Providing thermochemistry notes in an easy to understand text as complimentary material to more complex books. It also provide students and those beginning in the field with several application examples used in different areas of materials processing. The book presents fully solved problems, some quite often found in major metallurgical operations.

This book presents the proceedings of one of the major conferences in fatigue, fracture and structural integrity (NT2F). fatigue and fracture in pressure vessels and pipelines: mechanical behavior and structural integrity of welded, bonded and bolted joints;