art of dining in medieval Byzantium. This art of dining was effervescent at turns irreverent and deadly serious visually stunning and fun. It is suggestive of ways in which those viewing the objects used a quotidian and biologically necessary (f)act – that of eating – to reflect on their lives and deaths their aspirations and their realities. This book examines the ceramic and metal vessels in terms of the information offered on the foods eaten the foods desired and their status; the spectacle of the banquet; the relationship between word and image in medieval Byzantium; the dangers of taste; the emergence of new moral and social ideals; and the use of dining as a tool in constructing and enforcing hierarchy. This book is of appeal to scholarly and non-scholarly audiences interested in the art and material culture of the medieval period and in the social history of food and eating.

GBP 130.00
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FRP-Strengthened Metallic Structures

FRP-Strengthened Metallic Structures

Repairing or strengthening failing metallic structures traditionally involves using bulky and heavy external steel plates that often pose their own problems. The plates are generally prone to corrosion and overall fatigue. Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) a composite material made of a polymer matrix reinforced with fibers offers a great alternative for strengthening metallic structures especially steel structures such as bridges buildings offshore platforms pipelines and crane structures. FRP-Strengthened Metallic Structures explores the behaviour and design of these structures from basic concepts to design recommendations. It covers bond behaviour between FRP and steel and describes improvement of fatigue performance bending compression and bearing forces strengthening of compression and steel tubular members strengthening for enhanced fatigue and seismic performance and strengthening against web crippling of steel sections. It also provides examples of performance improvement by FRP strengthening. • Summarizes worldwide research on the FRP strengthening of metallic structures • Contains several topics not generally covered in existing texts • Presents comprehensive topical references throughout the book The book outlines the applications existing design guidance and special characteristics of FRP composites within the context of their use in structural strengthening. While the major focus is on steel structures it also describes others such as aluminium structures. This book is suitable for structural engineers researchers and university students interested in the FRP strengthening technique. Xiao-Ling Zhao is chair of structural engineering at Monash University Australia and is author of Concrete-Filled Tubular Members and Connections also published by Taylor & Francis.

GBP 74.99
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Advanced Structural Mechanics

Advanced Structural Mechanics

Building on the author’s Structural Mechanics Fundamentals this text presents a complete and uniform treatment of the more advanced topics in structural mechanics ranging from beam frames to shell structures from dynamics to buckling analysis from plasticity to fracture mechanics from long-span to high-rise civil structures. Plane frames Statically indeterminate beam systems: Method of displacements Plates and shells Finite element method Dynamics of discrete systems Dynamics of continuous elastic systems Buckling instability Long-span structures High-rise structures Theory of plasticity Plane stress and plane strain conditions Mechanics of fracture This book serves as a text for graduate students in structural engineering as well as a reference for practising engineers and researchers. | Advanced Structural Mechanics

GBP 44.99
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History of Cartography

History of Cartography

This illustrated work is intended to acquaint readers with the early maps produced in both Europe and the rest of the world and to tell us something of their development their makers and printers their varieties and characteristics. The authors' chief concern is with the appearance of maps: they exclude any examination of their content or of scientific methods of mapmaking. This book ends in the second half of the eighteenth century when craftsmanship was superseded by specialized science and the machine. As a history of the evolution of the early map it is a stunning work of art and science. This expanded second edition of Bagrow and Skelton's History of Cartography marks the reappearance of this seminal work after a hiatus of nearly a half century. As a reprint project undertaken many years after the book last appeared finding suitable materials to work from proved to be no easy task. Because of the wealth of monochrome and color plates the book could only be properly reproduced using the original materials. Ultimately the authors were able to obtain materials from the original printer Scotchprints or contact films made directly from original plates thus allowing the work to preserve the beauty and clarity of the illustrations. Old maps collated with other materials help us to elucidate the course of human history. It was not until the eighteenth century however that maps were gradually stripped of their artistic decoration and transformed into plain specialist sources of information based upon measurement. Maps are objects of historical artistic and cultural significance and thus collecting them seems to need no justification simply enjoyment.

GBP 110.00
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Essentials of Mechanical Stress Analysis

Essentials of Mechanical Stress Analysis

Essentials of Mechanical Stress Analysis updated for the second edition covers stress analysis from an interdisciplinary perspective. Discussing techniques and theories essential to analysing structures the book covers both analytical and numerical approaches. The second edition adds new topics and updates research to follow current advances in the field. New sections on material properties composite materials and finite element analysis enable the reader to further establish the fundamental theory behind material behaviour and the causes of stress and strain. Also covering beams plates columns and elastic instability the book discusses fatigue life cycle energy methods and MathCAD sample code. As a clear and comprehensive guide to stress and structural analysis this book is relevant to students and scholars in the fields of mechanical aerospace and civil engineering as well as materials science.

GBP 89.99
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Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain

Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain

Extending the scholarly discussion of visual history this book examines eighteenth-century engraved book illustrations in order to outline the genealogy of the modern visualisation of the past in Britain. This study is based on a body of more than a hundred engraved historical plates designed in the second half of the eighteenth century in Britain and published in more than a dozen pictorial histories. Focusing on these previously unstudied engravings this work contributes to the study of eighteenth-century visual culture and is informed by current interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of visual and book studies. Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain is about the urge to envision the past and about the establishment of the new relationship between visual media visuality and history in eighteenth-century Britain. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history British history book studies and visual culture.

GBP 120.00
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Seafood Ocean to the Plate

Seafood Ocean to the Plate

Seafood draws on controversial themes in the interdisciplinary field of food studies with case studies from different eras and geographic regions. Using familiar commodities this accessible book will help students understand cutting-edge issues in sustainability and ask readers to think about the future of an industry that has lain waste to its own resources. Examining the practical aspects of fisheries and seafood leads the reader through discussions of the core elements of anthropological method and theory and the book concludes with discussions of sustainable seafood and current efforts to save what is left of marine ecosystems. Students will be encouraged to think about their own seafood consumption through project assignments that challenge them to trace the commodity chains of the seafood on their own plates. Seafood is an ideal book for courses on food and culture economic anthropology and the environment. | Seafood Ocean to the Plate

GBP 35.99
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Textbook of Allergy for the Clinician

Textbook of Allergy for the Clinician

This is the second and updated version of the Textbook of Allergy for the Clinician. It is a unique book in the field of allergy. The uniqueness lies in the international character of the book with contributors representing both the East and West. This book represents the diversity of issues affecting patients in the specialty of allergy asthma & immunology. There is some discussion of the basic mechanisms involved and extensive elaboration for the clinicians. This book will appeal to medical students residents and fellows undergoing training as well as consultants in academic and clinical practice settings. The color plates especially in the section on Aerobiology will help in the interaction between the patient and consultant in identifying the plant or flora which is the causative factor. The differences and similarities between the Eastern and Western approaches in the practice of the specialty are being addressed for the first time in a book.

GBP 66.99
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Learning Disabilities From Identification to Intervention

Learning Disabilities From Identification to Intervention

Presenting major advances in understanding learning disabilities (LDs) and describing effective educational practices this authoritative volume has been significantly revised and expanded with more than 70% new material. Foremost LD experts identify effective principles of assessment and instruction within the framework of multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS). With a focus on what works in the classroom the book explores the full range of reading mathematics and writing disabilities. It synthesizes knowledge from neuropsychology cognitive neuroscience and special and general education. Illustrations include eight color plates. As a special supplement a chapter on the history of the LD field from the first edition is provided at the companion website. New to This Edition *Heightened emphasis on intervention including significant new developments in reading comprehension and math. *Chapter on principles of effective instruction and MTSS. *Chapter on automaticity in reading math and writing. *Chapter on challenges in real-world implementation of evidence-based practices. *Chapter on the validity of the LD construct. | Learning Disabilities From Identification to Intervention

GBP 40.99
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Advanced Visual Effects Compositing Techniques for Working with Problematic Footage

Advanced Visual Effects Compositing Techniques for Working with Problematic Footage

In Advanced Visual Effects Compositing: Techniques for Working with Problematic Footage learn to tackle difficult visual effect composites in layer-based and node-based compositing programs. In this book industry veteran and compositing expert Lee Lanier offers tips tricks techniques and workflows for difficult visual effects shots including poorly shot green screen moving shots with no visible motion tracking marks shots requiring three-dimensional (3D) elements that lack 3D renders poor-quality stock footage and incorrectly lit shots. Lanier details the common problems of visual effects shots and offers practical solutions using examples from Adobe After Effects and Blackmagic Design Fusion. An accompanying eResource (www. routledge. com/9781138668348) features video image sequences 3D renders and other tutorial materials allowing you to practice the discussed techniques. The visual effects challenges covered in this book include: Chroma keying Motion tracking Relighting in the composite Repairing plates Replicating damage Adding depth with 2. 5D Working with stock footage | Advanced Visual Effects Compositing Techniques for Working with Problematic Footage

GBP 46.99
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Handbook of Emotions Fourth Edition

Handbook of Emotions Fourth Edition

Recognized as the definitive reference this handbook brings together leading experts from multiple psychological subdisciplines to examine one of today's most dynamic areas of research. Coverage encompasses the biological and neuroscientific underpinnings of emotions as well as developmental social and personality cognitive and clinical perspectives. The volume probes how people understand experience express and perceive affective phenomena and explores connections to behavior and health across the lifespan. Concluding chapters present cutting-edge work on a range of specific emotions. Illustrations include 10 color plates. New to This Edition *Chapters on the mechanisms processes and influences that contribute to emotions (such as genetics the brain neuroendocrine processes language the senses of taste and smell). *Chapters on emotion in adolescence and older age and in neurodegenerative dementias. *Chapters on facial expressions and emotional body language. *Chapters on stress health gratitude love and empathy. *Many new authors and topics; extensively revised with the latest theoretical and methodological innovations. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title | Handbook of Emotions Fourth Edition

GBP 54.99
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The Geography of Urban Transportation

The Geography of Urban Transportation

A comprehensive update the fourth edition of this leading text features numerous chapters by new authors addressing the latest trends and topics in the field. The book presents the foundational concepts and methodological tools that readers need in order to engage with today's pressing urban transportation policy issues. Coverage encompasses passenger and freight dynamics in the American metropolis; the local and regional transportation planning process; and questions related to public transit land use social equity and environmental justice energy consumption air pollution transportation finance sustainability and more. Among the student-friendly features are special-topic boxes delving into key issues and 87 instructive figures including eight color plates. New to This Edition *Extensively revised coverage of information and communication technologies urban freight travel behaviors and regional transportation planning. *Engaging discussions of current topics: smartphone travel tracking Uber car and bike sharing food deserts biofuels and more. *Heightened focus on climate change. *Reflects over a decade of policy changes technological advances and emergent ideas and findings in the field. *Most of the figures and special-topic boxes are new. | The Geography of Urban Transportation

GBP 62.99
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Sound Insulation in Buildings

Sound Insulation in Buildings

The book explains sound insulation in buildings at a level suitable for both graduate students and expert consultants. Theoretical models are set out for sound transmission in buildings with an emphasis on thick and heavy constructions. Thus the description is not restrained by the common assumption of bending waves which is characteristic of thin plates only. A general description is provided with the modal density in the structures as a key parameter. At low frequencies statistical energy analysis is replaced by modal energy analysis. Sound transmission through windows and facades is represented by a model that allows any angle on incidence including the special case of grazing incidence. One chapter is devoted to the subjective evaluation of sound insulation particularly noise from neighbours and how this can be applied in a sound classification scheme for dwellings. Measurement methods in building acoustics are presented with emphasis on modern methods using MLS signals or sine sweeps. The analysis and estimation of measurement uncertainty is discussed in detail. In a final chapter examples of experimental buildings with high sound insulation are explained.

GBP 44.99
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Making and Unmaking of the San Francisco Bay

Making and Unmaking of the San Francisco Bay

San Francisco Bay is a shallow estuary surrounded by a large population center. The forces that built it began with plate tectonics and involved the collision of the Pacific and North American plates and the subduction of the Juan de Fuka plate. Changes in the climate resulting from the last ice age yielded lower and then higher sea levels. Human activity influenced the Bay. Gold mining during the California gold rush sent masses of slit into the Bay. Humans have also built several major cities and filled significant parts of the Bay. This book describes the natural history and evolution of the SF Bay Area over the last 50 million years through the present and into the future. Key selling features: Summarizes a complex geological geographical and ecological history Reviews how the San Francisco Bay has changed and will likely change in the future Examines the different roles and various drivers of Bay ecosystem function Includes the role of humans - both first peoples and modern populations - on the Bay Explores San Francisco Bay as an example of general bay ecolgical and environmental issues | Making and Unmaking of the San Francisco Bay

GBP 42.99
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Language Dynamics in the Early Modern Period

Language Dynamics in the Early Modern Period

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the linguistic situation in Europe was one of remarkable fluidity. Latin the great scholarly lingua franca of the medieval period was beginning to crack as the tectonic plates shifted beneath it but the vernaculars had not yet crystallized into the national languages that they would later become and multilingualism was rife. Meanwhile elsewhere in the world languages were coming into contact with an intensity that they had never had before influencing each other and throwing up all manner of hybrids and pidgins as peoples tried to communicate using the semiotic resources they had available. Of interest to linguists literary scholars and historians amongst others this interdisciplinary volume explores the linguistic dynamics operating in Europe and beyond in the crucial centuries between 1400 and 1800. Assuming a state of individual societal and functional multilingualism when codeswitching was the norm and languages themselves were fluid unbounded and porous it explores the shifting relationships that existed between various tongues in different geographical contexts as well as some of the myths and theories that arose to make sense of them. | Language Dynamics in the Early Modern Period

GBP 130.00
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Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices Gender Culture and Coercion

Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices Gender Culture and Coercion

This volume explores a variety of ’harmful cultural practices’: a term increasingly employed by organizations working within a human rights framework to refer to certain discriminatory practices against women in the global South. Drawing on recent work by feminists across the social sciences as well as activists from around the world this volume discusses and presents research on practices such as veiling forced marriage honour related and dowry violence female genital ’mutilation’ lip plates and sex segregation in public space. With attention to the analytic utility of the notion of harmful cultural practices this volume explores questions surrounding the contribution of feminist thought to international and NGO policies on such practices whether western beauty practices should be analysed in similar terms or should the notion as such from an anthropological perspective be rejected how harmful cultural practices relate to processes of culturalization religionization and secularization and how they can be challenged come to transform and disappear. Presenting concrete empirical case studies from Africa South East Asia Europe and the UK Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices will be of interest to scholars of sociology anthropology development and law with interests in gender the body violence and women’s agency. | Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices Gender Culture and Coercion

GBP 38.99
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Electrolytes Supramolecular Interactions and Non-Equilibrium Phenomena in Concentrated Solutions

Electrolytes Supramolecular Interactions and Non-Equilibrium Phenomena in Concentrated Solutions

Electrolyte solutions play a key role in traditional chemical industry processes as well as other sciences such as hydrometallurgy geochemistry and crystal chemistry. Knowledge of electrolyte solutions is also key in oil and gas exploration and production as well as many other environmental engineering endeavors. Until recently a gap existed between the electrolyte solution theory dedicated to diluted solutions and the theory practice and technology involving concentrated solutions. Electrolytes: Supramolecular Interactions and Non-Equilibrium Phenomena in Concentrated Solutions addresses concentrated electrolyte solutions and the theory of structure formation super and supramolecular interactions and other physical processes with these solutions—now feasible due to new precision measurement techniques and experimental data that have become available. The first part of the book covers the electrolyte solution in its stationary state—electrostatic and various ion-dipole dipole-dipole and mutual repulsion interactions. The second part covers the electrolyte solution in its nonstationary status in the case of forced movement between two plates—electrical conductivity viscosity and diffusion. This theoretical framework allows for the determination of activity coefficients of concentrated electrolyte solutions which play a key role in many aspects of electrochemistry and for developing novel advanced processes in inorganic chemical plants. | Electrolytes Supramolecular Interactions and Non-Equilibrium Phenomena in Concentrated Solutions

GBP 44.99
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