Understanding Materials Science History · Properties · Applications /

• Main Author: Hummel, Rolf E. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2005.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Subjects: Physics.; Condensed matter.; Continuum mechanics.; Materials science.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.

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...

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?.