The purpose of the course is to familiarize students with the choice of materials in selected problems and design studies.
Course content: Technologically advanced product design. Structure - Properties - Process Relationship. A brief description of the relationships of material strength to ordinary stresses (bending, torsion, contact, etc.). Material design methodologies in product design. Properties of selected technical materials. Presentation of the methodology for isolating hardware parameters in design problems: development of quantitative hardware performance measures. Including the shape of the cross-section in the determination of the efficiency measure. Study of optimization equations for material selection. Using Ashby material selection charts to identify candidate materials for a given design application. Material selection case studies.
- Mechanical and thermal properties of materials
- Materials selection charts
- Materials selection methodology
- Case studies in materials selection
- Multiple constraints and conflicting objectives
- Materials and cross-sectional shape selection
- Hybrid materials
- Materials and the environment
- Description of the concepts in the course, identification of properties in relation to the performance of an object
- Distinction between the concepts in the course, interpretation of performance based on material properties and object geometry
- Combination of the concepts in the course, development of hybrid materials
- Synthesis of the concepts in the course to address engineering problems
- Suggested bibliography:
- Υλικά (Μηχανική, επιστήμη, επεξεργασία και σχεδιασμός), Michael Ashby, Hugh Shercliff, David Cebon
- Υλικά και Σχεδιασμός, Mike Ashby and Kara Johnson
- Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, Michael F. Ashby
- Structures (or why things don’t fall down), J. E. Gordon
- Mechanical Design in Organisms, S. A. Wainwright, W. D. Biggs, J. D. Currey, J. M. Gosline
- On Growth and Form, D’Arcy Thomson
- Related academic journals:
- Materials and Design
- Nature Materials
- Materials Today
- Acta Biomaterialia
- Biomaterials