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What is the main goal of materials science and engineering?
What is the main goal of materials science and engineering?
- To ignore why materials fail unexpectedly
- To design only new materials without understanding existing ones
- To promote the use of materials without optimizing their properties
- To understand the fundamental physical origins of material behavior (correct)
How does materials science contribute to improving materials?
How does materials science contribute to improving materials?
- By optimizing properties through structure modification and processing (correct)
- By focusing solely on why materials unexpectedly fail
- By ignoring the structure modification and processing
- By designing new materials without understanding existing ones
Why do researchers study material behavior in materials science and engineering?
Why do researchers study material behavior in materials science and engineering?
- To optimize properties and understand why some materials fail unexpectedly (correct)
- To only design new materials without understanding existing ones
- To overlook the reasons for material failures
- To avoid modifying material structures
