Understanding Materials Science: History, Properties, Applications

✍ Scribed by Rolf E. Hummel

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 455
• Edition: 2nd
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

 This introduction to materials science for engineers examines not only the physical and engineering properies of materials, but also their history, uses, development, and some of the implications of resource depletion, materials substitutions, and so forth. Topics covered include: the stone, copper, bronze, and iron ages; physical properties of metals, ceramics, and plastics; electrical and magnetic properties of metals, semiconductors, and insulators; band structure of metals; metallurgy of iron.

This new edition includes new developments in the last five years, updated graphs and other dated information and references.

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