Product Description

The Materials Handbook is an encyclopedic, A-to-Z organization of all types of materials, featuring their key performance properties, principal characteristics and applications in product design. Materials include ferrous and nonferrous metals, plastics, elastomers, ceramics, woods, composites, chemicals, minerals, textiles, fuels, foodstuffs and natural plant and animal substances --more than 13,000 in all. Properties are expressed in both U.S. customary and metric units and a thorough index eases finding details on each and every material.Introduced in 1929 and often known simply as "Brady's," this comprehensive, one-volume, 1244 page encyclopedia of materials is intended for executives, managers, supervisors, engineers, and technicians, in engineering, manufacturing, marketing, purchasing and sales as well as educators and students.Of the dozens of families of materials updated in the 15th Edition, the most extensive additions pertain to adhesives, activated carbon, aluminides, aluminum alloys, catalysts, ceramics, composites, fullerences, heat-transfer fluids, nanophase materials, nickel alloys, olefins, silicon nitride, stainless steels, thermoplastic elastomers, titanium alloys, tungsten alloys, valve alloys and welding and hard-facing alloys. Also widely updated are acrylics, brazing alloys, chelants, biodegradable plastics, molybdenum alloys, plastic alloys, recyclate plastics, superalloys, supercritical fluids and tool steels.New classes of materials added include aliphatic polyketones, carburizing secondary-hardening steels and polyarylene ether benzimidazoles. Carcinogens and materials likely to be cancer-causing in humans are listed for the first time.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #109531 in eBooks
• Published on: 2002-06-18
• Released on: 2002-06-18
• Format: Kindle Book
• Number of items: 1

Review
valuable insights into the nature of the materials used in the battery industry daily...interesting reading and a ready reference -- The Battery Man, October 2002

Review
Anytime a title can pass through fifteen editions, it must be doing something right, and it must be providing a valuable service. While McGraw-Hill has not made volume data available, the fact that this title has been published in numerous editions since 1956 allows for its place as a compulsory read, if not as an important reference. The subtitle of the book actually describes its place rather well: "An encyclopedia for Managers, Technical Professionals, Purchasing and Production Managers, Technicians and Supervisors." The book is divided into two parts, Materials -- Their Properties and Uses; and Structure and Properties of Materials. Either part can provide valuable insights into the nature of the materials used in the battery industry daily; both together provide interesting reading and a ready reference for those numerous questions which always arise at just the wrong moment. (Battery Man )

From the Back Cover
Known simply as ``Brady's''--the only comprehensive, one-volume encyclopedia of materials is now revised! Since 1929, this unique tool has saved professionals' time by providing a one-stop source of comprehensive information on virtually every material and substance used in industry and engineering. The Fourteenth Edition is thoroughly updated to provide full information on a multitude of new materials and substances. It gives you: A-to-Z organization for easy access; coverage of more than 13,000 materials; details on chemicals, metals, minerals, fuels, plastics, textiles, finishes, woods, pharmaceuticals, elastomers, ceramics, coatings, composites, industrial substances, foodstuffs, and natural plant and animal substances; entries on new materials, including recyclate plastics, fullerness, hard-surfaced polymers, dendrimers, transflective materials, rapid prototyping materials, silicone nitride, supercritical fluids, bulk molding compounds, conversion coatings, folic acid, replacements for chloro-fluoracarbons, and thousands more; properties and characteristics of materials, including composition, production methods, uses, and commercial desgination or trade names; a thorough index for finding just the material you need.

Customer Reviews

A really broad listing of materials and their uses
This book is most helpful to those who have to find information about materials outside their area of expertise. The listing is extremely broad, and unlike other books, does not just focus on engineered or structural materials. The negative side of this breadth is the small amount of information on each material (sometimes only one or two paragraphs). This small amount of information, however, is usually enough to direct a search into a more productive direction. I have benefitted from this book on the last 4 jobs I have held. Definitely worth having.

Materials Handbook (15th Ed.)
The "Materials Handbook" (15th Ed.) is now one of my favorite reference books. The variety of materials that it documents is pretty amazing. This is a great book for the scientist, engineer & layperson alike. A reader can quickly find the basic description & properties for alloys, elements, non-metallic substances, plastics, wood, liquids, etc., etc. If you can name it, it's probably in this book. There's one caveat; even at 1244 pages, it cannot contain every useful fact pertaining to a particular substance. Given that practical limitation, I suspect that many of us could learn exactly what we wanted to know about a substance and others can search other references that focus exclusively on specific materials in whatever category. Again, it's a very valuable reference and it is a great addition to any technical library.

reader
I have not read the most edition, but I have read an older one. I actually read it cover to cover. I find it fascinating to learn the history of various alloys and composites. Pretty much anything you want to know about any material is here. For anyone who has any interest in science, building, woodworking, sculpture, etc. this book will be extremely useful.