Materials: Engineering, Science, Processing and Design

Michael F. Ashby · Hugh Shercliff · David Cebon

Feb 2007 · Elsevier

About this eBook

The ultimate materials engineering resource for anyone developing skills and understanding of materials properties and selection for engineering applications. The book is a visually lead approach to understanding core materials properties and how these apply to selection and design. Linked with Granta Design's market-leading materials selection software which is used by organisations as diverse as Rolls-Royce, GE-Aviation, Honeywell, NASA and Los Alamos National Labs.

• A complete introduction to the science and selection of materials in engineering, manufacturing, processing and product design
• Unbeatable package from Professor Mike Ashby, the world’s leading materials selection innovator and developer of the Granta Design materials selection software
• Links to materials selection software used widely by brand-name corporations, which shows how to optimise materials choice for products by performance, charateristics or cost

Ratings and reviews

This is the book which inspired me a lot as a professsional designer in various domains. Design needs material selection and much exploration of materials to match design. The words from the book i read " Innovative design is the imaginative exploitation of materials..." this is the perfect match to which as designer should look. What ever may be the field , materials are infront of the gate which welcome the true essence of the industry to multiply the boundaries and innovation to reach possiblilities of requested content of design reqirement. Every designers first step is to know about materials first design next.All the starters , beginners and all the group of professional bodies should keep this book as a reference for every inch of their design. Hope you will do. A.Venkatesh

An absolute world-class resource with very precise text and very high-quality graphics. A book of this level is very rare. I am a product designer and this is the Only book that I keep on top of my desk full-time. The authors have demonstrated their vast knowledge through the precise content and structure of the book. The book covers many materials subjects, but, it is so well structured and readable, it facilitates new ideas / solutions for designs and provides a rationale for things you may be already doing but took for granted (never really understood). I haven't seen as good a book anywhere. Matt Wilhite Director Product IQ Consulting Ltd. Limerick, Ireland

This is the worst book which I read my life. No proper explanation with examples and no connectivity among the topics.

About the author

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.