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Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction, 9th Edition (Callister & Rethwisch)
For most engineering undergraduates, Callister is the first materials textbook they open — and often the one that stays on the shelf afterwards. The Ninth Edition continues the structure-property-processing-performance approach that made the earlier editions standard reading in mechanical, civil, aerospace, chemical and materials engineering programmes worldwide.
The central argument runs throughout: understand what a material looks like at the atomic and microstructural level, and its behaviour under load, heat, and corrosive attack stops being a set of numbers to memorise and starts being something you can reason about.
What the Book Covers
- Atomic structure and bonding — the starting point for why metals, ceramics and polymers behave so differently.
- Crystal structures, crystallographic planes and directions, and the imperfections and dislocations that govern real material behaviour.
- Diffusion and phase transformations, including the phase diagrams engineers read daily.
- Mechanical properties — elastic and plastic deformation, strengthening mechanisms, failure, fatigue and creep.
- The three primary material classes plus composites, each treated in its own right rather than as a footnote to metals.
- Corrosion and degradation, electrical, thermal, magnetic and optical properties.
- Materials selection and design, with economic and environmental considerations.
Learning Support in the Ninth Edition
- Virtual Materials Science and Engineering (VMSE) — a redesigned resource of interactive simulations and animations for concepts that are hard to picture on the page, such as crystal structures, crystallographic planes and directions, and dislocation motion.
- A comprehensive materials property database for use in design problems.
- Worked example problems, concept checks and end-of-chapter design questions throughout.
Please note: WileyPLUS online access is sold separately and is not included with this book.
Who This Textbook Is For
- Undergraduate engineering students taking a first course in materials science.
- Mechanical, civil, aerospace, chemical and manufacturing engineering majors needing a materials reference.
- Practising engineers refreshing on phase diagrams, failure mechanisms or materials selection.
- FE and PE exam candidates covering the materials portion of the syllabus.
Book Details
- Title: Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction
- Authors: William D. Callister Jr. and David G. Rethwisch
- Edition: 9th Edition
- Publisher: Wiley
- Publication date: December 4, 2013
- Format: Hardcover, 992 pages
- Language: English
- ISBN-13: 978-1118324578
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