
Updated to reflect the changes in the field since publication of the first edition, Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering, Second Edition offers an interdisciplinary view, emphasizing the importance of materials to engineering applications and builds the basis needed...


Our civilization owes its most significant milestones to our use of materials. Metals gave us better agriculture and eventually the industrial revolution, silicon gave us the digital revolution, and we're just beginning to see what carbon nanotubes will give us. Taking a fresh,...