Materials and design : the art and science of material selection in product design /
Materials are the stuff of design. From the very beginning of human history, materials have been taken from the natural world and shaped, modified, and adapted for everything from primitive tools to modern electronics. This renowned book by noted materials engineering author Mike Ashby and industria...
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Oxford, UK Waltham, MA
Butterworth-Heinemann,
2014.
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- What influences product design?
- Materiality, design, and creativity
- Materials : the stuff that surrounds us
- Manufacturing : shaping, joining, and surfaces
- Form follows material
- Material selection
- Materials and sustainability
- New materials
- Conclusions
- Appendix: Selected material maps
- Exercises
- A practical reference for inspiration: Material profiles ; Shaping profiles ; Joining profiles ; Surface profiles.