Materials: engineering, science, processing and design

by Michael F. Ashby, Hugh Shercliff, David Cebon

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 0080994342

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Book Description

This 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 3e 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 materials in design. This new edition retains its design-led focus and strong emphasis on visual communication while expanding its inclusion of the underlying science of materials to fully meet the needs of instructors teaching an introductory course in materials.

• 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, online image bank and materials selection charts for use in class handouts or lecture presentations are available at http://textbooks.elsevier.com
• Links with the Cambridge Engineering Selector (CES EduPack), the powerful materials selection software. See www.grantadesign.com for information

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

• Text and figures and been revised and updated throughout
• The number of worked examples has been increased by 50%
• The number of standard end-of-chapter exercises in the text has been doubled
• Coverage of materials and the environment has been updated with a new section on Sustainability and Sustainable Technology

About the Author

Royal Society Research Professor Emeritus at Cambridge University and Former Visiting Professor of Design at the Royal College of Art, London, UK

Mike Ashby 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, and Materials: Engineering, Science, Processing and Design. He is also coauthor of the books Engineering Materials 1&2, and Nanomaterials, Nanotechnologies and Design.

University Senior Lecturer, Engineering Department, Cambridge University, UK

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Cambridge University, UK

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This book contains one of the most original approaches to materials science in a generation. Written not for the expert materials scientist but for the general engineering student who needs to learn to work with materials it has a unique approach. Combined with the Cambridge Engineering Selector software this makes an unbeatable and highly innovative approach to the field of materials science education.

As a lecturer in the field I highly recommend this book.