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9781902653587

Understanding Materials: A Festschrift for Sir Peter Hirsch

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    9781902653587

  • ISBN10:

    1902653580

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-02-15
  • Publisher: CRC Press

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Summary

This tribute to Sir Peter Hirsch comprises a collection of specially written review articles by world-class scientists that take the reader from the origins of modern materials science through to the cutting edge of the subject in the 21st century.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Colin Humphreys
Understanding Peter: A Recollection of Facts and Anecdotes about Sir P. B. Hirsch
1(16)
Ugo Valdre
The Early Observations of Defects in Metals by Transmission Electron Microscopy
17(20)
M. J. Whelan
Refocusing the Microbeam
37(14)
A. Howie
The Weak-Beam Method --- A Retrospective Account
51(14)
D. J. H. Cockayne
Characterisation of Defects in Crystals by Large Angle Convergent Beam Electron Diffraction
65(18)
J. W. Steeds
Some Aspects of the Development of High Resolution Electron Microscopy Applied to Materials
83(52)
H. Hashimoto
The Paradoxes of Cross-Slip
135(10)
L. M. Brown
The Quantum Molecular Dynamics Approach to Atomic Processes in Fracture --- Predicting Fracture Toughness
145(12)
John Spence
Dislocation Sources
157(8)
D. Vesely
Non-Schmid Plastic Behaviour in BCC Metals and Alloys
165(28)
M. S. Duesbery
V. Vitek
J. Cserti
Dislocations and Plastic Deformation in Ceramic Oxides
193(32)
T. E. Mitchell
On Deformability of Sic
225(16)
P. Pirouz
Microstructure and Performance of Structural Sialon Ceramics
241(20)
M. H. Lewis
Particles in Metals
261(18)
John Humphreys
Crystal Defects and Nuclear Technology
279(30)
B. L. Eyre
Designing Materials: From Power Plant to Brilliant Light Emitting Diodes
309(8)
Colin Humphreys
Curriculum Vitae 317(3)
Sir Peter Hirsch
Publications 320(15)
Sir Peter Hirsch
Subject Index 335

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