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Introduces Emerging Engineering Materials
Mechanical, materials, and production engineering students can greatly benefit from Engineering Materials: Research, Applications and Advances. This text focuses heavily on research, and fills a need for current information on the science, processes, and applications in the field. Beginning with a brief overview, the book provides a historical and modern perspective on material science, and describes various types of engineering materials. It examines the industrial process for emerging materials, determines practical use under a wide range of conditions, and establishes what is needed to produce a new generation of materials.
Covers Basic Concepts and Practical Applications
The book consists of 18 chapters and covers a variety of topics that include functionally graded materials, auxetic materials, whiskers, metallic glasses, biocomposite materials, nanomaterials, superalloys, superhard materials, shape-memory alloys, and smart materials. The author outlines the latest advancements, including futuristic plastics, sandwich composites, and biodegradable composites, and highlights special kinds of composites, including fire-resistant composites, marine composites, and biomimetics. He also factors in current examples, future prospects, and the latest research underway in materials technology.
Contains approximately 160 diagrams and 85 tables
Incorporates examples, illustrations, and applications used in a variety of engineering disciplines
Includes solved numerical examples and objective questions with answers
Engineering Materials: Research, Applications and Advances
serves as a textbook and reference for advanced/graduate students in mechanical engineering, materials engineering, production engineering, physics, and chemistry, and relevant researchers and practicing professionals in the field of materials science.
Contents
Introduction to Some Recent and Emerging Materials. Peculiar Materials with Fascinating Properties. Amorphous Materials and Futuristic Scope of Plastics. Structures and Applications of Ceramics, Refractories and Glasses, etc. Polymeric Composite Materials: Types and Mechanics. Sandwich Composite Materials, and Stitched and Unstitched Laminates. Biocomposite Materials. Special Kinds of Composites. Biomimetics and Biomimetic Materials. Superhard Materials. Advances in Powder Metallurgy. Trends in the Development of Ferrous Metals and Alloys, and Effects of Alloying Elements on Them. Recent Non-Ferrous Metals and Alloys. Emerging and Futuristic Materials. Special Materials in Specialized Applications. Vivid Fields of Ongoing Researches. Trends in the Research of Natural Fibre-Reinforced Composites and Hybrid Composites. Recent Researches and Developments of Magical Materials. Index.
