1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557576603321

Autore

Barber Enrique Maciá

Titolo

Symmetry and Asymmetry in Quasicrystals or Amorphous Materials

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (120 p.)

Soggetti

Research & information: general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

About forty years after its discovery, it is still common to read in the literature that quasicrystals (QCs) occupy an intermediate position between amorphous materials and periodic crystals. However, QCs exhibit high-quality diffraction patterns containing a collection of discrete Bragg reflections at variance with amorphous phases. Accordingly, these materials must be properly regarded as long-range ordered materials with a symmetry incompatible with translation invariance. This misleading conceptual status can probably arise from the use of notions borrowed from the amorphous solids framework (such us tunneling states, weak interference effects, variable range hopping, or spin glass) in order to explain certain physical properties observed in QCs. On the other hand, the absence of a general, full-fledged theory of quasiperiodic systems certainly makes it difficult to clearly distinguish the features related to short-range order atomic arrangements from those stemming from long-range order correlations. The contributions collected in this book aim at gaining a deeper understanding on the relationship between the underlying structural order and the resulting physical properties in several illustrative aperiodic systems, including the border line between QCs and related complex metallic alloys, hierarchical superlattices, electrical transmission lines, nucleic acid sequences, photonic quasicrystals, and optical devices based on aperiodic order designs.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910144166003321

Titolo

Coastal engineering

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co., 1977-

ISSN

1872-7379

Soggetti

Shore protection

Hydraulic engineering

Ocean engineering

Coastal zone management

Shore protection - Periodicals

Coastal zone management - Periodicals

Rivage - Protection - Périodiques

Technologie hydraulique - Périodiques

Océanographie appliquée

Littoral - Aménagement - Périodiques

Rivage - Protection

Technologie hydraulique

Littoral - Aménagement

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Title from contents screen (ScienceDirect, viewed Nov. 14, 2005).

"An international journal for coastal, harbour and offshore engineers."

Sommario/riassunto

"This international journal is indispensable reading for engineers working in the field of marine and coastal technology. Combining practical application with modern technological and scientific achievements, it publishes fundamental studies as well as case histories on the following aspects of coastal, harbour and offshore engineering: studies on waves and currents; coastal morphology;



estuary hydraulics; harbour and offshore structures. Mathematical and physical models as well as constructional aspects and environmental problems relating to these items are also included."