- 394 pages
- English
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About this book
This book is a record of the conference entitled Materials Science and Engineering: Its Nucleation and Growth held at Imperial College on 14 and 15 May 2001 as one of the events held to mark the 150th Anniversary of the founding of the Royal School of Mines (RSM).
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction and Background
- List of Contributors
- The Origins of Metallurgy and the RSM
- The Contributions of William Chandler Roberts-Austen to Metallurgy and to the Arts
- The Nuffield Research Group in Extraction Metallurgy (NRGEM): Founding and Evolution
- The Early Years of Transmission Electron Microscopy at RSM
- Transition from Metallurgy to Materials Science
- Structural Metals: Is there a Future?
- Role of Advanced Materials in Modern Aero Engines (abstract only)
- The Past, Present and Future of Magnetic Data Storage
- On the Horizon - Some Material Advances in the Nuclear Energy
- Materials in Medicine
- Research Council Priorities (abstract only)
- Formula 1 Materials Engineering
- Some Features of Iron- and Steelmaking in Integrated Steel Plants
- Interaction of Materials Science with Extractive Metallurgy
- Single Crystal Superalloys (abstract only)
- Materials Processing: The Enabling Discipline (abstract only)
- The Materials Science of Cement and Concrete: An Industrial Perspective
- Materials for Ceramic Ion Conducting Membrane Devices
- Grain Boundaries in High Tc Superconductors: The key to Applications (abstract only)
- Lightweight Materials and Structures
- The Engineering of Cells and Tissues (abstract only)
- A Genetic Basis for Biomedical Materials
- Controversial Concepts in Alloy Theory Revisited
- Virtual Materials (atstract only)
- Atomistic Simulation of Materials
- Author and Subject Index