Engineering Materials(Material Science) | Rangwala | Charotar

The definitive and most widely recommended reference textbook on construction materials, metallurgy, and material science! 🧱🏗️ Authored by the acclaimed engineering author S. C. Rangwala and published by Charotar Publishing House (CPH), Engineering Materials (Material Science) provides an up-to-date, systematic, and clear exposition of traditional and modern materials used in construction, infrastructure, and manufacturing industries. 🚀

✨ Key Features & Highlights:

• Comprehensive Construction Materials Coverage:

  • Stones & Clay Products: Geological, physical, and chemical classification of rocks, quarrying, dressing, refractory materials, terracotta, and porcelain. 🪨

  • Bricks & Masonry: Manufacturing processes, defects, field and laboratory tests of bricks, and modern fly-ash/AAC blocks. 🧱

  • Lime, Cement & Mortar: Chemical composition, hydration mechanisms, Bogue's compounds, setting times, compressive strength tests, and types of Portland cements. 🧪

  • Cement Concrete: Grading of aggregates, water-cement ratio, workability (slump test, compaction factor), admixtures, curing methods, and high-performance concretes. 🏗️

  • Timber & Wood Products: Structure of trees, defects in timber, seasoning methods, preservation, plywood, fiberboards, and laminated wood. 🪵

• Material Science & Metallurgy of Metals:

  • Ferrous Metals & Steel: Manufacturing of cast iron, wrought iron, plain carbon steels, alloy steels, and modern structural TMT rebars. ⚙️

  • Heat Treatment Processes: Annealing, normalizing, hardening, tempering, and surface hardening techniques. ⚡

  • Non-Ferrous Metals & Alloys: Properties and commercial engineering applications of Aluminum, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Nickel, and their alloys (brass, bronze, duralumin). 🔩

  • Corrosion & Protection: Electrochemical theory of corrosion, prevention methods, cathodic protection, galvanized coatings, paints, varnishes, and distempers. 🛡️

• Advanced & Modern Materials: Detailed dedicated chapters on polymeric materials, structural plastics, magnetic materials, fibre-reinforced composites, and smart nano-materials. 🔬

• Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Codes: Includes exhaustive appendices listing the latest Indian Standard (IS) codes relevant to sampling, testing, and specifying engineering materials. 📜

• Pedagogical Layout for University & Competitive Exams: Enriched with over 140+ clear line sketches, 80+ summary comparison tables, and 475+ university review questions suitable for GTU, GATE, SSC-JE, and CEPT examinations. 📊

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