Functionally Graded Materials: Design, Processing And Applications (materials Technology Series)
by Y. Miyamoto /
1999 / English / PDF
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Seven years have elapsed since Dr. Renee Ford, editor-in-chief of
Materials Technology, first suggested to me to publish a book on
Functionally Graded Materials (FGMs). She said that the FGM
concept, then largely unknown outside of Japan and a relatively few
laboratories elsewhere, would be of great interest to everyone
working in the materials field because of its potentially universal
applicability. There was no book about FGMs in English at that
time, although the number of research papers, review articles, and
FGM conference proceedings had been increasing yearly. We discussed
what the book should cover, and decided it should present a
comprehensive description from basic theory to the most recent
applications of FGMs. This would make it useful both as an
introduction to FGMs for those simply curious about what this new
materials field was all about, and also as a textbook for
researchers, engineers, and graduate students in various material
fields. The FGM Forum in Japan generously offered to support this
publication program. is very difficult for an individual author to
write a book that Because it covers such a wide range of various
aspects of many different materials, I invited more than 30 eminent
materials scientists throughout the world, who were associated with
FGM research, to contribute selected topics. I also asked several
leading researchers in this field to edit selected chapters: Dr.
Barry H. Rabin, then at the U. S.
Seven years have elapsed since Dr. Renee Ford, editor-in-chief of
Materials Technology, first suggested to me to publish a book on
Functionally Graded Materials (FGMs). She said that the FGM
concept, then largely unknown outside of Japan and a relatively few
laboratories elsewhere, would be of great interest to everyone
working in the materials field because of its potentially universal
applicability. There was no book about FGMs in English at that
time, although the number of research papers, review articles, and
FGM conference proceedings had been increasing yearly. We discussed
what the book should cover, and decided it should present a
comprehensive description from basic theory to the most recent
applications of FGMs. This would make it useful both as an
introduction to FGMs for those simply curious about what this new
materials field was all about, and also as a textbook for
researchers, engineers, and graduate students in various material
fields. The FGM Forum in Japan generously offered to support this
publication program. is very difficult for an individual author to
write a book that Because it covers such a wide range of various
aspects of many different materials, I invited more than 30 eminent
materials scientists throughout the world, who were associated with
FGM research, to contribute selected topics. I also asked several
leading researchers in this field to edit selected chapters: Dr.
Barry H. Rabin, then at the U. S.
