Author: Gunter Gottstein
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420054368
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
A major goal of materials science is to create new engineering materials and optimize their cost and performance. Understanding how adjacent materials behave at their borders is an essential part of this process. Grain boundaries are the longest-known crystal defects, but although they were discovered in the mid-eighteenth century, until quite rece