Handbook of Lightweight Engineering Materials

Providing first-hand knowledge of lightweight engineering materials from the perspectives of academic researchers and industrial developers, this handbook and reference helps readers to decide on which material is best suited for a specific application.
The first part introduces the selection of purpose-oriented materials, clearly differentiating between the most important lightweight design approaches with respect to such properties as stiffness, strength and toughness. The major part focuses on the shaping, strengthening and processing of metals, alloys, engineering polymers and composites, complemented by property profiles and simulation methods. Finally, chapters on sustainability and life cycle assessment round off the book.

SELECTION CRITERIA FOR MATERIALS FOR LIGHTWEIGHT APPLICATIONS
Material Efficiency
Stiffness
Strength
Toughness
Fatigue Resistance
Elevated Temperature Behavior
System Properties: Wear, Corrosion Resistance
STRENGTHENING METHODS FOR METALS
Solution Strengthening
Strain
Precipitation
Transformation Hardening
Grain Size Control
Mg-ALLOY HARDENING
Casting Alloys
Properties Related to Pressure Die Casting
Application Examples
Reproducibility of Properties
Creep Effects
Wrought Alloys
CAST Al-ALLOYS
Casting Alloys and Casting Technologies
Properties Resulting from Forming and Heat Treatment
Casting Defects
Examples
WROUGHT Al-ALLOYS, ROLLING
Extrusion
Cold Forging
Examples
Ti-ALLOYS
Pure Ti
alpha+beta- and Near-beta-alloys
Intermetallics (TiAl)
Casting and Forging
Examples
HIGH STRENGTH STEELS
Complex Phases
High Strength Steels: Rolling and Coating
Examples
NET SHAPE IRON-BASED PRODUCTS
Cast Iron: GG, GJS, GVS, GLS
Steel Castings
Sintered Parts
Performance Indices
Young?s Modulus: Porosity, Composites
Cost
ENGINEERING POLYMERS
POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES
Short Fiber
Continuous Fiber Reinforcement
Types of Preforms
Composite Processing
Anisotropy
Design Rules
Rules of Mixture
Examples
MATERIAL MODELLING FOR THE ANALYSIS LIGHTWEIGHT STRUCTURES
Material Laws
Hierarchical Modeling on Different Length Scales
Failure Criteria
Homogeneous Materials
Composite Materials
Material Compounds
HYBRID AND SANDWICH STRUCTURES
Material Combinations
Requirements
Modeling and Simulation
Examples
RECYCLING
Design for Recycling
Material-Specific Recycling
Secondary Alloys
Rate/Quota
LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT
Input-Output Quantities versus Benefit
Comparing Examples
ASSESSMENT OF MATERIALS WITH RESPECT TO REQUIREMENTS
Differentiate between Requirements: Stiffness, Strength, Toughness, Ductility, Temperature Resistance, Corrosion Resistance, Conductivity
Anisotropy of Fibre-Reinforced Polymers: Advantages and Disadvantages
Correlation of Strength and Weakness of each Material Category
Hybrid solutions
Cost-related Material Efficiency
Examples
TABLES OF SPECIFIED MATERIALS
Designation
Mechanical Properties Structured According to Net Shape and Forming Processes

Hans Peter Degischer is head of the Institute of Materials Science and Technology at the Technical University in Vienna, Austria. After his doctorate in technical physics he became lecturer at the University of Oriente, Venezuela. He worked at the Austrian Research Center Seibersdorf for more than twenty years and was visiting scientist at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut in Berlin, Germany, and at the CNRS Rhone-Alpes, France. He was head of the research department of the Austrian aluminium company AMAG for several years and founded the center of excellence for light metal in Ranshofen. Hans Peter Degischer received the Heyn commemorative medal in recognition of his achievements in the fields of metal matrix composites and cellular aluminium.

Cecilia Poletti is currently research assistant at the Technical University of Vienna in the Institute of Materials Science and Technology. She received her degree in chemical engineering from the National University of Comahue, Argentina, and did her PhD in materials science in Hans Peter Degischer's group in 2005.