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

By: Ashby, M. F.
Contributor(s): Shercliff, Hugh | Cebon, David.
Publisher: Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann, c2010Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xxiv, 525, [96] p. : col. ill., col. ports. ; 26 cm.ISBN: 9781856178952 (hbk.); 9781856177436 (pbk.); 1856178951 (hbk.); 1856177432 (pbk.).Subject(s): MaterialsDDC classification: 620.11
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.
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Floor 4, Shelf 19 , Side 1, TierNo 3, BayNo 4

 620.11 ASH 2010 (Browse shelf) 1 Available SOExx,07016,03,GR 5000113721

Previous ed.: 2007.

Text on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.