The text covers all the physical properties, applications, and relevant properties associated with engineering materials. It explores all the major categories of materials (metals, ceramics and glass, polymers, composites and semiconductors) while also offering detailed examinations of a wide range of new materials with high-tech applications.Shackelford also provides a strong introductory chaper familiarising students with the dynamic nature of the field, supported by a number of vivid photographs and illustrations. This edition contains in-depth discussions of all the most recent advances in the field, a number of new problems and exercises, and new computer-generated illustrations.
- ISBN10 013807125X
- ISBN13 9780138071257
- Publish Date 2 July 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 September 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Pearson Education Limited
- Format Paperback
- Pages 704
- Language English