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Property measurements at high temperatures
BOOK NOTES PROPERTY MEASUREMENTS AT HIGH TEMPERATURES, by W. D. Kingery. 416 pages, diagrams, 7 X 10. New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1959. Price, $16.50. The subtitle--Factors Affecting and Methods of Measuring Material Properties at Temperatures above 1400°C (2550°F) - indicates the scope of this work. Although an introduction to the study, the book is intended for use on the graduate level or above. Each chapter opens with a section defining terms and reviewing fundamentM concepts which were presumably learned in prior courses. Fourteen chapters cover measurement in general (with descriptions of instruments and techniques), laboratory refractories and furnaces, heat conduction and radiation, density and thermal expansion, and properties of solids at high temperatures. References at the end of each chapter are quite complete, and are divided into subjects related to the material in the chapter. The final chapter, Surface Energy, deals with high temperature surface phenomena, covering measurements of liquid surface tension and solid surface tension. This well written and well organized work should prove a most useful reference for the increasing number of students and scientists interested in research on high temperature phenomena. It is the first book to compare the different techniques of high temperature measurement.
FUELS AND LUBRICANTS, by Milosh Popovich and Carl Hering. 312 pages, illustrations, 51 X 9 in. New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1959. Price, $8.50. In contrast to most books on fuels and lubricants, this one emphasizes performance characteristics and the significance of standard tests, rather t h a n production. Prepared as a college text, the book is also useful to men in the industry. Thirteen chapters cover solid fuels, gaseous fuels, gasoline, lubricating oils, solid lubricants, rocket propellants and
nuclear fuels, as well as such general topics as calorimetry, organic chemistry, petroleum refining, and residual fuels A useful syllabus of tests (both ASTM standards and Federal Test Method Standard 791) is included, with a summary of each test method.
ANALYSIS OF PIPE STRUCTURES FOR FLEXIBILITY, by John Gascoyne. 181 pages, diagrams, 7 X 9] in. New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1959. Price, $7.50. This book, intended as an aid to piping designers, presents a survey of the more elementary theoretical methods for anMyzing stresses due to thermal expansion in relatively simple piping systems, and practical means for minimizing such stresses. The main analytical tool is the method of elastic centers, of which a clear exposition is given, as well as a number of completely worked-out examples. Descriptions, photographs and drawings of a variety of pipe supports, and flexible and expansion joints are shown as a help to tral~slate analytical results into workable systems. Also included are relevant excerpts from both British and American Codes and Standards, and tables of thermal properties of piping materials.
ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS HANDBOOK, edited by Keith Henney, Craig Walsh and Harry Mileaf. Vol. 3, 180 pages, diagrams, 8½ X 11 in. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1959. Price, $10.00. Designers of military and commerical electronic equipment will find in this third and final handbook in the series on electronic components, more of the factual information needed for wider use of military electronic equipment. Throughout this text, emphasis has been placed on component types where military specifications exist, b u t other types are included as well. Data are also provided on transformers, amplifiers, saturable reactors and connectors. 4I]
FUELS AND LUBRICANTS, by Milosh Popovich and Carl Hering. 312 pages, illustrations, 51 X 9 in. New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1959. Price, $8.50. In contrast to most books on fuels and lubricants, this one emphasizes performance characteristics and the significance of standard tests, rather t h a n production. Prepared as a college text, the book is also useful to men in the industry. Thirteen chapters cover solid fuels, gaseous fuels, gasoline, lubricating oils, solid lubricants, rocket propellants and
nuclear fuels, as well as such general topics as calorimetry, organic chemistry, petroleum refining, and residual fuels A useful syllabus of tests (both ASTM standards and Federal Test Method Standard 791) is included, with a summary of each test method.
ANALYSIS OF PIPE STRUCTURES FOR FLEXIBILITY, by John Gascoyne. 181 pages, diagrams, 7 X 9] in. New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1959. Price, $7.50. This book, intended as an aid to piping designers, presents a survey of the more elementary theoretical methods for anMyzing stresses due to thermal expansion in relatively simple piping systems, and practical means for minimizing such stresses. The main analytical tool is the method of elastic centers, of which a clear exposition is given, as well as a number of completely worked-out examples. Descriptions, photographs and drawings of a variety of pipe supports, and flexible and expansion joints are shown as a help to tral~slate analytical results into workable systems. Also included are relevant excerpts from both British and American Codes and Standards, and tables of thermal properties of piping materials.
ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS HANDBOOK, edited by Keith Henney, Craig Walsh and Harry Mileaf. Vol. 3, 180 pages, diagrams, 8½ X 11 in. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1959. Price, $10.00. Designers of military and commerical electronic equipment will find in this third and final handbook in the series on electronic components, more of the factual information needed for wider use of military electronic equipment. Throughout this text, emphasis has been placed on component types where military specifications exist, b u t other types are included as well. Data are also provided on transformers, amplifiers, saturable reactors and connectors. 4I]