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Our civilization owes its most significant milestones to our use of materials. Metals gave us better agriculture and eventually the industrial revolution, silicon gave us the digital revolution, and we’re just beginning to see what nanomaterials yield. Updated to reflect the many societal and technological changes in the field since publication of the first edition, Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering, Second Edition offers an interdisciplinary view, emphasizing the importance of materials to engineering applications, and builds the basis needed to select, modify, and create materials to meet specific criteria. The most outstanding feature of this text is the authors’ unique and engaging application-oriented approach. Beginning each chapter with a real-life example, an experiment, or interesting facts, they wield an expertly crafted treatment with which they entertain and motivate as much as inform and educate. The discipline is linked to modern developments such as semiconductor devices, nanomaterials, and thin films while working systematically from atomic bonding and analytical methods to crystalline, electronic, mechanical, and magnetic properties as well as ceramics, polymers, corrosion, and phase diagrams.
Updates include:
- References to advances in the field, including computational thermodynamics allowing computation of phase diagrams with great accuracy and new materials
- Updated applications and technologies, such as electric vehicles and use of magnetic field as a processing tool
- Revised, practical end of chapter problems that go beyond traditional plug-and-chug exercises to enhance learning
- More examples with detailed solutions in each chapter
- A new chapter highlighting how materials can impact on four United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Written for undergraduate students and readers interested in introductory materials science and engineering concepts, this concise textbook provides a strong foundation in MSE and its applications. The textbook offers a solutions manual and PowerPoint lecture slides for adopting professors.
