New 3rd Edition of Ashby’s Materials Selection in Mechanical Design now available from Granta

Professor Mike Ashby’s immensely popular textbook, Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, has been fully revised for a third edition in 2005. With its innovative and reader-friendly approach, earlier editions (1991, 1999) established the book as a leading text for teaching materials selection in engineering.

Since publication of the Second Edition, changes have occurred in the fields of materials and mechanical design, as well as in the way that these and related subjects are taught. The 3rd Edition has been comprehensively revised and reorganized to address these. New content covers process, material and shape selection, the design of hybrid materials, ‘eco’ selection, and industrial design. Graphics are improved with all new figures and two-color printing.

Throughout, content is now more fully integrated with Granta’s CES EduPack. One resulting bonus is that the majority of charts are now available for students to reproduce directly from the EduPack software. Used together, Materials Selection in Mechanical Design and Granta’s CES EduPack provide a complete materials, manufacturing and desgn course.

A copy of Materials Selection in Mechanical Design is bundled with every new CES EduPack order. Copies are also available to order from Granta at a discounted price of $60.00/€40.00/£25.00 each.

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Professor Mike Ashby is currently Royal Society Research Professor at Cambridge University and Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Art, London. He is co-founder of Granta and directs development of Granta's CES EduPack.