Engineering materials

[juice01]

Hi all.
I am new here. Great site!!
I am a first year engineering student currently studying engineering materials. The aim of the subject at this stage is "to aquire a broad knoledge of engineering materials, their properties and uses ". I have found a fair amount of info on the composition of metals and alloys, but I cant find much at all on properties and uses.

If anyone can help out with some text or web sites on this it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Mick

[yoshi900]

Online Materials Information Resource - MatWeb

one advise I would have is to go to your local metal supplier/distributor, see what they sell. most of the time when I design stuff, what's available and cost has a huge impact on the design.

[ripside]

i recomend read : About Lawrence Van Vlack — Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, it's the bengining of materials science

[ckelloug]

Sometimes an engineering handbook like Marks Mechanical Handbook will give a few suggestions.

[Bwana Don]

American Society for Metals; Volume #1, Properties and Selection: Iron and Steels.

I'm looking at mine right now, it's the ninth edition. Newer editions may be different. I think it's American Society of Materials now, I bought them when I was in school a couple hundred years ago.

Good luck, you would be suprised at how little engineers know about material science nowadays. Of course I worked at 5 foundries and as many machine shops so I've been focused on metals my whole life. I've poured metal, cut it straightened it, heat treated it, you name it. I worked plastics one year, I couldn't wait to get out.

ASM is a great society. I'll bet you can pick up older editions of their handbooks at half.com for really cheap.