Handbook of Elastic Properties of Solids, Liquids, and Gases, Four-Volume Set

Sound waves propagate through galactic space, through two-dimensional solids, through biological systems, through normal and dense stars, and through everything that surrounds us; the earth, the sea, and the air. We use sound to locate objects, to identify objects, to understand processes going on in nature, to communicate, and to entertain. The elastic properties of materials determine the velocity of sound in them and tell us about their response to stresses something which is very important when we are trying to construct, manufacture, or create something with any material. The Handbook of Elastic Properties of Materials will provide these characteristics for almost everything whose elastic properties has ever been measured or deduced in a concise and approachable manner.Leading experts will explain the significance of the elastic properties as they relate to intrinsic microscopic behavior, to manufacturing, to construction, or to diagnosis. They will discuss the propagation of sound in newly discovered or created materials, and in common materials which are being investigated with a fresh outlook.The Handbook will provide the reader with the elastic properties of the common and mundane, the novel and unique, the immense and the microscopic, and the exhorbitantly dense and the ephemeral.. You will also find the measurement. And theoretical techniques that have been developed and invented in order to extract these properties from a reluctant nature and recalcitrant systems.- Solids, liquids and gases covered in one handbook- Articles by experts describing insights developed over long and Illustrious careers- Properties of esoteric substances, such as normal and dense stars, superfluid helium three, fullerness, two dimensional solids, extraterrestial substances, gems and planetary atmospheres- Properties of common materials such as food, wood used for musical instruments, paper, cement, and cork- Modern dynamic elastic properties measurement techniques

Volume:1 Methods for Measuring the Elastic Properties of SolidsVolume Editors:Professor Arthur.G. EveryPhysics DepartmentUniversity of the WitwatersrandPO Wits 2050, Johannesburg, South AfricaTel. +27-11-716-2141 Fax: +27-11-339-8262every@physnet.phys.wits.ac.zaProfessor Wolfgang Sachse Department of Theoretical and Applied MechanicsCornell UniversityIthaca, NY 14853Tel. +1-607-255-5065 (secretary: 255-5062) ; Fax: +1-607-255-9179)sachse@msc.cornell.eduElastodynamical Principles in the Measurement of Elastic Constants:Every and SachsePulse Superposition, Pulse Echo Overlap and Related Techniques:Dr Emmanuel P. PapadakisUltrasonic Through Transmission Methods to Measure Complex Stiffness Moduli of Composite Materials:Professor Bernard HostenBordeaux I UniversityUltrasonic Techniques at Low Temperatures and High Magnetic FieldsDr Bimal K SarmaPhysics DepartmentUniversity of Wisconsin at MilwaukeePoint-source/Point-receiver Green's Function Methods:Every, Sachse, KimDr K.Y. KimDepartment of Theoretical and Applied MechanicsCornell UniversityMR ElastographyTentative authors: McCracken, Oliphant, Greenleaf, Ehman.MAYO CLINICGated Interferometry:Dr. Mark McKennaRITEC, INC.Laser Controlled Surface Acoustic Waves:Professor Dr Peter HessUniversity of Heidelberg, Acoustic MicroscopyDr Sridhar Canumalla and Dr Lawrence KesslerSonoscan Inc.Acoustic Microscopy of Layered Anisotropic SolidsDr Pavel ZininHawaii Institute of Geophysics and PlanetologyUniversity of Hawaii Scanning Probe Methods for Measurements and Mapping of Local Elastic Properties:Dr Oleg KolosovDepartment of MaterialsUniversity of OxfordWaves in Plates:Professor Mahir SayirInstitute of MechanicsETH-ZentrumWaves in Rods and Thin Cylindrical Shells:Professor Jürg DualInstitute of MechanicsETH-ZentrumResonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy (RUS):Dr. Albert Migliori, T.W. Darling and J.P. BaiardoLos Alamos National LaboratoryRUS under Pressure and at High Temperatures?Professor Donald G. IsaakUniversity of California at Los AngelesInstitute of Geophysics and Planetary PhysicsEMAT Techniques:Dr George A Alers and Dr Hirotsugu OgiMaterials Reliability DivisionNIST Plate Modes:Prof. Dr. S. HaussuehlUniversitaet zu KoelnTorsional and Flexural Vibrations of Rods:Professor Dr.-Ing. Hans G. Sockel Institut fur Werkstoffwissenschaften LS 1Universitat Erlangen-NurnbergDr. Wolfgang HermannSiemens AG, Brillouin Scattering from Bulk Acoustic Waves:Dr Marcos GrimsditchMaterials Science DivisionArgonne National LaboratorySurface Brillouin Scattering:Professor J.Darrell Comins Physics DepartmentUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Schaefer-Bergmann Method:Prof. Dr. S. HaussuehlUniversitaet zu KoelnNeutron Scattering:Dr. C. StassisIowa State UniversityX-ray Diffraction and Scattering:Prof. Emil ZolotoyabkoDepartment of Materials EngineeringTechnion - Israel Institute of TechnologyMeasurements as a Function of Pressure and TemperatureProf. William A. BassettDepartment of Geological SciencesCornell UniversityThird Order Elastic Constants:Professor Mack BreazealeNational Center for Physical AcousticsThe University of MississippiVolume II. Elastic Properties of SolidsEditor: Dr. Moises LevyTechnical Editor: Libby FurrChapter 1.Fundamentals of Elastic Constants Dr. Moises Levy 941-403-7265 Professor Emeritus University of Wisconsin4401 Gulf Shore BlvdNaples, FL 34103moiseslevy@aol.comChapter 2.The Microscopic Theory of Elastic ConstantsDr. Leon Slutsky206-543-1685University of WashingtonDepartment of ChemistryBox 351700Seattle, Washington 98195Chapter 3.Elasticity of Oxides and IonicsProfessor Lars Stixrude734-647-9071University of MichiganDepartment of Geological Sciences425 E. University Avenue2534 C.C. Little Bldg.Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1063stixrude@umich.eduChapter 4.Elastic Properties of Solid Inert GasesDr. John BeamishUniv. of AlbertaDepartment of PhysicsEdmonton, ABTG-G2j1 CanadaJbeamish@clarityconnect.comCornell UniversityDepartment of PhysicsClark HallIthaca, NY 14853-2501Chapter 5.