Overview
- The first book entirely devoted to representation surfaces and their applications
- Includes worked-out examples, problems and exercises
- Provides the fundamentals of materials science, crystallography and Cartesian tensors without assuming any previous knowledge of these subjects
Part of the book series: Engineering Materials (ENG.MAT.)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This textbook presents all the mathematical and physical concepts needed to visualize and understand representation surfaces, providing readers with a reliable and intuitive understanding of the behavior and properties of anisotropic materials, and a sound grasp of the directionality of material properties. They will learn how to extract quantitative information from representation surfaces, which encode tremendous amounts of information in a very concise way, making them especially useful in understanding higher order tensorial material properties (piezoelectric moduli, elastic compliance and rigidity, etc.) and in the design of applications based on these materials. Readers will also learn from scratch concepts on crystallography, symmetry and Cartesian tensors, which are essential for understanding anisotropic materials, their design and application. The book describes how to apply representation surfaces to a diverse range of material properties, making it a valuable resource for material scientists, mechanical engineers, and solid state physicists, as well as advanced undergraduates in Materials Science, Solid State Physics, Electronics, Optics, Mechanical Engineering, Composites and Polymer Science. Moreover, the book includes a wealth of worked-out examples, problems and exercises to help further understanding.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Manuel Laso is full professor of Materials Science at the Institute of Optoelectronics and Microsystems of Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Representation Surfaces for Physical Properties of Materials
Book Subtitle: A Visual Approach to Understanding Anisotropic Materials
Authors: Manuel Laso, Nieves Jimeno
Series Title: Engineering Materials
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40870-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40869-5Published: 05 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40872-5Published: 05 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-40870-1Published: 04 April 2020
Series ISSN: 1612-1317
Series E-ISSN: 1868-1212
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 297
Number of Illustrations: 353 b/w illustrations, 46 illustrations in colour
Topics: Characterization and Evaluation of Materials, Crystallography and Scattering Methods, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering