Isbn: 9798188494155 - physics and engineering of metallic materials for beginners: a beginner-friendly engineering textbook on metallic structure, properties, processing, testing, and selection (2 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Metal behavior stops feeling mysterious when you can trace one clear chain: how internal structure and manufacturing choices shape the way a part performs.This practical introduction takes you from atoms and crystal lattices to alloy families, heat treatment, corrosion, manufacturing, failure analysis, and real-world material decisions. Across 18 chapters, you learn a reusable way to connect composition, microstructure, process history, measured response, and service conditions without reducing the subject to disconnected definitions or intimidating data tables.Written for adult learners, students, technicians, machinists, makers, and early-career engineers, the book explains essential concepts in plain language while preserving the caution real engineering requires.Photographic laboratory and workshop visuals, comparison tables, a glossary, and unit references reinforce the explanations and help you connect concepts to samples, instruments, manufacturing routes, and service problems. The result is a broad foundation for coursework, technical training, shop-floor communication, and independent study.Inside, you'll learn to: - Understand how metallic bonding, BCC, FCC, HCP, grains, defects, phases, and precipitates influence observable behavior.- Interpret density, conductivity, strength, ductility, hardness, toughness, fatigue, creep, and corrosion data with the correct units, condition, temperature, direction, and test context.- Compare steels, cast irons, aluminum, magnesium, titanium, copper, nickel, zinc, brass, bronze, and high-temperature alloys by function rather than reputation.- Connect phase diagrams and heat-treatment steps to annealing, normalizing, quenching, tempering, precipitation hardening, residual stress, and distortion.- Evaluate casting, rolling, forging, extrusion, drawing, machining, welding, brazing, soldering, coatings, and additive manufacturing as part of the final material condition.- Recognize how fatigue cracks, fracture paths, wear, oxidation, corrosion, surface damage, and service history reveal likely failure causes.- Build a disciplined decision habit for screening candidates, balancing technical and economic tradeoffs, reading specifications, planning verification, and communicating choices.You do not need advanced prior knowledge to begin. You need a clear map, careful questions, and evidence-based habits.Start with the fundamentals, follow the process-to-performance chain, and develop a stronger foundation for study, shop work, manufacturing, and design decisions. …