Materials and Process Selection Publications

Abstracts

The development and use of a methodology for the environmentally-conscious selection of materials

U.G.K. Wegst and M.F. Ashby

Proceedings of the Third Biennial World Conference on Integrated Design and Process Technology (IDTP), Berlin, Germany, July 6-9, 1998, Vol 5, pp88-93.

A materials selection methodology and its software implementation, developed to aid the designer in making environmentally conscious decisions early in the design process, is described.