Hosford W.F. Materials Science. An Intermediate Text

Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 237 p.This text is written for a second-level materials science course. It assumes that the students have had a previous course covering crystal structures, phase diagrams, diffusion, Miller indices, polymers, ceramics, metals, and other basic topics. Many of those topics are discussed in further depth, and new topics and concepts are introduced. The coverage and order of chapters are admittedly somewhat arbitrary.
However, each chapter is more or less self-contained so those using this text may omit certain topics or change the order of presentation. This text may also be useful to graduate students in materials science and engineering who have not had a course covering these materials.Microstructural Analysis.
Symmetry.
Miller–Bravais Indices for Hexagonal Crystals.
Stereographic Projection.
Crystal Defects.
Phase Diagrams.
Free Energy Basis for Phase Diagrams.
Ordering of Solid Solutions.
Diffusion.
Freezing.
Phase Transformations.
Surfaces.
Bonding.
Sintering.
Amorphous Materials.
Liquid Crystals.
Molecular Morphology.
Magnetic Behavior of Materials.
Porous and Novel Materials.
Shape Memory and Superelasticity.
Calculations.