Description: ...this is a fascinating book - materials in a nutshell! The author masters this world on 300 pages with amazing skill, with and linguistic elegance. Advanced Materials Peter Haasen ...this book is well written and contains a comprehensive coverage of the subject matter in a concise manner...It...presents a good contemporary review of the performance of different material classes and the effects of shape. Composites Manufacturing John Summerscales ...this is a fascinating book - materials in a nutshell! The author masters this world on 300 pages with amazing skill, wit and linguistics elegance. Advanced Materials Peter Haasen Ashby provides rapid, graphical access to data making it easy to do a systematic search for the optimum material and process to use in mechanical design. A unique feature is the pictorial presentation of engineering data in such a way as to allow one to select the proper material and manufacturing process from the full range of materials available to an engineeirng... An excellent supplement to any materials book, such as Ashby and D.R.H. Jones, Engineering MAterials-2 (1986) Choice

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