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Elements of Materials Science and Engineering (6th Edition)

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I first read an earlier edition of this book about 15 years ago. I have found myself referring to it regularly over the years, as it contains concise descriptions with detailed enough information for the kinds of engineering problems that I encounter. It provides an easy to understand overview of a very wide spectrum of topics in materials science. I am a practicing engineer with about 20 years of experience, though I still consider myself to be a student. I believe this is an excellent book and wish that I had taken or could take a course that uses this book.

This author uses an entirely different approach to the teaching of materials science. This book was well-written and accessible. A good text on a rather drab subject.

I am thinking of suing Amazon and Adison & Wesley for sending me JUNK REPRODUCTION of this wonderful book (which was my text book in my MTech Course). It is shocking to receive a appalling reproduction of this great book which starts on PAGE ; Believe me it is page 9. It is badly bound!!!!!!!!!! The pages of the book are worse than what my simple photo copy machine can do. The diagrams are illegible. And for this I paid US $ 130 plus and S$ 180 plus??????????????

I am trying to send mails to Amazon and no one is replying to me except with this request for this review. Here is my review and I am cautioning people not to buy this book till they sort out this mess. I am also trying to call Adison Wesley here and I am not getting any reasonable reply so far.

I am going to complain to Mr Van Vlaack as well about this deplorable reproduction of his wonderful book.

This is disgusting!!!!!!!

Gabriel

This book is too expensive for its content. It is merely an overview of the Material Science. For more in depth understanding, supplemental material had to be provided my professor.

This book presents a classical structure-property overview of materials. Its treatment of microstructure, phase transformations, and transport is excellent. Since early editions, the author has added overviews of electronic, optical, and magnetic properties. Examples and end-of-chapter problems are thorough and appropriate for undergraduates. I wish it offered a more comprehensive coverage of processing - particularly deposition processing and powder processing. However, this edition is dated (1989) and the publisher is apparently using reproduction rather than quality-print technology. The $95 price tag is completely out of line for the poor quality of reproduction offered. Accordingly, I can not recommend it for an undergraduate text book.

Avoid this book at all costs. I have reviewed/studied over 2,000 engineering/technical manuals/coursebooks/references and this one is one of the absolutely most confusing piecemeal pieces of garbage I have ever seen. At the time of my first acquaintance with this textbook, 1976, as a first year engineering college student I quickly realized that over 50% of my classmates were either hopelessly confused by the mumbo-jumbo presentation of material or were borrowing their frat brothers/ sorority sisters notes/tests to pass the course. Couple this with the instructor's strict adherence to the text and it resulted in the highest failure rate/largest drop-out yield in the history of my school. I have recently reviewed the text once again and as a seasoned engineer may only offer the same advice.

i am the student in taiwan un\ctu university i am the student for the maerials science i hope that to read more the type of materials sciemce book so i do it i hope that your can help me