CRC Materials Science and Engineering Handbook, Second Edition

by James F. Shackelford, William Alexander

This text provides recent data on engineering materials and materials science, verified through major professional societies in the USA. Following a properties-based approach, this text enables the reader to examine the tables of those properties required so that they can then compare and select materials that fit within the necessary parameters.

1560 pages, Paperback

First published November 26, 1991

About the author

James F. Shackelford has BS and MS degrees in Ceramic Engineering from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at McMaster University in Canada, he joined the University of California, Davis, where he is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.