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Structural Materials

Properties and Selection
By:José Antonio Pero-Sanz Elorz; Daniel Fernández González; Luis Felipe Verdeja
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9783030261603
eText ISBN:9783030261610
Edition:0
Copyright:2019
Format:Reflowable

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The book covers the most important materials (naturals, metals, ceramics, polymers and composites) to be used mainly as structural engineering materials. Their main applications based on the properties are described in the first chapters of the book: mechanical, physical and chemical. The second part of the book is dedicated to the conceptual design by properties for a certain structural application: stiffness, mechanical strength, toughness, fatigue resistance, creep, etc., taking into account the weight and the cost. One of the chapters of the second part of the book is focused on the heat treatments of steels in order to improve their resistance to fatigue. The book concludes with a critical comparison between materials considering their production, properties and cost, and the forecast about the utilization of the different fields of materials in structural applications.