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Properties of Engineering Materials [Paperback]

R. Higgins (Author)

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Paperback: 560 pages
Publisher: A Butterworth-Heinemann Title; 2 edition (7 July 1994)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0340600330
ISBN-13: 978-0340600337
Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.4 x 2.6 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 712,015 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #69 in Books > Scientific, Technical & Medical > Engineering > Industrial Chemistry & Manufacturing Technologies

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Employing a technological approach, this text provides a descriptive and qualitative treatment of materials science for engineering and metallurgy students. The author's accessible style, along with the inclusion of carefully presented worked examples, makes this an ideal guide to all types of engineering materials, their properties and applications.

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A rare great engineering book that can be understood. 2 Oct 2003

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Higgins shows how atomic structure influences material properties. The first three chapters "The Atom", "The Molecule", "The Crystal", give the best explanation I've ever read about atomic structure, as good or better than does the famous teacher Feynman. The rest of the book is a theoretical overview that goes deep enough to explain the key points of how metals, plastics, composites, and ceramics are different from one another. Most every sentence counts so read carefully. The progress is simple though and puts to shame most American texts on the subject. The math is minimal and included mainly to support the theory in the text. After reading the text you will have a overview of the key information necessary to use various materials. A truly great book. It is no wonder that professional auto racing such as Formula 1 and even the making of most top race cars for American open wheel racing such as for IRL and CART is done in England where the author Higgins lives. It is a true shame that in American colleges books like this which do such a fine job of explaining basic concepts are usually passed by in favor of books giving mathematical spaghetti that explains poorly due to not explaining the individual steps of the math. Thank you Higgins for one of the greatest books I've read on engineering.

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