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[November 2003]
Pocket Manual of Refractory Materials
Vulkan Verlag, a member company of the Oldenbourg-Gruppe in Germany, has announced the publication of the fully updated second edition of its 'Pocket Manual Refractory Materials', edited by Gerald Routschka and translated by Loren Mark Hammersley.
The book aims to provide in a compact format basic knowledge and practically oriented information on specific properties of refractory materials, on their testing and inspection and on interpretation of test results. Tables and illustrations are used to clarify fundamental concepts on a comparative basis.
Six years after the book's first appearance, this second, fully updated English language edition now includes innovations and advances achieved in the intervening period and thus reflects the contemporary state of the art. The pocket-manual format provides an overview of the diverse range of modern refractories and their application-relevant properties.
Its main feature is a series of practice-derived articles by well known authors in the field on the various material groups and their characteristic property data. The content has deliberately been kept concise and instructive, with abstracting and more detailed works being referenced.
The book (ISBN 3-8027-3154-9) is in plastic covered DIN A6 format, runs to 512 pages and is available at a cost of €45.
www.oldenbourg.de/vulkan-verlag/
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