A comprehensive treatment of the chemistry and physics of mechanical hardness        Chemistry and Physics of Mechanical Hardness presents a general introduction to hardness measurement and the connections between hardness and fundamental materials properties.        Beginning with an introduction on the importance of hardness in the development of technology, the book systematically covers:                    Indentation              Chemical bonding              Plastic deformation              Covalent semiconductors              Simple metals and alloys              Transition metals              Intermetallic compounds              Ionic crystals              Metal-metalloids              Oxides              Molecular crystals              Polymers              Glasses              Hot hardness              Chemical hardness              Super-hard materials              Chemistry and Physics of Mechanical Hardness is essential reading for materials scientists, mechanical engineers, metallurgists, ceramists, chemists, and physicists who are interested in learning how hardness is related to other properties and to the building blocks of everyday matter.

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