Introduction to Engineering Materials: The Bicycle and the Walkman"The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction to materials science and engineering, the subject matter of which is taught not only in departments bearing that name, but also in departments of ceramics, polymer science, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, physics, chemistry, and others. The field is so broad that it cannot possibly be represented fully in a one-semester introductory course, especially one which uses the kind of giant case-study method used here. The advantage of a case study is that it immediately immerses the student in a context which helps one to assimilate new information in an existing conceptual framework. Thus, the student can see the "big picture" from the outset and be able to understand how the subject fits together and is used. A disadvantage is that the various parts of the subject cannot all receive the amount of attention which practitioners of all those parts would feel they deserve. The student, therefore, should be aware that the fact that metallic materials have here recieved more space than polymeric, ceramic, or semiconducting materials, results, not from the relative importance of the latter three, but only from their present usage in the cases considered here." |
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WHEELS AND SPOKES CORROSION RESISTANCE | 10 |
MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF SPOKES | 22 |
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alloy aluminum amount annealing anode applied austenite axis bainite band beam behavior bending bicycle frame bonding brazing Burgers vector carbon steel cementite ceramic chain components composition compression cooling covalent covalent bonds crack crystal structure crystalline curve density diffusion direction edge dislocation elastic electrical electrons energy epoxy equilibrium eutectic eutectoid example fatigue ferrite fibers fracture glide grain boundary grain growth heat illustrated in Fig increase interface iron joint lattice length liquid load magnetic martensite material matrix maximum metal microstructure modulus molecules occurs oxide particles pearlite phase diagram plane polymer precipitate produce quenched reaction recrystallization region resistance room temperature schematically in Fig screw dislocation semiconductor shear stress shown in Fig silicon slip solid solution solute atom stainless steel steel spoke strain hardening stress field surface tape tensile stress tion transformation tube unit cell vacancies valence valence band voltage volume welding wheel wire