Engineering Materials 2: An Introduction to Microstructures, Processing and Design

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Elsevier, Nov 21, 2005 - Technology & Engineering - 352 pages
Engineering Materials 2 is a best-selling stand-alone text in its own right for more advanced students of materials science and mechanical engineering, and is the follow-up to its renowned companion text, Engineering Materials 1: An Introduction to Properties, Applications & Design . This book develops a detailed understanding of the fundamental properties of engineering materials, how they are controlled by processing, formed, joined and finished, and how all of these factors influence the selection and design of materials in real-world engineering applications.
  • One of the best-selling materials properties texts; companion text to Ashby & Jones' 'Engineering Materials 1: An Introduction to their Properties and Applications' book
  • New student friendly format, with enhanced pedagogy including more case studies, worked examples, and student questions
  • World-renowned author team

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Contents

BCeramics and glasses
173
CPolymers and composites
239
DDesigning with metalsceramicspolymers and composites
317
back matter
380
Appendix 2 Symbols and formulae
434
References
442
Index
445
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Page 80 - The liquid becomes supersaturated with gas, and a driving force exists for the gas to come out of solution in the form of bubbles.
Page xii - Accompanying Resources The following accompanying web-based resources are available for teachers and lecturers who adopt or recommend this text for class use. For further details and access to these resources please go to http://textbooks.elsevier.com Instructor's Manual A full Solutions Manual with worked answers to the exercises in the main text is available for downloading. Image Bank An image bank of downloadable PDF versions of the figures from the book is available for use in lecture slides...
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Page 203 - ... thus a relatively smaller volume) carries the peak tensile stress (Fig. 18.2). That is why the modulus of rupture (Chapter 17, eqn. 17.2) is larger than the tensile strength. The Swedish engineer, Weibull, invented the following way of handling the statistics of strength. He defined the survival probability PS(V0) as the fraction of identical samples, each of volume V0, which survive loading to a tensile stress a. He then proposed that PXVo) = exp - (18.2) where crQ and m are constants.
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About the author (2005)

Dr. Jones is co-author of Engineering Materials 1 and 2 and lead author for the 3rd and 4th editions. He was the founder editor of Elsevier's journal Engineering Failure Analysis, and founder chair of Elsevier's International Conference on Engineering Failure Analysis series. His research interests are in materials engineering, and along with serving as President of Christ's College at the University of Cambridge he now works internationally advising major companies and legal firms on failures of large steel structures.

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.

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