Publisher's Synopsis
This is a multi-disciplinary approach to corrosion and materials science, considering science as a series of models to explain the problems of the environment and the degradation of the most popular utility of our generation, the motor vehicle. He explains motor vehicle manufacturing processes, considering the different materials used and their degradation; and gives a simple explanation of the potentials of metals.;Descriptions of materials which play a vital role in motor vehicle manufacture are incorporated with illustrative material - eg plastics, adhesives, paints, to show advances in their technology. Explanations for the failure of certain processes in the unique environment of the motor vehicles (eg Cathodic protection by impressed current) are given: and introductions to both dislocation and phase diagrams provided, along with the practical application of the stress/strain curve to the fitability of the pressed motor vehicle panel.
