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Lecture Unit 11: Eco-informed material selection

Mike Ashby | University of Cambridge | 2021

Industrial Case Study: Automotive Door Panels

Claes Fredriksson, Eliane Brechbuhl | Granta Design

Industrial Case Study: Water Containers and Plastic Waste

Claes Fredriksson and Bridget Ogwezi | Granta Design

Industrial Case Study: Materials for a Tablet Device

Claes Fredriksson and Luca Petruccelli

Industrial Case Study: Truck Trailer Lightweighting

Claes Fredriksson and Joel Galos

Case Study: The Built Environment

Claes Fredriksson and Bridget Ogwezi | Granta Design

Case Study: Electric Appliances

Mike Ashby | Granta Design | 2017

Case Study: Electric Vehicles

Mike Ashby | Granta Design | 2017

Case Study: Polymers

Mike Ashby | Granta Design | 2017

Case Study: Sustainable Development Projects - 4 Case Studies for Workshops

Mike Ashby and Tatiana Vakhitova | Granta Design

Case Study: Sustainable Development Project - Beer Cans

Mike Ashby | Granta Design

Guide: The Hybrid Synthesizer - Model Writer's Guide

Nick Ball, Charlie Bream, James Bateson | Ansys Granta

Paper: Teaching Materials with CES EduPack

Hannah Melia, Magda Figuerola, Claes Fredriksson | Granta Design

Paper: Material Risk and Corporate Sustainability

Mike Ashby, Tatiana Vakhitova | Granta Design

Model: The Hybrid Synthesizer - Example Model

Nick Ball, Charlie Bream, James Bateson | Granta Design

Paper: Materials and Sustainable Development

Mike Ashby, Didac Ferrer, Jennifer Bruce | Granta Design, Universitat politecnica de Catalunya

Paper: CES EduPack for Eco Design

Mike Ashby, Andew Miller, F. Rutter, Ulrike G.K. Wegst | Granta Design

Paper: The energy fingerprints of products

Mike Ashby | Granta Design

Paper: The CES EduPack Eco Audit Tool

Mike Ashby, Nick Ball, Charlie Bream | Granta Design

Paper: Tradition and Innovation in the Education of Materials for Engineering Students in the 21st Century

Mike Ashby, Arlindo Silva, Hannah Melia, Ana Pereira, Marc Fry | Granta Design

Exercises: Materials; Classification and Properties

Mike Ashby | University of Cambridge | 2021

Exercises: Materials and Sustainable Development

Mike Ashby | University of Cambridge | 2021

Exercises: the Eco Audit Tool 2021

Mike Ashby | University of Cambridge | 2021

Exercises: Eco Properties and Eco Design

Mike Ashby | University of Cambridge | 2021

Energy: Power Systems and Storage

Mike Ashby | University of Cambridge | 2021

Exercises: Materials and Sustainable Development

Mike Ashby | Granta Design | 2020

Exercises: The Eco Audit Tool 2020

Mike Ashby | Granta Design | 2020

Exercises: Eco Properties and Eco Design

Mike Ashby | Granta Design | 2020

Exercises: Energy: Power Systems and Storage

Mike Ashby | Granta Design | 2020

Eco Exercises: The Built Environment - Semi detached house

Claes Fredriksson and Bridget Ogwezi | Granta Design

Exercises: The Built Environment

Claes Fredriksson and Bridget Ogwezi | Granta Design

Exercises: Open-ended material selection project ideas

Eliane Brechbuhl, Joel Galos, Claes Fredriksson | Granta Design

Exercises: Materials and Sustainable Development, 1st Ed

Mike Ashby, Didac Ferrer, Jordi Sagales | Granta Design, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya | 2015

Exercises Using CES EduPack

Mike Ashby | Granta Design

Poster: Eco Design

Mike Ashby | Granta Design

Poster: Sustainable Development

Mike Ashby | Granta Design

Poster: The Evolution of Materials

Mike Ashby | Granta Design

Postcard: The Materials Cube

Mike Ashby, Magda Figuerola | Granta Design

Video: Getting started with CES EduPack 2018

Hannah Melia | Granta Design

Video: Top ten things to do with CES EduPack

Hannah Melia | Granta Design

Video: Case study for material selection for a rotor-swather

David Herrling, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Annett Dorner-Reisel | University of Applied Sciences Schmalkalden, Germany

Video: Sustainability Supporting Social and Environmental Awareness with CES EduPack

Mike Ashby | Granta Design

Video: Materials Selection for eco-aware lightweight design

Arlindo Silva | Granta Design

Project File: The Built Environment

Claes Fredriksson and Bridget Ogwezi | Granta Design

Project File: Modulus - Tensile Strength 2017

Mike Ashby | Granta Design

Project File: Properties of Well-known Materials 2017

Mike Ashby | Granta Design

Eco Product Files: Sample Products for Levels 1-3 Eco Audit 2017

Mike Ashby, Arlindo Silva | Granta Design

Solution Manual: 'Materials and the Environment', 2nd Ed

Mike Ashby | Granta Design

Case Study: Built Environment

Mike Ashby | Granta Design | 2017

Case Study: Energy

Mike Ashby | Granta Design | 2017

Case Study Unit: Materials for a Tablet Device

Claes Fredriksson and Luca Petruccelli

Case Study Unit: Truck Trailer Lightweighting

Granta Design | Granta Design

Case Study Unit: The Built Environment - Materials and Sustainability of Buildings

Claes Fredriksson and Bridget Ogwezi | Granta Design

Case Study Unit: Water Containers and Plastic Waste

Claes Fredriksson | Granta Design

Case Study Unit: Electric Cars - Sustainability and Eco Design

Claes Fredriksson | Granta Design

Micro-Projects: Eco and Sustainability

Mike Ashby | Granta Design

Exercises: Materials Course Assignments - Combined Properties

Mark De Guire | Case Western Reserve University

Cas d'Etudes Colleges: Eco Conception

Victor Arnoux, Nicolas Martin | Granta Design

Ejercicio: Desafio Seleccion de Materiales 2016

Students | Universidad Politecnica de Madrid | 2016

Ejercicio: Desafio Seleccion de Materiales 2017

Students | Universidad Politecnica de Madrid | 2017

Ejercicio: Desafio Seleccion de Materiales 2018

Students | Universidad Politecnica de Madrid | 2018

Exercises: L'Outil Eco Audit - Etudes de Cas (PDF avec reponses)

Mike Ashby | Granta Design

Book: Sustainable Energy - Without The Hot Air

David JC MacKay | University of Cambridge