Materials Engineering and Selection

Learning Outcomes

• Understanding Waste Streams and Value-Added Design:
  
  
• Develop insights into waste streams in material processing.
  
• Acquire knowledge of methods to minimise waste generation through value-added.
  
  Deterioration Processes and Material Classes:
  
• Attain familiarity with deterioration processes in various material classes.
  
• Understand how to avoid or integrate these processes into the design.
  
  Material Durability: Oxidation, Corrosion, and Degradation:
  
• Learn about oxidation, corrosion, and degradation processes.
  
• Understand conditions causing deterioration in metals, ceramics, and polymers.
  
• Explore treatment methods and design principles to slow down or accelerate deterioration.
  
  Fracture Mechanism and Fracture Toughness:
  
• Cultivate a working understanding of fracture mechanisms.
  
• Understand the principles of fracture and identify fracture modes.
  
• Identify causes of fracture and crack progression.
  
• Differentiate between toughness and strength and select materials and processes resistant to fracture.
  
  Stiffness-, Strength- and Fracture Limited Design:
  
• Learn design principles for ideal stiffness, strength, and fracture toughness.
  
• Identify optimal materials based on application loads.
  
  Material Index Selection for Engineering Constraints:
  
• Acquire the ability to select and derive a material index based on engineering constraints.
  
• Utilise Ashby material charts for optimal material selection.
  
  CES Material Selector and Material Selection Software:
  
• Introduction to the CES Material Selector and its features.
  
• Learn to use the software for material selection in the design process.
  
• Gain proficiency in using GRANTA CES Material selection software for material selection processes.

Prerequisites

For further information see School of Product Design on the departments and faculties page .