This biography chronicles the groundbreaking technological advancements made by eight of this century's most brilliant engineers. Beautifully written, it highlights the importance of individual technological achievement in light of the momentous political, military, and scientific developments of our rather tumultuous century.

Stress-Corrosion Cracking details the many conditions under which SCC can occur, the parameters which control SCC, and methodologies for mitigating and testing for SCC, plus information on the mechanism of SCC with experimental data on a variety of materials. It contains information about the environmental, mechanical, microstructural and chemical aspects of SCC to help predict and prevent component failure.
Chapters include coverage of SCC for a variety of materials in different environments: carbon and low-alloy steels; high-strength steels, stainless steels; nickel-base alloys; copper alloys; aluminum alloys; amorphous alloys; glasses and ceramics; and weldments in boiling water reactor service.

Explores relationships between spectroscopic findings and physical properties of polymers. Thirty-five chapters are divided into six sections covering fundamental concepts in FT-IR, FT-Raman, fluorescence spectroscopy and FT-Mass Spectrometry of polymers; crystalline polymers and copolymers; surfaces and interfaces of polymers; spectroscopic approaches to polymers in solutions and polymer networks; spectroscopy combined with thermally induced processes in polymers; and polymer analysis and surface modifications using non-conventional energy sources. Includes tutorial chapters designed to assist newcomers to the field.

Presents recent research on supercritical fluids in the generation and prediction of phase behavior, thermodynamics, and transport properties needed to design processes using supercritical fluids. Examines both binary and multicomponent fluids and processes. Covers a broad range of applications in polymers, pharmaceuticals, coal and petroleum products, environmental remediation, and chromatography. Reports recent developments in molecular interactions, modeling, and computer simulations.

For the first time, Taguchi, the foremost authority on quality engineering, explains the limitations of quality engineering as it is practiced today. He explains how a quality engineering system, in order to be truly effective, must be brought further upstream-to the very point of technology development. He shows how his principles can be implemented to create the flexible technologies that will enable a company to excel in the rapid development of product variety-the new competitive playing field.
With easy-to-understand examples, this text shows managers and engineers how to develop technologies, design products, and invest in process design and process management more economically and with better results than in the past.

Written by world-renowned scholars, this is the first book to examine issues of technological competitiveness from a historical perspective. It outlines 19 historical case studies from the nineteenth century through the mid-1980s in which different topics such as the Japanese challenge, quality, regulation, and Big Science are discussed.

Tensile Testing begins with an introduction and overview of the test, with clear explanations of how materials properties are determined from test results. Subsequent sections illustrate how knowledge gained through tensile tests, such as tension properties to predict the behavior (including strength, ductility, elastic or plastic deformation, tensile and yield strengths) have resulted in improvements in materials applications. The text also illustrates instances where tensile testing has been used to improve products by predicting stresses and strains under different temperatures and loads.
From materials to be tested to the methods and equipment used, Tensile Testing is a comprehensive collection of the world's intelligence on the subject, a valuable resource for those in testing labs and for those conducting research in universities and government labs.

Now, for the first time, the new edition of The ASME Steam Tables includes PC-based disks containing properties calculation programs and Fortran source code that will provide property values in agreement with those in the tables and charts. The Sixth Edition also includes an overview of: - thermodynamic properties - transport properties - units, notations, and constants.

Provides a comprehensive survey into the nature of the cache-coherence problem and the wide variety of proposed hardware-based solutions available today. The text emphasizes the importance of this problem and the strong impact of the applied solution on system performance. It also covers the obligations on system architects and designers to pursue more powerful and efficient shared memory multiprocessors.

This book fills an educational void by adapting unique classroom-tested techniques that students find most congenial...that strip the shroud of mystery from an "esoteric" subject...that prepare students for applications of calculus in later courses.