Note: Front Cover -- Limit Analysis in Soil Mechanics -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 A short historical review of soil plasticity -- 1.3 Idealized stress-strain relations for soil -- 1.4 Limit analysis for collapse load -- 1.5 Finite-element analysis for progressive failure behavior of soil mass -- Chapter 2. BASIC CONCEPTS OF LIMIT ANALYSIS -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Index notation -- 2.3 The perfectly plastic assumption and yield criterion -- 2.4 The kinematic assumption on soil deformations and flow rule -- 2.5 The stability postulate of Drucker -- 2.6 Restrictions imposed by Drucker's stability postulate - convexity and normality -- 2.7 The assumption of small change in geometry and the equation of virual work -- 2.8 Theorems of limit analysis -- 2.9 Limit theorems for materials with non-associated flow rules -- 2.10 The upper-bound method -- 2.11 The lower-bound method -- References -- Chapter 3. VALIDITY OF LIMIT ANALYSIS IN APPLICATION TO SOILS -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Soil - a multiphase material -- 3.3 Mechanical behaviour of soils -- 3.4 Soil failure surfaces -- 3.5 Validity of limit analysis in application to soils -- 3.6 Friction-dalatation and related energy in cohesionless soils -- 3.7 Effect of friction on the applicability of limit analysis to soils -- 3.8 Some aspects of retaining wall problems and the associated phenomena at failure -- References -- Chapter 4. LATERAL EARTH PRESSURE PROBLEMS -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Failure mechanism -- 4.3 Energy dissipation -- 4.4 Passive earth pressure analysis -- 4.5 Active earth pressure analysis -- 4.6 Comparisons and discussions -- 4.7 Some practical aspects -- References -- Chapter 5. RIGID RETAINING WALLS SUBJECTED TO EARTHQUAKE FORCES -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 General considerations. , 5.3 Seismic passive earth pressure analysis -- 5.4 Seismic active earth pressure analysis -- 5.5 Numerical results and discussions -- 5.6 Earth pressure tables for practical use -- References -- Appendix A: Seismic earth pressure tables for KA and KP -- Appendix B: Earth pressure tables for NAc and NPc -- Chapter 6. SOME PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN DESIGN OF RIGID RETAINING STRUCTURES -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Theoretical considerations of the modified Dubrova method -- 6.3 Some numerical results and discussions of the modified Dubrova method -- 6.4 Evaluation of the modified Dubrova method -- 6.5 Effects of wall movement on lateral earth pressures -- 6.6 Earth pressure theories for design applications in seismic environments -- 6.7 Design recommendations -- References -- Chapter 7. BEARING CAPACITY OF STRIP FOOTING ON ANISOTROPIC AND NONHOMOGENEOUS SOILS -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Analysis -- 7.3 Results and discussions -- References -- Chapter 8. EARTHQUAKE-INDUCED SLOPE FAILURE AND LANDSLIDES -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Failure surface -- 8.3 Determination of the critical height for seismic stability -- 8.4 Special spiral-slope configurations -- 8.5 Calculated results and discussions -- 8.6 Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 9. SEISMIC STABILITY OF SLOPES IN NONHOMOGENEOUS, ANISOTROPIC SOILS AND GENERAL DISCUSSIONS -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Log-spiral failure mechanism for a nonhomogeneous and anisotropic slope -- 9.3 Numerical results and discussions -- 9.4 Mechanics of earthquake-induced slope failure -- References -- Chapter 10. ASSESSMENT OF SEISMIC DISPLACEMENT OF SLOPES -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Failure mechanisms and yield acceleration -- 10.3 Assessment of seismic displacement of slopes -- 10.4 Summary -- References -- Appendix 1: Plane failure surface -- Appendix 2: Logspiral failure surface. , Appendix 3: Limit analysis during earthquake -- Chapter 11. STABILITY ANALYSIS OF SLOPES WITH GENERALIZED FAILURE CRITERION -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Variational approach in limit analysis and the combined method -- 11.3 Stability analysis of slopes -- 11.4 Layered analysis of embankments -- 11.5 Summary -- References -- Subject index -- Author index.

Note: Front Cover -- Microbial Enhancement of Oil Recovery- Recent Advances -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Address by the Director of the Department of Energy Bartlesville Project Officer -- Chapter 2. Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery - The Time is Now (Keynote Speech) -- Chapter 3. MEOR in the Field: Why so Little? -- Chapter 4. A Brief Introduction to the Progress of MEOR in China -- Part II: RESEARCH -- Chapter 1. Microbial Physiology and Enhanced Oil Recovery -- Chapter 2. Analysis of Biomass in Rock Cores Following Nutrient Stimulation -- Chapter 3. Bacteria-Mineral Surface Interactions in a Laboratory Model Reservoir Environment -- Chapter 4. Investigations of Microbial Mechanisms for Oil Mobilization in Porous Media -- Chapter 5. Mechanisms of Oil Displacement by Microorganisms -- Chapter 6. Isolation and Characterization of Anaerobic Halophilic Bacteria from Oil Reservoir Brines -- Chapter 7. Isolation and Characterization of Novel Halophilic Anaerobic Bacteria from Oil Field Brines -- Chapter 8. Anaerobic Microbial Degradation of Aromatic Hydrocarbons -- Chapter 9. Strict Anaerobic Bacteria and their Possible Contribution to the Enhancement of Oil Recovery -- Chapter 10. A Method to Determine the Number of Hydrocarbon Degrading Bacteria in Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery -- Chapter 11. Effects of Sodium Chloride on Growth and Metabolism of Two Strains of Clostridium -- Chapter 12. Effects of High Pressure and High-pressure on Microorganisms -- Chapter 13. Production of Biosurfactant by Bacillus Licheniformis Strain JF-2 -- Chapter 14. Enhanced Oil Recovery at Simulated Reservoir Conditions -- Chapter 15. High-Temperature, Salt-Tolerant Enzymic Breaker of Xanthan Gum Viscosity -- Chapter 16. Microbial Ecology of Corrosion and Reservoir Souring. , Chapter 17. Degradation of Glucose and Production of H2S by a Consortium of Thermophilic Bacteria under Simulated Reservoir Conditions -- Chapter 18. Prospects for Thermophilic Microorganisms in Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR) -- Chapter 19. Fate of Surfactant Vescicles Surviving from Thermophilic, Halotolerant, Spore Forming, Clostridium Thermohydrosulfuricum -- Chapter 20. Transient Transport of Bacterial Suspensions in Natural Porous Media: Modeling of the Adsorption Phenomenon -- Chapter 21. Compositional Numerical Simulation of MEOR Processes -- Part III: FIELD APPLICATIONS -- Chapter 1. Characteristics of the Bacterial Inoculum used in some recent MEOR Field Trials in Romania -- Chapter 2. Preliminary Results of Some Recent MEOR Field Trials in Romania -- Chapter 3. Microbial Enhancement of Oil Recovery from Carbonate Reservoirs with Complex Formation Characteristics -- Chapter 4. Microbial Enhanced Waterflooding: A Pilot Study -- Chapter 5. Biotechnology of "Enhancement of Oil Recovery based on the Geochemical Activity of Microorganisms (Field Experiments) -- Chapter 6. Microbial Selective Plugging to Control Water Channeling -- Chapter 7. Microbial Control of the Production of Sulfide -- Chapter 8. Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery Treatments and Wellbore Stimulation using Microorganisms to Control Paraffin, Emulsion, Corrosion and Scale Formation -- Chapter 9. Advances in Research, Production and Application of Biopolymers used for EOR in China -- APPENDIX -- Chapter 1. MEOR Field Trials Carried out over the World during the Last 35 Years -- Types of inoculum used in MEOR field trials.

Note: Front Cover -- Reservoir Characterization II -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Session 1: Microscopic -- CHAPTER 1. CHARACTERISATION OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS IN POROUS MEDIA -- ABSTRACT -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. CONSTRUCTION OF THE MODEL -- III. FRACTAL BEHAVIOUR -- IV. APPLICATION TO PORE-SPACE FLUID DYNAMICS -- V. SECTIONING THE MODEL -- VI. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 2. A DUAL-POROSITY, SURFACE, AND MATRIX ELECTRICAL CONDUCTION MODEL FOR LOWCONTRAST RESISTIVITY SANDSTONE FORMATIONS -- I. ABSTRACT -- II. INTRODUCTION -- III. PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF A LARGE CLASS OF LOW-CONTRAST RESISTIVITY (LCR) SANDSTONES -- IV. CONCEPT OF A DUAL-POROSITY, SURFACE, AND MATRIX (DPSM) ELECTRICAL CONDUCTION MODEL -- V. MATHEMATICAL DEVELOPMENT OF DPSM -- VI. THEORETICAL RESISTIVITY INDICES -- VII. DPSM ANALYSIS OF CORE RESISTIVITY DATA -- VIII. CONCLUSIONS -- NOMENCLATURE -- ACKNOWLEGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3. THE INFLUENCE OF SMALL-SCALE HETEROGENEITY ON AVERAGE RELATIVE PERMEABILITY -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. JUSTIFICATION FOR STEADY-STATE ASSUMPTION -- III. LIMITATIONS OF THE DYNAMIC APPROACH -- IV. FEATURES OF A STEADY-STATE SYSTEM -- V. CAPILLARY EQUILIBRIUM APPROXIMATION -- VI. NEGLIGIBLE CAPILLARY PRESSURE -- VII. CALCULATION OF AVERAGE RELATIVE PERMEABILITY -- VIII. CORRELATION OF PERMEABILITY AND CAPILLARY PRESSURE -- IX. NUMERICAL METHOD -- X. ANALYTIC CALCULATION OF RELATIVE PERMEABILITY -- XI. EFFECT OF SYSTEM SIZE -- XII. RATE DEPENDENCY AND THE EFFECT OF VISCOUS PRESSURE -- XIII. NEED FOR 3-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS -- XIV. DIRECTIONAL EFFECTS -- XV. DIFFERENT ROCK CURVES -- XVI. EXPENSE OF CALCULATION -- XVII. SUMMARY OF POSSIBLE EFFECTS ON RESERVOIR PERFORMANCE -- XVIII. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES. , CHAPTER 4. CORE SAMPLE HETEROGENEITY FROM LABORATORY FLOW EXPERIMENTS -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. EXPERIMENTAL METHODS -- III. POROSITY DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENTS -- IV. CALCULATIONS OF PERMEABILITY -- V. SPATIAL VARIABILITY OF POROSITY AND PERMEABILITY IN ANTOLINI SANDSTONE -- VI. SPATIAL VARIABILITY OF PERMEABILITY -- VII. THE EFFECT OF DISPERSION -- VIII. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 5. QUANTIFYING SATURATION DISTRIBUTION AND CAPILLARY PRESSURES USING CENTRIFUGE AND COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY -- 1. ABSTRACT -- 2. INTRODUCTION -- 3. EXPERIMENTAL -- 4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 5. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Session 2: Mesoscopic -- CHAPTER 6. RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION AT THE MESOSCOPIC SCALE -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CENTRAL ROLE OF DOWNHOLE MEASUREMENTS -- 3. PARAMETRIC DESCRIPTION -- 4. CHARACTERISTIC ALGORITHMS -- 5. INTEGRATION OF SCALES -- 6. THE FUTURE -- 7. CONCLUSIONS -- 8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 9. NOMENCLATURE -- 10. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 7. PERMEABILITY VARIATIONS IN SANDSTONES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES -- ABSTRACT -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. EXPERIMENTAL METHODS AND MATERIALS -- III. RESULTS -- IV. DISCUSSION -- V. CONCLUSIONS -- VI. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- VII. REFERENCES -- VI. APPENDIX -- CHAPTER 8. GENERATION OF EFFECTIVE RELATIVE PERMEABILITIES FROM DETAILED SIMULATION OF FLOW IN HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. METHOD -- 3. PERMEABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS -- 4. RESULTS -- 5. DISCUSSION -- 6. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 9. CHARACTERIZING SHALE CLAST HETEROGENEITIES AND THEIR EFFECT ON FLUID FLOW -- I. ABSTRACT -- II. INTRODUCTION -- III. CASE STUDY -- IV. SCALES OF HETEROGENEITY -- V. SHALE CLAST GEOMETRY -- VI. CHARACTERIZING SHALE CLAST LAYERS -- VII. CHARACTERIZING SHALE CLAST ZONES. , VIII. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 10. ANALYSIS OF UPSCALING AND EFFECTIVE PROPERTIES IN DISORDERED MEDIA -- Abstract -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. ON THE DEFINITION OF SCALES -- III. EFFECTIVE PROPERTIES -- IV. MULTINORMAL PARAMETRIC STOCHASTIC APPROACH TO UPSCALING -- V. A STOCHASTIC NON-PARAMETRIC APPROACH TO UPSCALING -- VI. SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 11. ROCK VOLUMES: CONSIDERATIONS FOR RELATING WELL LOG AND CORE DATA -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. SCALE -- III. VOLUMETRIC CONSIDERATIONS -- IV. HAZARDOUS GEOSTATISTICAL CONCEPTS -- V. EXAMPLES -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 12. THE DERIVATION OF PERMEABILITY-POROSITY TRANSFORMS FOR THE Η.Ο. ΜΑΗΟΝΕΥ LEASE, WASSON FIELD, YOAKUM COUNTY, TEXAS -- ABSTRACT -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. GENERAL FIELD INFORMATION -- III. GEOLOGIC SETTING -- IV. METHODOLOGY -- V. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 13. A Discussion of Douglas E. Craig's "The Derivation of Permeability-Porosity Transforms for the H.O. Mahoney Lease, Wasson Field, Yoakum County, Texas -- References -- CHAPTER 14. PERMEABILITY PATTERNS IN SOME FLUVIAL SANDSTONES. AN OUTCROP STUDY FROM YORKSHIRE, NORTH EAST ENGLAND -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. GEOLOGICAL SETTING -- 3. FIELDWORK AND ANALYTICAL METHODS -- 4. CORE PLUG ANALYSES -- 5. ANALYSES AND RESULTS -- 6. COMPARISON OF CORE PLUG DATA WITH FIELD MEASUREMENTS -- 7. DIAGENESIS AND MINERALOGY -- 8. SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Session 3: Macroscopic -- CHAPTER 15. RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT USING 3-D SEISMIC DATA -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. DEFINITION OF RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT -- III. TYPES OF 3-D SEISMIC ANALYSES -- IV. HISTORY AND FUTURE OF 3-D SEISMIC SURVEYING -- V. Summary -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES. , CHAPTER 16. STOCHASTIC SIMULATION OF INTER WELL-SCALE HETEROGENEITY FOR IMPROVED PREDICTION OF SWEEP EFFICIENCY IN A CARBONATE RESERVOIR -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. SKETCH OF DUNE FIELD RESERVOIR GEOLOGY -- III. METHODS -- IV. STOCHASTIC MODELING OF HETEROGENEITY AND ITS EFFECTS ON INFILL DRILLING PERFORMANCE -- V. DISCUSSION -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX: STOCHASTIC SIMULATION ALGORITHM -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 17. MAXIMUM ENTROPY LTIHO-PORDSITY VOLUME FRACTION PREDICTIONS FROM Vp/Vs RATIO MEASUREMENTS -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. BOREHOLE AND SURFACE SEISMIC DATA ANALYSIS -- III. ΔTs/ΔΤρ RATIO MEASUREMENTS -- IV. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 18. SCALING LAWS IN RESERVOIR SIMULATION AND THEIR USE IN A HYBRID FINITE DIFFERENCE/STREAMTUBE APPROACH TO SIMULATING THE EFFECTS OF PERMEABILITY HETEROGENEITY -- I. ABSTRACT -- II. INTRODUCTION -- III. SCALING LAWS IN MULTIPHASE DISPLACEMENT PROCESSE -- IV. THE IMPACT OF PERMEABILITY HETEROGENEITY ON SCALING IN MULTIPHASE FLOWS -- V. STREAMTUBE DISPLACEMENT CALCULATIONS -- VI. PSEUDOFUNCTION SCALE-UP -- VII. COMPARISON OF METHODS -- VIII. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOMENCLATURE -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 19. INTERWELL GEOLOGY FROM GEOPHYSICAL DATA -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. COMPOSITIONAL PETROPHYSICAL ANALYSIS -- III. LITHOLOGY VELOCITIES -- IV. FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS FOR CONDITIONAL PROCESSING -- V. MULTILITHOLOGIC CONDITIONEDS EISMIC VELOCITY INTERPRETATION -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 20. CROSS-WELL SEISMOLOGY-A TOOL FOR RESERVOIR GEOPHYSICS -- I. BACKGROUND -- II. INTRODUCTION -- III. MODELING OF CROSS-WELL TRAVEL TIMES -- IV. TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING OF AN EOR APPLICATION FOR HEAVY OIL -- V. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- Session 4: Workshop/Discussions. , CHAPTER 21. SECOND INTERNATIONAL RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION CONFERENCE -- DISCUSSION GROUP #1 -- DISCUSSION GROUP #2 -- DISCUSSION GROUP #3 -- DISCUSSION GROUP #4 -- DISCUSSION GROUP #5 -- Session 5: Megascopic -- CHAPTER 22. FIELD-SCALE RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION -- ABSTRACT -- CHAPTER 23. EXAMPLES OF RESERVOIR SIMULATION STUDIES UTILIZING GEOSTATISTICAL MODELS OF RESERVOIR HETEROGENEITY -- I. ABSTRACT -- II. INTRODUCTION -- III. METHODOLOGY -- IV. CASE HISTORIES -- V. SOME ASSUMPTIONS AND APPROXIMATIONS -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 24. CONSTRUCTION OF A RESERVOIR MODEL BY INTEGRATING GEOLOGICAL AND ENGINEERING INFORMATION - BELL CREEK FIELD, A BARRIER/STRANDPLAIN RESERVOIR -- ABSTRACT -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. GEOLOGICAL MODEL -- III. PERMEABILITY LAYER MODEL -- IV. FLOW UNIT MODEL -- V. MODEL ELEMENTS AND GUIDELINES FOR FIELD DEVELOPMENT -- VI. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 25. LITHOLOGY PREDICTION FROM SEISMIC DATA, A MONTE-CARLO APPROACH -- I. SUMMARY -- II. INTRODUCTION -- III. MONTE-CARLO SIMULATION OF SAND/SHALE SEQUENCES -- IV. A CASE STUDY OF A CHANNEL-SAND RESERVOIR -- V. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 26. INFLUENCE OF LITHOLOGY AND GEOLOGIC STRUCTURE ON IN SITU STRESS: EXAMPLES OF STRESS HETEROGENEITY IN RESERVOIRS -- ABSTRACT -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. TECHNIQUES FOR MEASURING IN SITU STRESS AT DEPTH -- III. DISTRIBUTION OF IN SITU STRESS AT DEPTH -- IV. SUMMARY -- V. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- VI. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 27. FRACTAL HETEROGENEITY OF CLASTIC RESERVOIRS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CONCEPT OF FRACTALS -- STRATIGRAPHIC AND DEPOSITIONAL SETTING -- MATERIAL AND METHOD -- MEASUREMENT AND THE PROBLEM OF SUBJECTIVITY -- AVERAGING AS A POSSIBLE SOURCE OF ERROR -- RESULTS -- TESTS OF SELF-SIMILARITY -- R/S-ANALYSIS OF A SEQUENCE SAMPLE. , LENGTH DISTRIBUTION OF BLACK OR WHITE REGIONS.

Note: Intro -- Sedimentology of Coal and Coal-bearing Sequences -- Contents -- Preface -- Sedimentology of coal and coal-bearing sequences of North America: a historical review -- General coal depositional models -- Depositional environments of coal and coal-bearing strata -- Petrographic composition and sulphur content of coals associated with alluvial fans in the Permian Sydney and Gunnedah Basins, eastern Australia -- Lacustrine-interdeltaic coal in the Fort Union Formation (Palaeocene), Powder River Basin, Wyoming and Montana, U.S.A. -- Anastomosed and associated coal-bearing fluvial deposits: Upper Tongue Member, Palaeocene Fort Union Formation, northern Powder River Basin, Wyoming, U.S.A. -- Coal deposition in an anastomosing-fluvial system: the Pennsylvanian Cumberland Group south of Joggins, Nova Scotia, Canada -- Fluvial models of the Lower Permian coal measures of Son-Mahanadi and Koel-Damodar Valley basins, India -- Development of Permian fluvial coal measures, Goonyella, Australia -- An Upper Cretaceous fluvio-lacustrine coal-bearing sequence, Red Deer Area, Alberta, Canada -- Relationship of fluviodeltaic facies to coal deposition in the Lower Fort Union Formation (Palaeocene), south-western North Dakota -- Lithologic relationships of the Upper Cretaceous Gibson-Cleary stratigraphic interval: Gallup Coal Field, New Mexico, U.S.A. -- Transgressive-regressive cycles and the occurrence of coal in some Upper Cretaceous strata of Utah, U.S.A. -- Depositional models of modern peats -- The Okefenokee Swamp: a low sulphur end-member of a shoreline-related depositional model for coastal plain coals -- Sedimentology of Fraser River delta peat deposits: a modern analogue for some deltaic coals -- Applications of coal depositional models to mining problems -- Depositional controls of mineable coal bodies. , Crevasse splay deposits and roof-rock quality in the Threequarters Seam (Carboniferous) in the East Midlands Coalfield, U.K. -- The Leslie Cemetery and Francisco distributary fluvial channels in the Petersburg Formation (Pennsylvanian) of Gibson County, Indiana, U.S.A. -- Geologic controls on deposition of the Pratt seam, Black Warrior Basin, Alabama, U.S.A. -- Coal composition and depositional environments -- Coal microlithotypes related to sedimentary environments in the Cooper Basin, Australia -- Petrography of the middle Pennsylvanian Upper Elkhorn no. 3 coal of eastern Kentucky, U.S.A. -- Sulphur concentration in the Japanese Palaeogene coal -- Sedimentary tectonics of coal basins -- The tectonic control for sedimentation of coal-bearing sequences in East China -- Sedimentation and tectonic evolution of Late Mesozoic faulted coal basins in north-eastern China -- Index.

Note: Front Cover -- Mechanics, Analysis and Geometry: 200 Years after Lagrange -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Part I: DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS -- Chapter 1. Periodic Solutions near the Lagrange Equilibrium Points in the Restricted Three-Body Problem,for Mass Ratios near -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A lemma on commuting vector fields -- 3. Application to hamiltonian systems -- 4. Application to the restricted three-body problem -- References -- Chapter 2. Lower Bound on the Dimension of the Attractor for the Navier-Stokes Equations in Space Dimension 3 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The two dimensional case -- 3. The three dimensional case -- 4. Comparisons between u p per bounds and lower bounds -- 5. Some inequalities (Appendix 1) -- 6. Upperbound of the dimension of the attractor in the 2D case (Appendix 2) -- 7.On the Orr-Sommerfeld equation (Appendix 3) -- References -- Chapter 3. Homoclinic Chaos for Ray Optics in a Fiber: 200 Years after Lagrange -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Axisymmetric,Translation-Invariant Media -- 3.Effects of Perturbations of The Refractive Index -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 4. On the Vortex-Wave System -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Existence -- 3.Many Vortices -- 4.Uniqueness, Regularity and Final Remarks -- References -- Part II: INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS AND QUANTUM GROUPS -- Chapter 5. The Averaging Procedure for the Soliton-Like Solutions of Integrable Systems -- 1.The general scheme -- 2.The multiphase solutions of Benjamin-Ono equation -- 3.Whithem equations -- 4.The TLW equation -- References -- Chapter 6. A New Topological Invariant of Topological Hamiltonian Systems of Differential Equations and Applications to Probl -- Definition -- Statement 1 -- Statement 2 -- Theorem 1 -- Corollary -- Statement 3 -- Theorem 2 -- Theorem 3 -- Statement 4 -- Proposition -- Theorem 4 -- Theorem 5 -- Corollary -- Remark. , Theorem 6 -- Definition -- Corollary -- Theorem 7 -- Statement 5 -- Remark -- Theorem 8 -- Definition -- Theorem 9 -- Statement 6 -- References -- Chapter 7. On the Lie Algebra of Motion Integrals for Two-Dimensional Hydrodynamic Equations in Clebsh Variables -- 1 Two-dimensional in compressible hydrodynamics -- 2 Clebsh variables and geometric integrals -- 3 On the algebra of geometrical integrals -- 4 The compressible hydrodynamics -- 5 The integrable example -- 6 The generalconstruction -- References -- Chapter 8. Quasiclassical Limit of Quantum Matrix Groups -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Jacobi Identities -- 3. Determinant Belongs to the Poisson Centre -- 4. Comultiplication is a Poisson Map -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Part III: ANALYTICAL MECHANICS AND CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS -- Chapter 9. A Multisymplectic Framework for Classical Field Theory and the Calculus of Variations: I.Covariant Hamiltonian For -- 1.Introduction -- 2 Background -- 3 Cartan Forms and Lepagean Equivalents -- 4 Covariant Hamiltonian Formalism -- 5 Regularity -- 6 Special Cases -- 7 Prospects -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter 10. Conformal Symmetries and Generalized Recurrences for Heat and Sehrodinger Equations in One Spatial Dimension -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Classical conformal symmetries -- 3.Conformal symmetries and recurrence operators -- 4.Examples of recurrences in quantum theory -- 5.General symmetries -- 6.First order symmetries -- References -- Chapter 11. On the Geometry of the Lagrange Problem -- 1.INTRODUCTION -- 2.GRIFFITHS' CONSTRUCTION AND MOVING FRAMES -- Strong nondegeneracy conditions -- Proposition 1 -- The Problem of Mayer -- Proposition 2 -- Integral constraints and the Isoperimetric Problem of Pappus -- References -- Part IV: GLOBAL ANALYSIS. , Chapter 12. Massivité des Espaces de Sobolev et Spectre du Laplacien des Variétés Riemanniennes Compactes -- 1.Rappels -- 2.Le cadre -- 3.Une estimée des grandes valeurs propres du laplacien -- 4.Un theoreme de Haar -- 5.Evaluation De L'entropie -- References -- Chapter 13. Yang-Mills Fields on Lorentzian Manifolds -- Introduction -- 1.Space Time and Fields -- 2.Equations -- 3.Cauchy Problem -- 4.Solution of The Constraint on A Compact Manifold -- 5.Solution of the constraint on an asymptotically euclidean manifold. -- 6.Local existence. -- 7.conformal transformation of a y.m.h.s. system. -- 8. CONFORMAL MAPPING FROM Μη+ι INTO Σ η + ι . -- 9.Conformal transformation of asymptotically min- kovskian manifolds. -- 10.Global Existence Theorem For ŋ +1 =4 -- 11.Global Existence For N +1 > -- 4 -- References -- Chapter 14. Eigenvalues of the Laplacian -- 1.Let D be a simply-connected domain in Rm, m> -- 1, with a smooth boundary ƏD.Let u be a solution of the equation -- 2.On The Morse-Smale Index For A Minimal Immersion In Rn, N> -- -3 and Some Historical Remarks Related To Lagrange and His Work -- 3. Four more open problems -- References -- Part V: DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY -- Chapter 15. How Can a Drum Change Shape,While Sounding the Same? -- Introduction -- 1.Isospectral deformations of nilmanifolds -- 2.Real homology and cohomology via invariant currents and forms. -- 3.Mass, comass and calibrations. -- 4.Computing the mass of a homology class via invariant currents -- 5.Effect of automorphisms on mass -- 6. An isospectral deformation in which no homology class changes mass -- 7.The homology of g -- 8.The homology of g is killed by the almost-inner derivation -- 9.How does this drum change during the isospectral deformation? -- 10.Another example -- References -- Chapter 16. Vector Fields on the Circle -- 0.Introduction -- 1.Local invariants. , 2.Global invariants -- 3.Completeness of the invariants -- 4.Projective vector fields and connections -- References -- Chapter 17. Scalar Differential Invariants,Diffieties and Characteristic Classes -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Diffieties -- 3.Scalar differential invariants and the "egregium theorema"of Gauss -- 4.Characteristic classes of geometrical structures -- 5.The C -spectral sequences and characteristic classes of families of geometrical structures. -- 6.Some generalizations and problems -- References -- Part VI: RELATIVITY AND FIELD THEORY -- Chapter 18. The Covariant Phase Space of Asymptotically Flat Gravitational Fields -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Preliminaries -- 3 The Covariant Phase Space of General Relativity -- 4 The Adm 4-Momentum -- 5 The Bondi 4-Momentum -- 6 Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 19. The Lagrangian Approach to Conserved Quantities in General Relativity -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Calculus of Variations,Poincari-Cartan Form and Symmetries -- 3.Field Theories on A Fixed Background -- 4.Interaction Between Matter Fields and Gravitation -- 5.First-Order Covariant Formulation of General Relativity -- 6.Final Remarks -- Appendix -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 20. Differential Geometry and the Lagrangians of Superstring Theory -- References -- Chapter 21. Quantum Gravity and Quantum Groups -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Integrated connections -- 3.The spinor trace algebra -- 4.Quantum groups -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter 22. Chen's Iterated Path Integrals,Quantum Vortices and Link Invariants -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Quantum Vortices and S3 -£ Homology -- 3.Chen Integrals -- 4.Flat Connection Parallel Transport -- 5.Construction of the ws -- 6.Towards a generalized Chern-Simons Theory -- 7.Concluding Remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 23. Massive Modes and Effective Geometry. , 1.Introduction -- 2.Consistent Truncations -- 3.Stability of The Effective Geometry -- References -- Part VI: HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS -- Chapter 24. Formal Versus Convergent Power Series -- Author Index.

Note: Front Cover -- Seismic Effects on Structures -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of symbols -- CHAPTER 1. CHARACTERISTICS OF SEISMIC EFFECTS -- 1.1 Causes of an earthquake and theory of its mechanism -- 1.2 Evaluation methods of random seismic motions -- 1.3 The methods of numerical solution of spectral characteristics of seismic effects -- 1.4 Spectral characteristics of weak earthquakes and microvibrations of soil -- 1.5 Synthetic seismic accelerograms -- 1.6 Design seismic spectra -- CHAPTER 2. DYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF FULL-SCALE STRUCTURES -- 2.1 Dynamic measurements on structures in situ -- 2.2 Measuring instruments and devices -- 2.3 The methods of analysis of measured data -- 2.4 Experimental dynamic properties of structures -- 2.5 Formulation of dynamic calculation models -- 2.6 Calculation methods for the solution of natural frequencies and modes of vibration of discrete systems -- 2.7 Empirical relations for determining the first natural frequencies of buildings -- CHAPTER 3. METHODS OF SOLUTION OF THE SEISMIC RESPONSE OF STRUCTURES -- 3.1 The theory of motion of a building structure under the seismic loading -- 3.2 The numerical solution of the seismic response of a structure -- 3.3 Examples of the seismic response solutions -- CHAPTER 4. SOME PROBLEMS OF THE SEISMIC RESPONSE OF MORE COMPLICATED STRUCTURES -- 4.1 Structures with an asymmetrical layout of vertical supporting elements -- 4.2 The effect of axial forces in columns of structures with soft storeys -- 4.3 Soil-structure interaction -- essential problems -- CHAPTER 5. THE NON-LINEAR SEISMIC RESPONSE OF STRUCTURES -- 5.1 The elasto-plastic reserve of structures and hysteretic calculation models -- 5.2 Non-linear seismic response spectra -- 5.3 The non-linear seismic response of frame systems -- 5.4 Laboratory seismic testing. , CHAPTER 6. DESIGN REQUIREMENTS OF STRUCTURES IN SEISMIC REGIONS -- 6.1 Basic structural principles of seismic design -- 6.2 Protection of structures against extreme effects of seismic motions -- Conclusion -- References -- Subject index.

Note: Front Cover -- Manufacturing and Automation Systems: Techniques and Technologies, Part 3 of 5 -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1. TECHNIQUES IN MODELING AND CONTROL POLICIES FOR PRODUCTION NETWORKS -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. PRODUCTION LINES -- III. PRODUCTION NETWORKS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 2. SCHEDULING, OPTIMIZATION AND CONTROL IN AUTOMATED SYSTEMS -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. Critical Issues of Scheduling, Optimization and Control in Automated Systems -- III. Existing Techniques in Scheduling and Control -- IV. Conclusions -- References -- CHAPTER 3. Performability of Automated Manufacturing Systems -- Abstract -- Notation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Measures of Performance and Performability -- 3. Performability of a Versatile Machine Center -- 4. AMS with Multiple Machines and Centralized Material Handling -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- CHAPTER 4. MODELING, CONTROL, AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF AUTOMATED MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS USING PETRI NETS -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. MODELING MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS -- III. ANALYSIS OF PETRI NETS -- IV. CONTROL USING PETRI NETS -- V. MARKOV MODELS -- VI. CONTINUOUS TIME MARKOV CHAINS -- VII. STOCHASTIC PETRI NETS -- VIII. CONCLUSION -- IX. References -- CHAPTER 5. EVALCON: A SYSTEM FOR EVALUATION OF CONCURRENCY IN ENGINEERING DESIGN -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. EVALUATION OF THE DEGREE OF CONCURRENCY SATISFACTION IN DESIGN -- III. SYSTEM FOR CONCURRENT DESIGN -- IV. CONCLUSIONS -- References -- CHAPTER 6. CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: DESIGN OF ASSEMBLIES FOR SCHEDULABILITY -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE ASSEMBLY SCHEDULING PROBLEM -- III. THE FIXED-ASSEMBLY PLAN PROBLEM -- IV. THE N-ASSEMBLY PLAN PROBLEM -- V. COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIENCE -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- References -- CHAPTER 7. Multi-Criteria Optimization and Dynamic Control Methods in Flexible Manufacturing Systems. , I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE SCHEDULING AND OPERATIONAL CONTROL PROBLEMS FOR JOBS AND AGVS -- III. EXAMPLE IN AN FMS -- IV. SIMULATION RESULTS AND VALIDATION OF THE MODEL -- V. CONCLUSIONS -- VI. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 8. COMPUTER-AIDED MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS DESIGN: FRAMEWORK AND TOOLS -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. STRUCTURE OF THE DESIGN FRAMEWORK -- III. ALGORITHMS AND COMPUTER-AIDED TOOLS -- VI. CONCLUSION -- References -- CHAPTER 9. SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION TECHNIQUES IN OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. CONFIGURATION LANGUAGES -- III. CONFIGURATION PROGRAMMING IN CONIC -- IV. DYNAMIC CONFIGURATION -- V. INTEGRATING HETEROGENEOUS COMPONENTS -- VI. CASE STUDY -- VII. CURRENT WORK -- VIII. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 10. SOFTWARE FOR DYNAMIC TOOL MODELING IN MANUFACTURING AND AUTOMATION -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. SOLID REPRESENTATION METHODS -- III. GEOMETRIC FORMULATION OF THE TANGO-UD SYSTEM -- IV. MASS PROPERTIES FORMULATION OF THE TANGO-UD SYSTEM -- V. TANGO-UD ENVIRONMENT -- VI. SAMPLE ANALYSIS -- VII. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 11. TECHNIQUES FOR OPTIMAL OPERATION ALLOCATION METHODS IN MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS - A REVIEW OF NON-PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. MODELING -- III. TYPES OF PROBLEMS -- IV. METHODS OF SOLVING THE PROBLEM -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 12. A BRANCH-AND-BOUND ALGORITHM FOR SOLVING THE MACHINE ALLOCATION PROBLEM -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE MACHINE ALLOCATION MODEL -- III. SOLVING THE MACHINE ALLOCATION MODEL -- IV. AN ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE -- V. PERFORMANCE OF THE BRANCH-AND-BOUND ALGORITHM -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- References -- INDEX.

Note: Front Cover -- Advances in Measurement and Control of Colloidal Processes -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- PREFACE -- PARTICIPANTS AND ADVISORS -- PART I: PROCESSING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF AGGREGATED MATERIALS -- CHAPTER 1. EFFECT OF DOSING AND MIXING CONDITIONS ON FLOCCULATION BY POLYMERS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 RATE PROCESSES -- 3 EXPERIMENTAL -- 4 CONCLUSIONS -- 5 REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 2. OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEWATERING AGGREGATED COLLOIDAL MATERIALS USING SMALL DIAMETER HYDROCYCLONES -- 1. INTRODUCTION AND INDUSTRIAL SIGNIFICANCE -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES -- 3. DEWATERING OF AGGREGATED KAOLINITE -- 4. DEWATERING OF AGGREGATED ALUMINA -- 5. DESIGN OF HYDROCYCLONE NETWORKS -- 6. CONCLUSIONS -- 7. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 8. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3. USING POLYMER THEORY TO CALCULATE THE FIRST CUMULANT OF AN AGGREGATING SUSPENSION -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2.THEORY -- 3.COMPUTER SIMULATIONS -- 4.EXPERIMENTAL -- 5.RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 6.CONCLUSIONS -- 7.REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 4. CONSOLIDATION OF DEPLETION FLOCCULATED CONCENTRATED SUSPENSIONS INFLUENCE OF NON-ADSORBING POLYMER CONCENTRATION -- INTRODUCTION -- 2. MATERIALS AND METHODS -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 5. Interface Chemistry for Optimized Sludge Dewatering in Wastewater Treatment -- 1. Introduction -- II. Experimental -- III. Results and Discussion -- IV. Summary -- References -- CHAPTER 6. Dispersity and Stability of Ultra-fine Ammonium Perchlorate Particles in Liquid Media -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental methods -- 3. Experimental results and discussion -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER 7. On the disintegration of submicron agglomerates -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental -- 3. Results and Discussion -- 4. Conclusion -- 5. Acknowledgement -- 6. References. , PART II: DEVELOPMENTS IN INSTRUMENTATION FOR MONITORING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF DISPERSIONS -- CHAPTER 8. TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING OF PHASE BOUNDARIES IN MULTI-COMPONENT PROCESSES -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CASE STUDY - MULTI-COMPONENT FLOW MEASUREMENT -- 3. VECTOR VELOCITY MEASUREMENT - APPLICATION TO COMPONENT MASS FLOW MEASUREMENT -- 4. DISCUSSION -- 5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 6. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 9. A SEDIMENTATION ANALYSER SUITABLE FOR OPAQUE DISPERSIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SEDIMENTATION MONITORING SYSTEMS -- 3. A NOVEL SEDIMENTATION ANALYSER -- 4. CONCLUSION -- 5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 6. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 10. IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY MEASUREMENTS USING LASER-DOPPLER TECHNIQUES -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. MATERIAL -- 3. MEASUREMENT OF AN ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY -- 4. CORRECTING MOBILITY SPECTRA FOR BROADENING DUE TO DIFFUSION -- 5. HOMODYNE AND HETERODYNE MOBILITY MEASUREMENTS -- 6. CONCLUSIONS -- 7. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 11. NOVEL ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUE FOR CMC AND SELF-DIFFUSION STUDIES OF THE MICELLES -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL METHODS -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 4. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 12. MONITORING THE AMOUNT OF MICROGEL STRUCTURES IN AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS OF IONIC AND NON - IONIC POLYMERS, USING THE ELECTRICAL SENSING ZONE TECHNIQUE. -- 1. INTRODUCTION. -- 2. MICROGELS IN GELATIN -- 3. MATERIALS & -- METHODS -- 4. RESULTS -- 5. POLYVINYLALCOHOL -- 6. CONCLUSIONS -- 7. REFERENCES -- PART III: CONTROLLED PARTICLE FORMATION TECHNOLOGIES -- CHAPTER 13. NUCLEATION AND CRYSTALLIZATION PHENOMENA HOSTED IN EMULSIONS. APPLICATION TO MICROPARTICLE FORMATION -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF THE SOLIDIFICATION OF DROPLETS MADE OF A PURE COMPOUND -- 3. SOLIDIFICATION OF PURE COMPOUND DROPLETS. EMULSION TECHNIQUE -- 4. SOLIDIFICATION OF DROPLETS MADE OF TWO COMPOUNDS -- 5. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES. , CHAPTER 14. FORMATION AND SURFACE ENGINEERING OF MAGNETIC POLYMER BEADS FOR LARGE SCALE BIO-PROCESS APPLICATIONS -- 1. PROCESS APPLICATIONS FOR MAGNETIC CARRIER TECHNOLOGY -- 2. DESIGN OF MAGNETIC CARRIERS -- 3. ENZYME PROCESSING -- 4. CONCLUSIONS AND THE FUTURE OF MAGNETOPROCESSING -- 5. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 15. A HYDROTHERMAL METHOD PRODUCE TITANATE POWDERS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- 5. REFERNECES -- CHAPTER 16. A HYDROTHERMAL METHOD TO PRODUCE BARIUM FERRITE POWDERS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL METHODS -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- 5. REFERENCE -- CHAPTER 17. SURFACE MODIFICATION OF ULTRA-FINE AMMONIUM PERCHLORATE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON PROPELLANT PROPERTIES -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 3. IMPLICATIONS FOR PROPELLANTS TECHNOLOGY -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- 5. BIBLIOGRAPHY -- PART IV: MINERAL AND INORGANIC COLLOIDS - MICRO AND MACROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION METHODS -- CHAPTER 18. THE DETERMINATION OF SURFACE TENSION PARAMETERS OF POWDERS BY THIN LAYER WICKING -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 BACKGROUND -- 3 EXPERIMENTAL -- 4 RESULTS -- 5 CONCLUSIONS -- 6 REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 19. AFFINITY OF NITROGEN FOR THE SURFACE OF TALC. RELATION TO THE NATURAL HYDROPHOBICITY OF THIS MINERAL -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL DETAILS. -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- 5. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 20. MICRO-ELECTROPHORESIS OF HOMOIONIC ILLITES. -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL -- 3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- 5. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 21. FACTORS EFFECTING COLLOID STABILITY OF CONCENTRATED MIXED AQUEOUS DISPERSIONS OF TITANUM DIOXIDE / CARBON-BLACK / POLYVINYLALCOHOL -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. MATERIALS AND METHODS. , 3. THE PREPARATION OF A STABLE TiO2 IN PVA BASIC DISPERSION WITH A HIGH DEGREE OF DISPERSION AND A SIMPLE FORMULATION -- 4. CARBON-BLACK DISPERSIONS IN PVA -- 5. The mixed TiO2 - carbon black / PVA dispersion -- 6. CONCLUSIONS -- 7. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 22. Electrokinetic Surface Investigations - An Important Technique For Ceramic Powder Processing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental -- 3. Results and Discussion -- 4. Summary -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 23. RHEOLOGICAL STUDY OF BLENDS OF LAPONITE AND POLYMERIC THICKENERS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL METHODS -- 3. RESULTS -- 4. DISCUSSION -- 5. REFERENCES -- PART V: MEASUREMENT AND SIMULATION OF COMPLEX COLLOIDAL PROCESSES -- CHAPTER 24. MODELLING THE PHYSICS OF FOAM -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. LIQUID FOAMS -- 3. THEORETICAL MODEL -- 4. ELEMENTARY CONSEQUENCES OF THE MODEL -- 5. SIMULATION -- 6. RESULTS -- 7. FURTHER EXTENSIONS OF THE MODEL -- 8. CONCLUSIONS -- 9. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 10. APPENDIX -- 11. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 25. TOWARDS THE ANIMATION OF COLLOIDAL PARTICLE-PARTICLE AND PARTICLE-SURFACE INTERACTIONS IN VARIOUS FORCE FIELDS USING A SUPERCOMPUTER -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SIMULATION STRATEGIES -- 3. DISPERSION BEHAVIOUR IN A QUIESCENT VESSEL -- 4. DISPERSION BEHAVIOUR IN A PARALLEL PLATE FLOW CHAMBER -- 5. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE TRENDS -- 6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- 7. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 26. COEXISTENT PHASES IN OIL-IN-WATER EMULSIONS FLOCCULATED BY POLYSACCHARIDE -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 MATERIALS AND METHODS -- 3. THEORY OF CREAMING OR SEDIMENTATION -- 4 RESULTS -- 5 DISCUSSION -- 6. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 27. STREAMING POTENTIAL MEASUREMENTS OF FILMS AND FIBERS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE ELECTROCHEMICAL DOUBLE LAYER -- 3. METHODS TO DETERMINE THE ZETA-POTENTIAL -- 4. THE ELECTROKINETIC ANALYZER -- 5. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. , 6. CHARACTERISATION OF POLYMERIC SURFACES -- 7. FINAL REMARKS -- 8. REFERENCES -- PART VI: ADVANCES AND PROBLEMS IN MICRON AND SUB-MICRON SIZING TECHNIQUES -- CHAPTER 28. COMPARATIVE PARTICLE SIZE MEASUREMENTS USING THE ELECTRICAL SENSING ZONE AND LASER DIFFRACTION METHODS: A COLLABORATIVE STUDY -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL METHODS -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- 5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 6. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 29. PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF BIMODALS : A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SUBMICRON SIZING INSTRUMENTATION -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. MATERIALS AND METHODS. -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 4. CONCLUSION -- 5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 6. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 30. MAXIMUM ENTROPY INVERSION OF STATIC LIGHT SCATTERING DATA FOR THE PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION BY NUMBER AND VOLUME -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. DATA ANALYSIS OF SLS MEASUREMENTS -- 3. EXPERIMENTAL -- 4. RESULTS -- 5. CONCLUSION -- 6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 7. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 31. COMPARISON OF METHODS FOR HIGH RESOLUTION SUB-MICRON SIZING BY QUASI-ELASTIC LIGHT SCATTERING (PCS) -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. MATERIAL -- 3. DESCRIPTION OF ANALYSIS METHODS -- 4. COMPARISON OF ANALYSES -- 5. CONCLUSIONS -- 6. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 32. NON-INVASIVE PARTICLE SIZE MEASUREMENT USING DIELECTRIC SEDIMENTATION SENSORS: A COMPARISON WITH ELECTRICAL SENSING ZONE AND ANDREASEN METHODS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE -- 3. RESULTS -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- 5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 6. REFERENCES.

Note: Intro -- Front Cover -- Vacuum Technology and Applications -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 General -- 1.2 The gaseous state -- 1.3 Gas flow -- 1.4 Vacuum system characteristics -- References -- Chapter 2. Vacuum pumps (rough-medium range) -- 2.1 General introduction -- 2.2 Rotary pumps -- 2.3 Roots vacuum pumps -- 2.4 Dry vacuum pumps -- References -- Chapter 3. Vacuum pumps (high-ultra-high range) -- 3·1 General introduction -- 3.2 Gas transfer pumps -- 3.3 Entrapment pumps -- References -- Chapter 4. Pressure measurement -- 4.1 Total pressure measurement -- 4.2 Partial pressure measurement -- References -- Chapter 5. Leak detection -- 5.1 Introduction and principles -- 5.2 Halogen leak detector -- 5.3 Helium-specific mass spectrometer leak detector -- 5.4 Calibrated leaks -- 5.5 Practical aspects of leak detection on vacuum plants -- References -- Chapter 6. Vacuum system construction -- 6.1 Materials and fabrication -- 6.2 Components -- References -- Chapter 7. Applications -- 7.1 Deposition of thin Alms -- 7.2 Vacuum technology in the semiconductor industry -- 7.3 Vacuum technology in metallurgical processes -- 7.4 Vacuum technology in the chemical industry -- References -- Chapter 8. Appendix: units, conversion factors and other data -- 8.1 Units of pressure -- 8.2 Amount of substance -- 8.3 PNEUROP specifications for the characterization of vacuum pumps -- Index.

Note: Front Cover -- Frontiers of Materials Research / Electronic and Optical Materials -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- COMMITTEES OF C-MRS INRERNATIONAL'90 CONFERENCES -- PART 1: FRONTIERS OF MATERIALS RESEARCH -- Chapter 1. A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE POLICY OF THE CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES -- I.TRENDS AND PERSPECTIVES OF THE WORLD SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENT -- II. BASIC FACTS ABOUT CHINA -- Chapter 2. RECENT ADVANCE OF FOCUSED ION BEAM TECHNOLOGY IN JAPAN -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. ACTIVITY IN JAPAN -- 3. APPLICATIONS OF FIB -- 4. Summary -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3. NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN INTERMETALLIC COMPOUNDS IN WEST GERMANY -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2 . LIGHTWEIGHT ALLOYS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4. NON STOICHIOMETRY IN PEROVSKTTE-TYPE OXIDES: INFLUENCE OF THE ELECTRONIC CONFIGURATION ON FORMATION OF EXTENDED DEFECTS -- 1) Cation vacancies -- 2) Oxygen deficiency -- 3) Structures related to perovskite-type -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5. PROGRESS IN POLYMER PROCESSING -- 1 . INTRODUCTION -- 2. FLOW-INDUCED MORPHOLOGY -- 3. COMPOUNDING -- 4. EXTRUSION -- 5. INJECTION MOLDING -- 6. OTHER PROCESSING METHODS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6. AUTOMOBILE EXHAUST EMISSION CONTROL BY CATALYSTS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. HISTORY -- 3. CATALYST SUPPORTS AND CATALYST PREPARATION -- 4. CURRENT RESEARCH -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7. ORDERED INTERMETALLIC COMPOUNDS, 1916-1990 -- 1. INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL OUTLINE -- 2. MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF INTERMETALLICS -- 3. HIGH-TEMPERATURE INTERMETALLICS -- 4. THE FUTURE -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8. COMPUTER APPLICATIONS TO MATERIALS SCIENCE -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. AB INITIO CALCULATIONS -- 3. ALLOYS AND MATERIALS -- 4. ATOMIC STATIC MECHANICS -- 5. MOLECULAR DYNAMICS -- 6. MONTE CARLO METHOD -- 7. INTERACTION POTENTIAL -- 8. OTHERS. , 9. EXAMPLES OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS TO MATERIALS SCIENCE -- 10. CONCLUSIONS -- References -- Chapter 9. TRIBOLOGY OF CERAMICS -TRIBOCHEMISTRY AND LOW FRICTION -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. FRICTION COEFFICIENT IN UNLUBRICATED SLIDING -- 3. FRICTION COEFFICIENTS OF DIAMOND/DIAMOND PAIR AND DIAMOND/CERAMIC PAIR IN AIR -- 4. FRICTION COEFFICIENT OF CERAMIC/CERAMIC PAIR IN AIR AND IN WATER -- 5. P-V MAP FOR CERAMICS IN WATER -- 6. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10. FIBRE REINFORCED COMPOSITES - A SOLUTION FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE, ENERGY SAVING AND POLLUTION DECREASE IN THE ENVIRONMENT -- I. NATURE AS A MODEL FOR ANISOTROPIC MATERIALS -- II. THE REINFORCEMENT FIBRES AND MATRICES -- III. THE CHALLENGE FOR CARBON FIBRE COMPOSITES -- IV. COMPOSITES FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE -- V. SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11. CURRENT RESEARCH TRENDS O N STRUCTURAL CERAMICS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. NANOSCALED CERAMICS -- 3. MULTIPHASED CERAMICS -- 4. DESIGN AND TAILORING OF CERAMIC MATERIALS -- 5. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 12. HIGH Tc SUPERCONDUCTORS RESEARCH IN CHINA -- 1. BULK MATERIALS -- 2. HIGH Tc OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTING COMPOSITE -- 3. THIN FILMS -- 4. MATERIAL SCIENCE OF HTS -- 5. HIGH Tc OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 13. SOME FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS OF NANOCOMPOSITE MATERIALS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. LOW DIMENSIONALITY OF MATTER -- 3. BASIC CHARACTERISTICS .OF NANOCOMPOSITE MATERIALS -- 4. MATERIALS DESIGNING OF NANOCOMPOSITES -- 5. PREPARATION OF NANOCOMPOSITES -- 6. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 14. OXYGEN-RELATED DONOR STATES IN CZOCHRALSKI SILICON+ -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THERMAL DONORS -- 3. EXPERIMENTAL DATA ON NEW DONORS -- 4. A NEW STRUCTURAL MODEL OF THE ND CENTER -- 5. SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 15. ON THE BIONIC DESIGN OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS -- 1 . INTRODUCTION. , 2 . GOALS TO BE REACHED IN DIFFERENT STAGES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS1 -- 3 . THE COMPOSITE STRUCTURAL AN ALYSIS OF BIO-MATERIALS -- 4. THE BIONIC DESIGN OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS IN LIGHT OF REGULARITIES OF THE NATURE -- 5 . CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 16. HYDROTHERMAL CERAMIC VERY FINE POWDERS - OVERVIEW -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. POWDERS -- 3. SSG DEFINITIONS (R. Roy) -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 17. SOME ADVANCES IN X-RAY ANALYSIS OF THIN FILMS -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. The Modified Laue Pattern Analysis Method -- III. The Seemann-Bohlin method -- IV. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 18. DEVELOPMENT OF ALUMINUM-LITHIUM ALLOYS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. ROLE OF δ' PHASE -- 3. FUNCTIONS OF ALLOYING ELEMENTS -- 4. ENHANCEMENT OF CRYOGENIC MECHANICAL PROPERTIES -- 5. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 19. RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS OF SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS IN CHINA -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE GRAIN REFINING OF SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS -- 3. PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS IN β-PHASE DURING COOLING AND HEATING -- 4. CRYSTAL DEFECTS OF MARTENSITE IN Cu-BASE SMAs -- 5. THE STABILIZATION OF MARTENSITE IN Cu-BASE SMAs -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 20. MATERIALS ASPECTS, ESPECIALLY LATTICE DEFECTS ASPECTS OF COLD NUCLEAR FUSION -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE PRESENT STATUS OF COLD NUCLEAR FUSION -- 3. DYNAMIC PROCESSES -- 4. PROPOSAL OF NEW MECHANISMS -- 5. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 21. RESONANCE IONIZATION SPECTROSCOPY AND ITS APPLICATION IN MATERIAL SCIENCE -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. RIS, RIMS and SIRIS -- 3. EXPERIMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 22. SEARCH, CRYSTAL GROWTH AND APPLICATION OF ACOUSTOOPTIC MATERIALS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SEARCH FOR NEW CRYSTALS -- 3. GROWTH AND DEFECTS OF AO CRYSTALS -- 4. DEVICES FABRICATION AND APPLICATION -- 5. FUTURE TRENDS -- REFERENCES. , Chapter 23. A DISCUSSION OF IDEAL GLASS AND REAL GLASS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTALS -- 3. DISCUSSION -- 4. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 24. TRENDS IN MEMBRANE SEPARATION MATERIALS RESEARCH -- I. INTRODUCTION -- 2. MICROFILTRATION AND ULTRAFILTRATION ΜEMBRANES -- 3. REVERSE OSMOSIS -- 4. CHARGE MOSAIC MEMBRANE FOR PIEZODIALYSIS -- 5. GAS SEPARATION MEMBRANES -- 6. PERVAPORATION MEMBRANE -- 7. MEMBRANE DISTILLATION MATERIALS -- Chapter 25. MICROSTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT OF SILICON NITRIDE CERAMICS AND THE EFFECT ON THEIR MECHANICAL PROPERTIES -- ABSTRACT -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. MICROSTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT -- III. MECHANICAL PROPERTIES -- IV. SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 26. DEVELOPMENT OF PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR FLEXIBLE COMPOSITES -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. FIBER and MATRIX MATERIALS -- 3. MOLD DESIGN and MANUFACTURE -- 4. MANUFACTURE PROCESS -- 5. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 27. FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS FOR APPLICATIONS IN THE 1990S (Abstract) -- Chapter 28. PLASMA PROCESSING FOR ADVANCED THIN FIIM TECHNOLOGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY (Abstract) -- Chapter 29. THE PROSPECTS FOR MOLECULAR ENGINEERING IN INORGANIC MATERIALS OF NLO CRYSTALS (Abstract) -- PART 2: HIGH Tc SUPERCONDUCTORS -- Chapter 30. A NEW METHOD FOR QUANTITATIVE STUDY OF FLUX PINNING IN TYPE II SUPERCONDUCTORS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. MOTION EQUATION OF FLUX AND ENERGY DISSIPATION OF MOVING FLUX -- 3. CALCULATION OF FLUX PINNING FORCE -- 4. DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 31. EFFECT OF OXYGEN PARTIAL PRESSURE ON THE PROPERTIES OF SUPERCONDUCTING Nd1˖ 85Ce0 . 15CuOx -- 1 . INTRODUCTION -- 2 . EXPERIMENT AND DISCUSSION -- 3 . CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 32. STUDY OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY IN YBa2(Cu1-xMx)3 O7--d (M=Ni, Co) WITH d=0 AND d=1 -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. EXPERIMENTAL. , III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS -- IV. SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 33. STUDY OF THE GROWTH PROCESS OF LARGE SIZE BSCCO CRYSTALS -- 1 . INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL AND RESULTS -- 3. DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 34. THE INFLUENCE OF Sr/Ca RATIO ON THE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY OF Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O CRYSTALS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL AND RESULTS -- 3. DISCUSSION -- REFRENCE -- Chapter 35. SYNTHESIS OF HOMOGENEOUS HIGH Tc SUPERCONDUCTORS BY OXIDATION OF RAPIDLY QUENCHED ALLOY PRECURSORS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE -- 3. RESULTS -- 4. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 36. STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF Bi-BASED SUPERCONDUCTING COMPOUNDS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2 . EXPERIMENTAL -- 3. RESULTS -- 4. SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 37. ON THE SINGLE CRYSTAL OF Pb-DOPED Bi2Sr2CuOx: GROWTH AND EFFECT OF OXYGEN VACANCIES -- 1 . INTRODUCTION -- 2 . EXPERIMENT -- 3 . Discussion -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 38. ELASTICITY STUDY ON PHASELIKE TRANSITION IN Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O MONOCRYSTAL AND POLYCRYSTAL -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTS -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 39. STUDY OF 130K HIGH-Tc SUPERCONDUCTOR OF Bi-Pb-Sb-Ca-Cu-O -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SUPERCONDUCTING PROPERTIES -- 3 . SAMPLES MICROSTRUCTURE -- 4. Discussion -- 5. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 40. PREPARATION OF HIGH Tc Pb-DOPED Bi-BASED SUPERCONDUCTOR FROM AMORPHOUS SOLID AND FORMATION OF SUPERCONDUCTING PHASE -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL PROCESS -- 3. RESULTS AND DISSCUSSION -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 41. FABRICATION AND PROPERTIES OF HIGH Jc Y-Ba-Cu-O SUPERCONDUCTOR BY (MTG) PROCESS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES. , Chapter 42. SUPERCONDUCTIVITY, STRUCTURE AND OXYGEN DEFICIENCY IN THE Ba2YCu2WOy SYSTEM.