
Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering
A Design-Led Approach
- 1st Edition - August 1, 2023
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Authors: Michael F. Ashby, Hugh Shercliff, David Cebon
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 2 3 9 9 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 2 4 0 0 - 3
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Request a sales quote- Design-led approach motivates and engages students in the study of materials science and engineering through real-life case studies and illustrative applications
- Requires a minimum level of math necessary for a first course in Materials Science and Engineering
- Highly visual full color graphics facilitate understanding of materials concepts and properties
- Chapters on materials selection and design are integrated with chapters on materials fundamentals, enabling students to see how specific fundamentals can be important to the design process
- Several topics are expanded separately as Guided Learning Units: Crystallography, Materials Selection in Design, Process Selection in Design, and Phase Diagrams and Phase Transformations
- For instructors, a solutions manual, image bank and other ancillaries are available at https://educate.elsevier.com/book/details/9780081023990
1.Introduction: materials — history, classification, and properties
2. Materials, processes, and design
3. Material properties and microstructure — overview and atom-scale fundamentals
4. Elastic stiffness and stiffness-limited applications
5. Plasticity, yielding and ductility, and strength-limited applications
6. Fracture, fatigue, and fracture-limited applications
7. Materials and heat: thermal properties
8. Materials at high temperatures: diffusion and creep
9. Surfaces: friction, wear, oxidation, corrosion
10. Functional properties: electrical, magnetic, optical
11. Manufacturing processes and microstructure evolution
12. Materials, environment, and sustainability
Guided Learning Unit 1: Simple ideas of crystallography
Guided Learning Unit 2: Material selection in design
Guided Learning Unit 3: Process selection in design
Guided Learning Unit 4: Phase diagrams and phase Transformations
Appendix A: Material property data
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 1, 2023
- No. of pages (Paperback): 704
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780081023990
- eBook ISBN: 9780081024003
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