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Alloy systems have been known to man since the Bronze Age. It is, however, only in recent times that they have been the subject of systematic studies, and in these studies no tool has proved more powerful than the technique of crystal structure analysis. Indeed, the extension of our knowledge and understanding of the properties of intermetallic systems to which it has given rise is one of the greatest achievements of crystal chemistry. Prior to the application of X-ray methods, the investigation of the properties of alloy systems was confined principally to observations of their behaviour in the liquid state, and the behaviour of the metal as a solid could be determined only by inference from these observations. Transitions in the solid state and the effect of mechanical or heat treatment could not, of course, be observed in this way, and for information on these properties the microscope and other purely physical methods had to be invoked. Even so, these methods were all more or less indirect, and it is only since the application of X-ray analysis that it has been possible to investigate directly in the solid state, under the precise conditions which are of technical interest and without damage to the specimen, the exact positions of all the atoms in the structure, and so to refer to their ultimate cause the physical and chemical properties of the alloy. 

Isolation of lipid A takes advantage of the labile linkage between the lipid A backbone and the ketodeoxyoctanoate (KDO) in the LPS core. Mild acid hydrolysis and heat are sufficient to disrupt this linkage. The lipid A is insoluble in water and forms a precipitate that can be readily extracted by centrifugation. Three methods are given in this section. The first is the classical method, which has been most widely used. The second method allows extraction of small amounts of relatively pure lipid A directly from whole cells without a prior LPS extraction. The third method uses a relatively mild hydrolysis step to preserve acid labile phosphorylation sites and head groups on the lipid A backbone. This method is particularly useful in isolating lipid A for structural analysis. 

Capillary column gas chromatography (GC)/mass spectrometry (MS) has also been used to achieve more difficult separations and to perform the structural analysis of molecules, and laboratory automation technologies, including robotics, have become a powerful trend in both analytical chemistry and small molecule synthesis. On the other hand, liquid chromatography (LC)/MS is more suitable for biomedical applications than GC/MS because of the heat sensitivity exhibited by almost all biomolecules. More recent advances in protein studies have resulted from combining various mass spectrometers with a variety of LC methods, and improvements in the sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) now allow direct connection of this powerful methodology with LC. Finally, the online purification of biomolecules by LC has been achieved with the development of chip electrophoresis (microfluidics). 

The analysis results in Figure 1 are from a numerical transient thermal and structural collapse analysis, where heat conduction is included and where the structural stiffness (and hence the load path) is computed for every time step in the solution process. This analysis is more accurate than the former because it includes the composite action of the three dimensional imevenly heated structure, where the load path is shed from the hot to the cold members. The method therefore represents the structural redimdancy and gives (more accurately) longer times to collapse than the lumped thermal mass method. 

The BEM forms part of a group of integral methods [131-142] that have been used sporadically for the simulation of electrochemically related problems. The BEM was described by Banerjee and coworkers and Brebbia and coworkers and has been outlined by them and others in detail in a number of engineering texts [6, 143-146]. A wide range of engineering-related problems have been tackled using the BEM including heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and structural analysis. 

In the FEM, the solution domain is broken down into a finite number of smaller regions called elements. These elements are connected at specific points called nodes. An important criterion of the FEM is that the solution must be continuous along conunon boxmdaries of adjacent elements. For thermal analysis, the governing heat equations are solved using standard numerical methods. For structural analysis, stress/stiain equations are solved. 

Most thermal analysis methods for studying polymeric stabilizer systems are based on the antioxidant s ability to delay the oxidation process. Usually a sample is heated to a specified temperature and the induction time, or period of time before the onset of rapid thermal oxidation, is determined [see discussion of oxidative induction time (OIT) in Section 3.4.2 of this chapter]. The end of the induction period is marked by an abrupt increase in the sample s temperature, evolved heat, or mass and can be detected by DTA, DSC or TGA, respectively (Bair 1997). The effect of antioxidant structure and its concentration on prolonging a sample s induction period can be used to determine the most effective antioxidant system for a polymer such as polyethylene. Extensive data have shown that thermal information such as this can be used successfully to estimate the lifetime of polyethylene at processing temperatures (Bair 1997). 

In this chapter, the main influences of temperature on the products obtained by hard tissues thermal processing are presented, highhghting the approaches and methods available nowadays. The main thermal analysis methods used to trace/identify the transformations that occur with the increase of the fabrication temperature are also emphasized. The correlation of such results with ones provided by complementary investigation methods, such as scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy or X-ray diffraction, can enable a complex and insightful research on the evolution of the morphology and structure of hard tissues when subjected to heat-treatments. In the final part, results obtained for thermally treated bone samples are presented and an ample comparative discussion is carried out with respect to other reported studies. 

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