Critical materials /
Critical Materials takes a case-study approach, describing materials supply-chain failures from the bronze age to present day. It looks at why these failures occurred, what the consequences were, and how they were resolved. It identifies key lessons to guide responses to current and anticipated mate...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Cambridge, MA :
Elsevier,
[2021]
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| Series: | Materials today
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Critical Materials takes a case-study approach, describing materials supply-chain failures from the bronze age to present day. It looks at why these failures occurred, what the consequences were, and how they were resolved. It identifies key lessons to guide responses to current and anticipated materials shortages at a time when the world's growing middle class is creating unprecedented demand for manufactured products and the increasingly exotic materials that go into them. This book serves as a guide to materials researchers and industrial end-users for finding effective approaches to shortages of specialty materials. The lessons in the book are also appropriate to those who use materials and for those involved in manufacturing supply-chain management and industrial design. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 0128187905 9780128187890 0128187891 9780128187906 |