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The treatment of transverse shear stress effects in plates made of isotropic materials stems from the classical papers by Reissner [6-26] and Mindlin [6-27. Extension of Reissner s theory to plates made of orthotropic materials is due to Girkmann and Beer [6-28], Ambartsumyan [6-29] treated symmetrically laminated plates with orthotropic laminae having their principal material directions aligned with the plate axes. Whitney [6-30] extended Ambartsumyan s analysis to symmetrically laminated plates with orthotropic laminae of arbitrary orientation. 

The historical material - stemming from several well known sources -is valuable for its technical content. The subject matter then advances to a presentation on the characteristics of gunpowder, whose unique properties cause it to be the mainstay of the fireworks industry, even today. 

The Green Cross Corporation, who have also been very active in the field of artificial blood substitutes, have synthesised a wide range of potential materials stemming from their first practical product Fluosol-DA, a mixture of perfluo-rodecalin and perfluorotripropylamine. 

Osiris overcomes the ethical, health and practical concerns that hamper the development of other stem cell products because of its stem cell source and the great care taken to ensure safety and quality of the material. Stem cell donors are monitored for up to five years after donation to ensure their health status. This is the primary reason that Osiris has progressed into the human clinical trial phase faster than any other stem cell company [www. stemcellsinc. com]. 

The great interest in this material stems from its applications in solar-energy conversion, thin-film transistors, memory switches, and electrophotography (204). 

The changes in non-stoichiometry and point defects of solid perovskite (BaTiOs) at 900°C can be observed with Raman spectroscopy (51). The method is believed to be more sensitive than the neutron scattering technique and has become the standard in determining stoichiometric information for solid materials. The interest in perovskite-type materials stems from their use in solid-state capacitors. 

When (/ )-(-)-(34) is dimerized, only the second and third isomers are formed (26%, 74%), both in dextrorotatory form, suggesting that the first isomer obtained with racemic starting material stems from a pair of enantiomers. Even though the monoinversion product (the [ir2f + irZi] product) is not the major product with either racemic or q>tically active ci.r,trur -diene, the fact that it is formed at all has been read as an indication that Woodward-Hoffmann theory has some predictive validity even for reactions which are not concerred. The normal diradical formulation rationalizes this outcome differently. 

It is noted that a growing number of dendrimers and hyperbranched polymers have been synthesized that have metal-metal bonded dimers or metal clusters attached to the surface of the dendrimer. These materials are analogous to polymers that have metal-metal units appended to the polymer backbone rather than incorporated into the backbone chain, and as such they are not covered in this chapter. The field was recently reviewed by Rossell and co-workers.54 The interest in these materials stems from the catalytic properties of the metal complexes attached to the dendrimer surface. In particular, these dendrimer species offer the opportunity to combine the advantages of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, because the materials can be recycled by nanofiltration. 

Much of the interest in Nafion materials stems from its use as a membrane separator for chlor-alkali production and other electrochemical applications (6). Hence, it is relevant to study the material in the presence of water of swelling, with or without sorbed electrolytes. The presence of water and counterions gives us an NMR handle with which to study Nafion. Solvent and ionic mobility is rapid enough in the aqueous regions of swollen Nafion to yield high resolution NMR signals. 

One of the main advantages of thermoplastic systems for ceramic extrusion is the lower abrasivity of the feedstock material relative to other binder systems. The lower abrasivity of a extrusion feedstock prepared with a thermoplastic hinder system compared to one with a solvent-based binder for a given ceramic powder, in this case AI2O3, is shown Fig. 1. In this study a feedstock with 58 vol.-% coarse AI2O3 powder was extruded through a steel die. Looking at the surfaces of the tubes, discoloration of the material stemming from abrasion of the die can he clearly... 

We will distinguish ceramic materials stemming from compressed powder from materials deposited on a substrate shaped as thin or thick films. 

Ti, AI)N gold —> dark blue, depending on the Ti/Al ratio, Ti(C, N), Zr(C,N) (colors see Fig. 13), CrN (metallic to brown) are used [111,112] for example on watch cases, lighters, frames for glasses, and bathroom furnishings where the combination of color with increased scratch and corrosion resistance is exploited. The color of these materials stems from the absorption behavior, which is the result of the response of the material to the incident light, in turn a function of... 

The current concentration on the use of synthetic instead of natural fibrous materials stems from the desire to standardize the physical and mechanical characteristics of materials and to adapt them to the demands of the technical designers and users of membrane constructions. Above all, characteristics such as mechanical firmness, flexibility, workability, durability, resistance to UV radiation and chemicals, dirt resistance and cleaning behaviour, flammability, moisture stability and environmental compatibility determine the costs and therefore the choice of materials. 

LiC104. The interest of this material stems of course from the possibility of processing viscous liquids (the Schiff bases) into thin films containing the lithium salt before inducing the nq>id photochemical cross-linking (7). 

The understanding of these physically cross-linked materials stem from the theory of rubber elasticity, which is based on a chemically cross-linked polymer, and it is to this simple idealized model that we confine attention. 

The interest in high-temperature elastomeric materials stems from the high demand for such materials for application in advanced technologies, particularly the aerospace, defense, and computer industries. Such materials are expected to have long-term thermal, thermo-oxidative and hydrolytic stability at and above 300 to 350 °C and to also have the ability to maintain pronounced flexibility to well below ambient temperature. The elastomeric crossUnked network polymers of carboran-ylenesiloxanes and silarylene-siloxanes described in this chapter possess similar properties and are therefore ideal candidates for a wide variety of engineering applications under unusual service conditions. In addition, these network polymers also have the utility in other applications that may or may not directly relate to their... 

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