IEGR 309: Materials Engineering- Spring-2001

My Web Resources Page - Abigale Antoine


Week -one Links

Concise Index of Crystal Lattice Structures:
This page offers a concise index of common crystal lattice structures. It also provides a graphical representation as well as useful information about the lattices.

Uncovering lattice structure:
This page provides a test, which actually reveals an example of bad lattice structure. This was revealed by partitioning the unit cube into classes that are finer than the resolution of the lattice of some generators.

lattice.gif:
This page provides an image, which represents an example of a lattice structure.

Single-Layered Lattice Structure:
This page provides information on single-layered lattice structures. It gives information and provides images of the structural features and the functional properties of these lattices.

The Bravais lattices:
This page provides a wide range of information on the different types of lattice structures. It also provides images of these various lattice structures.

Week -two Links

A Quasicrystal Construction Kit.(complex metal alloys):
This page provides information on research, which lead to the unexpected discovery of quasicrystals. It also describes the extent to which this discovery presented scientists with a new, puzzling class of materials .

Copper-Nickel Alloys - Resistance to Corrosion and Biofouling:
This page provides information on Copper-Nickel alloys and the extent to which the properties of these elements are greatly enhanced by alloying.

alloys.htm:
Provides extensive information on the composition and physical properties of many common alloys.

Physical and chemical - properties rhenium and rhenium alloys:
Source of physical, chemical, electrical, thermal, and mechanical properties of the alloys of rhenium.

Alloy:
Provides extensive information on the composition, properties and varrying types of alloys.

Week-three Links

Anisotropy:
Provides a definition of the term anisotropy.

Microwave Anisotropy Probe(MAP):
Provides information on research in Microwave Anisotropy.

Anisotropy:
This page is an excellent source, which describes anisotropy and gives an account of the variations of anisotropy.

Anisotropy :
Provides information on the types of material in which properties of anisotropy are easily observed.

Texture and Anisotropy of Crystalline Materials:
Provides a good source of information and graphical representation of anisotropy in crystalline materials

Week -four Links

Microhardness Testing:
Describes microhardness and give procedure involve in Microhardness Testing.

MICROHARDNESS TESTING:
Provides detailed information on the technique involve in microhardness testing

Microhardness testing capability:
This page provides a source for one of the latest test machine used in Microhardness Testing

Hardness Testers:
Provides images of the type of instruments used in Microhardness Testing

Microhardness of bone:
This page gives a detailed description of one aspect of microhardness together with images of this aspect.

Week -five Links

Electrical systems in the electroplating industry:
Provides information on the problems, use, and effective control system in electroplating.

Electroplating:
Provides detailed information on the definition and principles involve in electroplating

electroplating:
Provide information on the type of material used in electroplating

Specialty Chemicals:
Gives an example of a leading company and the utilization of electroplating in manufacture of products

CBNX Series Abrasive Powders - Mesh and Micron:
Provide information on the type of material used in electroplating.

Week -six Links

The Superconductor Collection:
Images showing the phenomenon of superconductivity.

Scientists Hunt for Silicon Replacement:
Provides articles on scientific research on the presence of superconductivity in various elements.

Superconductor preparation:
Provides information on the techniques used in superconductor preparation

Superconductor Structures Catalog:
Provides images on the structure of various superconductors.

Carbon 36 Higher-Temperature Superconductors:
Provides information on the use of carbon 36 in terms of its superconductivity.

Week -seven Links

About Dielectric Polymers:
This page provides about a company, which uses the techniques of dielectric.

Dielectrics:
This page provides information on the use of dielectric in manufacture of its products.

Aerogel Dielectric Materials:
This page provides information of the calculation and graphical representation of Exceptional dielectric constants, volume resistivities, and dielectric strengths.

DIELECTRIC ABSORPTION BLOCKS versus ELECTRET BLOCKS:
This page provides detailed descriptions, diagrams and functions of dielectric absorption blocks and electret blocks.

Dielectric Coatings:
This page provides information on the wide range of performance and substrate to which dielectric single and multi- layer AR coatings provide.

Week -eight Links

Borstlap, Masters in Fasteners - Decarburization ... causes and results :
This page focuses on the definition of decarburization and its main causes and the implications involved in the use of decarburization.

Investigation of Decarburization in the WC-Co system during ... :
This page focuses on experimentations, which investigates the effects of decarburzation in the WC-Co system.

Decontamination and Decarburization of Radioactive Scrap Metal :
This page focuses on another application of decarburization. It gives the steps in the decarburization of Radioactive Scrap Metal.

Decarburisation of steel :
This page focuses on one of the applications of decarburization techniques. It gives information on the processes and steps involved in the decarburization of steel.

Industrial Fasteners Institute:What is decarburization and why is it difficult to control?:
This page provides another view to the definition of decarburization. It also goes a little further by stating the reasons why this technique is difficult to control.

Week -nine Links

Piezoelectric Effect:
This page give information of the definition and appearance of Piezoelectric Effect and also the type of compounds that exhibit such an effect.

Piezoelectric Effect:
This page gives an encyclopedia definition of piezoelectric effect.

Piezoelectric sensors and actuators:
This page gives information and diagrams on piezoelectric effect. It also gives information on piezoelectric sensors and actuators.

Piezoelectric Effect Decreases with Thickness:
This web page gives information on the findings of researchers on piezoelectric and dielectric constant with respect to their effect on the thickness of materials.

Piezoelectric materials:
This web page provides information on the use of piezoelectric materials in precision positioning, vibration suppression, and noise control.

Week -ten Links

Pyrometallurgy :
This web page focuses on a pyrometallurgy section of the company, Mintek, which conducts high-temperature research and process development in the fields relating to pyrometellurgy.

Oxygen Pyrometallurgy at Copper Cliff-A Half Century of Progress :
This web page focuses on the techniques of oxygen pyrometallurgy.

Pyrometa.htm:Pyrometallury :
This web page focuses on a project to investigate the recovery of chromium-bearing materials from an industrial leaching process residue.

Pyrmtlgy.htm:
This web page provides a definition of the term pyrometallurgy.

Metal pyrometallurgy:
This web page provides information on the better control of smelting, refining and casting of copper, nickel, zinc and lead using the CSIRO's pyrometallurgy program.

Week -eleven Links

Phase Diagrams:
This page provides a guide to understanding phase diagrams and the use of the lever-rule calculation.

Phase Transitions:
This page provides a guide to understanding some of the chemistry behind a transition between phases and the development of phase diagrams.

Phase State Diagrams:
This page provides information on an explanation of phase state diagrams.

Superconductivity Phase Diagrams:
This page provides illustrations of phase diagrams for various superconductors.

Phase Equilibria:
This page provides information on the geometric interpretation and phase diagrams.

Week -twelve Links

Galvanizing :
This web page provides information on the processes involve in galvanizing.

Galvanizing and the Environment :
This page provides information on the environmental efficiency of hot dip galvanized steel, as a construction material.

Hot Dip Galvanizing:
This page provides information on the processes involved in Hot Dip Galvanizing. It also provides information on the design factors involved in Hot Dip Galvanizing.

The benefits of after-fabrication Galvanizing:
This page provides information on the benefits of after-fabrication galvanizing.

Mechanical Galvanizing:
This page provides information on the processes involve in mechanical galvanizing, as well as the importance of mechanical galvanizing as an alternative to hot dip galvanizing.

Week -thirteen Links

Lower Extremity Thermoplastics: An Overview:
This page offers information on the many characteristics that make thermoplastic very attractive for use in the field. It also discusses how thermoplastics can become one of the most valuable technologies available to prosthetists and orthotists.

What are TPEs?:
This page provides information on the definition of thermoplastics elastomers and their uses.

Thermoplastic Polymers:
This page provides information on the properties of thermoplastic polymers. It also provides examples of thermoplastic polymers.

What are thermoplastic adhesive films?:
This site provides information on thermoplastic adhesive films and their applications.

THERMOPLASTICS:
This page provides information on the nature, properties and applications of thermoplastics.

Week -fourteen Links

Devitrification:
This page provides an explanation of the process of Devitrification.

Phase separation and partial devitrification in soda-lime silicate glasses:
This page provides information on phase separation and partial devitrification in soda-lime silicate glasses.

CONTROLLED VITRIFICATION/DEVITRIFICATION OF INDUSTRIAL WASTES:
This page provides information on controlled vitrification/devitrification of industrial wastes.

Devitrification:
This page provides information on the devitrification of fused quartz.

Devitrification:
This paper provides information on the effects of devitrification on lamp life.

Week -fifteen Links

Pyrolysis Mass Spectrometry at Aberystwyth:
This page provides a definition of, and also explains the process of pyrolysis.

What is Pyrolysis?:
This page provides a definition of the term pyrolysis and it also gives information on the Hamburg Pyrolysis Process.

Fast Pyrolysis of Biomass:
This page provides information on the Fast Pyrolysis of Biomass for Fuels and Chemicals.

Pyrolysis:
This page provides information pyrolysis research.

What is Pyrolysis?:
This page provides information on pyrolysis of biohazardous waste.

Week -sixteen Links

GLASS-CERAMICS :
This page provides information on the synthesis of glass-ceramics other composite material.

Machinable calcium pyrophosphate glass-ceramic:
This page provides information on the constituents of a type of glass-ceramic.

A Single Point Cutting of Glass Ceramics:
This page contains a paper, which presents information on the development of a two-dimensional model to describe the material removal process at a micro-scale level during the machining of glass ceramics.

Glass-Ceramics:
This page provides information on the methods involve in the formation of glass- ceramic from Lunar regolith or basaltic rock.

AFM characterization of stresses in glass ceramics reinforced by SiC fibres:
This page provides information on a study of the stresses in glass ceramics reinforced by SiC fibres.

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