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Materials and design : the art and science of material selection in product design / Mike Ashby and Kara Johnson.

By: Ashby, M. F.
Contributor(s): Johnson, Kara.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Amsterdam ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002Description: vii, 336 p. : ill. (some col.), photos. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0750655542.Subject(s): Materials | Industrial design | Engineering design | New products
Contents:
Function and personality -- What influences product design? -- Design and designing -- The stuff ... multidimensional materials -- Other stuff ... shaping, joining, and surfaces -- Form follows material -- A structure for material selection -- Case studies in materials and design -- New materials: the potential for innovation -- Material profiles -- Shaping profiles -- Joining profiles -- Surface profiles -- Exercises for the eye and mind -- Selected material maps.
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"This book is about the role of materials and processes in product design"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Function and personality -- What influences product design? -- Design and designing -- The stuff ... multidimensional materials -- Other stuff ... shaping, joining, and surfaces -- Form follows material -- A structure for material selection -- Case studies in materials and design -- New materials: the potential for innovation -- Material profiles -- Shaping profiles -- Joining profiles -- Surface profiles -- Exercises for the eye and mind -- Selected material maps.