Materials Selection in Mechanical Design
- 2nd Edition - September 20, 1999
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Author: Michael F. Ashby
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 5 0 6 - 4 3 5 7 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 2 3 9 6 - 5
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New materials enable advances in engineering design. This book describes a procedure for material selection in mechanical design, allowing the most suitable materials for a given application to be identified from the full range of materials and section shapes available. A novel approach is adopted not found anywhere else. Materials are introduced through their properties; materials selection charts (a new development) capture the important features of all materials, allowing rapid retrieval of information and application of selection techniques. Merit indices, combined with charts, allow optimisation of the materials selection process. Sources of material property data are reviewed and approaches to their use are given. Material processing and its influence on the design are discussed. The book closes with chapters on aesthetics and industrial design. Case studies are developed as a method of illustrating the procedure and as a way of developing the ideas further.This second edition is updated fully throughout with respect to materials developments and properties. There are new sections on materials selections aids, and new case studies are introduced where appropriate.
Engineering students (mechanical, materials science and design aspects), Designers, engineers, technologists and scientists in engineering.
Introduction; The design process; Engineering materials and their properties; Materials selection charts; Materials selection - the basics; Materials selection -case studies; Selection of material and shape; Shape - case studies; Multiple constraintys and compound adjectives; Case studies: multiple constraints and compound objectives; Materials processing and design; Case studies: process selection; Data sources; Case studies: use of data sources; Materials, aesthetics and industrial design; Forces for change.
- Edition: 2
- Published: September 20, 1999
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Language: English
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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