This is part of an ongoing series of articles on materials selection authored by Eric Larson, a mechanical engineer with 30 years of experience in plastics design, for PlasticsToday. His most recent ...

Modern manufacturing environments are under increasing pressure to improve efficiency, reduce downtime, and maintain ...

Introduction​ The manufacturing sector has always been plagued by spring design failures as the main factor causing machinery to vibrate more than normal and th ...

The Design Advisor software enables vehicle design decision makers to precisely and accurately study material selection tradeoffs in terms of cost, mass and greenhouse gas emission savings. Dr Don ...

Understanding materials, their properties and behavior is fundamental to engineering design, and a key application of materials science. Written for all students of engineering, materials science and ...

This article is aimed at large scale 3D printing. For medium and desktop size printing, both thermoplastic materials and thermoset materials are used. While for large format additive manufacturing ...

For decades, the construction industry followed a familiar rhythm: design came first, materials followed. The pressing need for sustainable buildings has shattered this routine. Material selection is ...

The workshop focused on the development of instructional materials that reflect the principles of the Framework and the NGSS, and brought together experts involved with developing tools for selection ...