ReviewFrom the reviews of the second edition:
“This handbook holds practical and concise info on key scientific and technical material properties for the most normally employed industrial materials … . Compared with a lot of other handbooks on material properties, this handbook presents more background data on how to use the selective information presented. … Those looking for a materials reference handbook on commonly employed industrial materials, peculiarly those who need to have a better understanding of material property fundamentals, will find this an interesting and very utile handbook.” (IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine, 2009)
“This desktop reference on materials will be utile for engineers, physicists, chemists, and materials scientists who are looking for typical numbers on the physical properties of materials. … the index is very complete, it will be easy to find the property of interest. … The book likewise holds nine utile appendices. … The size of the volume and it is 1300 pages make this handbook a real ‘desk’ reference. … whoever does compensate will have purchased a nicely bound and lasting handbook.” (Fernande Grandjean and Gary J. Long, Belgian Physical Society Magazine, Issue 1, 2010)
From the Back Cover
From the reviews of the second edition:
The distinctive and practical Materials Handbook (second edition) provides quick and easy access to selective information on the physical and chemical properties of all classes of materials. The second edition has been much expanded to include whole new families of materials while galore of the existent families are broadened and refined with new material and up-to-date information. Particular special and significant stress is placed on the properties of mutual industrial materials in each class. After a chapter introducing a heap of general properties of materials, materials are classified as follows:
• ferrous metals and their alloys;
• nonferrous metals;
• semiconductors and superconductors;
• magnetic materials;
• insulators and dielectrics;
• miscellaneous electrical materials;
• ceramics, refractories and glasses;
• polymers and elastomers;
• minerals, ores and gemstones;
• rocks and meteorites;
• soils and fertilizers;
• cements, concrete, building stones and construction materials;
• timbers and woods;
• fuels, propellants and explosives;
• composite materials;
• gases;
• liquids.
Detailed appendices provide further and added selective information on subjects as diverse as crystallography, natural radioactivity and economic data for industrial materials. Specific further reading subdivisions and a usual bibliography round out this comprehensive guide. The index and tabular format of the book make light work of extracting what the reader needs to recognise from the wealth of factual selective information within these covers.
François Cardarelli has expended a great deal of years compiling and editing materials data. His professional expertness and experience combine to make this handbook an indispensable reference tool for scientists and engineers working in fields from mechanical, electrical, and chemical to metallurgical and nuclear engineering.
“This volume covers metals and alloys, nonferrous metals, semiconductors, ceramics, polymers, world materials, concrete, wood, fuels, composites, gases, and liquids. … a heap of industrial and university libraries will find it a utile one-volume reference. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners.” (A. M. Strauss, Choice, Vol. 46 (2), October, 2008)
About the Author
François Cardarelli has had wide-ranging mercantile and industrial experience of materials, commodities and processes:
• at CNRS in Paris he designed and employed electrochemical sensors for pollution control;
• as a exploration 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 difficulties 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 specified battery requirements and specifications and produced pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical processing for expended lithium batteries;
• at Rio Tinto Iron and Titanium, he was important 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 indispensable 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).
