Manufacturing Processes for Engineering Materials

Winner of the 1985 M. Eugene Merchant Manufacturing Textbook Award, Manufac-turing Processes for Engineering Materials helped manufacturing engineering reacquire its significance in the academic community. Using a sound analytical approach to teach manufacturing processes, this textbook enables students to understand and appreciate the complex interrelationships among the diverse topics within the discipline. The author carefully presents the fundamentals along with their relevant applications so that students can properly assess the capabilities, limitations, and potentials of manufacturing processes and their competitive aspects.

Manufacturing Processes for Engineering Materials, Fourth Edition is a comprehensive text, written mainly for students in mechanical, industrial, and metallurgical and materials engineering programs. The text, as well as the numerous examples and case studies in each chapter, clearly show that manufacturing engineering is a complex and interdisciplinary subject. The topics are organized and presented in such a manner that they motivate and-challenge students to present technically and economically viable solutions to a wide variety of questions and problems, including product design. Since the publication of the third edition, there have been rapid and significant advances in various areas in manufacturing. The fourth edition of Manufacturing Processes for Engineering Materials, while continuing with balanced coverage of the relevant fundamentals, analytical approaches, and applications, reflects these new advances.

New in the Fourth Edition:

• A new Chapter 13 on fabrication of microelectronic and micromechanical devices.
• Expansion of design considerations in each chapter. r New examples and case studies throughout all chapters.
• A total of 1230 questions and problems; 32% more than in the third edition.
• End-of-chapter questions and problems now include problems on design; a total of 140 design problems.
• Figures have been improved or redrawn for better graphic impact.
• More cross-references to sections and chapters throughout the text. Bibliographies have been thoroughly updated.