Kaufmann E.N. Characterization of Materials: Volumes 1 And 2

Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons. – 2003. – 1412 p. Materials research is an extraordinarily broad and diverse field. It draws on the science, the technology, and the tools of a variety of scientific and engineering disciplines as it pursues research objectives spanning the very fundamental to the highly applied. Processing and fabrication are also important aspect of materials research. Characterization of Materials does not deal with these methods per se because they are not strictly measurement methods. However, here again no clear line is found and in such methods as electrochemistry, tribology, mechanical testing, and even ion-beam irradiation, where the processing can be the measurement, these aspects are perforce included. The second chapter is unique in that it collects methods that are not, literally speaking, measurement methods; these articles do not follow the format found in subsequent chapters. Another unique chapter is the first, covering common concepts. It collects some of the ubiquitous aspects of measurement methods that would have had to be described repeatedly and in more detail in later units. Readers may refer back to this chapter as related topics arise around specific methods, or they may use this chapter as a general tutorial.
Contents, Volumes 1 And 2
ForewordCommon Concepts
Computation and Theoretical Methods
Mechanical Testing
Thermal Analysis
Electrical and Electronic Measurements
Magnetism and Magnetic Measurements
Electrochemical Techniques
Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy
Resonance Methods
X-Ray Techniques
Electron Techniques 1
Ion-Beam Techniques
Neutron Techniques