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This section of our website contains module-by-module listings from the Materials Science on CD-ROM user guide.  Note that the formatting of mathematical expressions and other features may be lost when viewed with older browsers.  These documents were originally typeset in Times New Roman.

• Installing and running Materials Science on CD-ROM (1.04 MB PDF document)
• Introduction to crystallography
• Introduction to electrons in crystals
• Introduction to point defects
• Dislocations
• Introduction to phase diagrams
• Thermodynamics of phase diagrams
• Atomic diffusion in metals and alloys
• Nucleation in metals and alloys
• Introduction to electron microscopes
• Image fundamentals
• Beam-specimen interactions
• Using the Scanning Electron Microscope
• Aluminium Alloys: Systems
• Aluminium Alloys: Strengthening
• Aluminium Alloys: Processing
• Mechanics of composite materials
• Deformation of Polymers
• Rubber Elasticity