The textbook that has introduced engineering students to metals, ceramics, polymers and composites for nine editions running.

Callister and Rethwisch’s Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction, Ninth Edition, builds its whole approach around one idea: the properties of a material follow from its internal structure. Across 992 pages the book works from atomic bonding and crystal structures up through mechanical behaviour, phase diagrams, corrosion, and the selection of materials for real designs — with worked examples, design problems and the Virtual Materials Science and Engineering (VMSE) resource supporting the harder concepts.