Engineering Materials 1: Properties, Applications and Design - (Introduction Version) (Third Edition)

Author: Michael F. Ashby
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Professional engineers know how to select materials that meet design requirements—economic and aesthetic needs, as well as strength and durability requirements. Designers must understand material properties and their limitations. This book, edited by Michael F. Ashby, a research professor at the Royal Society of the University of Cambridge, provides a comprehensive introduction to the aforementioned properties and their limitations. As an introduction to material properties, applications, and design, it covers topics such as elastic modulus, yield strength, tensile strength, and ductility, rapid fracture, brittle fracture, and toughness, fatigue failure, creep deformation and fracture, oxidation and corrosion, friction, wear, and abrasion, as well as the design of metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the properties of materials widely used in the engineering field, providing a complete textbook on engineering materials for students without a background in this discipline. New and important features include: detailed case studies closely related to practical applications; the addition of five new chapters on fracture, fatigue, and material design; a greater emphasis on design and practical applications throughout the book; expanded coverage of non-metallic materials, environmental impact, fracture analysis, and corrosion; and the addition of numerous examples and exercises for classroom and homework use. Accompanied by instructor software, including a set of reference lesson plans, solutions to exercises, and a library of illustrations from the book.