This book, the second in the Woodhead Publishing Reviews: Mechanical Engineering Series, is a collection of high quality articles (full research articles, review articles, and cases studies) with a special emphasis on research and development materials and surface engineering and its applications. Surface engineering techniques are being used...

Synthetic polymer-based fibers are used in a great variety of consumer and...

Health and Environmental Safety of Nanomaterials addresses concerns about the impact of nanomaterials on the environment and human health, and examines the safety of specific nanomaterials. Understanding the unique chemical and physical properties of nanostructures has led to many developments in the applications of nanocomposite...

Chapters in part one explore the pathogenesis of congestive heart failure, the mechanisms responsible for adverse cardiac matrix remodeling, and potential interventions to restore ventricular function....

Chapters in part one focus on types of polymers, including temperature-, pH-, photo-, and enzyme-responsive polymers....

Chapters in part one focus on the fundamentals and properties of porous...

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This book is about the use of techniques and tools for the design and implementation of computer systems and software that are free from logical or functional flaws (in the sense of functional requirements). The word rigorous in the title of this book is justified by the fact that the arguments for such fault freeness have their roots...

As well as covering the theoretical aspects of the subject, with detailed proofs of many important results, the authors present...

Research into grid computing has been driven by the need to solve large-scale, increasingly complex problems for scientific applications. Yet the applications of grid computing for business and casual users did not begin to emerge until the development of the concept of cloud computing, fueled by advances in virtualization techniques, coupled...