Research Catalog

Title

Materials : engineering, science, processing and design / Michael Ashby, Hugh Shercliff and David Cebon.

Author

Ashby, M. F.

Publication

Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Shercliff, Hugh.
• Cebon, David.

Description

1 v. (various pagings) : col. ill., col. ports.; 26 cm.

Subject

Materials

Note

• Previous ed.: 2007.
• Text on lining papers.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: materials - history and character -- Family trees: organising materials and processes -- Strategic thinking: matching material to design -- Stiffness and weight: density and elastic moduli -- Guided learning unit 1: simple ideas of crystallography -- Flex, sag and wobble: stiffness-limited design -- Beyond elasticity: plasticity, yielding and ductility -- Bend and crush: strength-limited design -- Fracture and fracture toughness -- Shake, rattle and roll: cyclic loading, damage and failure -- Keeping it all together: fracture-limited design -- Rub, slither and seize: friction and wear -- Agitated atoms: materials and heat -- Running hot: using materials at high temperatures -- Conductors, insulators and dielectrics -- Magnetic materials -- Materials for optical devices -- Durability: oxidation, corrosion, degradation -- Heat, beat, stick and polish: manufacturing processes -- Follow the recipe: processing and properties -- Guided learning unit 2: phase diagrams and phase transformations -- Materials, processes and the environment.

ISBN

• 9781856178952 (hbk.)
• 1856178951 (hbk.)
• 9781856177436 (hbk.)
• 1856177432 (hbk.)

OCLC

ocn435734967

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Columbia University Libraries