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Record Nr.

UNINA9910135018703321

Autore

Feinberg Alec

Titolo

Thermodynamic degradation science : physics of failure, accelerated testing, fatigue and reliability applications / / Alec Feinberg, Ph.D

Pubbl/distr/stampa

West Sussex, [England] : , : Wiley, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-119-27627-6

1-119-27624-1

1-119-27625-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Wiley Series in Quality & Reliability Engineering

Disciplina

620.1/61

Soggetti

Heat-engines - Thermodynamics

Metals - Fatigue

Metals - Testing

Thermodynamic equilibrium

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables ; About the Author ; Preface; Chapter 1 Equilibrium Thermodynamic Degradation Science ; 1.1 Introduction to a New Science; 1.2 Categorizing Physics of Failure Mechanisms; 1.3 Entropy Damage Concept; 1.3.1 The System (Device) and its Environment; 1.3.2 Irreversible Thermodynamic Processes Cause Damage; 1.4 Thermodynamic Work; 1.5 Thermodynamic State Variables and their Characteristics; 1.6 Thermodynamic Second Law in Terms of System Entropy Damage; 1.6.1 Thermodynamic Entropy Damage Axiom; 1.6.2 Entropy and Free Energy

1.7 Work, Resistance, Generated Entropy, and the Second Law1.8 Thermodynamic Catastrophic and Parametric Failure; 1.8.1 Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium Aging States in Terms of the Free Energy or Entropy Change; 1.9 Repair Entropy; 1.9.1 Example 1.1: Repair Entropy: Relating Non-Damage Entropy Flow to Entropy Damage; Summary ; References; Chapter 2 Applications of Equilibrium Thermodynamic Degradation to Complex and Simple Systems: Entropy Damage,



Vibration, Temperature, Noise Analysis, and Thermodynamic Potentials ; 2.1 Cumulative Entropy Damage Approach in Physics of Failure

2.1.1 Example 2.1: Minerś Rule Derivation2.1.2 Example 2.2: Minerś Rule Example; 2.1.3 Non-Cyclic Applications of Cumulative Damage; 2.2 Measuring Entropy Damage Processes; 2.3 Intermediate Thermodynamic Aging States and Sampling; 2.4 Measures for System-Level Entropy Damage; 2.4.1 Measuring System Entropy Damage with Temperature; 2.4.2 Example 2.3: Resistor Aging; 2.4.3 Example 2.4: Complex Resistor Bank; 2.4.4 System Entropy Damage with Temperature Observations; 2.4.5 Example 2.5: Temperature Aging of an Operating System

2.4.6 Comment on High-Temperature Aging for Operating and Non-Operating Systems2.5 Measuring Randomness due to System Entropy Damage with Mesoscopic Noise Analysis in an Operating System; 2.5.1 Example 2.6: Gaussian Noise Vibration Damage; 2.5.2 Example 2.7: System Vibration Damage Observed with Noise Analysis; 2.6 How System Entropy Damage Leads to Random Processes; 2.6.1 Stationary versus Non-Stationary Entropy Process; 2.7 Example 2.8: Human Heart Rate Noise Degradation; 2.8 Entropy Damage Noise Assessment Using Autocorrelation and the Power Spectral Density

2.8.1 Noise Measurements Rules of Thumb for the PSD and R2.8.2 Literature Review of Traditional Noise Measurement; 2.8.3 Literature Review for Resistor Noise; 2.9 Noise Detection Measurement System; 2.9.1 System Noise Temperature; 2.9.2 Environmental Noise Due to Pollution; 2.9.3 Measuring System Entropy Damage using Failure Rate; 2.10 Entropy Maximize Principle: Combined First and Second Law; 2.10.1 Example 2.9: Thermal Equilibrium; 2.10.2 Example 2.10: Equilibrium with Charge Exchange; 2.10.3 Example 2.11: Diffusion Equilibrium; 2.10.4 Example 2.12: Available Work

2.11 Thermodynamic Potentials and Energy States



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790170903321

Titolo

Current advances in the medical application of nanotechnology [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mark Slevin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[United Arab Emirates], : Bentham Books, [2012]

ISBN

1-60805-131-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (132 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SlevinMark

Disciplina

610.28

Soggetti

Nanomedicine

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

01 Title.pdf; 02 Cover page; 03 REVISED eBooks End User License Agreement-Website; 04 contents; 05 Editors note; 06 FOREWORD[1]; 09 contributors-nano; 10 Chapter 1 Slevin; 11 Chapter 2  - Sarin; 12 Chapter 3 final; 14 Chapter 5, Dr G McDowell final restenosis nanomed chapter; 15 Chapter 6, Shin; 16 Chapter 7, Azzawi; 17 Chapter_8; 18 Chapter 9 final; 19 INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Nanotechnology promises new medical therapies, more rapid and sensitive diagnostic and investigative tools for normal and diseased tissues, and new materials for tissue engineering. This e-book highlights the major current uses, new technologies and future perspectives of nanotechnology in relation to medical applications. Sections in this e-book include nanobiological approaches to imaging, diagnosis and treatment of disease using targeted monoclonal antibodies and siRNA, the medical use of nanomaterials, to nanoelectronic biosensors, and possible future applications of molecular nanotechnolo