Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering: A Design-Led Approach - Softcover

Ashby, Michael F.; Shercliff, Hugh; Cebon, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0081023995 ISBN 13: 9780081023990

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2023

Synopsis

Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering: A Design-Led Approach is ideal for a first course in materials for mechanical, civil, biomedical, aerospace and other engineering disciplines. The authors’ systematic method includes first analyzing and selecting properties to match materials to design through the use of real-world case studies and then examining the science behind the material properties to better engage students whose jobs will be centered on design or applied industrial research. As with Ashby’s other leading texts, the book emphasizes visual communication through material property charts and numerous schematics better illustrate the origins of properties, their manipulation and fundamental limits.

• Design-led approach motivates and engages students in the study of materials science and engineering through real-life case studies and illustrative applications
• Requires a minimum level of math necessary for a first course in Materials Science and Engineering
• 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
• Several topics are expanded separately as Guided Learning Units: Crystallography, Materials Selection in Design, Process Selection in Design, and Phase Diagrams and Phase Transformations
• For instructors, a solutions manual, image bank and other ancillaries are available at https://educate.elsevier.com/book/details/9780081023990

About this title

About the Authors

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 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 is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Cambridge University in the UK.

From the Back Cover

Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering: A Design-Led Approach is the perfect text for a first course in materials for students majoring in mechanical, civil, biomedical, aerospace and other engineering disciplines, including materials science/engineering. The authors’ systematic method of first analysing and selecting properties to match materials to design using real-world case studies, then examining the science behind the material properties, better engages students whose primary job responsibilities after graduation will be centred on engineering design or applied industrial research. As with Ashby’s other leading texts, the book emphasises visual communication through material property charts and numerous schematics to help students better understand the origins of properties, their manipulation through composition and processing and their fundamental limits, and to provide a tool for selection of materials and for understanding the ways in which engineering materials are used.

Edition details

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0081023995
• ISBN 13: 9780081023990
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 704