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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Metallurgical Assessment of Spacecraft Parts, Materials and Processes presents the sciences of metallurgy and metallography and demonstrates how they can be applied as an integral part of the spacecraft product assurance schemes, which involve quality, material and process evaluations and the selection of mechanical and component parts.

In this expanded successor edition, which has been completely revised and updated, engineering problems associated with critical spacecraft hardware and the space environment are highlighted by over 400 micrographs and fractographs.

(Extracted from the back cover).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Table of Contents.

-Preface to the First  Edition.

-Preface to the Second  Edition.

-Acknowledgements.

-List of Illustrations and Tables.

-1. Introduction.

-2. Requirements for Spacecraft Materials.

-3. The Integration of Metallurgy into Product Assurance Schemes.

-4. Metallography Applied to Spacecraft Production.

-5. Metallography Applied to Spacecraft Test Failures.

-6. Failure Analysis of Electrical Interconnections and Recommended Processes.

-7. Whisker Growths.

-8. Assessment of Post-flight Materials.

-References.

-Appendices.

-Glossary.

-Index.

OUR REVIEW

It has often been said that astronautics is a science that gathers in its turn a multitude of other sciences. And so is this. Metallurgy and metalography, for instance, are some of the most important ones, and are the ones that the author examines in this book. The exploration of space has revolutionised the techniques of construction, engineering, the research for better, lighter materials, and with that metallurgy has proved how important it has been in this field so as to make the design of satellites and manned ships possible.

Dunn, in his most complete work, tells us which the current status of metallurgy and metalography is, applied to the space industry, which the most innovative techniques are for the prevention of structural failures, corrosion, etc., and he also explains us what sort of equipments and tools are used in all that.