Product Description: Get Your Copies of A.C. Fischer-Cripps’ Updated Companions This highly successful series of books was originally launched in 2003 with the publication of the innovative Physics Companion. Each core topic in the physics curriculum was covered, deriving key concepts and equations in clear, one-page, figure-rich descriptions...read more

Product Description: Updated and revised, this new edition presents major advances in the theoretical understanding of nanoindentation, in an authoritative, introductory way. The book describes nanoindentation as a quantitative test method for mechanical properties of small volumes of materials.

Contact mechanics deals with the elastic or plastic contact between two solid objects, and is thus intimately connected with such topics as fracture, hardness, and elasticity. This text, intended for advanced undergraduates, begins with an introduction to the mechanical properties of materials, general fracture mechanics, and fractures in brittle solids. This is followed by a detailed discussion of stresses and the nature of elastic and elastic-plastic contact. The discussion then turns to a description of stress fields and their role in the formation of cracks in brittle materials and of sub-surface damage in ductile materials. The book concludes with an overview of practical methods if indentation testing.

Product Description: Following the style of The Physics Companion and The Electronics Companion, this book is a revision aid and study guide for undergraduate students in physics and engineering. It consists of a series of one-page-per-topic descriptions of the key concepts covered in a typical first-year "mathematics for physics" course...read more

Product Description: Tony Fischer-Cripps is a Project Leader in the Division of Telecommunications and Industrial Physics of the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation), Australia. He was previously lecturer, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia, and has also worked for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA (NIST, formerly National Bureau of Standards - NBS)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)