Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, Fourth Edition

Book Name: Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, Fourth Edition
Author: Michael F. Ashby
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann; 4 edition
ISBN-10: 9781856176637,1856176630
Year: 2010
Pages: 664
Language: English
File size: 94 MB
File format: PDF

Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, Fourth Edition Pdf Book Description:

Recognizing materials, their properties and behaviour is essential to technology design, and also a vital use of materials science. Written for all students of technology, materials science and design, this book describes the processes for material selection in mechanical design so as to make certain the most appropriate materials for any particular program are identified by the complete selection of substances and department shapes out there. Extensively revised with this fourth version, Materials Selection in Mechanical Design is known as one of the top materials choice texts, and gives a unique and truly innovative source. Features new to this edition * Material land graphs today in full colour during * Important revisions of chapters on technology materials, procedures and procedure selection, and choice of shape and material whilst keeping the book’s hallmark construction and topic content* Entirely revised chapters on hybrid substances and substances and the environment* Appendix on information and data for engineering materials entirely upgraded * Revised and enlarged end-of-chapter exercises and other worked examplesMaterials are introduced via their possessions; materials selection charts (also available online ) capture the essential features of materials, permitting rapid retrieval of data and application of choice methods. Merit indices, combined using graphs, allow optimisation of the materials selection procedure. Resources of material property information have been reviewed and approaches for their use are granted.