With pow»r demands Increasing and natural power sources decreasing it becomes more and more essential to attain maximum efficiency in the conversion of fuel into useable power. The advent of controlled nuclear power, ...

Some thirty or forty years ago, design engineers began to increase temperatures and pressures for the operation of power generating and similar equipment. They discovered that marked economies resulted in this evolution.

Since the first observation of the ability of a material to absorb vibrational energy, engineers and physicists have looked upon this property as the possible key to the behavior of materials under dynamic loading ...

The rapid progress made in the field of semiconductors since the invention of the transistor seven years ago has widely broadened our theoretical knowledge in the field and greatly increased the potentialities of these devices. ...