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| Author(s): | M. Philip and W. Bolton |
| Publisher: | Butterworth-Heinemann |
| ISBN: | 0750656433 |
| Format: | softback |
| 471pp | |
| Price: | £21.99 |
| Review Date: | 13 September 2002 |
| Review: | This textbook for first-year engineering students covers all aspects of engineering materials. After an introduction to the properties, sources of data on, and testing of materials, the authors look at the basic structure of materials, and how atoms and molecules can be arranged as solids, leading to the structure of metals, alloys, polymers, and ceramics. Consideration of the charge carriers leads to the development of models to describe electrical and magnetic properties. Individual chapters are devoted to alloys, and polymers, ceramics and composites. In choosing a material for a particular purpose, the methods used to form the product need to be considered and the book looks at the commonly-used methods for forming and joining materials. The failure mechanisms by direct fracture, fatigue and creep are also discussed. |