Manufacturing technology: materials, processes, and equipment

"This text explores all of the manufacturing processes, materials, and equipment used to convert raw materials into a final product. It presents the most commonly used and recently developed manufacturing methods, along with applications, worked examples, exercises, and review questions. Materials covered include metallics, polymers, ceramics, and glasses. The book discusses heat treatments, smelting of metals, process casting, forming, powder metallurgy, joining processes, and surface technology. It also looks at the environmental aspects related to manufacturing and clean factories and describes trends in surface hardening technology"--

Ch. 1. Introduction to manufacturing technology -- ch. 2. Properties of engineering materials -- ch. 3. Structure of metals and alloys -- ch. 4. Engineering materials and their applications -- ch. 5. Heat treatment of metals and alloys -- ch. 6. Smelting of metallic materials -- ch. 7. Casting of metallic materials -- ch. 8. Fundamentals of metal forming -- ch. 9. Bulk forming of metallic materials -- ch. 10. Sheet metal forming processes -- ch. 11. High-velocity forming and high-energy-rate forming -- ch. 12. Powder metallurgy and processing of ceramic materials -- ch. 13. Polymeric materials and their processing -- ch. 14. Composite materials and their fabrication processes -- ch. 15. Fundamentals of traditional machining processes -- ch. 16. Machine tools for traditional machining -- ch. 17. Fundamentals of nontraditional machining process -- ch. 18. Numerical control of machine tools -- ch. 19. Industrial robots and hexapods -- ch. 20. Surface technology -- ch. 21. Joining processes -- ch. 22. Advanced manufacturing techniques -- ch. 23. Materials, processes, and design for manufacturing -- ch. 24. Quality control -- ch. 25. Automation in manufacturing technology -- ch. 26. He…