
An Introduction to the Properties of Engineering Materials
PASCOE(Author)
Van Nostrand Reinhold Inc.,U.S. (Publisher)
3rd Edition
Published on 1. October 1978
Book
Paperback/Softback
XV, 439 pages
978-0-442-30233-7 (ISBN)
Description
The engineering designer is always limited by the properties of available materials. Some properties are critically affected by variations in com position, in state or in testing conditions, while others are much less so. The engineer must know this if he is to make intelligent use of the data on properties of materials that he finds in handbooks and tables, and if he is to exploit successfully new materials as they become available. He can only be aware of these limitations if he understands how pro perties depend on structure at the atomic, molecular, microscopic and macroscopic levels. Inculcating this awareness is one of the chief aims of the book, which is based on a successful course designed to give university engineering students the necessary basic knowledge of these various levels. The material is equivalent to a course of about eighty to a hundred lectures. In the first part of the book the topics covered are mainly fundamental physics. The structure of the atom, considered in non-wave-mechanical terms, leads to the nature of interatomic forces and aggregations of atoms in the three forms-gases, liquids and solids. Sufficient crystallography is discussed to facilitate an understanding of the mechanical behaviour of the crystals. The band theory of solids is not included, but the basic concepts which form a preliminary to the theory-energy levels of electrons in an atom, Pauli's exclusion principle, and so on-are dealt with.
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
XV, 439 p.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
656 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-442-30233-7 (9780442302337)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-011-7068-0
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Content
1 | Introduction.- 2 | Atomic Structure.- 3 | Aggregations of Atoms-The Fluid States.- 4 | Aggregations of Atoms-Solids.- 5 | Crystal Growth and Size.- 6 | Aggregations of Two Sorts of Atoms-Binary Alloys.- 7 | Equilibrium Diagrams.- 8 | The Iron-carbon System.- 9 | Thermal Energy.- 10 | The Deformation of Metal Single Crystals.- 11 | The Strengthening of Metals.- 12 | Mechanical Testing of Polycrystalline Materials.- 13 | Plastic Flow and Fracture.- 14 | Fatigue.- 15 | Creep.- 16 | Heat Treatment of Steel.- 17 | Alloy Steels.- 18 | Corrosion.- 19 | Welding.- 20 | Inorganic Non-metallic Materials.- 21 | Organic Materials.- 22 | Composites.- 23 | The Nucleus.- Appendix I-Some equilibrium diagrams of interest and importance.- Appendix II-Equilibrium and free energy.- Appendix III-SI units.- Answers to Numerical Questions.