Structural Materials Properties and Selection /

• Main Authors: Pero-Sanz Elorz, José Antonio (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Fernández González, Daniel (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Verdeja, Luis Felipe (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Structural materials.; Engineering-Materials.; Materials science.; Structural Materials.; Materials Engineering.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.

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 par...

Table of Contents:

• Conversion of units
• Introduction to the structural materials: naturals, metals, ceramics, polymers and composites
• Structural materials: Metals
• Structural materials: Ceramics
• Organic polymers
• Composites
• The selection of structural materials. Combined mechanical properties, charts for the selection of materials
• Materials for beams
• Materials for columns and struts (compression-tension)
• Materials for pressure vessels
• The cost, factor for the selection of materials
• Materials resistant to fatigue: Quenched and tempered steels
• Considerations about the temperature in service and the behaviour of materials.