Category: Engineering
Created by: Naveed
Number of Blossarys: 5
Smart materials are designed materials that have one or more properties that can be significantly changed in a controlled fashion by external stimuli, such as stress, temperature, moisture, pH, ...
A refractory material is one that retains its strength at high temperatures.Refractory materials are used in linings for furnaces, kilns, incinerators and reactors. They are also used to make ...
Materials composed of large molecules generally based on carbon,that have been formed from the chemical bonding of monomers.Monomers are small units which repeats to form polymers.They are commonly ...
Materials composed of large molecules, generally based on carbon, that have been formed from the chemical bonding of smaller units (monomers). Monomers are small units which repeats itself to form ...
Piezoelectric materials are materials that generate electrical voltage in response to applied mechanical stress (direct piezoelectric effect) and that change shape when electrical voltage is applied ...
A material which is transparent to light or to infrared, ultraviolet, or x-ray radiation, such as glass and certain single crystals, polycrystalline materials (chiefly for the infrared), and ...
Nuclear material refers to the metals uranium, plutonium, and thorium in any form.These types of materials are used to gain energy or atomic nuclear weapons.
By: Naveed