Charles A. Harper – författare

Materials design, prototyping, and manufacturing resource

The be-all, end-all resource for product designers and industry specialists, Handbook of Ceramics, Glasses and Diamonds tells you how to get optimal performance from these materials. The Handbook is packed with materials properties, processes and requirements data. You get selection and design guidelines and valuable application insights, plus three chapters devoted exclusively to diamond technology. Written by leading materials expert Charles Harper, the Handbook brings you up to speed on cutting-edge ceramics, glasses and diamonds and their use innovative use in new products, including:

* Electronic ceramics and advanced ceramics/composites* Advanced applications of glasses* Process and properties of CVD diamonds* Industrial diamonds and diamond technology applications

The first handbook devoted to the coverage of materials in the field of fire engineering. Fire Protection Building Materials Handbook walks you through the challenging maze of choosing form the hundreds of commercially available materials used in buildings today and tells you which burn and /or are weakened during exposure to fire. It is the burning characteristics of materials, which usually allow fires to begin and propagate, and the degradation of materials that cause the most damage. Providing expert guidance every step of the way, Fire Protection Building Materials Handbook helps the architect, designers and fire protection engineers to design and maintain safer buildings while complying with international codes.

Micro-miniaturization in electronics--a necessity for personal communications devices like cell phones and PDAs--has radically altered the materials these electronics are made from.

This resource provides you with the state-of-the-art information for the design, manufacture and application of plastics as well as its cutting-edge usage in nanotechnology.