A balanced mechanics-materials approach and coverage of the latest developments in biomaterials and electronic materials, the new edition of this popular text is the most thorough and modern book available for upper-level undergraduate courses on the mechanical behavior of materials. To ensure that the student gains a thorough understanding the authors present the fundamental mechanisms that operate at micro- and nano-meter level across a wide-range of materials, in a way that is mathematically simple and requires no extensive knowledge of materials.

This extensive text provides twenty-two revised chapters on the preparations, applications, and characterization as well as the environmental and toxicological aspects of nanoscale materials, with an emphasis on the chemistry component

Contents
introduction 5
safety Precautions: review Before starting any experiment 6
1 Building a Better World 9
experiment 1: Building with Plaster of Paris 11
experiment 2: drywall vs. Plaster 17
experiment 3: testing Cement mixtures 23

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