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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 620.11
EAN num: 9780470125373
ISBN number: 0470125373
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 912
Printing Date: December 10, 2007
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This text treats the important properties of the three primary types of materials--metals, ceramics, and polymers--as well as composites, and the relationships that exist between the structural elements of these materials and their properties. Emphasis is placed on mechanical behavior and failure including, techniques that are employed to improve the mechanical and failure characteristics in terms of alteration of structural elements. Furthermore, individual chapters discuss each of corrosion, electrical, thermal, magnetic, and optical properties. New and cutting-edge materials are also discussed.
Even if an instructor does not have a strong materials background (i.e., is from mechanical, civil, chemical, or electrical engineering, or chemistry departments), he or she can easily teach from this text. The material is not at a level beyond which the students can comprehend--an instructor would not have to supplement in order to bring the students up to the level of the text. Also, the author has attempted to write in a concise, clear, and organized manner, using terminology that is familiar to the students.
Extensive student and instructor resource supplements are also provided.
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Don't buy it unless your professor requires it. It is extremely frustrating because there is very brief explanation of a subject and then the problems expect you to have in-depth knowledge. /you will waste a lot of time hunting for information that isn't even there.
In order to understand the material presented in this book, you will need to hunt online for clarification or find a better book. Half of the problems are based on reading tiny diagrams that are impossible to read to the level of accuracy you need to answer the problems.
Some of the qualitative explanation is OK, but you really need a better resource for quantitative analysis.
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Well i am a chemical engineer student and this book form part of many of my other long and complicated books. Anyway the book its not the best I've read, altough i have to say that I read worst. So overall is a decent book.
It does explain the material fairly, but what it has in theory it lacks in good exercises. The problems are hard to solve. They are not similar to the example problems therefore it is almost impossible to solve the homework. In my class we posses the solution manual and even with the solutions it is very hard to understand. Basically the theory they cover does always help to solve the exercises.
I recommend this book if you only seek to know more about the subjects since it explains the molecule interactions in detail and has good pictures that help visualize the material. But it is not a good introductory book
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Got exactly what I wanted quickly and it was just as stated. excellent overall
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This book is kind of vague, especially the questions. The information is good and the cd is helpful sometimes.
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