Structure of Materials / Edition 1

by Samuel M. Allen

Overview

Are You Looking for a Unified and Concise Approach to Teaching and Learning the Structure of Materials? Allen and Thomas present information in a manner consistent with the way future scientists and engineers will be required to think about materials' selection, design, and use. Students will learn the fundamentals of three different states of condensed matter—glasses, crystals, and liquid crystals—and develop a set of tools for describing all of them. Above all, they'll gain a better understanding of the principles of structure common to all materials. Key concepts, such as symmetry theory, are introduced and applied to provide a common viewpoint for describing structures of ceramic, metallic, and polymeric materials. Structure-sensitive properties of real materials are introduced. The text also includes a variety of worked example problems. Other texts available in the MIT Series: Thermodynamics of Materials, Vol I, Ragone, 30885-4 Thermodynamics of Materials, Vol II: Kinetics, Ragone, 30886-2 Physical Ceramics: Principles for Ceramics Science and Engineering, Chiang, Birnie, Kingery, 59873-9 Electronic Properties of Engineering Materials, Livingston, 31627-X

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900471000821
Publication date:	03/22/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.95(d)

About the Author

SAMUEL M. ALLEN is Professor of Physical Metallurgy in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at M.I.T. He earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Stevens Institute of Technology and an S.M. and a Ph.D. from M.I.T. His research interests include phase transformations, solid/solid interfaces, structure/property relations in high-temperature alloys, three-dimensional printing of metal tools for plastic injection molding, and alloys for high-strain actuators. He is also co-authoring a graduate textbook, "Kinetic Processes in Materials," with Robert W. Balluffi and W. Craig Carter.

EDWIN L. THOMAS is the Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at M.I.T. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and a Ph.D. in Materials Science from Cornell University. His research interests include processing, microstructure and mechanical property relations of polymers, and optical properties of liquid crystals and polymeric-based photonic band gap materials. Professor Thomas' honors and awards include the High Polymer Physics Prize of the American Physical Society and the American Chemical Society Creative Polymer Chemist Award.

Table of Contents

The Structure of Materials: Overview.
Noncrystalline State.
Crystalline State.
Liquid-Crystalline State.
Imperfections in Ordered Media.
Microstructure.
Index.

Editorial Reviews

A textbook for an undergraduate, usually sophomore, course for engineering students with a year of calculus and physics and at least a semester each of chemistry and biology under their belts. Defines and describes the three states of solid condensed matter<-->glasses, crystals, and liquid crystals<-->and develops a single set of structural descriptors to describe all of them. The approach is designed to prepare students better than conventional ones for how future materials scientists and engineers will need to think about materials in order to select and use them most advantageously. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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