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
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 Emeritus Associate Professor, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK. 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). David Cebon Professor, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK. David Cebon is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Cambridge University in the UK.
