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Marc A. Meyers & Krishan K. Chawla
Cambridge University Press
Chapter 1
Materials, Structure, Properties, and
Performance
Composites
(a)
(b)
Hierarchical Structure
Crystal Structure
Miller Indices
Hexagonal Structure
(a) Layer of most closely packed atoms corresponding to (111) in FCC and (00.1) in HCP.
(b) Packing sequence of most densely packed planes in AB and AC sequence.
(c) Ball model showing the ABAB sequence of the HCP structure.
(d) Ball model showing the ABCABC sequence of the FCC structure.
Structure of Glasses
(a)
(b)
Structure of Glasses
(c)
(d)
(e)
Trimodal Composite
Composition
B4C (~1-7micron)
Cryomilled Al 5083 (~27-100 nm)
Al 5083 CG (~1 micron)
Density
(g/cc)
Youngs
Modulus
(GPa)
CTE
(1/C)
Al 5083
2.66
70
26 x 10-6
B4C
2.51
460
6.1 x 10-6
18
Trimodal Composite
Microstructure
19
Classification of Polymers
Tacticity in Polypropylene
Crystallinity of Polymers
Spherulitic structures:
a.
Spherulitic structure (Courtesy of H.D. Keith)
b.
c.
Liquid Crystals
Stressstrain curves for biological materials. (a) Urether. (After F. C. P. Yin and Y. C. Fung,
Am. J. Physiol. 221 (1971), 1484.) (b) Human femur bone. (After F. G. Evans, Artificial
Limbs, 13 (1969) 37.)
(a) Cross section of abalone shell showing how a crack, starting at left, is deflected by viscoplastic layer
between calcium carbonate lamellae (mesoscale).
(b) Schematic drawing showing arrangement of calcium carbonate in nacre, forming a miniature
brick and mortar structure (microscale).
Cellular materials: (a) synthetic aluminum foam; (b) foam found in the
inside of toucan beak.(Courtesy of M. S. Schneider and K. S. Vecchio.)
Amino Acids
DNA Structure
Collagen
Actin
Muscle Structure
Electronic Materials