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Professor Mike Ashby is well known for producing readily understandable materials education texts, and for the innovative use of graphical representation for material properties. This book, now in its second edition, is no exception and explains materials engineering from a design-led approach, as opposed to the more traditional science-led approach. . Useful for reinforcing student learning is the inclusion of over 50 new worked examples, distributed throughout the book. Completely new are the self-contained Guided Learning Units or sections at the end of the book on crystallography, and phase diagrams and phase transformations, including exercises (and unlike the rest of the book with answers). There are also useful links to interactive 'online' tutorials and assessment, reinforcing the strong selfteaching aspects of the book. . [T]he book is aimed primarily at students and teachers of materials science and engineering, although engineering practitioners involved with materials and their selection will also find the extensive use of applications both useful and relevant. -Engineering Designer, (Reviewed by Professor Kevin Edwards)
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This is the ultimate materials engineering text and resource for students developing skills and understanding of materials properties and selection for engineering applications. Written by world class authors, it takes a unique design led-approach which is broader in scope than other texts, thereby meeting the curriculum needs of a wide variety of courses in the materials and design field, from Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering to Engineering Materials, Materials Processing and Materials in Design. This new edition retains its design-led focus and strong emphasis on visual communication while expanding its treatment of crystallography and phase diagrams and transformations to fully meet the needs of instructors teaching a first-year course in materials. Additional teaching resources have been added, including an interactive online materials science tutorial and online testing and assessment program with algorithmic exercises that allow one question template to become hundreds of different questions. The book is fully linked with the leading materials software package as used in over 600 academic institutions worldwide as well as numerous government and commercial engineering departments.
* A complete introductory materials science & engineering text: unique design-led approach is broader in scope than other texts, thereby meeting the curriculum needs of a wide variety of courses in the materials and design field, from introduction to materials science and engineering, to engineering materials, materials selection and processing, and materials in design.
* Unbeatable author team: Prof Mike Ashby, the world's leading materials selection innovator & author of four other best-selling materials engineering texts; Dr David Cebon, MD of Granta Design, the leading material properties software house; & Dr Hugh Shercliff, head of materials science teaching at the University of Cambridge, UK
* New to this edition: Expanded treatment of microstructure, crystallography, phase diagrams and transformations, and corrosion, to fully meet the needs of instructors teaching a first course in materials. Additional worked examples and end-of-chapter problems. Expanded offering of ancillary material, including interactive online materials science tutorial and available online testing and self-assessment program featuring 100+ online problems.
* A complete introductory materials science & engineering text: unique design-led approach is broader in scope than other texts, thereby meeting the curriculum needs of a wide variety of courses in the materials and design field, from introduction to materials science and engineering, to engineering materials, materials selection and processing, and materials in design.
* Unbeatable author team: Prof Mike Ashby, the world's leading materials selection innovator & author of four other best-selling materials engineering texts; Dr David Cebon, MD of Granta Design, the leading material properties software house; & Dr Hugh Shercliff, head of materials science teaching at the University of Cambridge, UK
* New to this edition: Expanded treatment of microstructure, crystallography, phase diagrams and transformations, and corrosion, to fully meet the needs of instructors teaching a first course in materials. Additional worked examples and end-of-chapter problems. Expanded offering of ancillary material, including interactive online materials science tutorial and available online testing and self-assessment program featuring 100+ online problems.
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Format:Hardcover
The number of basic materials science books has grown enormously the last years. Most of these are very good books. For a new book to contend in this saturated market you need to have something special :
- a well known author
- a novel approach
- a link to some good software to accompany the book
This book meets all those criteria. The main author Michael Ashby, emeritus professor at Cambridge University is of course one of the most famous materials scientists around. Prof Ashby is of course well noted for his books about materials selection in design, which for most engineers is of course the most important aspect. The novel approach in this book is the focus on engineering properties which are then put into a scientific context.
The book itself is designed to work with the Cambridge Engineering Selector software 2007edition , see www.grantadesign.com. This well known software package has been used to generate many of the figures in the book and is used in many exercises which allow students to explore relations ships. An example is exercise E4.14
Sanitychecks for data. A text reports that Nickel, with a melting point of 1720 K has a modulus of 5500 GPa,. Use the E-Tm correlation of the previous question to check the sanity of this claim. What would you expect it to be ?
Considering the complex issues involved in this it is clear that the book is aimed at teaching students to think properly about and how to use the tools available in a logical setting.
This approach makes the book very suitable for an introduction into the field of materials science for general engineering students. The book is not designed to be an exhaustive reference and only has some 500 pages in a clear and easy to read format. As the course book for a introduction course it will be eminently suitable and it will give students the basis for more advanced work in materials science, materials selection and processing.
Fred Veer, 9 may 2007
- a well known author
- a novel approach
- a link to some good software to accompany the book
This book meets all those criteria. The main author Michael Ashby, emeritus professor at Cambridge University is of course one of the most famous materials scientists around. Prof Ashby is of course well noted for his books about materials selection in design, which for most engineers is of course the most important aspect. The novel approach in this book is the focus on engineering properties which are then put into a scientific context.
The book itself is designed to work with the Cambridge Engineering Selector software 2007edition , see www.grantadesign.com. This well known software package has been used to generate many of the figures in the book and is used in many exercises which allow students to explore relations ships. An example is exercise E4.14
Sanitychecks for data. A text reports that Nickel, with a melting point of 1720 K has a modulus of 5500 GPa,. Use the E-Tm correlation of the previous question to check the sanity of this claim. What would you expect it to be ?
Considering the complex issues involved in this it is clear that the book is aimed at teaching students to think properly about and how to use the tools available in a logical setting.
This approach makes the book very suitable for an introduction into the field of materials science for general engineering students. The book is not designed to be an exhaustive reference and only has some 500 pages in a clear and easy to read format. As the course book for a introduction course it will be eminently suitable and it will give students the basis for more advanced work in materials science, materials selection and processing.
Fred Veer, 9 may 2007
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I would recommend this book to anyone who is going to use CES software.Having used this book for 3.5 years at university, it is a must for materials subjects.
Format:Hardcover
This is a great reference book for mechanical engineering study, according to my student son studying for his degree course at university
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