Basic Design And Engineering
Engineering and Basic Design - Design is increasingly driven by the objectives of performance, cost and environmental sensitivity. All three very frequently are limited by materials.
There are somewhere between 60,000 and 100,000 materials available to the engineer. They are drawn from all material classes: metals, polymers, ceramics, glasses, elastomers, composites and so forth. No engineer expects to know much about more than a few, yet to ignore the others will mean eventually, that an opportunity for innovation is missed. The research explores contemporary data sources and techniques for innovative materials selection in mechanical, thermo-mechanical, electro-mechanical and environmentally-sensitive design. It has led to the development of the Cambridge Materials Selector (CMS), a soft...