Materials

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

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 an Emeritus Associate Professor in Materials in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge(UK). His research experience spanned all classes of engineering materials, with an emphasis on process modelling applied tothe forming and joining of light alloys. He is co-author with Michael Ashby and David Cebon of Materials: Engineering, Science, Processing and Design, Fourth Edition (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2018), and Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2023).David Cebon is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Cambridge University in the UK.

Families of material & processes; Design process & selection strategy; Stiffness & weight: density & elastic moduli; Stiffness limited design; Plasticity, yielding & ductility; Strength-limited design; Fracture toughness; Cyclic loading; Fracture-limited design; Friction & wear; Materials & heat; Using Materials at high temperatures; Conductors, insulators & dielectrics; Magnetic Materials; Materials for Optical Devices; Durability; Manufacturing processes; Processing & properties; Materials & the environment