E-grāmata: Fabrication and Machining of Advanced Materials and Composites: Opportunities and Challenges

The text covers wide variety of composites including nano materials and their potential applications in the area of biomedical and nano-biotechnology. It will be a useful reference text for undergraduate, graduate students, and academic researchers in areas including materials science, mechanical engineering, and manufacturing science.

This reference text discusses processing, structure, and properties of metal matrix composites, polymer matrix composites, and ceramic matrix composites for applications in high end engineering equipment, biomedical and nano-biotechnology areas.

The text begins by discussing fundamentals, classification, designing and fabrication of composite materials, followed by ultrasonic vibration assisted machining of advanced materials, fabrication of transparent advanced composites, fabrication of composites via microwave sintering, and hybrid machining of metal-matrix composites. It covers important topics including fabrication of shape-memory polymers, additive manufacturing for the fabrication of composites, 3D printing processes for biomedical applications, and ultrasonic vibration assisted machining of advanced materials.

The text will be useful for undergraduate, graduate students, and academic researchers in areas including materials science, mechanical engineering, manufacturing science, aerospace engineering, electronics and communication engineering

The book-

• Covers processing, structure, and properties of metal matrix composites, polymer matrix composites, and ceramic matrix composites.
• Discusses nano materials and their potential applications in the area of biomedical and nano-biotechnology.
• Provides modern processing techniques to synthesize advance materials.
• Explores applicability of the materials using mechanical, chemical, thermal and electrical tests.

Discussing advanced materials, their manufacturing techniques and applications in diverse areas including automotive, aerospace engineering, biomedical, this text will be useful for undergraduate, graduate students, and academic researchers in areas including materials science, mechanical engineering, manufacturing science, aerospace engineering, electronics and communication engineering. It will further discuss electro discharge machining of steels using chromium alloy-based electrodes, and advanced machining techniques for hard materials.