Ioan CURTU, Dana LUCA MOTOC

Micromechanics of Composite Materials (in Romanian language)

PUBLISHED IN:
Editura Universitatii "Transilvania", Brasov, 2009
ISBN 978-973-598-469-4, 84 pg.

For orders, please contact the author at the following address:
curtui@unitbv.ro, danaluca@unitbv

     The subject approached in this book was a challenge for the authors and the natural consequence of their interest concerning composite materials, focused mainly on their characterization and properties identification. The subject was developed starting from who, what and how influence/modifies the material characteristics viewed at the microscopic level.
     The book was not built around a mathematical formalism or theory, its authors aiming to provide to mechanical engineers, students and other specialists interested in this subject area numerous more or less known analytical models, to aid material properties evaluation and prediction, based on the natural assumption that in a restless world there is not enough time "to study", "to read" or "to search".

Alin M. OLARESCU

Sustainable Value-Added Branch Wood (in Romanian language)

PUBLISHED IN:
Editura Universitatii "Transilvania", Brasov, 2009
ISBN 978-973-598-534-9, 289 pg.

For orders, please contact the author at the following address:
a.olarescu@unitbv.ro

     Today the knowledge of structuring new materials by adding value to secondary resources represents a world priority, within the "more from less" concept. In a knowledge based society, research becomes the foundation of new technologies, and this is why any approach of this subject has to start from fundamental research regarding the specific potential, characteristics and constraints of secondary resources.
     The book has six chapters where the characteristics of this resource, the history as well as the theoretical and experimental model of adding value to resinous branch wood are presented. The author's proposal are new eco-panels with cross-cut texture, whose properties were tested according to European standards.
     The good results of these tests, together with the aesthetic qualities, confirm the initial hypothesis that using eco-panels with crosscut texture in furniture design is a successful idea.