Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering. A Design-Led Approach

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 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.