Bøger af John W. Evans

The transition to lead-free solders seems to be a foregone conclusion with Japan and Europe leading the way. Indeed some key companies will move to lead free soon and the WEEE Directive 2002/96/EC on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment will require all companies doing business in the EU to transition to lead-free. Compliance with forthcoming lead-free regulations will ultimately fall to individual companies and the engineers responsible for design and prod- tion of electronic products and they must be prepared with adequate knowledge of the materials that are leading candidates and they must be prepared to fill the gaps in the data base for their own products. Research worldwide over the past 10 years has produced data and direction for choosing an alloy to substitute for near-eutectic SnPb alloys. This book will provide a valuable resource for engineers involved in the transition to products. Basic theory is presented on the physical metallurgy of soldering technology including elements of assembly, surface finishes and solder-paste technology, wetting and solidification, microstructural instability and intermetallic c- pounds and mechanical, creep and fatigue behavior. Techniques for measuring and testing are discussed and data on SnPb and various lead-free solders are presented and compared. If lead-free solder data are not available on the re- vant topic, information is presented on near-eutectic SnPb, so as to show where the gaps in knowledge need to be filled.

The author was twenty-nine years old and his wife, Katie, was thirty. They had met in the Peace Corps in Bangladesh, taught in Chicago, studied in Miami, and were working for a year in Romania when they set off with friends to hike into the Carpathian Mountains. This book tells his life story.

In this candid and moving memoir, John W. Evans articulates the complicated joys of falling in love again as a young widower. Should I Still Wish chronicles Evans' efforts to leave an intense year of grief behind, to make peace with the natural world again, and to reconnect with a woman who promises a life of abundance and charm.