
Materials
Engineering, Science, Processing and Design
- 4th Edition - November 27, 2018
- 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 7 6 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 2 3 7 7 - 8
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Request a sales quoteMaterials: Engineering, Science, Processing and Design is the essential materials engineering text and resource for students developing skills and understanding of materials properties and selection for engineering applications. Taking a unique design-led approach that is broader in scope than other texts, Materials meets the curriculum needs of a wide variety of courses in the materials and design field, including introduction to materials science and engineering, engineering materials, materials selection and processing, and behavior of materials. This new edition retains its design-led focus and strong emphasis on visual communication while expanding its coverage of the physical basis of material properties, and process selection.
- Design-led approach motivates and engages students in the study of materials science and engineering through real-life case studies and illustrative applications
- 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
- For instructors, a solutions manual, lecture slides, and image bank are available at https://educate.elsevier.com/book/details/9780081023761
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New to this edition
- Expansion of the atomic basis of properties, and the distinction between bonding-sensitive and microstructure-sensitive properties
- Process selection extended to include a structured approach to managing the expert knowledge of how materials, processes and design interact (with an introduction to additive manufacturing)
- Coverage of materials and the environment has been updated with a new section on Sustainability and Sustainable Technology
- Text and figures have been revised and updated throughout
- The number of worked examples and end-of-chapter problems has been significantly increased
Upper level undergraduate materials, mechanical, chemical, civil and aeronautical engineering students taking courses in materials science and engineering, materials processing, behavior of materials, and engineering design
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Resources that accompany this book
- IFC
- Chapter 1. Introduction: materials – history and character
- 1.1. Materials, processes and choice
- 1.2. Material properties
- 1.3. Design-limiting properties
- 1.4. Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 2. Family trees: organising materials and processes
- 2.1. Introduction and synopsis
- 2.2. Organising materials: the materials tree
- 2.3. Organising processes: the process tree
- 2.4. Process–property interaction
- 2.5. Material property charts
- 2.6. Computer-aided information sources for materials and processes
- 2.7. Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 3. Strategic thinking: matching material to design
- 3.1. Introduction and synopsis
- 3.2. The design process
- 3.3. Material and process information for design
- 3.4. The strategy: translation, screening, ranking and documentation
- 3.5. Examples of translation
- 3.6. Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 4. Elastic stiffness, and weight: atomic bonding and packing
- 4.1. Introduction and synopsis
- 4.2. Density, stress, strain and elastic moduli
- 4.3. The big picture: material property charts
- 4.4. Manipulating the modulus and density
- 4.5. The science: microstructure and properties
- 4.6. Atomic structure and interatomic bonding
- 4.7. Atomic and molecular packing in solids: the origin of density
- 4.8. Interatomic bonding and properties: the origin of elastic modulus
- 4.9. Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 5. Stiffness-limited design
- 5.1. Introduction and synopsis
- 5.2. Standard solutions to elastic problems
- 5.3. Material indices for elastic design
- 5.4. Plotting limits and indices on charts
- 5.5. Case studies
- 5.6. Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 6. Beyond elasticity: plasticity, yielding and ductility
- 6.1. Introduction and synopsis
- 6.2. Strength, ductility, plastic work and hardness: definition and measurement
- 6.3. The big picture: charts for yield strength
- 6.4. Drilling down: the origins of strength and ductility
- 6.5. Manipulating strength
- 6.6. Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 7. Strength-limited design
- 7.1. Introduction and synopsis
- 7.2. Standard solutions to plastic problems
- 7.3. Material indices for yield-limited design
- 7.4. Case studies
- 7.5. Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 8. Fracture and fracture toughness
- 8.1. Introduction and synopsis
- 8.2. Strength and toughness
- 8.3. The mechanics of fracture
- 8.4. Material property charts for toughness
- 8.5. Drilling down: the origins of toughness
- 8.6. Compressive and tensile failure of ceramics
- 8.7. Manipulating properties: the strength–toughness trade-off
- 8.8. Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 9. Cyclic loading and fatigue failure
- 9.1. Introduction and synopsis
- 9.2. Vibration: the damping coefficient
- 9.3. Fatigue
- 9.4. Charts for endurance limit
- 9.5. Drilling down: the origins of damping and fatigue
- 9.6. Manipulating resistance to fatigue
- 9.7. Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 10. Fracture- and fatigue-limited design
- 10.1. Introduction and synopsis
- 10.2. Standard solutions to fracture problems
- 10.3. Material indices for fracture-safe design
- 10.4. Case studies
- 10.5. Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 11. Friction and wear
- 11.1. Introduction and synopsis
- 11.2. Tribological properties
- 11.3. Charting friction and wear
- 11.4. The physics of friction and wear
- 11.5. Friction in design
- 11.6. Friction in material processing
- 11.7. Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 12. Materials and heat
- 12.1. Introduction and synopsis
- 12.2. Thermal properties: definition and measurement
- 12.3. The big picture: thermal property charts
- 12.4. Drilling down: the physics of thermal properties
- 12.5. Manipulating thermal properties
- 12.6. Design and manufacture: using thermal properties
- 12.7. Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 13. Diffusion and creep: materials at high temperatures
- 13.1. Introduction and synopsis
- 13.2. The temperature dependence of material properties
- 13.3. Charts for creep behaviour
- 13.4. The science: diffusion
- 13.5. The science: creep
- 13.6. Materials to resist creep
- 13.7. Design to cope with creep
- 13.8. Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 14. Durability: oxidation, corrosion, degradation
- 14.1. Introduction and synopsis
- 14.2. Oxidation, flammability, and photo-degradation
- 14.3. Oxidation mechanisms
- 14.4. Resistance to oxidation
- 14.5. Corrosion: acids, alkalis, water, and organic solvents
- 14.6. Drilling down: mechanisms of corrosion
- 14.7. Fighting corrosion
- 14.8. Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 15. Electrical materials: conductors, insulators, and dielectrics
- 15.1. Introduction and synopsis
- 15.2. Conductors, insulators, and dielectrics
- 15.3. Charts for electrical properties
- 15.4. Drilling down: the origins and manipulation of electrical properties
- 15.5. Design: using the electrical properties of materials
- 15.6. Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 16. Magnetic materials
- 16.1. Introduction and synopsis
- 16.2. Magnetic properties: definition and measurement
- 16.3. The big picture: charts for magnetic properties
- 16.4. Drilling down: the physics and manipulation of magnetic properties
- 16.5. Materials selection for magnetic design
- 16.6. Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 17. Materials for optical devices
- 17.1. Introduction and synopsis
- 17.2. The interaction of materials and radiation
- 17.3. Charts for optical properties
- 17.4. Drilling down: the physics and manipulation of optical properties
- 17.5. Optical design
- 17.6. Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 18. Manufacturing processes and design
- 18.1. Introduction and synopsis
- 18.2. Process selection in design
- 18.3. Shaping processes: attributes for screening
- 18.4. Estimating cost for shaping processes
- 18.5. Case studies: selection of shaping processes
- 18.6. Joining processes: attributes for screening
- 18.7. Surface treatment (finishing) processes: attributes for screening
- 18.8. Technical evaluation
- 18.9. Additive manufacturing
- 18.10. Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 19. Processing, microstructure and properties
- 19.1. Introduction and synopsis
- 19.2. Processing for properties
- 19.3. Microstructure evolution in processing
- 19.4. Metal shaping processes
- 19.5. Heat treatment and alloying of metals
- 19.6. Joining and surface treatment of metals
- 19.7. Powder processing
- 19.8. Polymer processing
- 19.9. Making hybrid materials
- 19.10. Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 20. Materials, environment, and sustainability
- 20.1. Introduction and synopsis
- 20.2. Material production, material consumption, and growth
- 20.3. Natural Capital and the materials life cycle
- 20.4. Embodied energy and carbon footprint of materials
- 20.5. Materials and eco-design
- 20.6. Materials dependence
- 20.7. Materials and sustainable development
- 20.8. Summary and conclusions
- 20.9. Appendix: some useful quantities
- Guided Learning Unit 1. Simple ideas of crystallography
- Introduction and synopsis
- PART 1: Crystal structures
- Exercise
- Exercises
- Exercise
- Exercises
- PART 2: Interstitial space
- Exercises
- PART 3: Describing planes
- Exercises
- PART 4: Describing directions
- Exercises
- PART 5: Ceramic crystals
- Exercises
- Exercises
- Exercise
- PART 6: Polymer crystals
- Answers to exercises
- Guided Learning Unit 2. Phase diagrams and phase transformations
- Introduction and synopsis
- PART 1: Key terminology
- Exercises (reminder: answers at the end of each section)
- Answers to exercises, Part 1
- PART 2: Simple phase diagrams, and how to read them
- Exercises
- Exercises
- Exercise
- Answers to exercises, Part 2
- PART 3: The iron–carbon diagram
- Exercise
- Answers to exercises, Part 3
- PART 4: Interpreting more complex phase diagrams
- Exercises
- Answers to exercises, Part 4
- PART 5: Phase transformations and microstructural evolution
- PART 6: Equilibrium solidification
- Exercise
- Exercise
- Exercises
- Answers to exercises, Part 6
- PART 7: Equilibrium solid-state phase changes
- Exercises
- Answers to exercises, Part 7
- PART 8: Non-equilibrium solid-state phase changes
- Exercise
- Exercise
- Answers to exercises, Part 8
- Appendix A. Data for engineering materials
- Appendix B. Corrosion tables
- Appendix C. Material properties and length scales
- IBC
- Index
- Edition: 4
- Published: November 27, 2018
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- No. of pages: 806
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780081023761
- eBook ISBN: 9780081023778
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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, UKRead Materials on ScienceDirect