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Yongqiang Wang, Michael Nastasi

2010

MRS, Materials Research Soc.

Handbook of Modern Ion Beam Materials Analysis Page 1 698 MRS BULLETIN • VOLUME 37 • JULY 2012 • www.mrs.org/bulletin FEATURES BOOKS Mechanics of biomaterials: Fundamental principles for implant design Lisa A. Pruitt and Ayyana M. Chakravartula Cambridge University Press, 2011 696 pages, $110.00 ISBN 978-0-521-76221-2 Lisa Pruitt and Ayyana Chakravartula have written Mechanics of Biomaterials: Fundamental Principles for Im- plant Design, an excellent new textbook based on their experience teaching a class of the same name at the University of California–Berkeley, since 1998. This self-contained text is appropriate for advanced undergraduates and first-year graduate students interested in the design and testing of load-bearing biomedical implants. Clinicians and working engineers also will find the book useful as a comprehensive reference as it covers all of the major classes of …