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| Materials and Design: The Art and Science of Material Selection in Product Design | 
 enlarge | Authors: Michael Ashby, Kara Johnson
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (7 reviews)
Sales Rank: 55359
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0750655542
Dewey Decimal Number: 745
EAN: 9780750655545
ASIN: 0750655542
Publication Date: December 1, 2002
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Product Description
The history of man is recorded, recovered and remembered through the designs he created and the materials he used. Materials are the stuff of design, and today is not the age of just one material, but of an immense range.
Best selling author M. F. Ashby guides the reader through the process of selecting materials on the basis of their design suitability. He and co-author Kara Johnson begin with the assumption that products in a given market sector have little to distinguish between them in either performance or cost. When many technically near-equivalent products compete, market share is won or lost by the industrial design of a product: its visual and tactile attributes, the associations it carries, the image it creates in the consumer's mind and the quality of its interface with the use and the environment.
Ashby and Johnson address the problem of selecting materials for industrial design from a unique viewpoint. They acknowledge that materials have two overlapping roles, in technical design and in industrial design. The technical designer has ready access to materials information. Industrial designers often do not have equivalent support.
Materials Selection in Industrial Design presents groundbreaking new information that, on one hand introduces engineering students to the principles of Industrial Design and to the idea that the selection of materials can directly affect the aesthetic qualities of the object. On the other hand they introduce industrial design students and practising industrial designers to engineering parameters through an accessible and holistic approach.
AA?A Easy to use systematic approach to the selection and uses of materials
AA?A Many excellent attribute "maps" are included which enable complex comparative information to be readily grasped
AA?A Full colour photographs and illustrations throughout aid the understanding of concepts
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Better than a class September 23, 2008
This book is perfect for Industrial Design students looking for some better understanding of materials, how to pick them, and what forming processes can be done to them. I am really glad I bought it.
Materials And Design August 27, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's a really complete book, where you can find all technical data of a material and some design aplications, also you can find substitute materials for each one of them.
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Highly recommended .. March 11, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
... to anyone w. even the slightest interest in materials & product design.
Great if you really want to know about materials. March 26, 2005
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
It's quite heavy to read... but it covers so much information that it's worth of it. You won't find fancy products shown on the inside for any kind of material, but you will understand everything about them.
If you are truly interested in Materials and Design, this is your book. I suggest also to take a look of those books written by Chris Lefteri, they are easier to read for a student, and have examples of the materials with great pictures. It's up to you "what" and "how" you want to learn.
Wow! August 4, 2003
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
Amazing new perspective on matials and design! A must for any inspired designer/Product Manager.
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