Materials and the Environment is the first book devoted solely to the environmental aspects of materials and their selection‎,‎ production‎,‎ use and disposal‎.‎ Written by Mike Ashby‎,‎ one of the world‎'‎s foremost materials authorities‎,‎ the book introduces methods and tools for thinking about and designing with materials within the context of their role in products and the environmental consequences‎.‎ The tools developed in the text are implemented in the CES EduPack Eco Design Edition software and new Eco Audit Tool available from Granta Design‎.‎ The book provides in‎-depth coverage of such topics as material consumption and its drivers‎;‎ the material lifecycle‎;‎ eco‎-informed material selection‎;‎ renewable materials and sustainability‎;‎ legislative and regulatory aspects‎;‎ and eco‎-profiles of more than 40 widely used materials‎.‎ It contains numerous case studies showing how the methods discussed in the book can be applied to real‎-world situations‎.‎ It includes full‎-color data‎-sheets for many of the most commonly used materials‎,‎ featuring such environmentally relevant information as their annual production and reserves‎,‎ embodied energy and process energies‎,‎ carbon footprints‎,‎ and recycling data‎.‎ This book will appeal to instructors of materials science and selection courses‎,‎ as well as to instructors of industrial and product design courses‎;‎ students of engineering‎,‎ materials science and industrial/product design‎;‎ materials and industrial engineers‎;‎ and product designers‎.‎

• Author‎:‎ Ashby‎,‎ Michael F‎.‎
• Publisher‎:‎ Elsevier
• ISBN‎:‎ 9781856176088