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Properties of Materials - Anisotropy, Symmetry, Structure (Hardcover)
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Properties of Materials - Anisotropy, Symmetry, Structure (Hardcover)
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Crystals are sometimes called 'Flowers of the Mineral Kingdom'. In
addition to their great beauty, crystals and other textured
materials are enormously useful in electronics, optics, acoustics
and many other engineering applications. This richly illustrated
text describes the underlying
principles of crystal physics and chemistry, covering a wide range
of topics and illustrating numerous applications in many fields of
engineering using the most important materials today. Tensors,
matrices, symmetry and structure-property relationships form the
main subjects of the book. While
tensors and matrices provide the mathematical framework for
understanding anisotropy, on which the physical and chemical
properties of crystals and textured materials often depend,
atomistic arguments are also needed to quantify the property
coefficients in various directions. The atomistic
arguments are partly based on symmetry and partly on the basic
physics and chemistry of materials. After introducing the point
groups appropriate for single crystals, textured materials and
ordered magnetic structures, the directional properties of many
different materials are described: linear and
nonlinear elasticity, piezoelectricity and electrostriction,
magnetic phenomena, diffusion and other transport properties, and
both primary and secondary ferroic behavior. With crystal optics
(its roots in classical mineralogy) having become an important
component of the information age, nonlinear
optics is described along with the piexo-optics, magneto-optics,
and analogous linear and nonlinear acoustic wave phenomena.
Enantiomorphism, optical activity, and chemical anisotropy are
discussed in the final chapters of thebook.
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