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Course Overview

Module objectives

The objectives of the Materials and Fabrication Processes Selection course can be summarized by the learning of a methodology to proceed, in a systematic way, to progressively reduce the endless number of materials available in the market. By consecutive steps, materials groups with sizes successively smaller are achieved until reaching a final detailed analysis which will allow an optimized selection of the best option. The competences supplied to the students should also reinforce the knowledge already acquired previously in Materials Science and Engineering, particularly concerning its application in the industrial environment and its application in useful life, in order to understand the close relationship existing between the material and the technology used for processing the final product.

Outline syllabus

• Introduction and objectives
• Interaction between mechanical design and materials selection – equivalence between dimension of materials groups and detail level of mechanical analysis
• Analysis of materials classes and properties – graphics and tables properties
• Importance of the part or component on the materials selection – performance index
• Relationship between material / function / shape (shape factor)
• Materials and fabrication technologies – forming and assembling.
• Cost as main factor determining the materials selection
• Selection matrixes
• 9. Cases study

Monitoring of student progress:

• Project work
• Written examination

Literature

• M. F. Ashby: Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002.
• N. A.Waterman and F. Sabih: Materials Selector - Vol. I II e III, Elsevier, 1991.

Partners

The key academic groups of TRIBOS consortium are leading and world renown in their own field of Tribology and Surface engineering. They are very complementary from point of view of surfaces, lubricants and interfaces, as well as engineering component design. Thus, their involvement in a single programme enables integration of the whole range of tribology sub-areas required for successful application solutions.