Materials Science and Engineering: Its Nucleation and Growth

by McLean,Malcolm

• ISBN13: 9781902653594
• ISBN10: 1902653599
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-15
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

This book is a record of the conference held at Imperial College on 14 and 15 May 2001 as one of the events to mark the 150th anniversary of the Royal School of Mines. Papers from a number of distingished international contributors cover a range of subjects from materials modelling through materials processing to the use of advanced materials in biomedical, aerospace and automotive applications.

Table of Contents

Introduction and Background	ix
Malcolm McLean
List of Contributors	xvii
Nucleation of the Subject: Key Contributions
The Origins of Metallurgy and the RSM	1	(12)
J. A. Charles
The Contributions of William Chandler Roberts-Austen to Metallurgy and to the Arts	13	(28)
Michael R. Notis
The Nuffield Research Group in Extraction Metallurgy (NRGEM): Founding and Evolution	41	(12)
C. B. Alcock
The Early Years of Transmission Electron Microscopy at RSM	53	(20)
Peter R. Swann
Transition from Metallurgy to Materials Science	73	(8)
Robert W. Cahn
Driving Force for Development of Materials Science & Engineering
Structural Metals: Is there a Future?	81	(22)
Jeff W. Edington
Role of Advanced Materials in Modern Aero Engines (abstract only)	103	(2)
Peter Price
The Past, Present and Future of Magnetic Data Storage	105	(8)
William O'Kane
On the Horizon -- Some Material Advances in the Nuclear Energy	113	(22)
Sue Ion
Materials in Medicine	135	(18)
R. C. Bielby
L. D. K. Buttery
J. M. Polak
Mechanism for Development
Research Council Priorities (abstract only)	153	(2)
Richard Brook
Formula 1 Materials Engineering	155	(30)
G. Savage
Mature and Incremental Developments Diffusional Growth
Some Features of Iron- and Steelmaking in Integrated Steel Plants	185	(28)
Amit Chatterjee
Interaction of Materials Science with Extractive Metallurgy	213	(12)
Derek Fray
Single Crystal Superalloys (abstract only)	225	(2)
Ken Harris
Materials Processing: The Enabling Discipline (abstract only)	227	(2)
L. Christodoulou
J. A. Christodoulou
The Materials Science of Cement and Concrete: An Industrial Perspective	229	(14)
Karen L. Scrivener
Materials for Ceramic Ion Conducting Membrane Devices	243	(14)
J. A. Kilner
Novel Revolutionary Developments Displacive Transformations
Grain Boundaries in High TC Superconductors: The Key to Applications (abstract only)	257	(2)
David Larbalestier
Lightweight Materials and Structures	259	(22)
A. G. Evans
The Engineering of Cells and Tissues (abstract only)	281	(2)
William Bonfield
A Genetic Basis for Biomedical Materials	283	(14)
Larry L. Hench
Ioannis D. Xynos
Alasdair J. Edgar
Lee D. K. Buttery
Julia M. Polak
Modelling
Controversial Concepts in Alloy Theory Revisited	297	(40)
David Pettifor
Virtual Materials (atstract only)	337	(2)
Alan Windle
Atomistic Simulation of Materials	339	(16)
Robin W. Grimes
K. J. W. Atkinson
Matthew O. Zacate
Moshin Pirzada
Author and Subject Index	355