Microgravity Book

Section headings and selected papers. Materials Research Under Microgravity. Results of Materials Sciences Experiments in Space. Immiscible alloys under microgravity conditions, L Ratke. Mass diffusion in liquids, H U Walter. Ground-Based Studies. A space instrument for fundamental materials science problems: the Mephisto Program, A Rouzaud et al. The Japanese FMPT and related ground experiments - material experiments aspects, T Nishinaga. Utilization Studies. Planning for the scientific use of the international space station complex, R E Halpern. ESA microgravity payloads for the 1990s, G Seibert. Fluid Physics and Materials Sciences in Space. Measurement of surface temperature in microgravity experimentation - problems and solutions, R Monti & G Mannara. A new module for the CSK-1 crystallizer: thermographic DTA probe for the study of metastable phase equilibria under microgravity conditions, C Barta et al. The optical bidirectional accelerometer, O Dupont & J C Legros. Payload design for microgravity science in the context of space materials research in Mexico, R Peralta-Fabi & F J Mendieta-Jimenez. Eutectic solidification of Al-Cu alloys influenced by convection, N V Stoichev et al. Time-dependent dynamical behaviour of surface tension on rotating fluids under microgravity environment, R J Hung et al. Forces acting on a foreign particle near a solidification front, M A Azouni & W Kalita. Convective motions in liquid metals for material processings. Numerical simulation of oscillation regimes and effect of rotation, J P Fontaine et al. Author Index.