Fundamentals of Materials Science and Engineering: An Integrated Approach [Hardcover]

William D. Callister (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471470147 | ISBN-13: 978-0471470144 | Publication Date: May 5, 2004 | Edition: 2

This Second Edition of Fundamentals of Materials Science and Engineering continues to take an integrated approach to the topic organization. One specific structure, characteristic, or property type at a time is discussed for all three basic material types--metals, ceramics, and polymeric materials. This order of presentation allows for early introduction of non-metals and supports the engineer's role of choosing a material based on its characteristics.

New copies of this text include a CD at no additional charge. The CD is an integral part of the text package and features animated software modules and the last five text chapters in .pdf format.

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Very good book! (Sayavur Bakhtiyarov - Auburn University)

From the Back Cover

An Integrated Organization Scheme

This Second Edition of Fundamentals of Materials Science and Engineering continues to take an integrated approach to the topic organization. One specific structure, characteristic, or property type at a time is discussed for all three basic material types—viz. metals, ceramics, and polymeric materials. This order of presentation allows for early introduction of non-metals and supports the engineer’s role of choosing a material based on its characteristics.

Extended Coverage and Animations on CD-ROM

New copies of this text include a CD at no additional charge. The CD is an integral part of the text package and features animated software modules and the last five text chapters in .pdf format.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 824 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (May 5, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471470147
• ISBN-13: 978-0471470144
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #426,838 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Prepare for frustration, October 29, 2007

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engineering guy (doesn't matter) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fundamentals of Materials Science and Engineering: An Integrated Approach (Hardcover)

Don't buy it unless your professor requires it. It is extremely frustrating because there is very brief explanation of a subject and then the problems expect you to have in-depth knowledge. /you will waste a lot of time hunting for information that isn't even there.

In order to understand the material presented in this book, you will need to hunt online for clarification or find a better book. Half of the problems are based on reading tiny diagrams that are impossible to read to the level of accuracy you need to answer the problems.

Some of the qualitative explanation is OK, but you really need a better resource for quantitative analysis.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great treatment of entry level material science, October 12, 2010

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My son is interested in blacksmithing. He's a freshman in high school and we homeschool. I wanted to teach him about crystal structure and how temperature and processing affect the final product. This is an excellent text for this purpose. We skip all the math and focus on the concepts. Later, if he's truly interested, we can go back to this text and delve deeper into the concepts and calculations. I'm delighted!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Covers a lot of material, maybe too much, May 4, 2010

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This book covers tons of material. It was part of 2 classes I took, and I've referred to it in several others. It has content on almost everything that will be covered in an undergraduate materials science program, then a little bit more. The amount of coverage it gives for each topic though varies quite a bit. I found its discussion on the various microstructures of steel very useful on multiple occasions. The section on fracture though left a little bit to be desired, the section discussing brittle fracture is only about half a page. It tries to condense what would probably be 3 or 4 whole chapters in a mechanical properties textbook (on fracture, fatigue, creep, impact testing, stress concentration) into a single 50 page chapter. Overall though, I found it to be a good intro textbook and a good reference for concepts.