W. F. Hosford is a Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. Professor Hosford is the author of a number of books, including the leading selling Metal Forming: Mechanics and Metallurgy, 3rd edition (with R. M. Caddell), Materials Science: An Intermediate Text, Mechanics of Crystals and Textured Polycrystals and Mechanical Metallurgy.
1. Introduction
2. Phases
3. Diffusion
4. Mechanical behavior
5. Mechanical failure
6. Annealing
7. Iron and steel
8. Non-ferrous metals
9. Casting and welding
10. Solid shaping
11. Polymers
12. Polymer processing
13. Glasses
14. Crystalline ceramics
15. Powder processing
16. Pottery and concrete
17. Composites
18. Carbon
19. Fibers, foams and porous materials
20. Electrical properties
21. Optical and thermal properties
22. Magnetic materials
23. Corrosion
24. Modern manufacturing techniques and surface treatments and recycling
Appendix I. Wood
Appendix II. Miller indices for planes and directions
Appendix III. Xray diffraction
Appendix IV. Surfaces
Appendix V. Dislocations
Appendix VI. Avrami kinetics
Appendix VII. Organic chemistry
Appendix VIII. Average molecular weight
Appendix IX. Bond geometry in compounds
Appendix X. Weibull analysis.
