Book description
Extensively revised and updated, this new edition of a classic text
presents a unified approach to crystallography and to the defects found
within crystals. The book combines the classical and exact description
of symmetry of a perfect crystal with the possible geometries of the
major defects-dislocations, stacking faults, point defects, twins,
interfaces and the effects of martensitic transformations. A number of
important concepts and exciting new topics have been introduced in this
second edition, including piezoelectricity, liquid crystals,
nanocrystalline concepts, incommensurate materials and the structure of
foamed and amorphous solids. The coverage of quasicrystalline materials
has been extended, and the data tables, appendices and references have
been fully updated.
Reinforcing its unrivalled position as the core text for teaching
crystallography and crystal defects, each chapter includes problem
sets with brief numerical solutions at the end of the book. Detailed
worked solutions, supplementary lecture material and computer programs
for crystallographic calculations are provided online (http://booksupport. wiley. com).
Anthony Kelly
is an Emeritus Professor and a Distinguished Research Fellow in the
Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at Cambridge University
(UK). Professor Kelly has been employed in universities, in governmental
science (National Physical Laboratory) and in industry (ICI). He was
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Surrey (UK) and while there he
established the Surrey Research Park. In 1963 with Robin Nicholson he
produced the first synthesis relating type of dispersion and work
hardening characteristics of metals. This has become an SCI citation
classic. Since 2000 his main research interest is in using composite
principles to control and to modify the thermal expansion coefficients
of materials. He is the principal author of the two previous very
successful editions of "Crystallography and Crystal Defects"
and of other books and has a worldwide reputation in materials science.
Dr. Kevin Knowles is senior lecturer at Department of Materials
Science and Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge (UK). He
received his DPhil at Oxon (UK) on aspects of the crystallography of
martensitic transformations. Dr. Knowles has lectured and supervised a
course on crystallography to third year undergraduates and he lectures
and supervises a course on plasticity and deformation processing to
undergraduates. The research interests of his group focus on the
relationship between microstructure and the mechanical and electronic
properties of engineering ceramics.
