Basics of Material Selection in Mechanical Design

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 .