This book uncovers the mysterious social and political structures of China's "Third Front," the large state-sponsored development of inland China during the late Maoist period. This movement gave birth to a few important industrial bases such as Panzhihua and Liupanshui and had significant...

Additively manufactured superalloys have attracted increasing attention due to their inherent hierarchical microstructure, however are plagued by anisotropic properties originated from columnar grains. In this work, scandium was introduced as an oxide dispersion strengthener (ODS) into the...