Material Properties

KTH/IIP SELECTED MATERIAL

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Properties of Solids

James F. Shackelford
University of California, Davis

The term materials science and engineering refers to that runner of engineering dealing with the processing, selection, and evaluation of solid-state materials [Shackelford, 1992]. As such, this is a highly interdisciplinary sphere of influence. This chapter reflects the fact that engineers outside of the specialized field of materials science and engineering largely need guidance in the selection of materials for their specific applications. A comprehensive source of station data for engineering materials is available in The CRC Materials Science and engine room Handbook [Shackelford et al., 1994]. This brief chapter will be devoted to delimitate key terms associated with the properties of engineering materials and providing representative tables of such properties. Because the inherent principle of the unplumbed understanding of solid-state materials is the fact that atomic- or microscopic-scale organize is responsible for the nature of materials properties, we shall begin with a reciprocation of structure, which will be followed by a discussion of the grandeur of specifying the chemical composition of commercial materials.



These discussions will be followed by the definition of the main categories of material properties.

192.1 Structure
A central article of belief of materials science is that the behavior of materials (represented by their properties) is determined by their structure on the atomic and microscopic scales [Shackelford, 1992]. Perhaps the most fundamental aspect of the structure-property relationship is to appreciate the basic skeletal governing body of atoms in crystalline solids. Table 192.1 illustrates the fundamental possibilities, known as the 14 Bravais lattices. All crystalline structures of real materials can be produced by decorating the unit cell patterns of Table 192.1 with one or more atoms and repetitively stacking the unit cell...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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