文档介绍：Modern Physical Metallurgy and Materials Engineering
About the authors been Vice President of the Institute of Materials and
President of the Federated European Materials Soci-
eties. Since retirement he has been academic consultant
for a number of institutions both in the UK and over-
seas.
After gaining his PhD in 1953, Professor Smallman
spent five years at the Atomic Energy Research Estab-
lishment at Harwell, before returning to the University R. J. Bishop
of Birmingham where he became Professor of Physi- After working in laboratories of the automobile,
cal Metallurgy in 1964 and Feeney Professor and Head forging, tube-drawing and razor blade industries
of the Department of Physical Metallurgy and Science (1944–59), Ray Bishop became a Principal Scientist
of Materials in 1969. He subsequently became Head of the British Coal Utilization Research Association
of the amalgamated Department of Metallurgy and (1959–68), studying superheater-tube corrosion and
Materials (1981), Dean of the Faculty of Science and mechanisms of ash deposition on behalf of boiler
Engineering, and the first Dean of the newly-created manufacturers and the Central Electricity Generating
Engineering Faculty in 1985. For five years he was Board. He specialized bustor simulation of
Vice-Principal of the University (1987–92). conditions within pulverized-fuel-fired power station
He has held visiting professorship appointments at boilers and fluidized-bustion systems. He then
the University of Stanford, Berkeley, Pennsylvania became a Senior Lecturer in Materials Science at
(USA), New South Wales (Australia), Hong Kong and the Polytechnic (now University), Wolverhampton,
Cape Town and has received Honorary Doctorates acting at various times as leader of C&G, HNC, TEC
from the University of Novi Sad (Yugoslavia) and AA honours Degree courses and supervising
the University of Wales. His research work has been doctoral researches. For seven years he was O