Innovation Through Research and Technology Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Aluminum Alloys, Vancouver, Canada, July 9-13, 2006

The world production of primary and recycled aluminum continues to increase and, over the past twenty years, has risen from ~15 Mt/y in 1985 to ~32 Mt/y in 2005. The main consumers are transportation, beverage and other packaging, and building construction. The global primary aluminum production has been growing by about 2-3% per year. However, growth rates over the last decade have been much higher. In particular, during the past five years, China has played a critical role in aluminum production and has gone through a dramatic period of growth.

This beautiful and informative photographic history includes images from 1900 to 1999. Many are often seen (bullet piercing the apple, splashing crown of milk, Sophia Loren looking askance at Jayne Mansfield's plunging decollete, and Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother); but most are probably unknown, because the photos were selected not only for their visual and cognitive qualities but also for their importance to the history and development of photographic technique and usage. The century is divided into thirds for explanation's sake, and there is at least one photograph for every year. While this is a picture book, the accompanying text provides informative introductions to the uses and abuses of perhaps the century's most important medium. The book is companion to the PBS series. Oversize: 12.5x9.5". Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

This proceedings volume from the 2000 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition covers the processing, characterization, properties, and applications of ultrafine grained materials with a grain size of less than one micron, including nanocrystalline materials. The book is divided into three sections on fundamentals and process mechanisms, severe plastic deformation processing, and mechanical behavior and strengthening mechanisms.

The remarkable technology of superplastic forming was developed and perfected in the former Soviet Union. This volume, written by two Russian scientists at the Institute for Metals Superplasticity Problems in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia (of which Kaibyshev was the former director), presents a detailed and up-to-date treatment of the technology, with particular attention to the production of ultrafine grain materials, their use in superplastic shaping and forming, practical aspects of the process, and new developments in submicrocrystalline and nanocrystalline materials production. The comprehensive bibliography of the largely Russian literature will be a valuable resource for the serious scientist. Specialists in machine building and metallurgy, as well as graduate students and researchers will be the book's audience. Annotation :2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Grain size is recognized as a key microstructural factor affecting mechanical and, to some extent, physical properties of metals and metallic materials. For this reason, all the means designed to control and modify the grain size are considered a proper way to design and tailor metallic materials with desired properties. In this sense, microstructure refinement through severe plastic deformation (SPD) techniques can be considered a key method for this purpose. A typical SPD process is currently defined as any method of metal forming under extensive hydrostatic pressure intended to impose a very high strain on a bulk solid without involving any significant change in the overall dimensions and having the ability to produce exceptional grain refinement. What makes SPD processing techniques so popular and attractive is the possibility of using them to enhance the strength behavior of conventional metallic materials by a factor of up to eight for pure metals such as copper and by some 30-50% for alloys. Despite the impressive property improvement achievable with SPD techniques, their uptake by industry has been rather sluggish. This book intends to give a panorama of the typical SPD techniques intended to optimize the mechanical and physical properties of metals through a significant grain size reduction process. Modeling for this purpose is also presented.

Invited papers -- Hydrogen-assisted fracture in steels -- Hydrogen-assisted fatigue -- Hydrogen effects on mechanical properties of structural metals -- Advanced methods for characterizing hydrogen-materials interactions -- Hydrogen dissolution, transport, and trapping -- Modeling and simulation -- Hydrogen effects on non-metals

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 12 songs from the third album by this Mississippi rock band: Behind Those Eyes * Here by Me * It's Not Me * Landing in London * Let Me Go * My World * The Real Life * Right Where I Belong * and more.