Materials. Engineering, Science, Processing and Design. Edition No. 4

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: materials-history and character
2. Family trees: organising materials and processes
3. Strategic thinking: matching material to design
4. Elastic stiffness, and weight: atomic bonding and packing
5. Stiffness-limited design
6. Beyond elasticity: plasticity, yielding and ductility
7. Strength-limited design
8. Fracture and fracture toughness
9. Cyclic loading and fatigue failure
10. Fracture- and fatigue-limited design
11. Friction and wear
12. Materials and heat
13. Diffusion and creep: materials at high temperatures
14. Durability: oxidation, corrosion, degradation
15. Electrical materials: conductors, insulators, and dielectrics
16. Magnetic materials
17. Materials for optical devices
18. Manufacturing processes and design
19. Processing, microstructure and properties
20. Materials, environment, and sustainability
Guided Learning Unit 1: Simple ideas of crystallography
Guided Learning Unit 2: Phase diagrams and phase transformations
Appendix A: Data for engineering materials
Appendix B: Corrosion tables
Appendix C: Material properties and length scales

Authors

Michael F. Ashby Royal Society Research Professor Emeritus, University of Cambridge, and Former Visiting Professor of Design at the Royal College of Art, London, UK. 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. Hugh Shercliff Senior Lecturer in Materials, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK. 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. David Cebon Professor, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK. David Cebon is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Cambridge University in the UK.