MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING PROPERTIES is primarily aimed at mechanical
and aerospace engineering students, building on actual science fundamentals
before building them into engineering applications. Even though the book focuses
on mechanical properties of materials, it also includes a chapter on materials
selection, making it extremely useful to civil engineers as well. The purpose of
this textbook is to provide students with a materials science and engineering
text that offers a sufficient scientific basis that engineering properties of
materials can be understood by students. In addition to the introductory
chapters on materials science, there are chapters on mechanical properties, how
to make strong solids, mechanical properties of