Materials Handbook

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Ferrous Metals and Their Alloys

   • François Cardarelli

   Pages 1-43

3. Common Nonferrous Metals

   • François Cardarelli

   Pages 45-74

4. Less Common Nonferrous Metals

   • François Cardarelli

   Pages 75-244

5. Semiconductors

   • François Cardarelli

   Pages 245-264

6. Superconductors

   • François Cardarelli

   Pages 265-273

7. Magnetic Materials

   • François Cardarelli

   Pages 275-290

8. Insulators and Dielectrics

   • François Cardarelli

   Pages 291-311

9. Miscellaneous Electrical Materials

   • François Cardarelli

   Pages 313-335

10. Ceramics and Glasses

    • François Cardarelli

    Pages 337-369

11. Polymers and Elastomers

    • François Cardarelli

    Pages 371-393

12. Minerals Ores, and Gemstones

    • François Cardarelli

    Pages 395-478

13. Rocks and Meteorites

    • François Cardarelli

    Pages 479-508

14. Timbers and Woods

    • François Cardarelli

    Pages 509-516

15. Building and Construction Materials

    • François Cardarelli

    Pages 517-525

16. Appendices

    • François Cardarelli

    Pages 527-577

17. Bibliography

    • François Cardarelli

    Pages 579-583

18. Back Matter

    Pages 584-597

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Despite the several comprehensive series available in Material Sciences and their related fields, it is a hard task to find grouped properties of metals and alloys, ceramics, polymers, minerals, woods, and building materials in a single volume source book. Actually, the scope of this practical handbook is to provide to scientists, engineers, professors, technicians, and students working in numerous scientific and technical fields ranging from nuclear to civil engineering, easy and rapid access to the accurate physico-chemical properties of all classes of materials. Classes used to describe the materials are: (i) metals and their alloys, (ii) semiconductors, (iii) superconductors, (iv) magnetic materials, ( v) miscellaneous electrical materials ( e. g. , dielectrics, thermocouple and industrial electrode materials), (vi) ceramics, refractories, and glasses, (vii) polymers and elastomers, (viii) minerals, ores, meteorites, and rocks, (ix) timbers and woods, and finally (x) building materials. Particular emphasis is placed on the properties of the most common industrial materials in each class. Physical and chemical properties usually listed for each material are (i) mechanical (e. g. , density, elastic moduli, Poisson's ratio, yield and tensile strength, hardness, fracture toughness), (ii) thermal (e. g. , melting point, thermal conductivity, specific heat capacity, coefficient oflinear thermal expansion, spectral emissivities), (iii) electrical (e. g. , resistivity, dielectric permittivity, loss tangent factor), (iv) magnetic (e. g. , magnetic permeability, remanence, Hall constant), (v) optical (e. g. , refractive indices, reflective index), (vi) electrochemical (e. g.

• Ceramics
• Chemical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Composites
• Data
• Electronic Engineering
• Ferrous Metals
• Gases
• Glass
• Liquids
• Material Science
• Mechanical Engineering
• Metallurgy
• Nonferrous Metals
• Plastics
• Semiconductors
• Superconductors
• Wood

From the reviews of the second edition:

"This handbook contains practical and concise information on key scientific and technical material properties for the most commonly used industrial materials … . Compared with many other handbooks on material properties, this handbook presents more background information on how to use the data presented. … Those looking for a materials reference handbook on commonly used industrial materials, especially those who need to have a better understanding of material property fundamentals, will find this an interesting and very useful handbook." (IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine, 2009)

• Technology Dept., Rio Tinto Iron and Titanium Inc., Sorel-Tracy, Canada

  François Cardarelli

François Cardarelli has had wide-ranging commercial and industrial experience of materials, commodities and processes:

• at CNRS in Paris he designed and used electrochemical sensors for pollution control;

• as a research scientist at Électricité de France he helped to invent methods of preparation of industrial titanium and tantalum electrodes;

• as a registered professional consultant in Toulouse, he solved problems in electrochemical engineering, the selection of electrode materials, corrosion and high-temperature operation;

• at the Avestor Corporation, he worked as an industrial electrochemist and materials expert in charge of strategic raw materials, scientific and technical support for lithium processing and, as Battery Product Leader, in charge of lithium polymer batteries for electric vehicles, down-hole drilling anf telecommunications he defined battery requirements and specifications and invented pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical processing for spent lithium batteries;

• at Rio Tinto Iron and Titanium, he was principal chemist for Materials at Sorel-Tracy in Quebéc dealing with valorization processes for industrial residues and refactory benchmarking and electrowinning of metallic titanium.

• at the Material and Electrochemical Research (MER) Corp., Tucson (Arizona, USA) he was principal electrochemist working on the electrowinning of titanium metal powder from composite anodes and other materials-related projects.

• at present he is Manager of Recycling at 5NPlus Inc in Saint-Laurent Quebéc.

Doctor Cardarelli is also the author of Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures for Springer (ISBN: 1-85233-682-X).