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Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering
A Design-Led Approach
- 1st Edition - August 1, 2023
- 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 quoteIntroduction 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.
- 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
Undergraduate materials, mechanical, chemical, civil & aeronautical engineering students taking a first course in materials
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Physical constants in SI units
- Copyright
- Preface
- Teaching Materials Science and Engineering
- The approach to teaching and learning Materials in this book
- This book and the Ansys/Granta EduPack Materials and Process Information software
- Acknowledgements
- Reviewers
- Resources that accompany this book
- Resources are available to adopting instructors who register on the Elsevier textbook website, https://educate.elsevier.com/book/details/9780081023990:
- Chapter 1. Introduction: materials — history, classification, and properties
- Abstract
- Chapter contents
- 1.1 Materials science and engineering: a bit of history
- 1.2 Classifying materials
- 1.3 Material properties
- 1.4 Material property charts
- 1.5 Summary and conclusions
- 1.6 Further reading
- 1.7 Exercises
- Chapter 2. Materials, processes, and design
- Abstract
- Chapter contents
- 2.1 Introduction and synopsis
- 2.2 Classification of materials and processes
- 2.3 The design process, and selection of material and process
- 2.4 The selection strategy: translation, screening, ranking, and technical evaluation
- 2.5 Summary and conclusions
- 2.6 Further reading
- 2.7 Exercises
- Chapter 3. Material properties and microstructure — overview and atom-scale fundamentals
- Abstract
- Chapter contents
- 3.1 Introduction and synopsis
- 3.2 Material properties and length-scales
- 3.3 Atomic structure and inter-atomic bonding
- 3.5 The physical origin of density
- 3.6 Summary and conclusions
- 3.7 Further reading
- 3.8 Exercises
- Chapter 4. Elastic stiffness and stiffness-limited applications
- Abstract:
- Chapter contents
- 4.1 Introduction and synopsis
- 4.2 Stress, strain, and elastic moduli
- 4.3 The big picture: material property charts
- 4.4 The physical origin of elastic moduli
- 4.5 Manipulating the modulus and density
- 4.6 Introductory solid mechanics – elasticity and stiffness
- 4.7 Introduction to material selection
- 4.8 Summary and conclusions
- 4.9 Further reading
- 4.10 Exercises
- Chapter 5. Plasticity, yielding and ductility, and strength-limited applications
- Abstract
- Chapter contents
- 5.1 Introduction and synopsis
- 5.2 Strength, ductility, plastic work, and hardness: definition and measurement
- 5.3 The big picture: charts for yield strength
- 5.4 The physical origins of strength and ductility
- 5.5 Manipulating strength
- 5.6 Introductory solid mechanics – plasticity and strength
- 5.7 Strength in design and manufacturing
- 5.8 Summary and conclusions
- 5.9Further reading
- 5.10 Exercises
- Chapter 6. Fracture, fatigue, and fracture-limited applications
- Abstract
- Chapter contents
- 6.1 Introduction and synopsis
- 6.2 Strength and toughness
- 6.3 The mechanics of fracture
- 6.4 Material property charts for toughness
- 6.5 The physical origins of toughness
- 6.6 Failure of ceramics
- 6.7 Manipulating properties: the strength–toughness trade-off
- 6.8 Fatigue
- 6.9 The physical origins of fatigue
- 6.10 Fracture and fatigue in design
- Material indices for fracture-safe design
- 6.11 Summary and conclusions
- 6.12 Further reading
- 6.13 Exercises
- Chapter 7. Materials and heat: thermal properties
- Abstract
- Chapter contents
- 7.1 Introduction and synopsis
- 7.2 Thermal properties: definition and measurement
- 7.3 Material property charts: thermal properties
- 7.4 The physical origins of thermal properties
- 7.5 Design and manufacture: managing and using thermal properties
- 7.6 Summary and conclusions
- 7.7 Further reading
- 7.8 Exercises
- Chapter 8. Materials at high temperatures: diffusion and creep
- Abstract
- Chapter contents
- 8.1 Introduction and synopsis
- 8.2 The temperature dependence of material properties
- 8.3 Data for key reference temperatures
- 8.4 The science: diffusion
- 8.5 The science: creep
- 8.6 Materials and design to cope with creep
- 8.7 Summary and conclusions
- 8.8 Further reading
- 8.9 Exercises
- Chapter 9. Surfaces: friction, wear, oxidation, corrosion
- Abstract
- Chapter contents
- 9.1 Introduction and synopsis
- 9.2 Tribological properties
- 9.3 The physics of friction and wear
- 9.4 Friction in design
- 9.5 Chemical degradation: oxidation
- 9.6 Corrosion: acids, alkalis, water, and organic solvents
- 9.7 Fighting corrosion
- 9.8 Summary and conclusions
- 9.9 Further reading
- 9.10 Exercises
- Chapter 10. Functional properties: electrical, magnetic, optical
- Abstract
- Chapter contents
- 10.1 Introduction and synopsis
- 10.2 Electrical materials and properties
- 10.3 Drilling down: the origins of electrical properties
- 10.4 Design: using electrical properties
- 10.5 Electrical properties: summary and conclusions
- 10.6 Magnetic materials and properties
- 10.7 Drilling down: the origins of magnetic properties
- 10.8 Design: using magnetic properties
- 10.9 Magnetic properties: summary and conclusions
- 10.10 Optical materials and properties
- 10.11 Drilling down: the origins of optical properties
- 10.12 Design: using optical properties
- 10.13 Optical properties: summary and conclusions
- 10.14 Further reading
- 10.15 Exercises
- Chapter 11. Manufacturing processes and microstructure evolution
- Abstract
- Chapter contents
- 11.1 Introduction and synopsis
- 11.2 Process selection in design
- 11.3 Processing for properties
- 11.4 Microstructure evolution in processing
- 11.5 Metal shaping processes
- 11.6 Heat treatment and alloying of metals
- 11.7 Joining, surface treatment, and additive manufacturing of metals
- 11.8 Powder and glass processing
- 11.9 Polymer and composite processing
- 11.10 Summary and conclusions
- 11.11 Further reading
- 11.12 Exercises
- Chapter 12. Materials, environment, and sustainability
- Abstract
- Chapter contents
- 12.1 Introduction and synopsis
- 12.2 Material production, material consumption, and growth
- 12.3 Natural capital and the materials life cycle
- 12.4 Embodied energy and carbon footprint of materials
- 12.5 Materials and eco-design
- 12.6 Materials dependence
- 12.7 Materials and sustainable development
- 12.8 Summary and conclusions
- 12.9 Appendix: some useful quantities
- 12.10 Further reading
- 12.11 Exercises
- Guided Learning Unit 1. Simple ideas of crystallography
- Abstract
- Chapter contents
- Introduction and synopsis
- GL1.1 Crystal structures
- GL1.2 Interstitial space
- GL1.3 Describing planes
- GL1.4 Describing directions
- GL1.5 Ceramic crystals
- GL1.6 Polymer crystals
- Guided Learning Unit 2. Material selection in design
- Abstract
- Chapter contents
- GL2.1 Introduction and synopsis
- GL2.2 Screening and ranking: property limits and trade-offs
- GL2.3 Material indices for stiffness-limited design
- GL2.4 Case studies in stiffness-limited design
- GL2.5 Material indices for strength-limited design
- GL2.6 Case study in strength-limited design
- GL2.7 Summary and conclusions
- GL2.8 Further reading
- GL2.9 Final exercises
- Guided Learning Unit 3. Process selection in design
- Abstract
- Table of Contents
- GL3.1 Introduction and synopsis
- Gl3.2 Selection of shaping processes: attributes for screening
- GL3.3 Estimating cost for shaping processes
- GL3.4 Case studies: selection of shaping processes
- GL3.5 Selection of joining processes: attributes for screening
- GL3.6 Selection of surface treatment processes: attributes for screening
- GL3.7 Technical evaluation
- GL3.8 Assessment of new processes: additive manufacturing
- GL3.9 Summary and conclusions
- GL3.10 Further reading
- GL3.11 Final exercises
- Guided Learning Unit 4. Phase diagrams and phase transformations
- Abstract
- Chapter contents
- Introduction and synopsis
- GL4.1 Key terminology
- GL4.2 Simple phase diagrams, and how to read them
- GL4.3 The iron-carbon diagram
- GL4.4: Interpreting more complex phase diagrams
- GL4.5 Phase transformations and microstructural evolution
- GL4.6 Equilibrium solidification
- GL4.7 Equilibrium solid-state phase changes
- GL4.8 Non-equilibrium solid-state phase changes
- GL4.9 Further reading
- GL4.10 Further exercises
- Appendix A. Material property data
- Table of Contents
- Introductory note: read this first
- Index
- Conversion of units – stress and pressure
- No. of pages: 704
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 1, 2023
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Paperback ISBN: 9780081023990
- eBook ISBN: 9780081024003
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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, UKHS
Hugh Shercliff
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Lecturer in Materials, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UKDC
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