- Materials Science: A Multimedia Approach CD-ROM included
Product Description
This text provides an understanding of the relationship between structure, processing, and properties of materials. By selecting the appropriate topics from this wealth of material, instructors can emphasize metals, provide a general overview of materials, concentrate on mechanical behavior, or focus on physical properties. Since the book has more material than is needed for a one-semester course, students will also have a useful reference for subsequent courses in … More >>
The Science & Engineering of Materials
Tags: course students, Engineering, Materials, materials science, mechanical behavior, Metals, multimedia approach, properties of materials, Science, science engineering, semester course
I ordered this from Amazon because of the next day shipping option, and it was worth it because it really did come the day after I ordered it (just in time for class!). The book was brand new and still in shrink wrap.
Rating: 5 / 5
The book contains all the information you need to know on materials. Information is provided in a well-organized format that readers will understand the materials structure, processing and property relationships. Although the book tend to focus on mostly metal-alloy, polymers, ceramics, composite and electronics materials were also included. The book is very good reference book for anybody who are involved with materials.
Rating: 5 / 5
Inside Front Cover: The characteristic exponent of ten for the speed of light, c, should be +8 or 8 and not -8. For the Fe-C phase diagram the labels of ‘steel’and ‘cast iron’ on the %carbon-x-axis are reversed in position from what they should be. Polymer Chapter: ‘PET’ usually stands for poly-ethylene-terephthalate and not poly-ester although the first is maybe a type of the second. This might be a matter of different diciplines but ‘PAN’ here is said to mean poly-acrylic-nitrile while in the environmental field it means peroxy-acetyl-nitrate.
Rating: 2 / 5
Pretty good coverage of material, but not written in such a manner as to keep my attention.
Rating: 3 / 5
The material is presented as if you already have a strong chemical background. What information is there stops short of explaining it in any type of useful manner. It certainly is not practical information. I purchased it as a Supplier Quality Engineer of Gray Iron Castings and walked away with little that I could use in the REAL world. Metallurgists that I work with confirmed this. The professor of the college course in Material Science discontinued using this book because his student were walking away with very little and he was only referring to this $180 book sporadically as to not confuse the students. Save your money.
Rating: 1 / 5