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Addressing the growing global concern for sustainable engineering, Materials and the Environment, 2e is the only book devoted exclusively to the environmental aspects of materials. It explains the ways in which we depend on and use materials and the consequences these have, and it introduces methods...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ashby, M. F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waltham, MA : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2012.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:Engineering professional collection
Temas:
Materials > Environmental aspects.
Mat�eriaux > Aspect de l'environnement.
Materials > Environmental aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • Material Dependence
  • 2. Resource Consumption and its Drivers
  • 3. The Material Life Cycle
  • 4. End of First Life
  • A Problem or a Resource?
  • 5. The Long Reach of Legislation
  • 6. Eco-data
  • Values, Sources, Precision
  • 7. Eco-audits and Eco-audit Tools
  • 8. Selection Strategies
  • 9. Eco-informed Material Selection
  • 10. Sustainability
  • Living on Renewables
  • 11. The Bigger Picture
  • Future Options
  • 12. Data Sheets
  • Metals, Polymers, Ceramics, Composites, Natural Materials
  • Appendix
  • Units, Conversion factors, etc.

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