Materials Science for the Next Generation

摘要

Advanced materials, with their interfaces, steep gradients and very small dimensional microstructural features require more comprehensive analytical treatments. Future chemical, physical, and mechanical analyses and implementations need further refinement, such as incorporation of the non-linear behavior associated with interfaces and gradients. The use of electronic, magnetic, and elastic assessments to evaluate the material state will be an everyday practice, including the establishment of electronic metallography practices. The application of wave mechanics with wave-perturbing nondestructive tools and practices to assess more than one property measurement should enable a more comprehensive understanding of the material state.