Integrated Design of Materials, Products, and Associated Manufacturing Processes

In practice, “design” involved the selection of a suitable material for a given application (Nortan 1996; Shigley 1972; Ashby and Cebon 1993, Pahl and Beitz 2013). The performance of many engineered systems involving materials and products is limited by the available properties of the constituent materials. The difficulty here with material selection is the inherent inability to tailor a material microstructure and constituents for satisfying application-specific requirements.