Annotation Papers from a November 2002 meeting report on innovations for the changing textile industry, textile composites, and theories and modeling in textile engineering. Some specific topics include production and characterization of yarns and fabrics utilizing turkey feather fibers, mechanical properties of square braided fabric, deformation fields in woven composite plates under impact, mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes, and nonlinear deformation of woven fabrics. There is no subject index. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Annotation These 50 papers from the November 2002 conference in New Orleans represent recent advances in materials processing science, damage mechanics, and the mechanics of granular materials. They also discuss: electric and magnetic phenomena in micro and nano-scale systems; design and manufacture of composites; and, the processing, characterization, and modeling of novel nanoengineering and surface engineered materials. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Annotation This is the first of two volumes representing the proceedings of the July 2002 conference, and it is itself in two volumes (parts A & B). Approximately 400 papers discuss analysis, numerical methods, experiments in single-phase and multiphase flows, and applications. Topics include high speed jet flows; fluid measurement, instrumentation and machinery; cavitation and multiphase flow; advances in free surface and interface fluid dynamics; CFD applications in large facilities and in automotive flows; turbulent, vehicular, unsteady, three-dimensional, and environmental flows; supersonic flows in shock waves; fluidics; advances in fluids engineering education; flow instabilities and control; fundamentals and industrial applications; and wavelet application in fluid mechanics. There is no subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).