Materials Processing: A Unified Approach to Processing of Metals, Ceramics and Polymers Lorraine F. Francis
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s very talented and ultimately co-authored a paper with my father. Aside from a few such examples, the women computers remained in the background performing calculations. JPL’s history with having women computers is still part of its lab culture today; JPL has a relatively high percentage of women engineers. Holt brings all the women together for a reunion—with all but one retired, it was a tearful and joyful event. These women had a lot to be proud of in how they contributed to space research. The fact that they did not boast about their accomplishments is also in line with the space culture, where the ratio of scientists/engineers to famous astronauts is literally in the range of 10,000 to 1. The reader will get a different perspective about the space race. However, additional reference books are needed
Materials Processing: A Unified Approach to Processing of Metals, Ceramics and Polymers Lorraine F. Francis Academic Press, 2016 614 pages, $120.00 (e-book $120.00) ISBN 9780123851321
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his book is an excellent introduction to materials processing for students, researchers, and newcomers to the field. It covers a combination of fundamentals and applications of materials science and engineering, and provides students with comprehensive knowledge supported by solved examples and problems. Chapter 1 is an introduction to the field of materials processing and provides an overview of metals, ceramics, and polymers. Chapter 2 deals with the preparation, formulation, and characterization of the starting materials for processing. Chapter 3 details the fundamentals and
processing of converting melt to solids; heat transfer through the melting process; solidification; and different types of casting and post-casting processes for metals and glasses. The chapter also includes fundamentals and theoretical background of the extrusion and injection molding processes. Chapter 4 describes the solid deformation processes of metals, polymers, and ceramics, such as deformation under uniaxial tension, deformation with friction, wire drawing, direct extrusion, indirect extrusion, impact extrusion, forging, rolling, bending, thermoforming, and superplastic forming processes.
to help understand how all of the subsequent deep space programs fit together. A graph showing the programs’ names and the women who worked in them would have been helpful. The writing in the book often wanders aimlessly and could have been improved with additional editing. While the book could have had a larger impact by going into more details about the technical work and by giving a better perspective on the computing roles for women, Holt manages to capture a history of women in science and engineering that is informative and comprehensive. Reviewer: Karen Swider Lyons researches fuel-cell and battery materials and their integration into naval systems in Alexandria, Va., USA.
Chapter 5 covers the fabrication, necessary characterization and investigation of different types of powders, compaction under cold or hot conditions, the fundamentals of solid-state sin
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