Mechanical Behaviour of Engineering Materials: Metals, Ceramics, Polymers, and CompositesPublisher: Springer
Language: English
ISBN: 3540734465
Paperback: 536 pages
Data: Oct 2007
Format: PDF
Description: How do engineering materials deform when bearing mechanical loads? To answer this crucial question, the book bridges the gap between continuum mechanics and materials science. The different kinds of material deformation (elasticity, plasticity, fracture, creep, fatigue) are explained in detail. The book also discusses the physical processes (more…)

Financial Privacy: An International Comparison of Credit Reporting SystemsPublisher: Springer
Language: English
ISBN: 3540733779
Paperback: 289 pages
Data: Oct 2007
Format: PDF
Description: Credit reporting agencies collect and compile highly sensitive information on the millions of consumers in credit markets throughout the world and also increasingly across a variety of industries, such as insurance, retail and telecommunications. In this revised edition, Nicola Jentzsch provides an in-depth analysis of the economics and regulation of (more…)

Conceptual Modelling in Information Systems EngineeringPublisher: Springer
Language: English
ISBN: 3540726764
Paperback: pages
Data: Jul 2007
Format: PDF
Description: conceptual modeling has always been one of the cornerstones for information systems engineering as it describes the general knowledge of the system in the so-called conceptual schema.Krogstie, Opdahl and Brinkkemper compiled 20 contributions from renowned researchers covering all aspects of conceptual modeling on the occasion of Arne (more…)

Approaches to Fundamental Physics: An Assessment of Current Theoretical IdeasPublisher: Springer
Language: English
ISBN: 3540711155
Paperback: 422 pages
Data: Oct 2007
Format: PDF
Description: This book presents contributions on particle theory, quantum field theory, general relativity, quantum gravity, string theory and cosmology. These represent the outcome of numerous discussions, taking place among the authors over a period of several years, about the research landscape of present-day fundamental theoretical physics. Indeed, the (more…)

Activation of Small Molecules: Organometallic and Bioinorganic PerspectivesPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
Language: English
ISBN: 3527313125
Paperback: 382 pages
Data: Jan 2007
Format: PDF
Description: The first to combine both the bioinorganic and the organometallic view, this handbook provides all the necessary knowledge in one convenient volume. Alongside a look at CO2 and N2 reduction, the authors discuss O2, NO and N2O binding and reduction, activation of H2 and the oxidation catalysis of O2. Edited by the highly renowned William Tolman, who (more…)