The Production of Inorganic Materials - Hardcover

Evans, James W.; De Jonghe, Lutgard C.; DeJonghe, Lutgard C.

9780023347450: The Production of Inorganic Materials

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0023347457 ISBN 13: 9780023347450

Publisher: Macmillan USA, 1991

Guiding readers from the significance, history, and sources of materials to advanced materials and processes, this textbook looks at the production and primary processing of inorganic materials, such as ceramics, metals, silicon, and some composite materials. The text encourages instructors to teach the production of all types of inorganic materials as one. While recognizing the differences between producing various types of materials, the authors focus on the commonality of thermodynamics, kinetics, transport phenomena, phase equilibria and transformation, process engineering, and surface chemistry to all inorganic materials. The text focuses on fundamentals and how fundamentals can be applied to understand how the major inorganic materials are produced and the initial stages of their processing. Understanding of these fundamentals will equip students for engineering future processes for producing materials or for studying the processing of the many less common materials not examined in this text. The text is intended for use in an undergraduate course at the junior or senior level, but will also serve as a useful introductory and reference work for graduate students and practicing scientists and engineers.

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Synopsis:

Although materials science has moved towards a unified treatment of metals and ceramics, previous books on materials production have covered the two separately. This text offers an integrated treatment of the production of metals and ceramics, along with advanced materials. Its coverage is complete enough to be used for separate metals and ceramics courses, but aims primarily at the new integrated approach, focussing on the common applications of thermodynamics, kinetics, transport phenomena, phase equilibrium, and process engineering to both areas. Throughout the text, topics are supported by many worked examples, well-organized pedagogy, and photographs illustrating miscrostructures.

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The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) is a member-driven international professional society dedicated to fostering the exchange of learning and ideas across the entire range of materials science and engineering, from minerals processing and primary metals production, to basic research and the advanced applications of materials. Included among its nearly 13,000 professional and student members are metallurgical and materials engineers, scientists, researchers, educators, and administrators from more than 70 countries on six continents. For more information on TMS, visit www.tms.org.

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