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  title info:
    title: Understanding Materials Science
    sub title: History · Properties · Applications
  name:
    name part: Hummel, Rolf E.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2005
    edition: Second Edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (XIV, 407 pages)
  abstract: This introduction to materials science both for students of engineering and physics and for the interested general public examines not only the physical and engineering properties of virtually all kinds of materials, but also their history, uses, development, and some of the implications of resource depletion and recycling. It covers all topics on materials from an entirely novel perspective: the role materials have played throughout history in the development of humankind and technologies. Specifically, it shows the connection between the technical and the cultural, economic, ecological, and societal aspects of materials science. It aims to whet the appetite of its readers and inspire them to further explore the properties and applications of metals, alloys, ceramics, plastics, and electronic materials by presenting easily understandable explanations and entertaining historical facts. It is also intended to raise the reader's awareness of their obligations to society as practicing engineers and scientists. The new edition includes numerous additions and clarifications such as: The treatment of "high-tech ceramics" has been substantially expanded to include topics such as silicon nitride ceramics, transformation-toughened zirconia, alumina, bioceramics, cutting tools, cermets, armor, and more. A section on composite materials has been added, including fiber-reinforced, particular, and laminar composites. New trends such as "nanomaterials by severe plastic deformation," and a rendition of Moore's law have been added to the final chapter. The Economic and Environmental Considerations chapter has been rewritten and expanded to include updated statistical information on prices of materials, production figures, world reserves, consumption, and new recycling data. The iron and steel production statistics, and the gold production and consumption figures have been updated. Acclaim for the first edition of Understanding Materials Science: "Hummel tries - and succeeds - to re…
  table of contents: Mechanical Properties of Materials -- The First Materials (Stone Age and Copper-Stone Age) -- Fundamental Mechanical Properties of Materials -- Mechanisms -- The Bronze Age -- Alloys and Compounds -- Atoms in Motion -- The Iron Age -- Iron and Steel -- Degradation of Materials (Corrosion) -- Electronic Properties of Materials -- The Age of Electronic Materials -- Electrical Properties of Materials -- Magnetic Properties of Materials -- Optical Properties of Materials -- Thermal Properties of Materials -- Materials and the World -- No Ceramics Age? -- From Natural Fibers to Man-Made Plastics -- Gold -- Economic and Environmental Considerations -- What Does the Future Hold?.
  note: by Rolf E. Hummel.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Characterization and Evaluation of Materials
  subject:
    topic: Condensed Matter
  subject:
    topic: Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials
  subject:
    topic: Condensed matter
  subject:
    topic: Materials
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Surfaces (Physics)
  classification: QC173.45-173.458
  classification: 530.41
  identifier: 9780387266916
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20210728125044.0
    record identifier: in00003517795