Scientists, engineers, and students in materials science and engineering (MSE) perform
extensive technical calculations and apply computers and some special programs for this.
MATLAB® is a very popular software used in technical computing because of its efficiency
and simplicity. This book presents a primer in technical programming in MATLAB with
examples from the field of materials science, and addresses a wide MSE audience—
undergraduate and graduate students and practicing engineers. It provides the MATLAB
fundamentals with a variety of application examples and problems taken from materials
engineering, physics of materials and properties of substances, and material phenomenon simulations that should facilitate learning the software language. I hope that many nonprogrammer students, engineers, and scientists from MSE field will find the software convenient for solving their specific problems.
The book accumulates many years of teaching experience in introductory and
advanced courses in the fields of MATLAB, material properties, and tribology that were
lectured for students, engineers, and scientists specializing in the area in question.