Materials Selection in Mechanical Design
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Author(s): M. F. Ashby
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 0 7506 4357 9
Format: softback
502pp
Price: £14.99
Review Date: 23 May 2000
Review: This book presents a systematic procedure for choosing the correct material and process for a given application. Materials and design are developing faster now than ever before and a strategy is needed for exploiting materials in design. In the book materials are categorised by their properties; materials selection charts tabulate their important features so that the information can be rapidly retrieved and selection techniques applied. Merit indices, combined with charts, allow optimisation of the materials selection process. Sources of material property data are reviewed and approaches to their use are given. Material processing and its influence on design are discussed. A chapter on aesthetics and industrial design approaches the topic for a less systematic viewpoint. Case studies are given in order to illustrate the procedure and as a way of developing ideas further.