The new science of strong materials, or, Why you don't fall through the floor

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1. ggmJan 2023
   Cannot recommend enough "the new science of strong materials: or, why you don't fall through the floor" by JE Gordon. Old, but amazing.
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2. xavieralexandreDec 2022
   I love reading those articles about new materials. Since reading James Edward Gordon's The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall through the Floor (https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691180984/th...), I’ve been trying to keep in touch with the development of new materials. Still, I find it hard to understand which materials get into production. You tend to read news about new materials when a press release is published (as it is a relatively discrete event), but rarely about the fact that an industry has progressively adopted a new material that it regularly uses in production. It is even worse if there isn't a corporation or institution behind it to promote it.

   For example, I read many articles about Flash Bainite Steel (https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1461193) in 2015, and I’d love to know if the industry has adopted this process. (I am especially curious about its potential use as tubing material for bicycle frame building).

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3. tape_measureOct 2020
   The New Science of Strong Materials, or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor by J.E. Gordon is a great casual introduction to material science that touches on this relation between size and fatigue life.

   However, it was written in 1968 before these semiconductors were developed. Do you have any recommendations for further reading on the design or history of MEMS?

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4. notauserNov 2009
   By the same author I can recommend The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor. (The section on wooden planes is particularly interesting.)

   http://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Science-Strong-Materials-Through...

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