Materials science and engineering

This engineering text introduces the three main families of materials, along with composites, and shows how a material's internal arrangement governs how it behaves. Readers follow how the way a material is made, its structure, its properties and its performance are tied together, with steels, glass-ceramics, polymer fibers and silicon semiconductors serving as running examples.

The current revision gives more space to describing crystallographic directions in hexagonal unit cells. Each chapter closes with refreshed summaries and newly added lists of key equations, giving students a quick way to review the core ideas.

Written for engineers and engineering students, the book carries forward a well-established edition. It is used as an introductory undergraduate textbook in materials science courses.