Introduction: materials - history and character; Organizing materials and processes; Matching material to design; Density and elastic moduli; GL1 - Simnple ideas of crystallography; Stiffness-limited design; Plasticity, yielding and ductility; Strength-limited design; Fracture and fracture toughness; Cyclic loading, damage and failure; Fracture-limited design; Friction and wear; Materials and heat; Using Materials at high temperatures; Conductors, insulators and dielectrics; Magnetic Materials; Materials for Optical Devices; Oxidation, corrosion and degradation; Manufacturing processes; Processing and properties; GL2 - Phase diagrams and phase transformations; Materials, processes and the environment; Appendix - Data for engineering materials
Mike Ashby is one of the world’s foremost authorities on materials selection. He is sole or lead author of several of Elsevier’s top selling engineering textbooks, including Materials and Design: The Art and Science of Material Selection in Product Design, Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, Materials and the Environment, Materials and Sustainable Development, and Materials: Engineering, Science, Processing and Design. He is also co-author of the books Engineering Materials 1&2, and Nanomaterials, Nanotechnologies and Design. Hugh Shercliff is a Senior Lecturer in Materials in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He is a co-author of Michael Ashby's Materials, Third Edition (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2013), and a contributor on aluMATTER, an e-learning website for engineers and researchers sponsored by the European Aluminium Association. David Cebon is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Cambridge University in the UK.
Professor Mike Ashby is well known for producing readily
understandable materials education texts, and for the innovative
use of graphical representation for material properties. This book,
now in its second edition, is no exception and explains materials
engineering from a design-led approach, as opposed to the more
traditional science-led approach.
Useful for reinforcing student learning is the inclusion of over 50
new worked examples, distributed throughout the book. Completely
new are the self-contained Guided Learning Units or sections at the
end of the book on crystallography, and phase diagrams and phase
transformations, including exercises (and unlike the rest of the
book with answers). There are also useful links to interactive
‘online’ tutorials and assessment, reinforcing the strong
selfteaching aspects of the book.
[T]he book is aimed primarily at students and teachers of materials
science and engineering, although engineering practitioners
involved with materials and their selection will also find the
extensive use of applications both useful and relevant.
-- Engineering Designer, (Reviewed by Professor Kevin Edwards)
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