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With a particular emphasis on fabrication quality control, this volume in the "Materials Characterization" series focuses on characterization techniques used for critical junctures in package design like mold compound adhesion and strength, mechanical stress, moisture sensitivity, solderability of IC components, and interconnect systems.

Catalytic materials are essential to nearly every commercial and industrial chemical process in order to make reaction times faster and more efficient. This volume reviews the more common types of characterization methods used for understanding surface and structural properties of most types of commercially used catalytic materials.

Offers an experienced-based guide to what can so often go wrong with the systems that measure, regulate, and control industrial processes - from pH measurements to temperature and pressure monitors to process interlock problems.

Without modern instrumentation control, industry would be at a standstill. This book describes advanced regulatory control and its application to continuous processes in a nonmathematical format and in as practical a manner as possible in order to be of benefit to all skill levels.

With a focus on the use of materials characterization techniques for silicon-based semiconductors, this volume focuses on the process flow of silicon wafer manufacture where materials properties, processing and associated problems are brought to the fore.

This book offers a quick overview of the most cutting-edge uses of the computer in engineering design, 'virtual testing,' and 'virtual applications.' Readers will find clearly illustrated, well-documented case examples that help to bring the abstractions of computer simulation to meaningful practical reality. Contributing authors from a wide variety of engineering disciplines-from both academia and industry- bring a full perspective to what is new in the use of computer-based engineering design. Readers will find: --' New case studies on Virtual Prototyping, Virtual Reality training systems for Industrial maintenance, and virtual design for biomedical applications --' Breaking new developments on using touch-based computer tools like the 'virtual movement' glove --' A novel study on use of Virtual Engineering for globally dispersed engineering teams on collaborative projects

Provides a simplified, practical and innovative approach to understanding the design and manufacture of plastic products. This book sets out the basic principles of polymers, what they are and how plastics are formulated, processed, and manufactured.

Suitable for machinists and fabricators on the principal characteristics and uses for major common types of metals, composites, and plastics, this book provides the key physical characteristics and mechanical characteristics, along with important considerations when machining and processing and fabricating with these materials.

Technical topics in science and engineering always present challenges when it comes to conveying or arguing information in a clear and effective manner. This book was written to address that challenge, using time-proven techniques developed by the author for academic courses.

Polymers are organic, often complex molecular compounds used as the building blocks for plastics, elastomers and various types of synthetic engineered materials. This book includes useful background on polymer surface thermodynamics, as well as adhesion properties and polymer-polymer interfaces properties and characterization techniques.

Optical materials are prized for their properties such as reflection, refraction, absorption, and diffraction of light in wavelengths ranging from 100 nm to 10 mm. This book shows readers to find the characterization of optical materials used for III-V semiconductor systems, group IV materials, and amorphous and microcrystalline semiconductors.

Focuses on the particular molecular and atomistic properties of metals insofar as how they affect the different techniques for measuring and analyzing internal structure, surface structure, and chemical/physical properties. This book provides a vital connection between commonly used characterization techniques like Scanning Electron Microscopy.

Based upon organic materials are at the heart of much of the revolution in modern technology, from advanced electronics, to optics to sensors to biomedical engineering, this volume introduces the major common types of analysis used in characterizing of thin films and the various appropriate characterization technologies for each.

Reviews the common classes of compound semiconductors, their physical, optical and electrical properties and the various types of methods used for characterizing them when analyzing for defects and application problems. This book features: characterization of III-V Thin Films for Electronic and Optical applications.

Sensors are the eyes, ears, and more, of the modern engineered product or system. The modern automobile would not be what it is today without an entire battery of sensors that monitor, and control, everything from engine performance to passenger safety and comfort. This authoritative reference work, part of Momentum Press's Sensors Technology series, edited by Dr. Joe Watson, offers a complete review of all sensors and their associated controls systems typically found in the modern automotive vehicle. Readers will find invaluable data and guidance on: --Automotive 'telematics' --Both on-vehicle sensors as well as outdoor highway sensors for traffic control --Power train, ignition control, fuel control, emission control, suspension control, braking and traction control --Use of capacitive sensors for proximity monitoring

Diffuse Scattering-the use of off-specular X-Rays and neutrons from surfaces and interfaces-has grown rapidly as a tool for characterizing the surface properties of materials and related fundamental structural properties. It has proven to be especially useful in the understanding of local properties within materials. This book reflects the efforts of physicists and materials scientists around the world who have helped to refine the techniques and applications of diffuse scattering. Major topics specifically covered include: -- Scattering in Low Dimensions -- Elastic and Thermal Diffuse Scattering from Alloys -- Scattering from Complex and Disordered Materials -- Scattering from Distorted Crystals

Provides a simplified, practical and innovative approach to understanding the design and manufacture of plastic products. This book offers detailed coverage of major plastics processing techniques, including injection molding, extrusion, blow molding, and thermoforming.

Designed to introduce the field of global climate change from a scientific perspective, this book reviews the basic principles of climatic thermodynamics and atmospheric chemistry and then goes on to explain historic trends and changes due to the burning of fossil fuels and other human-based activity on earth.

Offers guidance to both practicing aerospace engineers as well as engineering students in aerospace, and systems engineering. This book shows readers to find a guidance on principles of operation, design and performance for major classes of aerospace sensors from gyroscopic inertial navigational systems to accelerometers, to electronic compasses.

Offers helpful guidance on ultrasound equipment and vendors. This title helps you learn about the history of this technology, its proper set-up and operation, and a selection of useful application examples.

With the rapid advances in nanotechnology, telecommunication and information technologies, efficient and reliable telemedicine (also known as remote point of care or remote healthcare), is now coming into practice. This new monograph in the ASME-Momentum Press series on Biomedical & Nanomedical Technologies discusses the development and application of mobile wearable nano-bio health monitoring systems for telemedicine. It shows how nanomaterials-based biosensors are used to remotely measure physiological signals, such as electrocardiogram (ECG), electroencephalogram (EEG), electromyogram (EMG), and electrooculogram (EOG). Case studies and the technical challenges still ahead wrap up this informative introduction to a rapidly evolving field.

One of the ways of making drug delivery more efficient is the use of nanosystems for targeted delivery and timed release. This title explores advanced research on nanoparticulate delivery systems for the immune modulating agent, GMDP (N-acetylglucosaminyl-N-acetylmuramyl-Lisoglutamine), an important component in cell wall structure and receptors.

A Master Black Belt (MCasebound) in Six Sigma statistical quality control is awarded to those individuals who possess the highest level of expertise and knowledge of industry practice. This book develops a dynamic program to meet the requirements of a MCasebound and provides the necessary skills for a company in a Quality Improvement initiative.

Automated machinery, such as computer numerical control machines (CNM), require constant monitoring for accuracy and precision. This book presents the main methods and means for measuring and monitoring the accuracy of geometrical parameters for CNC and automated machines, including modern 'Coordinate Measuring Machines' (CMMs).

Explains both why not and how better controls can be applied to the supply chain, and to enterprise financial management. This book provides engineering and technology managers the insight and tools for achieving an integrated automated manufacturing enterprise, from the technical and engineering side to the business management side.

Provides theory and knowledge from present research on heat transfer and fluid behavior, with ample examples of practical applications to materials processing and engineering. This title includes: a chapter on boiling and condensation; and, revised chapters on heat transport, mass transport in solid state and mass transport in fluids.

Tubular combustors are cylindrical tubes where flame ignition and propagation occur in a spatially confined, highly controlled environment, in a nearly flat, elongated geometry. This title provides the research on tubular combustion - some of it only now coming out of private proprietary protection.

The BACnet protocols are made use of in central control systems manufactured by companies like Honeywell, Siemens, and Johnson Controls, among many others. BACnet is widely used throughout the world today for commercial and institutional buildings with complex mechanical and electrical systems. This title deals with this topic.

Provides an overview of our energy sources, their uses and limitations and political and economic constraints. This book offers a rational paradigm for how we can go about selecting the optimal mix of fossil, renewable and sustainable energy sources and how we can then aggressively move toward those more sustainable sources.