Microstructure and Properties of High-Temperature Superconductors
By: by I. A. Parinov
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Edition: 2nd ed. 2012.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 779
ISBN-13: 9783642344411
Subjects: Building materials; Structural analysis (Engineering); Numerical and Computational Physics; Mechanical engineering; Superconductivity Strongly Correlated Systems; Optical and Electronic Materials; Optical materials; Materials; Physics
Description: The main features of high-temperature superconductors (HTSC) that define their properties are intrinsic brittleness of oxide cuprates, the layered anisotropic structure and the supershort coherence length. Taking into account these features, this treatise presents research into HTSC microstructure and properties, and also explores the possibilities of optimization of the preparation techniques and superconducting compositions. The "composition-technique-experiment-theory-model," employed here, assumes considerable HTSC defectiveness and structure heterogeneity and helps to draw a comprehensive picture of modern representations of the microstructure, strength and the related structure-sensitive properties of the materials considered. Special attention is devoted to the Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O and Y-Ba-Cu-O families, which currently offer the most promising applications. Including a great number of illustrations and references, this monograph addresses students, post-graduate students and specialists, taking part in the development, preparation and research of new materials. The new edition has been updated intensively, especially experimental investigations and modeling conductive and elastic properties of HTC superconductors have been added.
Table of contents: title: Superconductors and Superconductivity: General Issues; title: High-Temperature Superconductors: Overview; title: Composition Features and HTSC Preparation Techniques; title: Experimental Investigations of HTSC; title: Carbon Problem; title: General Aspects of HTSC Modeling.- Modeling of BSCCO Systems and Composites; title: Modeling of YBCO Oxide Superconductors; title: Modeling Conductive and Elastic Properties of Superconductive Composites.- Computer Simulation of HTSC Microstructure and Toughening Mechanisms; title: Mechanical Destructions of HTSC Josephson Junctions and Composites; title: Modeling of Electromagnetic and Superconducting Properties of HTSC; title: Classification of Superconductors; title: Finite Element Implementation of Carbon-Induced Embrittlement Model; title: Macrostructure Modeling of Heat Conduction; title: Computational Algorithms for Definition of Structure-Sensitive Properties of some HTSC Ceramics and Composites; title: Eden Model.            <b> </b>                   .