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Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering

A Design-Led Approach

  • 1st Edition - August 1, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Michael F. Ashby, Hugh Shercliff, David Cebon
  • Language: English

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Description

Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering: A Design-Led Approach is ideal for a first course in materials for mechanical, civil, biomedical, aerospace and other engineering disciplines. The authors’ systematic method includes first analyzing and selecting properties to match materials to design through the use of real-world case studies and then examining the science behind the material properties to better engage students whose jobs will be centered on design or applied industrial research. As with Ashby’s other leading texts, the book emphasizes visual communication through material property charts and numerous schematics better illustrate the origins of properties, their manipulation and fundamental limits.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Undergraduate materials, mechanical, chemical, civil & aeronautical engineering students taking a first course in materials

Table of contents

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

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 11, 2023
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Michael F. Ashby

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.
Affiliations and expertise
Royal Society Research Professor Emeritus, University of Cambridge, and Former Visiting Professor of Design at the Royal College of Art, London, UK

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Hugh Shercliff

Hugh Shercliff is an Emeritus Associate Professor in Materials in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge (UK). His research experience spanned all classes of engineering materials, with an emphasis on process modelling applied to the forming and joining of light alloys. He is co-author with Michael Ashby and David Cebon of Materials: Engineering, Science, Processing and Design, Fourth Edition (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2018), and Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2023).
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Associate Professor, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK

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David Cebon

David Cebon is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Cambridge University in the UK.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK