Materials and the Environment

"As concerns for the environment grows, there is a corresponding trend to incorporate sustainability into engineering education. Materials and the Environment addresses this growing concern with this full-length text devoted exclusively to the environmental aspects of materials."--BOOK JACKET.

Autorentext

Royal Society Research Professor Emeritus at Cambridge University and Former Visiting Professor of Design at the Royal College of Art, London, UK Mike Ashby is sole or lead author of several of Elsevier's top selling engineering textbooks, including Materials and Design: The Art and Science of Material Selection in Product Design, Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, Materials and the Environment, Engineering Materials 1&2 and Materials: Engineering, Science, Processing and Design. He is also coauthor of the book Nanomaterials, Nanotechnologies and Design.

Klappentext

2nd edition.

Zusammenfassung
Addressing the growing global concern for sustainable engineering, this book explains the ways in which we depend on and use materials and the consequences these have, and it introduces methods for thinking about and designing with materials within the context of minimizing environmental impact.

Inhalt

1. Introduction - Material Dependence2. Resource Consumption and its Drivers3. The Material Life Cycle4. End of First Life - A Problem or a Resource?5. The Long Reach of Legislation6. Eco-data - Values, Sources, Precision7. Eco-audits and Eco-audit Tools8. Case Studies: Eco-audits9. Material Selection Strategies10. Eco-informed Materials Selection11. Sustainability: Living Within Our Means12. Materials for Low-Carbon Power13. Material Efficiency14. The Bigger Picture: Future Options15. Material ProfilesAppendix - Useful Numbers and Conversions