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Materials Characterization

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Editors:
  1. Ramiro Pérez Campos

    1. Centro de Física Aplicada y Tecnología Avanzada of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Querétaro, Mexico

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  2. Antonio Contreras Cuevas

    1. Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo (IMP), San Bartolo Atepehuacan, Mexico

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  3. Rodrigo Esparza Muñoz

    1. Centro de Física Aplicada y Tecnología Avanzada of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Querétaro, Mexico

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Characterization of Welding and Joining of Materials

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Metallurgical Investigation of Heat Input on Robot-Welded Joints Using GMAW Pulsed Process on Structural Steel

      • I. Guzman-Flores, B. Vargas-Arista, J. J. Gasca-Dominguez, J. del Prado, E. Garfias-Garcia, L. Rios-Vargas
      Pages 3-13

    3. Distortion Evaluation in Dissimilar Stainless Steel Joints Welded by GMAW Process

      • A. F. Miranda Pérez, G. Y. Pérez Medina, E. Hurtado Delgado, F. A. Reyes Valdés
      Pages 15-23

    4. 3-D Porosity in T-Welded Connections Repaired by Grinding and Wet Welding

      • G. Terán, S. Capula-Colindres, R. Cuamatzi-Meléndez, D. Angeles-Herrera, A. Albiter
      Pages 25-32

  3. Characterization of Nanostructured Materials

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
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    2. Synthesis and Characterization of Bimetallic Nanoparticles by Cs-Corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

      • R. Esparza, O. Téllez-Vázquez, A. Ángeles-Pascual, R. Pérez
      Pages 35-42

    3. Application of Silver Decorated Carbon Nanotubes for Environmental Ozone Sensing

      • S. Capula Colindres, G. Terán, V. Garibay Febles, L. A. Villa Vargas, J. R. Vargas García
      Pages 43-50

    4. Spectroscopic and Structural Characterization of Pd Nanoparticles Supported on Hydrotalcite-Like Materials

      • Miguel Angel de la Rosa-Guzmán, María de Jesús Martínez-Ortiz, Nancy Castillo, Carlos Alberto Ramírez-Salazar, Andrés Méndez-Ceja, Juan Esteban Canseco-Morales
      Pages 51-57

    5. Structural and Optical Characterization of ZrO2 and Y2O3-ZrO2 Nanopowders

      • Nadiia Korsunska, Anton Zhuk, Vasyl Papusha, Oleksandr Kolomys, Yuliya Polishchuk, Yurii Bacherikov et al.
      Pages 59-67

  4. Characterization of Steels Used in the Oil Industry

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
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    2. Improvement of Mechanical Properties of API X-65 Steel by Non-conventional Heat Treatment

      • Constantino Natividad Murillo, Rafael García Hernández, Víctor Hugo López Morelos, Melchor Salazar Martínez
      Pages 71-77

    3. Aging of Cast Heat Resisting Alloys 35Cr–45Ni–0.1C (MORE40X) and 40Cr–45Ni–0.2C (UCX)

      • Ireri Aydée Sustaita Torres, Sergio Haro Rodríguez, Rafael Colás Ortiz
      Pages 79-87

    4. SCC of X-65 Weldment Assessment in Diluted NaHCO3 Solutions with Chloride and Sulfate Ions

      • M. A. Espinosa-Medina, G. Carbajal-De la Torre, C. Ángeles-Chavez, J. G. González-Rodriguez
      Pages 89-99

    5. Electrochemical Characterization of X60 Steel Exposed to Different Soils from South of México

      • L. M. Quej, M. J. Míreles, R. Galvan-Martinez, A. Contreras
      Pages 101-116

  5. Characterization of Stainless Steels

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. Effect of the Perpendicular Electromagnetic Field in the 304 Austenitic Stainless Steel Welding in a Single Pass

      • Rafael García, Rafael Cortes, Diana L. García, Víctor H. López
      Pages 119-127

    3. On the Effect of Crosshead Velocity on Polycrystalline Flow During Tension Testing of a 430 Stainless Steel

      • Elizabeth Garfias-García, Juan Daniel Muñoz-Andrade, Pablo Gerardo Rodríguez-López, Miriam Aguilar-Sánchez, Benjamín Vargas-Arista
      Pages 129-136

  6. Characterization of Composite Materials

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
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    2. Effect of FSW Parameters on Microstructure of Aluminum Matrix Composites Joints

      • O. Cuevas Mata, A. F. Miranda Pérez, F. J. García Vázquez, G. Y. Pérez Medina, F. A. Reyes Valdés
      Pages 139-146
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About this book

This book covers novel research results for process and techniques of materials characterization for a wide range of materials. The authors provide a comprehensive overview of the aspects of structural and chemical characterization of these materials. The articles contained in this book covers state of the art and experimental techniques commonly used in modern materials characterization. The book includes theoretical models and numerous illustrations of structural and chemical characterization properties.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centro de Física Aplicada y Tecnología Avanzada of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Querétaro, Mexico

    Ramiro Pérez Campos, Rodrigo Esparza Muñoz

  • Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo (IMP), San Bartolo Atepehuacan, Mexico

    Antonio Contreras Cuevas

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

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