Basics of Material selection for mechanical design engineers

Materials are an integral part of mechanical design and engineering.

Understanding of properties , how they matter for product performance are a key knowledge set for any engineer designing products big or small .

This course attempts to provide insights into the following topics

• Role of material selection in Design process

• The importance of materials

• Types of materials

• The Mechanical properties

  • Modulus

  • Ductility and brittleness

  • Strength

  • Hardness

  • Resilience and Toughness

  • Fracture toughness

  • Fatigue strength

  • Wear

  • Creep

  • Internal damping – loss coefficient

• Thermal properties – Conductivity, Thermal expansion  and heat capacity

• Introduction to peculiar nature of various base materials and composites

• Material charts

• Material selection process

• Material indices

  • Derivation of indices for various loading application

  • Applying indices on the Ashby charts for material selection

The course is intended to be a starting point for deep study into material selection .

Materials is of course a very vast subject . This course can be a good reference to get a taste for the field of material selection.

If you are a design engineer and looking to refresh and maybe pickup on new concepts regarding materials this course will be for you .

If you are a student who is looking to start their learning journey in area of materials of mechanical design  for product development then this should be a good starting point.

Course is designed to be precise and to the point and focuses on concepts and not only the facts .