Overview
- Covers aspects of structural and chemical characterization of materials including metals, alloys, steels, composites, polymeric compounds, welding, nanomaterials and surface coatings
- Details structural characterization techniques such as scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, optical microscopy and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
- Includes theoretical models for the structural and chemical characterization properties of materials
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Characterization of Welding and Joining of Materials
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Characterization of Nanostructured Materials
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Characterization of Steels Used in the Oil Industry
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Characterization of Stainless Steels
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Characterization of Composite Materials
Keywords
- Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
- Differential Thermal Analysis (DTA)
- Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR)
- Laser Emission
- Materials Characterization
- Optical Microscopy (OM)
- Polymeric Compounds
- Raman Spectroscopy
- Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
- Thermo Gravimetry Dnalysis (TGA)
- Thermo Luminescence (TL)
- Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)
- X-ray Diffraction (XRD)
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Ramiro Pérez Campos obtained his Ph. D. in Physics at the University of Alberta, Canada in 1983. He also carried out postdoctoral work at the KFA in Jülich, Germany. He was awarded an Alexander Von Humboldt postdoctoral scholarship. He is the author of more than 170 scientific papers, all of them related with the applications of the transmission electron microscope in materials science. He is the actual Director of Centro de Física Aplicada y Tecnología Avanzada of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Dr. Antonio Contreras Cuevas is a pipeline materials research specialist for Mexican Petroleum Institute since 2003. He obtained a master degree in 1997 and PhD in 2002 in Metallurgy and Materials Science from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He is a member of NACE and Mexican Materials Society, and he belongs to National Research System. The main research areas include stress corrosion cracking (SCC), root cause analysis (RCA), materials characterization and pipeline integrity. He is author from more than 50 scientific papers related with materials characterization by different techniques. Actually, he is researcher of Mexican Petroleum Institute.
Dr. Rodrigo A. Esparza Muñoz obtained his Ph.D. in Metallurgy and Materials Science at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (UMSNH), México in 2007. He carried out two postdoctoral stays, one of them in the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM) and the other one, in the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). He is the author of more than 50 scientific papers, most of them related with the characterization of nanomaterials using high-resolution transmission electron microscopy and aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy. Actually, he is researcher of Centro de Física Aplicada y Tecnología Avanzada from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Materials Characterization
Editors: Ramiro Pérez Campos, Antonio Contreras Cuevas, Rodrigo Esparza Muñoz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15204-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-15203-5Published: 08 May 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38406-1Published: 17 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-15204-2Published: 27 April 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 223
Number of Illustrations: 52 b/w illustrations, 64 illustrations in colour
Topics: Characterization and Evaluation of Materials, Spectroscopy and Microscopy