Taylor and Francis

Taylor and Francis

English

"The new textbook by Professor Haidemenopoulos serves as a comprehensive introduction to the physical metallurgy of metals. The phenomena are described in a conceptional and demonstrative manner; a link to real materials application is elaborated for many possible applications. It is especially worth mentioning that the consequent numerical description of the fundamental design principles of metals offers the entrance for physics-based modelling of materials and processes."—Wolfgang Bleck, RWTH Aachen University, Germany "The book by Haidemenopolous is an up-to-date book on the physical metallurgy of metals. It covers the well-known topics of phase transformations under equilibrium and non-equilibrium conditions, as well as the strengthening mechanism and the way it can be used during metal production or treatment. The last chapter on Alloy Design is a nice integration of the concepts explained and takes the book from the level of explaining what is known already to the level of (the start of) a toolbox to redesign new alloys based on conceptual thinking."—Sybrand van der Zwaag, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands "Although this specialised text is – first and foremost – aimed at upwardly mobile students studying with a materials science department, the author cordially invites others to read this book and categorically states (page 2) that his aim is to help readers (of other persuasions) to understand the behaviour of metals subjected to mechanical and/or thermomechanical loads.… [a] useful well-organised authoritative book. All who are studying strength of materials as a core subject will also find much in this book that is directly relevant to their studies." ––Peter C. Gasson,CEng, MIMechE, FRAeS, The Aeronautical Journal, October 2020