Materials Handbook

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxviii

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2. Properties of Materials

   Pages 1-57

3. Ferrous Metals and Their Alloys

   Pages 59-157

4. Common Nonferrous Metals

   Pages 159-211

5. Less Common Nonferrous Metals

   Pages 213-454

6. Semiconductors

   Pages 455-475

7. Superconductors

   Pages 477-486

8. Magnetic Materials

   Pages 487-517

9. Insulators and Dielectrics

   Pages 519-542

10. Miscellaneous Electrical Materials

    Pages 543-591

11. Ceramics, Refractories, and Glasses

    Pages 593-689

12. Polymers and Elastomers

    Pages 691-750

13. Minerals, Ores and Gemstones

    Pages 751-883

14. Rocks and Meteorites

    Pages 885-925

15. Soils and Fertilizers

    Pages 927-966

16. Cements, Concrete, Building Stones and Construction Materials

    Pages 967-981

17. Timbers and Woods

    Pages 983-998

18. Fuels, Propellants and Explosives

    Pages 999-1018

19. Composite Materials

    Pages 1019-1035

20. Gases

    Pages 1037-1101

Despite the wide availability of several comprehensive series in materials sciences and metallurgy, it is difficult to find grouped properties either on metals and alloys, traditional and advanced ceramics, refractories, polymers and elastomers, composites, m- erals and rocks, soils, woods, cement, and building materials in a single-volume source book. Actually, the purpose of this practical and concise reference book is to provide key scientific and technical materials properties and data to materials scientists, metallurgists, engineers, chemists, and physicists as well as to professors, technicians, and students wo- ing in a broad range of scientific and technical fields. The classes of materials described in this handbook are as follows: (i) metals and their alloys; (ii) semiconductors; (iii) superconductors; (iv) magnetic materials; (v) dielectrics and insulators; (vi) miscellaneous electrical materials (e.g., resistors, ther- couples, and industrial electrode materials); (vii) ceramics, refractories, and glasses; (viii) polymers and elastomers; (ix) minerals, ores, and gemstones; (x) rocks and meteorites; (xi) soils and fertilizers; (xii) timbers and woods; (xiii) cement and concrete; (xiv) building materials; (xv) fuels, propellants, and explosives; xxxviii Introduction (xvi) composites; (xvii) gases; (xviii) liquids.

• Aluminium
• Ceramics
• Chemical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Electronic Engineering
• Emission
• Ferrous Metals
• Gases
• Material Science
• Mechanical Engineering
• Plastics
• Polymer
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• liquid
• polymers

From the reviews of the second edition:

"This handbook contains practical and concise information on key scientific and technical material properties for the most commonly used industrial materials … . Compared with many other handbooks on material properties, this handbook presents more background information on how to use the data presented. … Those looking for a materials reference handbook on commonly used industrial materials, especially those who need to have a better understanding of material property fundamentals, will find this an interesting and very useful handbook." (IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine, 2009)

“This desktop reference on materials will be useful for engineers, physicists, chemists, and materials scientists who are looking for typical numbers on the physical properties of materials. … the index is very complete, it will be easy to find the property of interest. … The book also contains nine useful appendices. … The size of the volume and its 1300 pages make this handbook a real ‘desk’ reference. … whoever does pay will have bought a nicely bound and durable handbook.” (Fernande Grandjean and Gary J. Long, Belgian Physical Society Magazine, Issue 1, 2010)

• Materials and Electrochemical Research (MER) Corp., Tucson, USA

  Francois Cardarelli

François Cardarelli has had wide-ranging commercial and industrial experience of materials, commodities and processes:

• at CNRS in Paris he designed and used electrochemical sensors for pollution control;

• as a research scientist at Électricité de France he helped to invent methods of preparation of industrial titanium and tantalum electrodes;

• as a registered professional consultant in Toulouse, he solved problems in electrochemical engineering, the selection of electrode materials, corrosion and high-temperature operation;

• at the Avestor Corporation, he worked as an industrial electrochemist and materials expert in charge of strategic raw materials, scientific and technical support for lithium processing and, as Battery Product Leader, in charge of lithium polymer batteries for electric vehicles, down-hole drilling anf telecommunications he defined battery requirements and specifications and invented pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical processing for spent lithium batteries;

• at Rio Tinto Iron and Titanium, he was principal chemist for Materials at Sorel-Tracy in Quebéc dealing with valorization processes for industrial residues and refactory benchmarking and electrowinning of metallic titanium.

• at the Material and Electrochemical Research (MER) Corp., Tucson (Arizona, USA) he was principal electrochemist working on the electrowinning of titanium metal powder from composite anodes and other materials-related projects.

• following a period as Manager of Recycling at 5NPlus Inc in Saint-Laurent Quebéc he has started his own company, Electrochem Technologies & Materials, providing professional services and promoting his own patented electrochemical technologies on a commercial basis.

Doctor Cardarelli is also the author of Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures for Springer (ISBN: 1-85233-682-X).

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