Former Lecturer at Buckingham Chilterns University College, High Wycombe, UK, and now retired, William Bolton has worked in industry and academia as a senior lecturer in a college of technology, a member of the Nuffield Advanced Physics team, an adviser to a British government aid project in Brazil on technical education, as a UNESCO consultant in Argentina and Thailand, and as Head of Research and Development at the Business and Technician Education Council. He has written many engineering textbooks, including Mechatronics, 4th ed., Engineering Science, 5th ed., Higher Engineering Science, 2nd ed., Mechanical Science, 3rd ed., and Instrumentation and Control Systems. Mathew Philip is a Professor at the University of Brighton in Brighton, UK.

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• Preface; Introduction to materials; The structure of materials; Alloys; Polymers, ceramics and composites; Forming and joining; Failure of materials; Selection of materials; Solutions to problems; Index

Former Lecturer at Buckingham Chilterns University College, High Wycombe, UK, and now retired, William Bolton has worked in industry and academia as a senior lecturer in a college of technology, a member of the Nuffield Advanced Physics team, an adviser to a British government aid project in Brazil on technical education, as a UNESCO consultant in Argentina and Thailand, and as Head of Research and Development at the Business and Technician Education Council. He has written many engineering textbooks, including Mechatronics, 4th ed., Engineering Science, 5th ed., Higher Engineering Science, 2nd ed., Mechanical Science, 3rd ed., and Instrumentation and Control Systems. Mathew Philip is a Professor at the University of Brighton in Brighton, UK.

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• Preface; Introduction to materials; The structure of materials; Alloys; Polymers, ceramics and composites; Forming and joining; Failure of materials; Selection of materials; Solutions to problems; Index

Former Lecturer at Buckingham Chilterns University College, High Wycombe, UK, and now retired, William Bolton has worked in industry and academia as a senior lecturer in a college of technology, a member of the Nuffield Advanced Physics team, an adviser to a British government aid project in Brazil on technical education, as a UNESCO consultant in Argentina and Thailand, and as Head of Research and Development at the Business and Technician Education Council. He has written many engineering textbooks, including Mechatronics, 4th ed., Engineering Science, 5th ed., Higher Engineering Science, 2nd ed., Mechanical Science, 3rd ed., and Instrumentation and Control Systems. Mathew Philip is a Professor at the University of Brighton in Brighton, UK.

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• Preface; Introduction to materials; The structure of materials; Alloys; Polymers, ceramics and composites; Forming and joining; Failure of materials; Selection of materials; Solutions to problems; Index