Product Description: This volume contains forty-seven peer-reviewed papers selected from those presented at the third ESIS TC4 conference 15-18 September 2002. The role of the committee is to advancing fracture mechanics test methods for polymers adhesive joints and composites, clearly reflected in this collection of the latest research in the field...read more

Product Description: This book is an overview of ESIS Technical Committee 4's activities since the mid-1980s. A wide range of tests is described and the numerous authors is a reflection of the wide and enthusiastic support we have had. With the establishment of the Technical Committee 4, two major areas were identified as appropriate for the activity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This book contains a selection of fully peer-reviewed papers which were presented at the 2nd ESIS TC4 Conference, held in Les Diablerets, Switzerland 13 - 15 September 1999. The meeting was designed to reflect the activities of the Committee over the last 15 years, and to plan future activities. The papers have been divided into four chapters under the headings of Composites, Elastic-Plastic Fracture, Adhesion, and Impact and General Fracture. These are convenient groupings, but there are many interactions between the areas, with the common theme of Fracture Mechanics underlying it all.

Product Description: Understanding the pathogenesis of multiple organ failure continues to challenge both clinicians and basic science researchers. At a time when advances in inflammation research occur rapidly and appear in a diverse array of publications, this book is designed to summarize recent developments in eicosanoid and procoagulant research...read more

Product Description: This work provides an introduction to research methods from the human movement disciplines, sports science and health sciences such as physiotherapy, clinical psychology and nursing.

Product Description: This proceedings contains the talks delivered at plenary and parallel sessions by researchers in both classical and quantum relativity and in astrophysics.

Product Description: Although still a relatively new technique, the areas of application of plasma source mass spectronomy are wide and varied. This is a proceedings volume representing all areas covered at a conference devoted to this new field of analytical science.

Product Description: A photographic guide to sports injuries, aimed at any doctor, general practitioner, physiotherapist or teacher who deals with injuries in sport or sportsmen. The book aims to show the mechanism of injury, ways of prevention and recognition of abnormal conditions.